How to Work With Event Planners with Roy Cevallos
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
A great way to land more speaking gigs is through event planners, and here to tell us how to work with event planners is Roy Cevallos.
Roy is an event planner and program manager for the Northwest Public Power Association. He works with a lot of speakers so we'll talk about what he looks for in new and existing speakers for his events, plus what things look like in this new, strange virtual world of speaking.
Join us to hear all of that and more on episode 325 of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- How can you be persistent without being annoying?
- Where does he find most of his new speakers?
- Why it's important to tap into your own network, and how to do it effectively.
- What is the biggest roadblock he's experienced with speakers?
- Why finishing your speech on time is critical.
- What is one thing you can do to make an event planner's job easier?
- How can you continue to evolve and polish your presentation?
- Are we going towards a hybrid of live and virtual events, even when the pandemic is over?
- And so much more!
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- Roy Cevallos on LinkedIn
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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. |
| 0:53.2 | Hey, what's up, friends? Grant Baldwin here. |
| 0:54.6 | Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. |
| 0:56.3 | So good to have you here with us today on episode 325. |
| 0:59.1 | I've got a great show for you as we're going to be talking with Roy Savoyos, who is the |
| 1:02.7 | event planner and learning program manager for the Northwest Public Power Association. |
| 1:06.8 | Now, this episode really goes hand in hand with our last episode, episode 324 with |
| 1:11.9 | Brandon Edmondson from Premier Speakers Bureau, which if you haven't listened to that, |
| 1:15.1 | make sure you go check that out. And so in that conversation, we looked at the future of the |
| 1:20.2 | speaking industry from an event's perspective, from a speaker's perspective. And in this episode |
| 1:24.5 | today, we're going to be looking at it from an event planner's point of view. |
| 1:28.1 | So Roy and I recap how navigating this unique circumstances that we've all faced this year, |
| 1:32.9 | especially for him as he stepped into this new role with his organization. |
| 1:36.8 | We discussed what he's looking for in speakers, especially as we've moved into 2021. |
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