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 speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.

Hey, what's up for Inge? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Good to have

you here with us today. Hope you're having a great day and a great start to the new year. Now,

as you may have heard, hopefully you've heard by now, we have a brand new book coming out called the successful speaker, five steps for booking gigs, getting paid, and building your platform. We've been working very hard behind the scenes for literally the past couple years on this book, and the book is about to be live.

So if you haven't already,

we definitely would encourage you to go pre-order your copy by going over to the speakerlab.com slash book. Again, that is the speakerlap.com slash book. We put every possible resource tip tactic strategy we can think of for building and growing your speaking business. So if you're listening to this show, if you've listened to this show for any length of time, then this is the book for you. Again, it's the successful speaker. Go pre-ordered on the Amazon Barnes & Noble wherever books are sold. Go pick it up. We have a lot of pre-order bonuses there as well that you're going to want to get. So again, don't forget to pick up, pre-order the successful speaker by going over to the speakerlap.com slash book. All right, so today we're going to be talking

with Matthew Kimberly. Matthew is a successful speaker in his own right. He is a, we talk about

geography a little bit. He lives in a literally a small island, kind of maybe in the middle

of nowhere, you could say. And so we talk

about how he makes that work just logistically for travel and for booking gigs. We'll talk about

kind of his model, business model for speaking. He speaks for free a lot. So we talk about the math

behind that, why that makes sense. And then we also spend the bulk of the time talking about

selling yourself as a speaker. Matthew is an expert when it comes to selling and sales, and so he gives some great strategy, some great advice for selling yourself as a speaker. So last to get into, let's jump right into this conversation with Matthew Kimberly. Enjoy. Hey, what's up, friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Today joined by my buddy Matthew Kimberly. And you can't see him, but this guy is devilishly handsome. He's got a lovely accent. We're going to have a good time today. So Mathily, thanks for joining us. First of all, give us a quick snapshot of speaking, how speaking fits into your world. How much speaking are you doing? Who are you speaking to? And give us all things speaking and how it fits in.

Right. So I was born in Alabama and I realized that when I spoke with this accent instead, my rates just went through the roof.

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