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The Speaker Lab Podcast

How to Work Full-Time and Build Momentum as a Speaker with Erick Rheam

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

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

4.8575 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Do you struggle to work full-time and build momentum as a speaker? Does it seem like an impossible feat to grow your speaking business while juggling your full-time job, your family and your other obligations?

Our guest does all of that and today he shares his secrets! Erick Rheam is making his second appearance as a guest on The Speaker Lab Podcast.

Today he shares how he went from 20 gigs last year to 53 this year, all while working full-time and being an active, involved father and husband. He gives the specific steps he takes to get at least two referrals for every speaking gig he does, why being easy to work with is so important and how you can generate momentum like him.

Get ready for all of that and more on episode 150 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:  

  • How Erick has gone from 20 gigs one year to 53 gigs the next.
  • What worked for him to find gigs earlier in his career
  • Why was speaking for free helpful for him?
  • Should you take any and all opportunities to speak?
  • The specifics of what made him an "easy speaker" and why it has led to consistent referrals.
  • What is his 70/30 rule?
  • Why you need to give people an action item.
  • How and when to make a tasteful ask for referrals in your presentation.
  • Should you do an exit interview and if so, what should it include?
  • And so much more!

 

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Transcript

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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.

0:50.8

Hey, what's up my friend? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. We are at episode 1-50, the 150 mark of buck 50. And I'm glad you're here. Glad you're listening. Glad you're tuning in. Hey, listen, if any of these past 150 episodes have made any type of impact, any kind of difference in your world in any way, would you do me a favor? Would you do a couple

1:13.2

different things? One, I would love for you to subscribe to the podcast. That just, that helps us out

1:17.0

and makes a little dense, makes a little difference. But that way you also don't miss out on any

1:20.9

episodes. Two, would you mind leaving us a rating and review inside iTunes? Just an honest

1:26.7

rating and review. We'd really appreciate that. Again, that helps other people to define the show. But then also, I read every single one of those. I want to make sure what we're doing and this work that we're putting in. It costs you nothing to listen. We do this. There's several expenses involved with this, but we do this because we want to help speakers just like you. So if you can do something for us and return the favor by just leaving us a rating and review inside iTunes, that would be awesome. The third thing I would ask you to do is just tell someone about it. You don't have to tell the whole world. Free to, if you'd like to, I don't mind. But would you just find someone that you're like, you know what, I know this person's interested in speaking or here's a speaker friend of mine. Would you just tell them, hey, I've been listening to

2:02.9

this podcast. You've got to check this out. I think this would be valuable for you. Would you mention that to one person? That would be awesome. You're a good person. Thanks for doing that. All right. So let's keep cruising on here. Today we are talking with my buddy Eric Ream. Eric is a student inside our training program booked and paid to speak.

2:18.2

And we actually had Eric on a student inside our training program booked and paid to speak.

2:18.5

And we actually had Eric on a couple weeks ago on episode 126. I guess that would have been a couple

2:23.8

months ago at this point. Episode 126, we talked about how he's been building his speaking business.

2:29.1

And Eric just continues to kill it. He was killing it then. He's killing it now. He's really, really, his business is exploding. So when I kept hearing about the numbers he was doing and how he was continually booking gig, just what felt like on a daily basis, I was like, dude, I got to know what's working for you. Let's share that with the audience. So today, we talk about the work that he's been doing to build that momentum in his

2:51.3

business. We talk about the specific steps that he takes to get at least two referrals for

2:56.1

every speaking gig he does, some great simple strategies that he shares here. We also talk about

3:01.7

why being easy to work with has made him an even more referable speaker among the clients

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