| If you are a professional speaker, you are not in the | | | | they can give the book for free by including the price |
| speaking business! You are in the business of | | | | of it in the registration fee. Learn to offer pre-sell |
| marketing your speaking services. Your talent or | | | | merchandise and back of the room merchandise. |
| message will only take you so far but when you | | | | Never be afraid to go after the big money. |
| learn to become a top notch marketer, your public | | | | 3) One idea can make all the difference. If you're |
| speaking business will go through the roof! | | | | wondering how to make money in the motivational |
| Early in my motivational speaking career, I would see | | | | speaking industry, know that one idea is all you really |
| mediocre speakers get public speaking jobs that | | | | need to get started. Do different things to help you |
| even I couldn't obtain. Worse yet, I would see these | | | | generate the ideas you need and then be prepared |
| speakers get job after job while I knew I was a | | | | to take action on them. |
| better speaker! | | | | 4) Never stop learning. In fact what I help you do is |
| Looking back, I laugh at my frustration, because | | | | learn multiple proven, time-tested formulas that will |
| while I may have been a decent speaker, I couldn't | | | | attract unlimited and continuous wealth so that you |
| figure out how to get bookings for motivational | | | | can live stress free and live exactly how you want to |
| speaking and was not making nearly the money | | | | live each and every day. You want to work smart, |
| other speakers were making. I started to wonder | | | | but you also want to work right. You want to learn |
| what these other guys were doing that John and I | | | | to use strategies that work instead of trying to |
| weren't. I've now made the shift: I make a ton of | | | | work with get-rich-quick schemes that end up |
| money in my motivational speaking career not | | | | disastrously. |
| because I'm a great speaker, but because I am a | | | | 5) Market. Market. Market. If no one knows you |
| great marketer. Here are some tips to help you do | | | | about you, then they can't give you a motivational |
| just that. | | | | speaking job. As simplistic as this concept sounds, I |
| 1) Don't Fill Your Ego, Fill Your Bank Account. The first | | | | often find people who claim to never advertise or dip |
| thing to remember when starting a motivational | | | | into vain self-promotion. I don't think self-promotion is |
| speaking business is to fill your bank account instead | | | | vain. In fact, I think not marketing yourself is the |
| of filling your ego. Have the mindset to go after jobs | | | | equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot. |
| that put money in your pocket instead of focusing | | | | With these motivational speaking tips applied in your |
| on fame and stardom. Remember to always do what | | | | public speaking career, your business will reach the |
| is profitable before you do what is exciting. | | | | public speaking success you've always desired. Use |
| 2) Teach people how to give you money. | | | | these tips today. |
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