Business of Speaking
Posted on February 1st, 2012.
Speaker Services E-Zine, February 2012 http://www.speakerservices.com Serving the community since 1992 Full-Service Coaching, Marketing & Training for Speakers, Authors, Experts, Entrepreneurs & Business Professionals Content: – Note from Susan Levin – Tips and Advice – Tweets & Blog Posts of Interest Greetings, We have been enjoying beautiful warm weather in Los Angeles and I [...]
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Posted on January 4th, 2012.
Marketing & Training Services since’92 http://www.speakerservices.com Speaker Services E-Zine 1/4/12 CONTENT: - Note and Update from Susan Levin – One Sheets Made Easy, Special Offer for 2012 – New Speakers & Authors – Tips & Advice – 10 Questions to Book More Business – Workshops and Teleclasses Greetings, Happy 2012. It was a beautiful [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2011.
Post by Steve Markman Marketing mix: Your marketing and PR efforts should be in the forefront of your organization, given today’s competitive climate and the uncertain economy. Standing out from the crowd, regardless of your organization’s industry, is a huge challenge. How can you meet this challenge? Many organizations have recognized the value of holding [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2011.
This is a post from my colleague Lois Creamer Lois@BookMoreBusiness.com My next two blog posts are going to address some questions I’ve been asked constantly ever since I started my consulting practice for speakers. They are: How can I get a bureau to book me? I’d like to hire someone to get me bookings and [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2011.
B2B Cold Calling Best Practices By Maria Pergolino Marketo blog This is a great post as it provides six steps to getting the sale and getting past the gatekeeper. How a business can realize tangible results from this marketing method? Is cold calling dead? Patrick Donnelly said cold calling was in a blog post recently, [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2011.
Update 9/28/11 Hello, I was going to save the following information to share with you at the beginning of the month. However, it was so right on that I just could not wait to share it with you. You see I posted the following two items around on social media and received many comments and [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2011.
September 21, 2011 Update Marketing & Training Services since 1992 Speaker Services http://www.speakerservices.com In this issue – Note from Susan Levin – Tweets & Blog Posts of interest Greetings, I want to personally invite all of our Los Angeles business folks, speakers, authors, coaches and entrepreneurs to join us on Monday October 17 for [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2011.
September 2011 E-Zine Marketing & Training Services since 1992 Speaker Services http://www.speakerservices.com In this issue – Note from Susan Levin – Meet our featured speakers & authors – Tips and Advice – Teleclasses & Workshops – Tweets & Blog Posts of interest Today I am sharing with you new reports about the meeting attendees [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2011.
August 2011 E-Zine Marketing & Training Services since 1992 Speaker Services: http://www.speakerservices.com In this issue: – A note from Susan Levin – News from our speakers and colleagues – Teleclasses & Workshops – Tweets and Blog Post of Interest This past week I had the pleasure of teaching Speak Your Way to More Clients with [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2011.
post by Daphne Bousquet Drumroll, please…….. After looking at the top 5 things to sell in the back of the room at your workshops and seminars, we have finally come to number 1. Many entrepreneurs have used this particular piece to turn their seminar into an event that made high 5-figures, 6-figures, multiple 6-figures and [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2011.
Marketing & Training Services since 1992 Speaker Services: http://www.speakerservices.com In this issue: – A note from Susan Levin – Tips and Advice – Teleclasses & Workshops – 5 Tips to Avoid Losing Your Shirt with Your Seminar – How Sponsors Define Value – How to Ensure a Powerful Introduction Before You Speak – Tweets & [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2011.
Marketing & Training Services since 1992 Speaker Services: http://www.speakerservices.com Greetings, Today we are trying out a new e mail format. Let me know if you like it. There are a few items I want to share with you today that you may not be aware of that we offer. I have been noticing that some [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2011.
You do know Speaking is a business and you know you need to know the nuts and bolts of marketing yourself as a speaker? Here’s an opportunity for you to get the marketing blueprint and the overview of the industry in a step by step process over a six month period in a virtual [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2011.
Speaker Services is coming to Atlanta, September 30 and October 1, 2011 Calling all Speakers, Authors, Consultants, Coaches, Experts, Entrepreneurs, CEO’s See a short video that panelist Keith Ivey prepared and why he thinks you just might want to be at this event. http://youtu.be/8mrewimiuvk If you’re a would-be speaker, a business hotshot, an entrepreneur [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2011.
