How to Use a Speaking Rider

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

🗓️ 2 August 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever heard those crazy stories about musicians who would include ridiculous requests in their riders, like Van Halen and their brown M&M clause? Ever wonder exactly what a rider is, and if you need one?

While you don't need to go the Van Halen brown M&M route, a speaking rider is still a good idea. On today's solo episode I explain what a rider is, why you should have one, and why sometimes those ridiculous requests have a good reason behind them!

You'll hear about all of that and much more on the 85th edition of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

The important reason Van Halen didn't want brown M&Ms backstage.
What I include in my rider, and what you should you include in yours.
Can you request a specific seating style at your speaking gig?
Should you include your rider as part of the contract, or separate?
How to walk the fine line between making requests and being demanding.
What is the point of having a rider?
Do most clients read and remember riders?
And so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
0:03.7	Well, of course you are.
0:04.4	Maybe you're just starting out as a speaker. You're trying to figure out what to prioritize in order to get booked and paid as quickly as possible. Listen, if that's you, I want you to join us for a free live training where you're going to learn how to create the number one marketing asset that you need to consistently book more paid gigs. This is a tool that one speaker on our team used to book over $36,000 in paid gigs before he even had a website.
0:27.2	This training is free.
0:28.1	It's live and we offered a few times a week so you can find a time that works best for you.
0:32.5	All you got to do is head over to thespeakerlab.com slash get booked.
0:36.3	That's all one word.
0:37.2	Thespeakelab.com slash get booked. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get booked
0:39.3	and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:49.0	What is up, my friend? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope you're doing
0:54.1	well. Hope your life is treating you good. back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Hope you're doing well.
0:54.9	Hope your life is treating you good. Hope speaking is good for you. Maybe you're traveling. Maybe you're on a flight right now. Maybe you're at the hotel. Maybe you're in the rental car. Maybe you're driving to or from an event. Maybe you're, I don't know, cooking dinner or working out or something. I don't know, whatever you're up to.
1:09.1	Glad you're hanging out with us today.
1:10.6	Hey, if this is your first time or maybe you've been listening for a while,
1:13.4	this is the Speaker Lab podcast where we are teaching you all about the art and business of speaking. So every single week, we do multiple episodes a week and we're interviewing experts on speaking. We're talking with people who have been in the business, people involved in the industry in some way. I do a lot of teaching
1:27.9	and training. We do a lot of listener Q&A. So wherever you're at in your speaking career, whether you're brand new, you're just getting started or maybe you've been doing this for a while and you're trying to figure out how to continue to build and scale your business. This is the show for you. So again, we're really glad that you're here. Thanks for tuning in today. Hey, before we get in today's episode, I want to give you a little sneak peek on something we've
1:47.9	been working on for several months now. I'm super stoked about this. You're going to hear more
1:51.3	about this in the coming weeks. But we are putting together an online virtual summit where we are
1:57.3	going to be gathering around 40 of the top speakers and experts in the business
2:02.9	to teach you all about how to build and grow your speaking business. I am insanely stoked about
2:08.8	this. We have some really, really, really top-notch speaker names that you have heard of,
2:13.5	names that you follow, you've read their books, you've seen them speak. You're going to know
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