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How to get speaking arrangements so you can charge more. Lots of people have agencies or do consulting. Nobody knows how to charge more. Do this...
Lots of people have agencies or do consulting.
Nobody knows how to charge more.
Do this.
Find relevant events to speak at.
Start small.
Look through Meetup, Eventbrite, local Facebook groups, local business groups, event recommendations.
1 million places to find events in your niche.
Email the organizers.
Say you would be a good speaker.
Include a one sheet PDF with your bio, headshot, topics you could speak on, links to past talks or video clips.
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Include testimonials.
Include your contact.
It might take some attempts at the beginning, but eventually you'll get some speaking opportunities.
Prepare well so you do a good job.
After you speak, ask for referrals.
Event organizers tend to know other event organizers.
Say who else do you know who runs events like this?
Can you connect us?
This will build a snowball effect of new speaking opportunities.
Speak everywhere that you can, even niche groups.
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Have pictures at each group you speak at.
Share the pictures on LinkedIn, social media.
An email list if you have one.
Say I spoke at this event today.
You might even share the stage with high profile speakers eventually mention that, share what you spoke about.
Here's the crazy thing.
Even if you feel like an imposter, you probably know more than 99% of people in the room.
This.
The public speaking.
Sharing what you know positions you as an expert.
Potential clients see your shares on social media about how you spoke at this event.
The social proof, the perceived authority, builds trust, increases conversions at higher prices.
Also increases event acceptance rates.
When you speak at a few events, it becomes easy to speak at many more.
Then when you're networking, new potential clients connect with you on LinkedIn or Instagram, see all your previous speaking engagements, become a lot more likely to convert just based on that.
If you don't believe me, this guy came on my podcast, shared this exact strategy.
Now he has an eight figure agency.
Speaking events is how he started.
You can listen to this anywhere you get your podcasts.
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And I've spoken at lots of events myself.
I can tell you from experience, this strategy works.
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Potential clients see your shares on social media about how you spoke at this event.