How to Use a Seminar Company to Build Your Speaking Business
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Have you heard of seminar companies? Do you know what they do and if they are of value to your speaking career? Today's special Q&A will answer those questions and more about working with seminar companies.
Seminar companies are companies that present seminars for a fee. Usually they are attended by employees who have been sent by their employers to learn a specific skill like accounting, social media or finance. The seminars happen all over the country on a daily basis.
On today’s episode I’ll talk about the big three seminar companies and what my experience was like working for one. Find out what the pros and cons are of becoming a speaker for a seminar company, how to utilize this avenue fully if you decide to speak for them. Tune in to find out how the pay structure works and much more on the 65th edition of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW
- What are the big three seminar companies?
- What would your role be if you worked with a seminar company?
- My personal experience working with one of these companies.
- How do you know if these companies are in your area?
- Would you speak on one or several topics if you worked for a seminar company?
- What a “swing” is and how it works.
- What are the pros and cons of working with a seminar company?
- Should you have an exit strategy if you go this route?
- And much, 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 speakakerlab.com slash marketing. That's what you got to do is go to the speakerlab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. What is up, my friend? Welcome back |
| 0:50.1 | to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Graham Baldwin. Good to have you here with us today. How's life going for you? You're doing well? Business good? Speaking business good. You're traveling around, making a little dent in the world, sharing your message with the world. I hope you are. And I hope that this podcast is helping you to do that. Hey, today, we're going to be doing a listener question. Yeah, that's right. That's right. We got another one coming at you. We do these from time to time. We do actually more than time to time. We do them pretty frequently. And if you'd like to have your question answered on an upcoming episode of the podcast, you definitely want to stop by the speakerlab.com. You can go to the Ask Grant tab at the top of the page. Leave us preferably your voicemail question. That's what we've got today. And we will try to answer your question on an upcoming episode. But that's what this show is about. We want to make sure that we are answering your specific questions, whether you are brand new, just getting started as a speaker. Maybe you've been doing this for a while. You're trying to figure out how to kind of scale up, ramp up what it is that you're doing. Whatever the specific questions you have may be about speaking and your speaking business, how to grow that, how to continue to multiply your impact, your reach, your income, all that stuff. We want to make sure that we're answering that on the show. So again, you can stop by the speakelab.com. Leave us your voicemail question, and we would love, love, love to hear from you. |
| 2:04.2 | Hey, before we get to today's question, let me also remind you, if you haven't already, |
| 2:07.6 | definitely register for one of our upcoming live online classes, live workshops, webinars, |
| 2:12.8 | whatever you want to call them. |
| 2:13.8 | We do those pretty frequently. |
| 2:15.0 | So you can register by going over to free speakerworkshop.com. |
| 2:19.0 | Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com. Definitely get registered for the next one. |
| 2:23.2 | We're going to teach you all about how to get going in your speaking business, how to find speaking |
| 2:27.9 | engagements, how much to charge, how to connect with decision makers, figuring out what you want |
| 2:32.2 | to speak about. All of that stuff we're going to be covering in depth in each of those online workshops. So you don't have to, you don't have to travel anywhere. You can stay home, be in the comfort of your own home, sit on your couch and your jammy jams and tune in, join us. We would love to have you hang out with us. We will see you soon on one of those. All right, let's get into today's |
| 2:51.6 | question. Question comes from Jim Adams talking about, basically about seminar company. So Jim, |
| 2:57.4 | take it away. Hey, everyone. This is Jim Adams from Madison, Mississippi. My wife and I speak and |
| 3:03.2 | train on all things relationship related from dating and premarital to marriage and parenting. |
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