by Lois Creamer | Grow Your Speaking Business: Sales and Marketing, Lois Creamer's Blog, Positioning Statements for Professional Speakers, The Business of Speaking: Get Paid to Speak, Working with a Speaker Bureau
In order for this post to be most meaningful, you need to read the previous post on speaking services. That post discussed how to approach, who to approach, what to say when you approach and more. I’m going to share my qualifying system in this post. In order to...
by Lois Creamer | Positioning Statements for Professional Speakers, The Business of Speaking: Get Paid to Speak |
In a word.. yes! The people who hire you still like speaker preview videos. To those of you who are not familiar with these, they are six or seven minute videos that contain some clips of you on the platform. Over the years, as you can imagine, I have seen some GREAT...
by Lois Creamer | The Business of Speaking: Get Paid to Speak |
Are you hater? A voice mail hater I mean. One of the tweets I send out periodically reads: “If your voice mail messages are not getting returned it means you suck at voice mail.” And I’m serious! So many tell me that they hate voice mail. Sure, I would rather talk to...
by Lois Creamer | Lois Creamer's Blog, The Business of Speaking: Get Paid to Speak |
I spent much of my childhood growing up in Pennsylvania. I always assumed I’d go to Penn State. When you live in PA, it was almost as prestigious as Harvard. Note … was. Sad things happening there lately. You’ve heard the news. There are updates daily. And that...
by Lois Creamer | Grow Your Speaking Business: Sales and Marketing, Lois Creamer's Blog, Positioning Statements for Professional Speakers, The Business of Speaking: Get Paid to Speak |
I participate in #speakchat on twitter hosted by the multi-capable and multi-talented Michele Price (@prosperitygal). It is held on Monday evenings at 8 PM CST. Last chat we were discussing contracts/agreements, cancellation clauses, and other business materials. It...
by Lois Creamer | Grow Your Speaking Business: Sales and Marketing, Lois Creamer's Blog, Speakers Should Write, Successful Speakers Sell Products, The Business of Speaking: Get Paid to Speak |
You know from earlier posts that I consider you to be much more than a speaker. I consider you to be in the intellectual property business. Meaning, we get paid when we deliver (in whatever way) what it is that we know. It’s all about delivering your expertise....
