Baker Books
The Successful Speaker: Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform
The Successful Speaker: Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform
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Whether you want to speak at your next board meeting or community gathering, start making some extra money on the side, or become a full-time professional speaker, Grant Baldwin knows how to get you from here to there. Why? Because he's done it himself and has coached over 2,000 speakers.
In The Successful Speaker, you will learn the five-step road map to start and scale a speaking business from the ground up, including
- how to hone your message and know exactly who it's for
- the preparation process to help your next speech move an audience to action
- what it takes to establish yourself as an in-demand expert
- practical steps to finding and booking paid speaking gigs
- how to know when it's time to grow your impact and income
In each chapter, you will get specific action steps and case studies from professional speakers (including some of the most successful communicators in the world) to put you on the fast track to booking gigs, getting paid, and building your speaking platform.
Author: Grant Baldwin
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 02/18/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780801094088
About the Author
Grant Baldwin is the creator of the popular podcast The Speaker Lab and the online course Booked and Paid to Speak, through which he has trained more than 2,000 speakers. A popular keynote speaker and entrepreneur, he lives near Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Sheila, and their three daughters. Visit www.thespeakerlab.com for more information.
Jeff Goins is the bestselling author of five books, including Real Artists Don't Starve and The Art of Work. He lives with his family just outside Nashville, Tennessee. His website www.goinswriter.com is visited by millions of people every year.
