The Current State of the Speaking Industry with Erick Rheam
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
What is the current state of the speaking industry? What is the latest? Erick Rheam is going to tell us.
Erick is a student of The Speaker Lab who now coaches for us in addition to having his own successful speaking business. As a coach, he hears from other speakers what is happening out there. Today we dive into the system he utilized to have a better year financial year than the previous one and hear answers to the most common questions speakers are asking him right now.
Listen in for all of that on episode 328 of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- How did he bring in over $300k in 2020?
- How do you know how much to charge both virtually and in person?
- What two questions can you ask yourself to shift your business right now?
- Can you start from scratch and gradually invest in your virtual studio?
- How having a system can help you in the good times and the difficult times.
- Should you chase events or can you create your own?
- Why COVID is actually a blessing for speakers.
- Is virtual here to stay and if so, how does it shape future events?
- And so 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. |
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| 0:27.2 | This training is free. |
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| 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. We look forward to seeing you on the live training. |
| 0:54.1 | Hey, what's up, friends? |
| 0:55.1 | Graham Baldwin here. |
| 0:55.7 | Welcome back to the Speak Lab podcast. |
| 0:57.4 | So good to have you here with us today. |
| 0:59.1 | We've got a great show for you today. |
| 1:00.5 | We're going to be talking with friend of the program and personal friend, Mr. Eric |
| 1:03.8 | Ream, about how he pivoted in 2020 and how he's attacking 2021 in his speaking business and how you can do the same. Now, if you're a regular |
| 1:12.4 | listener to the podcast, you're probably familiar with Eric's story. He was actually a student of |
| 1:16.8 | the speaker lab back in 2015. And over the last six years, he has seen his speaking business |
| 1:22.1 | absolutely blow up in the best possible way. Now, what happened to his business, though, in 2020 when |
| 1:28.8 | the world blew up in a bad way? Well, that's what we're going to talk about in this episode. |
| 1:33.0 | You see, Eric had over $200,000 worth of commitments that were affected by COVID, but in panic, |
| 1:39.5 | stayed calm, learned to pivot, and he walks us through exactly what he did in today's conversation. |
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