When do you put together a Speaker Media Kit? Before you need it! But I don’t have any media yet. It’s time to get some! If you know what you need, you can go out and get it. Here is a list of items that you can include and build as you grow. These are […]
Read MoreHow One Sheet of Paper Could Catapult Your Speaking Career to the Next Level
You are excited about getting out there and sharing your message to make an impact on the world. One of the first steps to marketing yourself to a waiting world is your Speaker One-Sheet. Let’s begin by answering some questions: 1) What is a Speaker One-Sheet? A Speaker One Sheet is a critical marketing tool […]
Read More5 Ways to Market Your Speaking Business – Part 2
Circling back to Part 1 of 5 Ways to Market Your Speaking Business, we talked about Getting Social and Putting Your Passion into Print. Now let’s discover how else you can market your speaking business… 3) Connect with a Cause If you are passionate about making a difference in your world and you have a […]
Read More5 Ways to Market Your Speaking Business – Part 1
Once you have put together your speaking business, you need to get out there and market yourself to your ideal audiences. Let’s start with… 1) Get Social – Waiting for someone to knock on your door and ask you to speak, will insure that your message will not reach your desired audience. So, it’s time […]
Read More5 Step Strategy to GROW Your Business through Public Speaking – Part 4
It’s time to bring this topic to a close. Here’s the 5th and last step you need to GROW Your Business through Public Speaking. And just because I feel generous today, I’m going to through you a bonus step to really set you on the right course. 5. Attention to Details – In order to […]
Read More5 Step Strategy to GROW Your Business through Public Speaking – Part 3
My last blog shared the 1st and 2nd Steps to your strategy to GROW Your Business through Public Speaking; Pinpointing Your Passion and Prepare, Practice & Perform. Today we will tackle Steps 3 and 4: 3) Leverage Stories to Connect with Your Audience – Stories have the unique ability to connect you with the audience […]
Read More5 Step Strategy to GROW Your Business through Public Speaking – Part 2
In my last blog, we looked at the prerequisites to starting a speaking business: A Speaker Mindset, Blending Your Speaking into Your Overall Brand Strategy and Being Willing to Do The Work. Now let’s explore the first two steps in your strategy to GROW your business through Public Speaking 1) Pinpoint Your Passion What makes […]
Read MoreSpeak Your Way to More Business: 5 Step Strategy to Use Public Speaking to GROW Your Business – Part One
Public speaking is a phenomenal way to augment an existing product/ service offering, build marketplace credibility, and give back to your community and the world. These are five strategies that help business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals build a speaking business that can support and undergird their core business. Let’s do some foundational work first: * […]
Read MoreYou Have a Message the World Needs to Hear
“The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain I truly believe that God has given each of us a message that is uniquely ours. Our responsibility is to make a positive impact on the world with that message. The […]
Read MoreThe Authentic Speaker
“Be yourself; everyone is already taken.” – Gilbert Perreira Our tendency when we are developing our speaking style is to imitate other speakers that we admire. However, we each were fearfully and wonderfully made to be exactly who we are. We were gifted accordingly. To try to be anything other than who you were created […]
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