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Run Your Speaking Business Like a Machine

By Michelle Mazur > April 18, 2017
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Here is how to run your speaking business like a machine

As a speaker, you’ve got a lot of responsibility on your shoulders. Especially if you’re running your speaking business like a lone wolf. You are in charge of finding speaking opportunities, pitching those speaking opportunities, and tracking those pitches when they go out the door.  Then, the sales conversations, negotiating your speaking fees, booking your…

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Why you should add speaking to your business mix

By Michelle Mazur > April 11, 2017
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Add Speaking to your business

You listen to this podcast or read this blog because you’re interested in speaking. You want to be booking more speaking gigs. You want to become a better speaker and improve the experience the audience has with you.   Yet there might be this little niggling feeling that you’re not 100% committed to adding speaking…

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How to Get on Stage to Speak When Everything is Falling Apart

By Michelle Mazur > April 7, 2017
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A terrible fight with your wife. Your kid just got suspended for the eighteenth time from school. And maybe your business… well, that’s not so hot either. Any one of those things is enough to throw us off our game. But what happens when you feel like the world is crashing down around you and…

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How to Find Speaking Gigs by Building Relationships & Using LinkedIn with David Fisher

By Michelle Mazur > March 28, 2017
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Build-relationships

How do I find speaking gigs? This is the number one question that I get all the time from speakers. Speakers are looking for the magic bullet to find those gigs and to find them without doing the ONE thing that makes the biggest difference to your speaking business: building relationships. On the Rebel speaker,…

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How to Apply for Speaking Gigs with Pitches that Actually Get Accepted

By Michelle Mazur > March 21, 2017
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How to apply for speakings

The best way to book speaking gigs? Easy, ask. Then ask some more, and ask again, and then follow-up. Sounds simple right? You know that you need to be pitching if you want to be speaking, but it’s not as easy as it sounds because a lot of the times we don’t feel ready to…

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