How to Get Attention and More Clients with Neen James

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🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Knowing how to get attention in today's increasingly digital world is no small feat, and our guest is here to fill us in. If you've listened to the show for awhile you may remember her from episode 124 - Ms. Neen James.

She's a rare repeat guest and we make great use of her visit on today's The Speaker Lab. We talk about attention: getting and keeping attention from potential clients and even other speakers, and how to pay attention.

We're also talking about the grind of speaking and how to stay positive and not give up. Neen is a long-time speaker who knows the ups and downs of building and maintaining a speaking career, together we talk candidly about our own experiences of the highs and the lows. There's much to learn from Neen so settle in and join us on this episode of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

How to go analogue in a digital world.
What's the absolute best marketing tool?
How peanut butter and jelly landed her a client.
What is her approach for using a CRM effectively?
How to use simple video to create custom communication.
What is her process to follow up without being annoying?
Why attention is really about authentic connection.
Which should you approach first: associations or contacts in your specific industry?
And so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
0:03.7	Well, of course you are.
0:04.4	Maybe you're just starting out as a speaker. You're trying to figure out what to prioritize in order to get booked and paid as quickly as possible. Listen, if that's you, I want you to join us for a free live training where you're going to learn how to create the number one marketing asset that you need to consistently book more paid gigs. This is a tool that one speaker on our team used to book over $36,000 in paid gigs before he even had a website.
0:27.2	This training is free.
0:28.1	It's live and we offered a few times a week so you can find a time that works best for you.
0:32.5	All you got to do is head over to thespeakerlab.com slash get booked.
0:36.3	That's all one word.
0:37.2	Thespeakelab.com slash get booked. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get booked
0:39.3	and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:50.8	Hey, what's up, my friends? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. We are so glad that you are here with us today.
0:55.7	Glad you are joining us.
0:56.7	I hope you're having a great day. We're having a great summer. If you're, you know, depending on the hemisphere that you're in, if you're having a great winter, then have a great winter. If you're listening to this months and months down the line, whatever the weather's doing. I hope it's what you want it to be doing. All right. Hey, today we've got a repeat
1:11.4	guest. We don't have many repeat guests, but today we got a good one for you. We're hanging out
1:14.8	with a... whatever the weather's doing. I hope it's what you want it to be doing. All right. Hey, today we've got a repeat guest. We don't have many repeat guests, but today we got a good one for you. We're hanging out with our friend Neen James, who is a 5'10 Australian powerhouse, maybe 4 foot 10. I don't know. We'll talk about that. Before we get to today's conversation with Neen, hey, let me remind you, we have a tool where if you're wondering, I tell you what, I get to ask all the time, like, how much should I charge as a speaker? Right. And the reality is like, it depends, but it depends is a horrible answer. So we have a free calculator that people can, you can check out. You can go to my speakerfea.com, my speakerfeet.com, answer a couple questions, and it will tell you what you should be charging as a speaker, right? There's a lot of variables that go into that. But again, totally free. You can go just answer seven, eight questions or something, and it'll spit out a nice little number at you. So check that out over at my speakerfea.com. All right, So today we are talking once again with Neen James.
2:02.2	We had Neen on the podcast way back in episode 124. We are on episode 1.94 today. And so we figure
2:08.6	maybe every 70 episodes we have Neen back. That could be a thing. So today we're going to talk
2:13.3	about attention, getting attention, paying attention, keeping attention. We're going to talk about
2:17.7	how to get and keep attention from potential clients and even other speakers. We're also going to
2:22.1	talk about just the grind of speaking and how to not get discouraged and how to not give up.
2:27.1	Neen has been in the game for many, many years. It's been a very, very successful speaker.
2:30.9	But we just kind of talk about the candidly about the ups and downs of speaking and the highs and lows that come along with the business and with the journey. So a lot to
2:38.4	learn here from Neen. She's just an amazing human, an amazing speaker. I think you're
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