The Successful Speaker: Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform - Hardcover

Grant Baldwin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801094089 ISBN 13: 9780801094088

Publisher: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2020

Synopsis

Do you have a message you want to get out into the world? Have you ever dreamed of speaking for a living? Is there something you have to say but just aren't sure what to do next? The Successful Speaker is a proven, easy-to-follow guide to helping you do just that. 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.

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover

Do you have a message you want to get out into the world?

Have you ever dreamed of speaking for a living?

Is there something you have to say, but you just aren't sure what to do next?

The Successful Speaker is a proven, easy-to-follow guide to helping you do just that.

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 two thousand speakers.

In The Successful Speaker, you will learn the five-step roadmap to starting and scaling 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. 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 two thousand 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.

From the Inside Flap

Do you have a message you want to get out into the world?

Have you ever dreamed of speaking for a living?

Is there something you have to say, but you just aren't sure what to do next?

The Successful Speaker is a proven, easy-to-follow guide to helping you do just that.

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 two thousand speakers.

In The Successful Speaker, you will learn the five-step roadmap to starting and scaling 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. 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 two thousand 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0801094089
• ISBN 13: 9780801094088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288