How to Shift to Virtual Speaking with Brian Lord
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
How to shift to virtual speaking is something many speakers are exploring now, and our guest is sharing with us some of his best strategies for doing so.
Brian Lord has been an agent at Premiere Speakers Bureau for over 25 years. His career began in college when he booked gigs for local talent, including a gospel singer and speaker. Fast forward two decades later and he's still going strong!
On this episode of The Speaker Lab he shares what he is seeing in the speaking world today in light of the current pandemic. You'll hear how this pandemic compares to other dips in the market and his advice for new and established speakers.
Be sure to join us for that and more on episode 310 of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- Will virtual speaking have a real place in the future?
- How are fees shifting in the new virtual space?
- Is there a different skill set to be funny on video versus live?
- Why your content must be delivered in a different way.
- Are there any best practices that are exceptionally effective right now?
- Do you need a different demo for virtual gigs?
- Are all good speakers also good at speaking virtually?
- Is it taking event teams longer to book speaking talent?
- And so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs? |
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| 0:52.8 | Hey, what's up, friends? Grant Bolden here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. So good to have you here with us today on episode 3103. We've got a great show for you today. We're going to be talking with Brian Lord, who is an agent over at Premier Speakers Bureau. We're going to be talking all about virtual speaking and really the kind of the current state of the industry as we roll into the last quarter of 2020, which has been quite the year. I think we would all agree. So Brian's been in the |
| 1:16.2 | industry actually for over two decades. He's really a go-to resource for taking the temperature |
| 1:20.9 | of how things are now, but also knowing kind of what's coming down the pike in the future. |
| 1:25.4 | And so in this episode, we're going to be talking about how fees are shifting in this new virtual space. We're talking about what you need to do to adjust to be a better speaker on video and why your response time with leads needs to be quicker than it ever has been before. Another thing that we're going to be talking about was just his high level view of the speaking industry as a whole. So I wanted to hear from |
| 1:44.8 | him. And in fact, one of the first questions I asked him was, hey, are we on the rebound as an industry? Do you think we've seen the bottom of this? Really liked his response. I think you will too. And again, it was one of the first things that we talk about. So you're going to hear that just a few minutes in. So really informative episode. |
| 1:58.9 | Let's get right into it. |
| 1:59.9 | Here's my conversation with Speaking Agent Brian Lord. |
| 2:02.7 | Enjoy. So really informative episode. Let's get right into it. Here's my conversation with speaking agent Brian Lord. Enjoy it. |
| 2:06.3 | Hey, it's our friends. Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speak Aloud podcast. Today we're going to be |
| 2:09.6 | joined by Mr. Brian Lord, who is a big wig over at Premier Speakers Bureau. Can I call you a big wig? Is that |
| 2:16.1 | all right? Sure, if you want to. I do have |
| 2:17.9 | poofy hair sometimes. Sometimes sometimes. So Brian's been an agent at Premier for multiple |
| 2:23.3 | decades now and we're going to be talking about Brian about his what he's seeing in the speaking |
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