How to Get Speaking Gigs at Colleges with Adam Carroll

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

Public Speaking, Speaking, Business, Authors, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Education, Side Gig, Coaching, How To, Public Speakers, Smallbusiness

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The question of how to make a career out of speaking to college audiences is a common one, so I decided to bring my friend, Adam Carroll, on the show to give you the answer.

Adam has been a speaker on over 650 college campuses as well as countless local and regional events for college students. He knows that market like the back of his hand!

On episode 101 of The Speaker Lab, he's sharing that knowledge with you. We talk about the different markets within the college community, how to know what group, committee or department to contact when you're looking for speaking gigs and how to set yourself to get repeat gigs with the same university.

He's got some great tricks up his sleeve, and you'll get to peek at them on today's show. Listen in for all of that and more on episode 101 of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

What were the two big factors that started his college speaking career?
Why knowing your content is critical for continued success.
What is a strong interest form and how do you use one?
The 3 key steps to start getting booked at colleges.
After you've identified who to speak to, what is your next step?
One simple trick to get decision-makers on the phone.
Why you should include a complete marketing campaign as part of your speaking agreement.
What are the more common topics being booked on college campuses?
And so much more!

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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 speaklab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. What is up, my friend? Welcome back to
0:50.1	the speaker lab podcast. Hope you're doing well. Hope life is treating you good. We are in episode 101. Yes, that is right. We have crossed the century mark. So, in fact, if you haven't already, definitely go back and listen to episode 100. It was a fun episode. And we had a lot of fun things that we did in that. Also, we announced that we are doing a giveaway right now, all right? We're doing a giveaway just to celebrate the 100th episode.
1:13.4	So if you want to know all about the giveaway, what we're going to be given away, you can go
1:16.4	over to the speakerlab.com slash contest.
1:20.1	Again, the speakerlab.com slash contest.
1:23.6	Now, I'll tell you that the deadline to enter this contest is October the 2nd. All right, so you've got just a couple more days remaining. It's going to be Sunday, October the 2nd. So you're not going to want to miss out on this. You definitely go over to the speakerlab.com slash contest where you can see what you need to do. I'll tell you right now, the way you can win here is by just leaving
1:45.6	us a rating or review on the podcast. That's all we're looking for. Okay, nothing fancy,
1:49.6	nothing special. It's not going to take you a lot of work. It's literally going to take you about
1:52.5	two minutes, all right? So leave us a rating and review. Again, that walks through the speakerlab.com
1:58.0	slash contest, exactly what you need to do. We're going to be giving way a
2:01.0	coaching session with me. I don't take any one-on-one coaching clients, so this is a chance where
2:06.4	we could connect and help you in your business. Plus, we're going to be given someone lifetime
2:11.2	access to our brand new, the speaker lab community. Now, this is a monthly program that we have where we are helping speakers
2:19.6	of all different stages. We are doing regular Q&A calls and case studies and we have a private
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