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The Speaker Lab Podcast

Who Pays For Travel For A Speaker?

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

Public Speaking, Speaking, Business, Authors, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Education, Side Gig, Coaching, How To, Public Speakers, Smallbusiness

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Have you been asked for your speaking fee but weren't sure how to bill for the travel aspect of your gig? Or have you ever wondered how to handle that topic when it does come up in the future?

Wherever you are at in your speaking career the issues of travel expenses is going to come up. On this edition of the show I outlined the two ways to address travel expenses for your speaking gigs, including the pros and cons of each.

I'll also share which of those two options I personally use and why. Tune in to hear it on episode 60 of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW

  • The two ways of handling speaking-related travel expenses.
  • What are the pros of invoicing your travel expenses separately?
  • What are the main drawbacks to doing the same?
  • What is my normal travel fee and what do I include?
  • Why it is wise to include travel expenses in a flat speaking fee.
  • What is the main downside of doing so?
  • Should you let the client to book any of your travel?
  • Why I never let the client book my airfare.
  • And much, much more!


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.

0:01.4

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0:10.2

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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

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0:22.1

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0:26.9

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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 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.

0:44.7

What is up, my friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Hope you're

0:52.8

doing well. Hope life is treating

0:54.8

you good. Hope you are building, growing your speaking empire. You're making a little dent in the world.

1:00.7

And hopefully you're having a good time with it, huh? Are you? I hope so. Hey, if you're just joining

1:05.6

us, welcome. Really glad that you're here. We do these podcast episodes every single week

1:09.9

where we are helping speakers

1:11.5

that are brand new, speakers that are getting started, speakers that have been doing this

1:16.5

for a while, trying to figure out how to build and grow and scale your speaking empire. We are glad

1:21.1

that you are here. We help you on the business of speaking, the art of speaking, how to build

1:26.6

speaking beyond the stage, how to take your information, your training, and leverage it in other ways. So we've got a lot of great information that we cover every single week on the show. Hey, in today's episode, we're going to be doing a listener Q&A. We do these quite a bit where we're answering your question. So in fact, if you have a question for us, you can go over to the Speakerlab.com and go to the Ask Grant tab. Again, that's the

1:48.7

Speakerlab.com. Go to the Ask Grant tab. And there you can preferably leave us your voicemail question

1:54.8

or you can just write in your question and we will try to answer that on an upcoming episode

1:58.5

of the show. Hey, let me also remind you, if you

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