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?

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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.

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Hey, hey, what's up, my friends? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Graham Baldwin.

Good to have you here with us today. We are on episode 47. As you may know, we are to the Speaker Lab podcast. My name is Grant Baldwin. Good to have you here with us today.

We are on episode 47. As you may know, we are in the midst of 30 podcast episodes and 30 days here in the month of April. We are cranking them out, having a lot of fun doing that. Today, we're going to have a listener question. We've been doing a lot of these, and today's question is one that I get quite a bit from people, so excited to talk about this one and talk about what you need to know about this. But before we get into that, let me quickly remind you here a couple things. One is if you haven't already, be sure and subscribe to the podcast. I don't want you to miss out on any episodes. Also, if you do have a question that you would like to have answered on an upcoming episode of the show, be sure and leave us a voicemail question, preferably a voice mail. You can text us a question as well if you'd like. You can do that by going over to thespeakerlab.com. Again, that is the speakerlap.com. Go to the Ask Grant tab, and that will take you to the page where you can leave us your voicemail questions. So definitely, definitely check that out. We'd love to hear your question and answer it on an upcoming episode of the show. Also, if you haven't already, one of the things that we do almost on a weekly basis, we do a live training all about how to get booked and paid to speak. So if you're brand new to speaking, maybe you've been doing it for a little while, you're trying to figure out how to get paid more, how to build

your speaking business. This is for you. It is a free online live training. You can be home

in the comfort of your own home. We'd love to have you join us. Again, you can go to free

speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com.

Register for the next one that we've got coming up and we'd love to have you join us.

Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com. All right, let's get into today's question.

Now this is one that I didn't get from anyone in particular. It's just one that I hear a lot from

speakers. And they ask basically

about Toastmasters. Should you get involved in Toastmasters? Do I need to be involved in Toastmasters?

What are the benefits of Toot? What is Toastmasters? So we're going to be talking about that today.

All right, today we've got another question that I get quite a bit, not from anyone in particular,

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