Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.

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?

Well, that tool exists.

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.

Even better, we're going to teach you exactly how

to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to

be offering a free live training on how to build and use this marketing asset to start booking

paid gigs in just a few weeks. If you want to hear more, go to thespeakalab.com slash marketing.

That's what you got to do is go to the speakakerlab.com slash marketing. That's what you got to do is go to the speakerlab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. What is up, boys and girls? Welcome

back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Grant Baldwin. Good to have you here with us today. We're

up to a good start here. I'm having a good time. We've got this new show going and I'm digging it. A lot of you listening. That's a good thing. We like that. Whether you're a brand new speaker, you're just getting started. Maybe you're a veteran speaker. You've been doing this for a while. Maybe you're trying to figure out how to get paid, how to find more speaking engagements, how to charge more, how to build your

business beyond speaking, wherever it is that you are at in your speaking career.

You've come to the right place, my friend. I'm really glad that you're here.

And I'm excited to help you out however we can to help you be successful as a speaker,

whether that means speaking five times a year for free, whether it means speaking a hundred times a year and getting paid, whatever you're trying to do with your speaking business, however speaking fits into your current business and what it is that you're up to. We want to be a part of that. And we're honored that you're hanging out with us today. So we do, if you're brand new to the show, we do a variety of different things. Sometimes I'm going to do some teaching, some training for you. Sometimes we're going to do some interviews with other speakers, people within the speaking industry. You're not going to want to miss out on those. And then today, one of my favorite things, we're going to be doing a lot of listener Q&A. So we're going to be answering questions straight from you, the listener. So first of all,

right out the gate, let me remind you of this. If you do have other questions about speaking, any questions at all, don't hesitate to reach out and let us know. You can send those questions into us one of two ways. One, you can go to, we can go, you can do this on both of them, go to the speakerlab.com click on the ask grant tab at the top

and then you can do two things one you can preferably this is what I'd like you to do is I'd like

you to leave us a voicemail all right I don't want to hear your silky soothing sounding voice

right your speaker you want to hear yourself talk right so don't be ashamed don't be shy leaveicemail. A quick, short voicemail there. I'll give you some instructions on that page of what you need to do. But leave us a voicemail with your question. We'll try to incorporate that into an upcoming episode. The other option for you is that if you're quiet, you're shy, you don't like to hear yourself talk. That, I get it, whatever. But you can write down your question there and just submit it via text, and we can try

to get that on an upcoming episode of the show as well. So let's get into today's question.

My friend, we've got a question from Dan Taylor. So, Dan, take it away. What are we going to be

talking about today? Hi, my name's Dan Taylor. So Dan, take it away. What are we going to be talking about today?

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