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

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That's what you got to do is go to the speakakerlab.com slash marketing. That's all you got to do is go to the speakerlab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. Hey, what's up, boys and girls?

Welcome back to another episode of the speaker lab podcast. My name is Graham Baldwin, and it is good

to have you here today. Hope you're doing well. Hope life is treating you good as we kick off 2016. I hope you're speaking business starting strong. Hope you're getting bookings. You're getting out there. You're getting paid to speak. You're just doing what you love, making a little difference in the world, and hopefully we can go along on the journey, the ride with you. So, hey, this show just kicked off. We are on episode number eight. You have arrived here. And we've been rocking and rolling what for a couple weeks now and really going well, really enjoying it, having a lot of fun here on my end. Hope you're having fun on your end. We're hearing back from a lot of people that you're enjoying it. So that's really cool. Really appreciate you listening. Appreciate you tuning in. Hey, a couple things I want to let you know up before we get in today's topic and training. One, we do have this podcast contest that we're running right now. We're doing a couple different giveaways just to help promote the podcast, to help share the word, get the word out there. So if you were interested in being a part of this, we're giving away, what all are we giving away? Like membership to our booked and paid to speak training course, my flagship training course. So you can get win membership to that. A couple of different other things in there that you're going to want to check out. So you can go over to podcastcontest.com. Again, podcastcontest.com. There you're going to find information about all the different giveaway pieces's super, super simple to enter. All we're asking you to do is subscribe to the podcast, downloads the episodes, and then leave us a rating and review within iTunes. All those things make a big difference. And like I said, just continuing to promote, get the word out there. That's exactly what you're trying to do is a speaker, right? You want people to know about what it is that you do. You want people to know about what it is that you speak about and how maybe you could work with their event. So we're doing the same thing right now with just getting the word out there on the podcast. So we appreciate you listening, appreciate you sharing, appreciate you letting other people know about it. It really does mean a lot. another thing if you haven't stopped by the speakerlab

dot com website you definitely want to check that out a couple cool things you're going to see there

one you can go back and see all the archives of the show itself the podcast so you can find past

episodes there the show notes all the links everything we discuss you can also ask me questions

several of the episodes that we do this past episode episode seven that we did that just came out recently.

We talked all about speaking contracts.

It's one of those things that you got to have.

A paper trail is a safe trail.

So we go into depth about why you need a contract, what should be in that, how that works,

any types of different like random situations and scenarios that might come up

and how to deal with those as it relates to having a speaking contract. So again, go back to

episode seven, listen to that. But if you do have other questions, feel free to, there's two

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