Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.

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?

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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.

Even better, we're going to teach you exactly how

to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to

be offering a free live training on how to build and use this marketing asset to start booking

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That's what you got to do is go to the speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. Hey, what's up, my friend, Grant Baldwin here.

Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We are so glad that you are here, glad that you are joining us.

I appreciate you tuning in and hanging out with us. Hey, I know I've mentioned it to you before, but you want to check out free speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com. If you are

someone who is looking for a step by step plan, a step by step system on exactly how you can

consistently find and book gigs, you need to stop by free speakerworkshop.com. In that free training, we're going to walk through exactly how you can be clear on who you speak to, what you speak about, how much you should be charging, and how to actually find and book gigs. So definitely make sure you check that out again over at free speakerworkshop.com. right. So as promised, we have Melanie Diesel, who is joining us once again for, she joined us last week. She's joining us next week. And then she's also joining us today as we are going to be doing another co-host episode. And we've got a few more of these planned in the future. It seems like you guys like these. If you do like these, let us know. You can reach us on Twitter. You can catch me at Grant Baldwin or feel free to reach out on Facebook or Instagram or email or whatever. And let us know, do you enjoy these episodes or do you want more of these? What do you want us to cover? What do you want us to talk about? This is one thing Melanie and I enjoy is getting feedback from you and what do you want us to hear us talk about and discuss so that we make sure we cover that on an upcoming episode. So today we're going to be talking about audience interactions, how to interact and engage with your audience. So we're going to be talking about why you should even consider audience interaction and all. We'll talk about the pros and cons of it, some different ways to do it. Also going to talk about how to manage audience interaction so you don't lose control of the room. So audience interactions can be really,

really important and valuable for a speaker to connect and relate with an audience and for an

audience to get more out of it and feel more involved with the presentation, but it can also go

sideways real quick. So you want to make sure that you know how to handle it. And we're going to

discuss that today. Also going to talk about different types of scenarios and interactions that

you could do with an audience and the context of when certain ones make more sense than others. So

a lot to get to today, a lot to cover. So let's jump right into it. Here's a conversation

between myself and Ms. Melanie Diesel. Enjoy.

So my friends, Graham Baldwin here, join once again by my favorite co-host, Miss Melanie Diesel.

Hello, Miss Melanie. How are you today?

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