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The Speaker Lab Podcast

Q&A: What Should Be Included In a Speaker Contract

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

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

4.8575 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to The Speaker Lab! On today's show I'm here with another special Q&A episode, this time with a focus on one great question: speaking contracts.

Today on The Speaker Lab our focus is on contracts in the speaking world, and all the details that go along with them. Everything from the actual details of speaking contracts to contract etiquette as well as rules to follow when communicating with potential employers.

Listen in to hear all of that and so much more on this episode of The Speaker Lab!

  • THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW Once a job is booked, what kind of contract is exchanged?
  • How do you leave a reliable paper trail?
  • What is a "speaking agreement" and is it different than a contract?
  • What should be included in your contract and how much should you charge?
  • The different types of clauses to include in your contract.
  • How do you handle deposits and travel costs?
  • What to do in case of a cancellation or emergency.
  • And much, much more!


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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.

0:41.1

We look forward to seeing you on the live training.

0:48.9

Hey, hey, hey, what's happening?

0:50.2

My friends, Grant Baldwin here.

0:51.3

Welcome to the Speaker Lab podcast.

0:53.3

Hope you guys are having a great day today.

0:55.2

Feeling good, feeling nice. We're on episode six of the Speaker Lab podcast. So really excited about this.

1:00.9

We're just getting this podcast underway. This is the first week. And so far, things are really good.

1:06.4

We've got a lot of people listening from literally, literally all over the world. That's always really cool. And a lot of you are leaving great reviews and feedback on iTunes. People are emailing in. So digging it, loving it. And really, here's the point of this whole show is whether you are a brand new speaker, maybe for you, you've been, you spoke a few times for free, you're trying to figure out how to get paid. Maybe for you, you've been doing this for a little while free you're trying to figure out how to get paid maybe for you you've been doing this for a little while you're trying to figure out how to

1:30.9

up your business and try to find maybe higher paying gigs or other ways to expand your business

1:36.1

beyond just speaking listen wherever you're at in your speaking business your speaking career

1:40.8

we want to be a resource for you a guide a tool to help you build and grow your speaking business. So that's what we're all about. That's why I'm super pumped about this and really excited that you're here. Hey, a couple quick things I'll mention to you up top. We've got a contest running right now for just to help continue to launch the podcast, help promote it to other people. And so if you're interested in this, you can stop by podcastcontest.com. Again, that's podcast contest.com. And there basically we're asking you to do, we're giving away a couple different things. You're going to have to go over to the site to check it out. But within the giveaway, basically all you have to do is we're asking you to subscribe to the show, which you should have already done. Okay, and if you haven't already, wherever you're listening to this episode, you can do this with an iTunes or on your mobile device. There should be a subscribe button there. Just hit the subscribe button. That way every time a new episode comes out, that way you don't miss out on anything. So for the time being, we'll be doing new episodes on

2:34.5

Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I don't want you to miss out on those. So make sure, one, you subscribe to

2:38.6

the show. Two, we're going to ask you to leave us a rating and review within iTunes. And so that

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