Do It! Speaking
77 Instant-Action Ideas to Market, Monetize, and Maximize Your Expertise
- 208 pages
- English
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Do It! Speaking
77 Instant-Action Ideas to Market, Monetize, and Maximize Your Expertise
About This Book
Discover the principles, practices, and insider secrets of paid professional speaking success in 77 instant-access "microchapters" that will help you market your smarts, monetize your message, and dramatically expand your reach and revenue.
For thought-leading CEOs, executives, consultants, and entrepreneurs, the true test of your personal brand comes down to one simple question: When you speak, do people listen?
Nationally-acclaimed marketing expert and host of The Speaking Show Podcast David Newman teaches you how to build a thriving speaking career. Regardless of the speaking venue: in-person events, virtual appearances, conference stages, and any other place where you are being paid to share your expertise with an audience, the powerful articulation of your value, relevance, and impact is what makes experts stand out. But where do you start when you're trying to build your speaking platform?
In Do It! Speaking, Newman shares advice that helps you:
- Develop your speaking-driven revenue streams.
- Quickly commercialize your knowledge in today's economy.
- Bolster your visibility, credibility, and bank account.
- Become a better messenger of your company's message and dominate your marketplace.
Do It! Speaking shows you the inside track on marketing, positioning, packaging, prospecting, outreach, sales, and how to get more and better speaking gigs on behalf of your company, your brand, and yourself.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. Stop the Craziness!
- 2. Your Strategy in Four Questions
- 3. What Is Your Topic Niche?
- 4. What Is Your Target Market?
- 5. What Is Your Identity?
- 6. If You Want to Drive the BMW, You Need to Master the GNW (+U)
- 7. The Biggest Marketing Mistake Speakers Make
- 8. It Always, Always Starts with Who
- 9. Write Your Letter to Aunt Sally
- 10. Find Your âHungryâ Market
- 11. Build Your Marketing Language Bank
- 12. The Magical Power of Deciding
- 13. Whatâs Your Mission for Today?
- 14. Performer, Teacher, or Catalyst?
- 15. Your Competitive Scan
- 16. Google Is Your Friend!
- 17. Deepen Your Search
- 18. Five Keys to Developing Your Unique Message
- 19. Seven Reasons to Own a Niche
- 20. Be Careful How You Label Your Services
- 21. You Attract What You Define
- 22. How Much Money Do You Want to Make?
- 23. You Are Here: The Turning Point
- 24. You Win the Race by Inches, Not Miles
- 25. Elevate Your Fees to Pro Status
- 26. Laser-Focus Your Expertise
- 27. Stop Small Potatoes Thinking/Doing
- 28. Professionalize Your Selling
- 29. Interviews as a Prospecting Strategy
- 30. The Only Three Problems You Can Solve
- 31. You Solve People Problems
- 32. You Solve Process Problems
- 33. You Solve Profit Problems
- 34. Why Hire You?
- 35. If You Write the Test, You Get an âAâ
- 36. Speaker Website Rule #1
- 37. Speaker Website Rule #2
- 38. Speaker Website Rule #3
- 39. Speaker Website Rule #4
- 40. Speaker Website Rule #5
- 41. Speaker Website Rule #6
- 42. Speaker Website Rule #7
- 43. Speaker Website Rule #8
- 44. Donât Be an Idiot About Your Fees
- 45. Avoid Taxi-Meter Pricing
- 46. Donât Charge Like an Amateur
- 47. Donât Start Too Low or Go Too Slow
- 48. Avoid the âWrong Workâ Pricing Trap
- 49. Seventeen Great Answers to âHow Much Do You Charge?â
- 50. Salt and Pepper Your Fee
- 51. The First Number Should Never Be Your Fee
- 52. Context of Value and Contrast of Scale
- 53. What Does 1 Percent Look Like?
- 54. âCan You Put a Number on It?â
- 55. âYour Fee Is Too Highâ Is Always a Lie
- 56. Use Bridging Language to Seal the Deal
- 57. What Your Sales Pipeline Isnât
- 58. Killer Sales Questions for Speakers
- 59. Be Willing to Walk Away. Really.
- 60. Five Strategies for Corporate Executives to Get More from Every Speaking Gig
- 61. Seven Building Blocks of Executive Speaking Success
- 62. How the TED Talks Craze Has Changed Business Conferences
- 63. Short-Talk Venue Summaries
- 64. Your Three Main Goals in a Short Talk
- 65. Avoiding Death by PowerPoint
- 66. Eight Keys to Giving a Great Speech
- 67. How to Put the Wow in the Start of Your Speech
- 68. Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Speaking Program
- 69. The Shame of Success
- 70. Stop the Marketing Monkey Work
- 71. The Speaker Profit Formula
- 72. The New Rules for Experts Who Speak
- 73. The Golden Triangle
- 74. How to Crush It This Year and Every Year
- 75. The Four Levels of Marketing
- 76. Seven Things Smart Speakers Do Daily
- 77. Ten Questions to Spark Your Success
- Continue the Journey
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Index