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What is up, my friend? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Grant Baldwin. Good to have you here with us today. We are on episode 52 of the podcast. And yeah, we are cruising towards wrapping up this month, the month of April. As you may know, we've been doing 30 episodes and 30 days. That's a lot of episodes. But we've had a lot of fun with it and heard great results and great feedback from people who are listening to the show, loving the show, downloading the episodes. Hey, if you haven't already, why aren't you subscribed to the podcast? Subscribe to the podcast. In fact, do me a favor. Do me one more here. If you could, you know someone who's interested in speaking they need this. Like, just go tell them about it. Like, dude, hey, you need to go subscribe to this show. You need to listen to this show. So share the love with other people, my friends. All right. So today, we're going to do another listener question. This is actually a question that came from our Facebook group. So this is one that we get from time to time. In fact, if you want to check out, We have a free Facebook group that you can check out over at the speakerlab group.com.

Again, that is the speakerlab group.com. It's totally free Facebook group there that you can feel free to check out. But the nutshell of the question is about using like third party sites to find bookings. You know, so there's a couple of these that exist on the interwebs. And so we'll talk a

little bit about that into today's question. So let's get into it. All right, we've got

another good question today that comes from our booked and paid to speak private Facebook

community. This is where our booked and paid to speak members are at. They submit questions all

the time, have great discussions happening there. If you're not already part of booked and paid to speak members are at. They submit questions all the time, have great discussions happening there.

If you're not already part of booked and paid to speak, you definitely wants to check it out.

It's a great course, great course, training course, 26 video lessons walking you through systematically what you need to know to build your speaking business, how to find and book speaking engagement.

So in that private Facebook group, we have discussions there all the time about different topics related to find and book speaking engagement. So in that private Facebook group,

we have discussions there all the time about different topics related to speaking and the speaking

business and industry. This is a good one that came in that we will be discussing today.

A couple of people had asked about this recently, but the nutshell was basically they were

asking, you know, is it worth it to be using a third-party service like gig salad or speaker match

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