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Hey, it's our friends, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope you

doing well. Hope you're having a great day. We got a great episode for you today. Excited to get into this, whether this is your first time listening, first time tuning in, or you've been listening to almost 250 episodes that we've done. We are here on episode 247. And either way, I really do appreciate you being here. Before we get into today's

episode, if you have not already applied for our elite training program, this is a individual

101 and group training program that we offer where we help speakers just like yourself understand

exactly how to find and book gigs. So if you're serious about finding and booking speaking gigs, then you definitely want to check out our elite program. You can do that by applying by going to the speakerlab.com slash apply. Again, that is the speakerlab.com slash apply. There you can schedule a one-on-one strategy session with our team to learn more about the program. We can learn more about what you're looking for and how we can help you and support you. So make sure that you check that out again by going over to the speakelab.com slash apply. So today we're going to be having a co-host in that, in fact, not just for this week, but the next couple weeks with our friend and fellow coach within the speaker lab programs, Mr. Eric Ream. Eric is a very successful speaker. He also went through our booked and paid to speak program a few years ago. Actually recently quit his job, has gone all in on speaking and it's just been killing it. So we're excited to have Eric here joining us today. Today we're going to be talking all about how to sell yourself as a speaker. Now, this is something that a lot of speakers have a difficult time with. We like the speaking side, but the selling side becomes very, very difficult. So we've

got several different tips and strategies that we're going to be talking through about how

to prioritize us, how to develop even just the mindset, taking ownership of what you should be

thinking about. We're going to be talking about how to better organize your marketing assets, things that you want to have in place in terms of your CRM, your checklist,

different ways to experiment in terms of figuring out what's working, what doesn't work.

So lots to get into, lots to go through. So let's get right into this conversation with Eric Green.

Enjoy.

Hey, what's our friends? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Today, joined by my buddy, Mr. Eric Ream, who is a speaker lab coach and helps work with a lot of our students and a very successful speaker in his own right. So Eric, thanks for hanging out with us today, brother. Ah, man. It's awesome to hang with you, Grant. Thanks, man. How you doing? Doing well, doing well. So today we're going to be talking about how to sell yourself as a speaker, the different elements that go into being a successful speaker. And so once you give us kind of like a high level view, when we're talking about selling yourself as a speaker, what are the common challenges that the speakers are running into or what's the just of what

we're going to be going over today? It was funny, Grant, because we kind of pulled the private

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