Strategy
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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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 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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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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You’ve decided to be a speaker and build your speaking business. Now the universe is going to test you on how badly you want it. You send out a pitch and get a “thanks but no thanks”, or you send out a pitch and you hear crickets. You’re in the middle of a negotiation for…
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