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What is up, my friend, Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Good to have you here with us today. We got a great guest we're going to be talking to and interviewing here in just a minute. But before we get into that, again, let me remind you if you haven't already, you definitely want to stop by the Speakerlab.com slash guide. We have put together seven-step guide all about how to find in book speaking engagements in 2017. So if you haven't already, make sure you download that again by going over to the speakerlab.com slash guide and pick that up. I think you're really going to dig this. Totally free. Again, the speakerlab.com slash guide. All right. So today we're talking with my speaker buddy Mike McCallowitz, and we've got a lot that we're going to cover with Mike today. We get into, you give some really meaty, practical tips and strategies, like just some like, here's a hack that I did for this, and here's a hack that I used for that. And all kinds of strategies like that that I think you're really going to dig. Now, a couple things

here, I'll tell you about Mike actually has a really weird spelling of a last name, Mike McAllowitz.

All right. So in fact, one of the things we talk about is you've got a weird name. How do you deal

with the domain name for that? He has Mike McAllowitzitz.com and you can check that out. But he gives a

great simple strategy on what he's done to deal with that because most people are like Mike McAlewitwit.com. How do I find that? How do I get to that? So we talk through that. And in fact, there's some great practical strategies he gives on dealing with that. In fact, in episode 59 of the podcast, you may want to check that one out as well. We talk about this as well on naming your domain, on website domain questions that pop up. So Mike McAllowitz.com and some of the strategies he shares here, I think you're really going to dig. So Mike and I would talk about how he got started, how he built and grew his business. We talked about a great idea that he had called the Speakers Exchange, what it is,

how he used it to connect with big speakers and share bookings, basically.

Just used it as a great, great way to share bookings with other speakers.

We also talk about how he connected with a speaker's agent and yet still continues to the

book the majority of his business on his own and why he still uses a speaker's agent as well. So a lot of great stuff. Some really, again, practical applicable stuff. Sometimes we just talk about, I was going to say theories. They're not theories, but just stuff that makes you feel good and maybe some mindset stuff for speaking. But with Mike, he really gets into some really practical

stuff that I think you're really going to dig. So let's get right into it. Here's my conversation

with my buddy Mike McCallowitz. Enjoy.

What's up, my friend, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hey, today,

I'm joined by my buddy Mike McCallowitz, which I make that just roll off my tongue, but that's from a lot of practicing. It looks a lot more complicated. Your pronunciation of Polish is extraordinary. Okay, now I actually have a legit question. This is one that I wrote down here, because I get this question a lot from speakers who are going, hey, I know I need a domain name. I teach and recommend that you have your own name as a domain. Grant Baldwin, thankfully, is easy to dispel. But McCallowitz is not. So how have you kind of, Mike McCallowitt seems to be like your main site. How have you dealt with that over the years? I don't know who said it, but someone said, whatever your biggest weakness is, convert that to your biggest strength. And one of my biggest weaknesses, well, one of many, but my last name, no one knows how spell it, no knows how pronounce it, but it's easy to make fun of. So what I did was I, if you go to my website, which is Mike McAllowicz.com, and I'll give you another shortcut to get there, which is another kind of hack, but Mike McAllowitz.com, once you get there, we're on the home page, there's a thing that says, McAlla what? Right in the center. People click on it, and it's his voiceover guy, like a voice of God just busted my bobbles. He's like, it's McAll has tits. Like all these insults.

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