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

be offering a free live training on how to build and use this marketing asset to start booking

paid gigs in just a few weeks. If you want to hear more, go to thespeakalab.com slash marketing.

That's what you got to do is go to the speakakerlab.com slash marketing. That's what you got to do is go to the speakerlab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.

What is up, my friend? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Graham Baldwin. Good to

have you here with us today. We are on episode 51. 51. We are on the downhill slope of the century mark headed that direction. Glad that you're here. Hey, normally during this month, just during the podcast in general, we do a lot of listener Q&A. We do a lot of interviews with other experts and people that are in the speaking industry, speaking space. We've got a lot of actually got a lot of interviews coming up over the next few weeks. So buckle up for that buttercup. We've got some good stuff coming your way. But which on a side note, if you haven't already subscribed to the podcast, what are you waiting on, my friend? You got to subscribe. I don't want you to miss out on a single episode. So make sure you subscribe to the podcast. Definitely do that. You can do that through iTunes or wherever you're listening to this right now. There's probably a subscribe button somewhere nearby. So push that magical button so that you don't miss out on the delicious goodness we send your way. Now today what we're going to do, we're going to do something a little different actually. As you may know, we teach an online course called booked and paid to speak. Booked and paid to speak. This is a 26 video lesson course teaching you systematically how to find in books speaking engagement. So we talk through how to figure out what you want to speak about, who you should speak to, finding those events, setting up your website, your demo video, knowing how much to charge. All of that's going to be in that training course. And in fact, if you're interested to learn more about that, definitely come hang out on one of our webinars sometime. You can do that by registering over at free speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com. Now, as part of the booked and pay to speak training course

we actually do case studies with a bunch of different speakers so some speakers that are brand new

that are just getting started some that have been doing this for a while just to hear like what's

working for you how have you built your business how are you finding gigs where you finding

how did you get gigs early on and so we we do a lot of

those video interview case studies and so today what we decided to do is we're going to share with

you one of those case studies from within the course and so this is actually going to be with

one of our booked and paid to speak students Melanie diesel who actually joined the course literally

just a couple months ago

and has been seeing some huge, huge results in a very short amount of time. I mean, this girl,

she has earned well over $10,000 in just a couple months from speaking gigs. She landed a $50,000

coaching or excuse me, consulting client. She also has been booking gigs like literally all over the world,

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