I believe this was a panel about getting paid for speaking.
- Colleges= contact the dean of that de0partment. Go on linked in nga department at uuv. Give list. Follow uvu and give a list of professors and hit connect. They will see your linked in. you are a speaker, see you testimonials on past speeches. Universities have a lot of money.
- Association meetings. For example, go to the association for the funeral home for every topic there are 50 associations. Will come together big conferences and state conventions.
- Principals associations, secretary associations, students
- 90% of business have association conferences.
- A bad video is better than no video at all
- You should video every event you do.
- People will hire you because of you.
- If you have a good presence on stage
- Get letters of recommendations.
- A lot of people speak for free.
- When asked what your speaking fee, ask what is your budget? I can’t do it for free. For tax reasons, I can’t do it for free. Can you do it for $10 bucks? Yes. I’ll do it if you have to give me a letter of recommendation and give me an introduction to other conferences.
- What do we charge? At a school $300.
- If the venue is local, don’t charge travel. Travel then travel plus travel expenses.
- When you ask for your fees, be confident.
- My names is xxx learned that you are a director of. Wanted to know what the process is of getting speakers. Send your stuff. Speaker has never been hired.
- Every hire of this speaker has been by word of mouth.
- See who your story would work for a specific audience. Make yourself hirable.
- Help others. If other people ask you to speak that is not in your category then refer to someone else’s. What goes around comes around. When you help each other.
- You will not be effective as speaker when you work out of your specialty.
- Be an expert on whatever you speak about
- Schools are scary. If you suck they will tell you on stage.
- Make them want to hire you. Have a great story to tell. Be vulnerable.
- When you introduce yourself say you are a professional speaker.
- Book: live the life you’ve already imagined.
- He wrote a boot because you need street cred.
