What You Need to Know Before Signing a Contract with Melanie Deziel

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The Speaker Lab

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

One of the common questions I get asked is what you need to know before signing a contract. To answer this question we are joined by Melanie Deziel today. But unlike our usual format Melanie isn't a guest today, she's our first co-host!

Melanie was a student who has gone through our training programs and has become one of our coaches. Before branching out on her own in the speaking world, Melanie worked in a corporate environment. She helped brands think more like journalists and tell better stories.

She shifted into speaking when she realized how much she enjoyed the speaking gigs she was doing to represent her team. She took a course with The Speaker Lab and for the last two years she's been speaking and consulting full-time.

To keep things interesting and extra fun, I invited Melanie to join me as a co-host for the next four weeks. Today we're talking about a common question we get at the speaker lab: what do I need to know before signing a contract? We'll dig into that answer today on this edition of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

The two reasons to ask potential clients about the length of your speech.
How to be the hero for your event organizer.
What can you ask to find out details about your audience?
Why does it matter to you and your contract who the other speakers are at the event?
What is the one question to ask so you know what success looks like to your client?
What is a rider and how can you use one for logistics like travel and technology?
Why should you find out specifics about the venue beforehand?
Why does dress code matter?
And so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.
0:01.4	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?
0:10.2	Well, that tool exists.
0:11.4	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.
0:19.6	Even better, we're going to teach you exactly how
0:22.1	to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to
0:26.9	be offering a free live training on how to build and use this marketing asset to start booking
0:31.9	paid gigs in just a few weeks. If you want to hear more, go to thespeakalab.com slash marketing.
0:38.5	That's what you got to do is go to the speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
0:49.6	What is that, my friend? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Grant Bolden-Hare, so glad
0:53.5	you are here and
0:54.2	honor that you're joining us today. We have a great guest for you today. We've got a great show for you. We're doing something a little different today and not just for today, but for the next few weeks for the month of February. We've got just a little change of pace. We're mixing it up here at the speaker lab. Got to keep you on your toes, keep it interesting for you. and keep something
1:10.1	I got something fun for you today.
1:12.3	Before we get to that,
1:13.7	we actually,
1:14.1	we just put together a speak a lab got to keep you on your toes keep it interesting for you and uh keep something uh keep
1:11.0	you got something fun for you today before we get to that we actually uh we just put together a brand
1:15.4	new training a brand new free online training where we're teaching you a step-by-step
1:20.1	strategies all about how to find and book paid speaking engagement so this is a brand new training
1:24.9	we haven't released before and so we are are super pumped about it and would love for you to check it out.
1:29.5	You can stop by EliteSpeakerWorkshop.com.
1:32.9	Again, that is EliteSpeakerWorkshop.com.
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