How to Use Comedy In Your Speaking with Ron Tite

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

Business, Authors, Education, Smallbusiness, Entrepreneurship, How To, Speaking, Coaching, Public Speakers, Marketing, Side Gig, Public Speaking

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever gotten on stage and told a joke, only for it to fall flat? Or maybe you've avoided cracking a joke from stage because you're worried you'll hear the proverbial crickets chirping in the audience!

Here to talk about how to integrate comedy into your speaking gigs is Ron Tite, a hilarious and accomplished businessman. Ron certainly keeps himself busy: he works in several different areas while still speaking regularly about marketing and other aspects of business.

On episode 45 of The Speaker Lab Ron shares how he became a speaker, and how that skill has afforded him the unique opportunity to drive business revenue. In addition Ron also shares his guidance on speaking bureaus, how he began his comedy career, and how to position yourself as an engaging speaker. Listen in to hear all of that and so much more on this episode of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW

What most appealed to Ron about speaking?
How a speaking bureau can help advance your speaking career.
Ron shares what it's really like in the world of comedy.
Why it's important to create relevant and engaging content for your audience.
How to balance being funny and being effective.
How can you incorporate comedy in your speaking if you're not a comedian?
What to do when your jokes fall flat.
And much, much more!

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Transcript

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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 all you got to do is go to the speakerlab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
0:48.8	What is up, my friend? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Grant Baldwin. Good to
0:53.6	have you here with us today. Here we are on episode 45. 45. Today we got a great guest for you today. We do a lot of listener Q&A. We do some teaching from me from time to time. But we also do some interviews with other speakers, people in the industry. And today is a great one. It's a funny one. It's an entertaining one.
1:11.2	I think you're going to learn a lot.
1:12.2	You're going to get a lot from today's guest.
1:14.2	I'm going to tell you about him in just a second.
1:15.6	But before we do, let me quickly remind you, we're doing a lot of free live trainings right now.
1:20.9	So we would love to have you register and join us for one of our upcoming workshops.
1:24.8	These are totally free, totally online, and we are basically teaching you everything
1:29.4	that you need to know on how to get started as a speaker. So if you want to know how much to charge,
1:34.5	if you want to know what you should be speaking about, if you want to know how to find gigs,
1:37.7	if you want to know how to contact decision makers, if you want to know how to set up your website
1:41.1	and your demo video, we're going to be doing these free online trainings that you can register for by going to free speakerworkshop.com. That is all one word put together, free speakerworkshop.com. Definitely check that out, my friends. You can register for the next live workshop that we are doing. It's going to be a lot of fun. Don't want you to miss out on that. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com. All right, let's get into today's conversation.
2:06.3	Today's chit chat with my buddy Ron Tight. Ron is a speaker up in Canada. He is a comedian, does a lot
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