I wrote the following note to my e mail followers today and thought it might be of interest to those of you who are not on our e-list. Appreciate your comments. Today I want to have a conversation with you about an epidemic that is sweeping through our industry. So my phone rings last week [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2011.
by Rich Nadworny In this article, you’ll learn… The business impact that great storytelling can have To connect intimately with your audience To monitor and gauge the efficacy of your storytelling When you have a well-known and fabled story attached to your business, it should be easy to go out and succeed in social media, [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2011.
One of the biggest questions I get asked is: How do I find paid speaking engagements? SPEAKING IS A BUSINESS and there are many moving parts to the business and there is no short answer to the question. If you are committed and passionate about your area of expertise and want to earn money as [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2010.
By C.J. Hayden, Contributing Editor, Rain Today You’d be surprised how often my clients and students ask me to help them find a surefire sales letter or phone script that they can copy to use for their own sales efforts. Or maybe you wouldn’t. Perhaps you, too, have been misled into thinking that there is [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2010.
Speaker Services offering for workshops in Los Angeles Click on the links to read more and to register. Saturday, October 16, 1-5pm Should You Self-Publish or Go Mainstream in a Changing Publishing World? Jean-Noel Bassior, $125 Explore the pros and cons of the many ways to get published. Publishing is changing as we speak…
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Posted on July 19th, 2010.
Move around, don’t hide behind the podium: It’s easy to seek shelter behind a speaker podium, especially when you’re nervous, but the podium is a subconscious “block” between you and your audience. Try to move as far away from it as you can.
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Posted on May 23rd, 2010.
Another great post by Donna Gunter http://www.Onlinebizu.com Recently I was asked in an interview to imagine that I was starting all over again, and as a newbie, how I would fill my business in 60 days. Things have changed tremendously since I began my online business in 1999, mostly for the better. Most of the [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2010.
Post by Donna Gunter Even though videos are one of the hottest Internet marketing strategies today, I have been very slow to jump on the video marketing bandwagon. Why? Because making a talking head video of myself is about as enticing as dipping my body in honey and watching the flies swarm over me. I’ve [...]
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Posted on May 4th, 2010.
Great post by Wendi McNeill. I could not agree with her comments more. I can’t stress the importance for each and every speaker to create a strong online presence. Today about 90% or more of your buyers are going online to find their experts and you want to found quickly and easily. Below are a [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2010.
By Kathleen Gage Please leave comments as Kathleen will be coming by on 3/17 to answer your questions. Make millions, drive fancy cars, buy big houses, enjoy trips around the world. All without effort, work or time invested. And anyone can do it. All of this and more has been promised to speakers and authors [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2010.
Have a Presence The first step in becoming a paid speaker is to position yourself so that you can provide value. Your product is what you say, so if you communicate intelligent things online you are on the right track. Twitter, blogs, online video and podcasts are great platforms to express your message to the [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2010.
Post by Lisa Sassevich Lisa at the Speakers Summit When you’re trying to get booked to speak on stages or teleseminars, it’s crucial to give your talk a hooky title. By that I mean, an instantly appealing and easy to remember name. A hooky talk title can mean the difference between getting booked or not [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2010.
Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling The first rule in “Naming Your Prospect” is to ask for a title not an activity. Do not ask for “the person who makes the decision to purchase….” Making the “decision to purchase…” is an activity and may get you a name, however, it will most likely be [...]
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Posted on January 31st, 2010.
www.speakerservices.com Feb 2010 E-Zine Boy was I blown away when I saw that over 1,200 people downloaded the complimentary preview teleclass mp3 call for the Speakers Summit http://ping.fm/thJw8 Get Booked at Colleges with Brent Scarpo, Jack Barnard and myself last week. It’s a hot topic and Brent and Jack gave us great content. We learned [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2010.
By Terry Dean, http://www.terrydean.org Terry writes: I’ve been disappointed by most internet marketing conferences I’ve attended…and I’m a speaker at them! And I could not agree with him more. I even posted a comment on his blog page. His comments apply to many conferences. It is unfortunate that the hard sell ruins it for many [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2010.
An important element of your business is testimonials. I teach my clients to collect their testimonials from their speaking engagements and add them to their marketing packets, blogs. flyers and websites. LinkedIn has a recommendation section where you can write testimonials about your colleagues. The following testimonials came from LinkedIn. Here is how I [...]
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