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April 14, 2020
The Key to Adjusting Your Intention and Approach During Times of Uncertainty
If you are sick of getting email after email from your bank and your car dealership telling you how they are dealing with COVID-19, you’re not alone. I’m craving some normalcy right now. And so I wonder, the people who are trying to carry on with their business, what are they craving? It’s very likely that companies and associations are having virtual team meetings talking about how they are going to get through this period […]
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March 31, 2020
THE FOCUSED HUSTLE 5 | APRIL 2020
APRIL 2020 MUST LISTEN PODCASTS Here are this month’s must-listen podcasts: Creating Your “All Weather” Speaking Business With James Taylor A Coronavirus Update With “The Great Calmer Downer” Prepare And Thrive Financially During Difficult Times With Gerard Braud Delivering Unforgettable Presentations With Darren Lacroix Creating Your Coronavirus Strategy With Andrew Busch LISTEN NOW FRIDAY BRAND CAMP Each Friday in April you can join Jane Atkinson and Chris West for Friday Brand […]
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March 24, 2020
10 Steps to Recession-Proof Your Speaking Business
Okay, let’s face it, there’s chaos all around us. Meetings have been canceled or postponed. The stock market is in free fall and we are heading into a recession. It sounds pretty bleak, doesn’t it? Let’s take a look at 10 steps you can take today to recession-proof your speaking business! Like the flower that grows in the middle of a desert, there is good all around us. We just have to look for it. […]
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March 17, 2020
Using Storytelling as a Sales Tool
As a professional speaker, you likely understand the importance of storytelling on stage. The right story, told at the right time, can captivate your audience, make them lean in on their chair, and communicate your message in a powerful way that they will remember long after the event. Ironically though, many speakers don’t put storytelling to use in their sales strategy. But believe me when I say it… this is one of those factors that […]
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March 3, 2020
The Focused Hustle 5 | March 2020
MARCH 2020 MUST LISTEN PODCASTS Here are this month’s must-listen podcasts: How to Land Speaking Sponsorships with Julie Austin The Keys to Closing More Business with Ron Karr How our Thinking Impacts the Bottom Line with Kris Plachy Get your Speaking Business Off the Ground as a Side Gig with Alex Swire-Clark LISTEN NOW MASTERCLASS: FINDING THE BUYERS Need help finding more buyers for your speaking business? Join me and Sam Richter on March 23, […]
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February 25, 2020
The Best Speaker Website Contest 2020: And the Winner Is…
This year’s Best Speaker Website contest brought us some fantastic examples of speaker websites. The process of narrowing down all the fabulous submissions was tough! And now all of your final votes are in… and it was the closest contest we’ve ever had! Thank you to the hundreds of folks who took the time to vote! While this contest is a lot of fun, there are two main reasons that we run it: To point out […]
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February 18, 2020
How to Use Business Systems to Find More Buyers
This month at The Wealthy Speaker School, we are focusing on the topic of finding more buyers. This is an area that many speakers struggle with, regardless of how long they’ve been in business. So, today I want to take a look at how we can use business systems to find more buyers for your speaking business. But when it comes to the business of speaking, they are successful almost in spite of themselves. Sometimes […]
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February 11, 2020
Here are the 2020 Best Speaker Website Contest Nominees!
Wow! We had a ton of great websites nominated for our 2020 Best Speaker Website contest! Thank you to everyone that submitted a website for consideration. We’ve had a chance to look at all the websites and evaluate them based on our points of criteria: Style Ease Positioning Video Message It was really hard to choose our finalists for this contest. Some very good websites just got inched out ever so slightly. Everyone who submitted […]
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February 4, 2020
THE FOCUSED HUSTLE 5 | FEBRUARY 2020
FEBRUARY 2020 MUST LISTEN PODCASTS Here are this month’s must-listen podcasts: Sweet Spot Pricing with Laurie Guest Bio Like Beyonce with Caroline Mays Growing Your Speaking Business with Mark LeBlanc Scaling Your Speaking Business Beyond a Million with Greg Schinkel LISTEN NOW SEE YOU IN PHOENIX! Registration is now open for our next Accelerate LIVE event taking place on March 6 – 7, 2020 in Phoenix, AZ. If you want to learn the secrets to […]
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January 28, 2020
Becoming a Master of the Speaking Industry
I recently interviewed Josh Linker who’s out killing the speaking business. He’s speaking over a hundred times per year (highest number of engagements in a year – 165!, CRAZY!) at $35,000 per engagement. Josh successfully sold his tech companies but had started to speak while he was the CEO. He recognized very early on that he wanted to be great on the platform, that he wanted to move from amateur to professional. So he set […]
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