How to Use Video to Grow Your Speaking Career with Josh Drean
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
As a speaker or an aspiring speaker you know the importance of a demo video. But what about other forms of video content like a YouTube channel or Facebook Live? Could those help you build your speaking career? Absolutely says our guest for this episode! Josh Drean is here to tell us how.
Josh's primary gig is as a youth motivational speaker but he's also a father and a part-time student at Harvard University in Boston where he is studying business management. As if that wasn't enough, he is also a street performer who does almost daily videos for his YouTube channel.
On today's edition of The Speaker Lab, he shares how to leverage video content as a speaker, how he uses content to get gigs and promote those gigs, as well as what to talk about on your video. His insights on those topics and more will get you off the fence about video and in front of the camera! Hear it here on episode 125 of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- By 2020 what percentage of all content will be video?
- Your fees are directly proportional to the quality of your what?
- Why did he start producing videos multiple times a week?
- Josh explains what vlogging is exactly.
- Does everyone need to do video?
- Why and how to work for "celebrity status" online.
- What is Musically and what will it teach you about connecting with your audience?
- What is the bare minimum equipment you need to get started creating quality video?
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Josh Drean's web site
- Josh's Speaker's Videography Starter Kit
- Josh Drean on YouTube
- Josh Drean on Facebook
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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. |
| 0:48.5 | Hey, what is that? My friend, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. So good to |
| 0:52.5 | have you here with us. Really do appreciate you being here, whether you're a brand new speaker or you've been doing this for decades. Wherever you're adding your speaking journey, really do appreciate you're here. We hear from speakers just about every single week, almost every day of speakers who listen to the podcast, who shared in some way how the show has helped them. And that just really means a lot. In fact, just as a little side note here, if the show is helpful to you, we'd love for you to leave us a rating and review within iTunes or share the show with someone else, subscribe to the show. Those little things, they may not seem like a big deal to you, but they definitely make a difference to the show and to help another people find the show. And I love just hearing your feedback and comments and thoughts, either through email or through the iTunes reviews. So it really does appreciate it. |
| 1:31.3 | And it's kind of a little rocket fuel to keep us going. Hey, so today we got a great guest before we get to that. Let me remind you again, if you haven't already, you definitely want to check out free speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com. Every single week, we do a free live training, teaching you all about how to find and book paid speaking engagement. So you definitely want to check that out. Again, whether you're a brand new speaker or you've been doing this for many, many years, and you're just trying to figure out how to get paid more or find more bookings, we'd love for you to come join us again over at free speakerworkshop.com. All right, my friends, |
| 2:02.1 | let's get to today's conversation. Today we're talking with Josh Dreen, Josh Dreen. And Josh |
| 2:07.2 | actually kind of teaches and talks through how to leverage video content for speakers. So we talk |
| 2:12.7 | about why speakers need to be producing video content. We talk about how he uses video content to |
| 2:16.9 | actually get speaking gigs. We also talk about how to get started with making videos and then even just |
| 2:21.6 | kind of overcoming the fear of doing videos and even what you should be talking about. So a lot to |
| 2:26.3 | cover here. If you're even slightly intrigued by videos or you're recognizing that the landscape |
| 2:31.6 | of content from blogging to podcasting to video, all these different |
| 2:35.9 | mediums that are available, video is definitely emerging and will continue to merge as a possible |
| 2:41.4 | leader in the marketplace. So definitely something to be paying attention to. I know I personally |
| 2:45.4 | have been really paying attention to this. I've been dabbling with Facebook live. So in fact, |
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