How to Get Booked to Speak at Colleges

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The Speaker Lab

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wanted to speak to college students or collegiate staff? If you have but weren't sure where to start this is the show for you!

Recently a listener named Eric wrote in wanting to know how to get booked for speaking gigs at colleges. To answer his question, we'll talk about how to get started speaking at colleges, and where there are the most opportunities in this market.

On episode 81 of The Speaker Lab, I share my personal experiences and insights gleaned from speaking on the collegiate circuit. I'll also share the 9 potential markets that exist within almost any university. You'll hear about all of that and much more on the 81st edition of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

The 3 foundational questions to ask and answer before speaking in any market.
What questions do you need to answer to define your marketing to colleges?
What are the 9 potential markets you could speak to on most campuses?
What are the APCA and NACA, and why should you know?
What is block booking and how does it work?
Why student orientation and staff trainings are good opportunities to be hired.
How should you reach out to potential decision-makers in the college market?
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.
0:50.1	What is up, my friend? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Grant Baldwin here. Good to have you here with us today. Hope life is treating you good. Hope you're having a great summer. If you're, let's see, in the northern hemisphere, we have summer, right? And while we're having summer, the southern hemisphere is the opposite? Is that right? Ah, I feel like I should have paid better attention in school. Instead, I just decided to run my mouth, and now I get to travel and speak. Okay, circle of life there. Let's get into it. Today, we've got a listener question. We like to do these from time to time where you submit your questions. We answer those right here on the show, which, by the way, before we get into today's question, let me remind you a couple things. One, if you have a question that you would like to have answered on an upcoming episode of the show, then definitely stop by thespeakerlab.com. Again, that is the speakerlab.com. Leave us your, preferably your voicemail question, and that way we will try to answer that on an upcoming episode of the show. You can also write in just a text question
1:44.5	that works as well if you would prefer. So the other thing I'd remind you of is we're going to be
1:50.2	talking a little bit about speaking at colleges today. But if you are interested in learning more
1:54.6	about how to find in books speaking engagements, we do a free online training, a free training
1:59.3	class, a webinar, you might call it, on a regular
2:02.6	basis that we would love to have you check out.
2:04.3	You can go to free speakerworkshop.com.
2:07.0	Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com.
2:09.2	Definitely check that out.
2:10.8	We would love, love, love to have you come hang out with us sometime again over at free speakerworkshop.
2:15.0	com where we teach you all about how to find and book paid speaking engagement. So again, free speakerworkshop.com. All right, so today we've got a
2:22.7	listener question coming in from Eric Moss, and Eric is asking all about speaking at colleges.
2:28.4	How do you get booked to speak at colleges? So let's get into it. Here's the question.
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