Is Your Speaking Topic Financially Viable with Clay Hebert
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
How do you know if your speaking topic is financially viable or if your audience will actually pay to hear what you have to say? The man to answer those questions and more is your friend and mine, Clay Hebert.
Clay was here way back on episode 5 of The Speaker Lab and today he is back. We have a fun conversation about several topics including how to figure out if your audience or target market can actually pay speaking fees, the best way to respond to the question of what do you do and why you need to work on your personal brand while also working on your craft.
Tune in to hear the details on episode 260 of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW
- Why certain talks don't pay but can still build your brand and change your career.
- What three entities pay for speakers?
- What's one of the big untold secrets in the speaking industry?
- Why it's important to work on your personal brand while you're also working on your craft.
- Is it true that winners quit all the time?
- When does a talk become great?
- Why do speakers some times choose safe topics?
- Success leaves what?
- And much, much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Clay Hebert's web site
- Clay Hebert on Twitter
- Clay Hebert on Episode 5 of TSL
- The Dip, by Seth Godin
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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. |
| 0:50.1 | Hey, what's up, friends? Grand Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope you |
| 0:53.1 | doing well. Hope you're having a great day. And thanks as always for hanging out with us. We really do appreciate it. |
| 0:58.5 | Hey, one of the best ways if you like the show, one of the best ways you can help us out is just by letting someone else know. |
| 1:03.3 | Maybe you know of another speaker, someone that's interested in speaking, someone that you talk to regularly, and compare notes and talk shop on speaking. |
| 1:09.1 | Just let them know. Hey, if you haven't checked out to speak a lab, make sure you do that. |
| 1:12.8 | Would you do that? |
| 1:13.4 | Would you text them? Just text them right now. Pause the show. Text the friend. Let them know. You need to listen to this. Did you do it? I'll wait. I'm not going anywhere. Just pop. Come on. Okay. all right do it later some of you did it and i'm proud of you uh wherever you are |
| 1:27.7 | whatever you're up to we're they do appreciate you hanging out with us we got a great guest |
| 1:30.1 | for you today we got my friend clay a bear a clay hang out with us way back on episode five way |
| 1:33.4 | back in single digits way back in the archives and uh he's back again joining us today had a lot |
| 1:38.8 | of fun in this conversation |
| 1:43.1 | talk about a wide variety of different subjects and topics for speakers one of the main things we |
| 1:44.2 | discussed was you're interested in speaking you've got a topic you got an idea you got an audience |
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