How to Follow Through on Your Follow Up with Jim Kukral
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Follow up is what separates part-time speakers from full-time professionals.
But how do you follow through on your follow up in the most effective way? That's what we are talking about today on The Speaker Lab with Jim Kukral.
Jim is an online marketer and serial entrepreneur who wants to grow the speaking aspect of his business. This episode is a one on one coaching call with Jim about what he's been doing for follow up and what he can start doing right now to improve that aspect of his business. You'll hear that topic and more on episode 231 of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- What does it mean to be "unskippable"?
- How do you get better as a speaker?
- Why speaking fees are more than just a check.
- How often should you follow up?
- When should you call people you've contacted about potential gigs?
- How to ensure you have accountability.
- What do you do when you have a hot lead?
- Why you need to always be knocking on doors for leads.
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Jim Kukral's web site
- Be Unskippable web site
- Jim Kukral on Twitter
- Jim's TEDx Talk
- The E-Myth, by Michael Gerber
- Episode 162 with Ty Bennett
- Get Free Speaker Resources
- Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
- Calculate Your Speaking Fee
- Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here. |
| 0:01.4 | Hey, what if I told you that there was a single marketing asset that you could use to book tens of thousands of dollars in paid speaking gigs before you even have a website? |
| 0:10.2 | Well, that tool exists. |
| 0:11.4 | And Dan Irvin, one of the speakers on our team, used it to book over $36,000 in speaking gigs without a fancy website or any social media presence. |
| 0:19.6 | Even better, we're going to teach you exactly how |
| 0:22.1 | to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to |
| 0:26.9 | be offering a free live training on how to build and use this marketing asset to start booking |
| 0:31.9 | paid gigs in just a few weeks. If you want to hear more, go to thespeakalab.com slash marketing. |
| 0:38.5 | That's what you got to do is go to the speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. |
| 0:48.6 | Hey, with some of my friends, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Today we're |
| 0:52.2 | going to be talking with another one of our |
| 0:54.4 | elite students. We've been doing these coaching calls for the past few weeks where we've taken some of our |
| 0:58.5 | elite students and just had a one-on-one call with them aloud. It allowed you just to kind of use your app and listen in on the |
| 1:03.5 | conversation and talk through some things that you can apply to your own business. And today is no |
| 1:08.4 | exception. Today we're going to be talking with elite student |
| 1:10.9 | Jim Kukral and Jim is a successful businessman and has been speaking for a little while here. |
| 1:16.9 | He's actually had a background as a politician and so ran for public office and so a lot |
| 1:22.2 | that we're going to cover and talk through. But Jim's in a spot where like what do you do when |
| 1:26.1 | you know what you're supposed to do, |
| 1:28.1 | but you just can't make yourself do it, right? So Jim is a successful entrepreneur. He knows what |
| 1:32.8 | his next steps are that he needs to take. He's just having trouble staying focused and not being |
| 1:36.6 | distracted on what he needs to do next. So if you're an entrepreneur or a person or a human who |
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