When Should You Create Your First Product?
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode 43 of The Speaker Lab! We are on a roll with our 30 shows in 30 days, and today we keep on rollin'.
The topic for today comes from a listener, Kevin, who wants to know when you should create your first product. How long into your career should you be before creating and selling your own products?
That is the question of the day! So listen in to hear the answer on episode 43 of The Speaker Lab.
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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 speaklab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. What is up, my friend? Welcome back to |
| 0:49.1 | the speaker lab podcast. My name is Grant Baldwin. Good to have you here with us today. We are on |
| 0:53.2 | episode 43. 43. Yes, that us today. We are on episode 43. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes, that is correct. We are doing 30 episodes and 30 days this month, the month of April. We are halfway through the month. Here in the U.S., it is April 15th, which is Tax Day. Good times for that. Hey, if you haven't already, you can go back and listen to episode 33 |
| 1:12.0 | where we talk about how to pay taxes on your speaker fees. But you know what? I'm going to be |
| 1:16.3 | honest with you. If you're listening to this today and you haven't done your taxes yet, you are |
| 1:20.7 | a little behind and you need to get caught up. And if you're living in another country where |
| 1:25.3 | you don't have to worry about taxes today, congrats on you. The rest of us are jealous of you. All right, today we've got a good show for you today. We've got another listener question coming in from a student of ours. So we're going to get to that in just a second. Let me also remind you, if you want to submit your own question to have answered on an upcoming episode of the show, You can do that by going over to the speakerlab.com and find the Ask Grant tab there. |
| 1:49.3 | And definitely leave us your voicemail question. We'd love to hear from you. So definitely check that out. |
| 1:54.0 | Let's get into today's question. The question comes from Kevin, all about creating products. |
| 1:58.6 | So a lot of people want to speak, but we also have this opportunity |
| 2:01.1 | to sell products when we speak and where are we speaking. The audience is that we speak to. So how do we |
| 2:07.3 | do that? How does that work? What does that look like? So Kevin asked a great question and we get |
| 2:11.7 | into it today. So let's get into it. All right, today's question comes from Kevin, who asked Grant, how long had, after you'd |
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