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Aug 2024
23m 7s

Obstacles to Building Your Speaking Gig ...

Sarah Archer: Speaker, Comedian, Author, Playwright and Coach
About this episode

The question I hear most frequently from people, whether they’re starting out on their professional speaking journey, or they have been going at it for a while is this one …

“How do I get paid to speak consistently?”

All they’re getting is the odd few gigs, then tumbleweed. They want a pipeline of speaking gigs but they don’t know how to build it, or they’re trying and failing miserably.

That’s why in this show, I’m going to share the big obstacles to building your speaking gig pipeline, so that you can shortcut your journey to consistent speaking gigs. 

Enjoy!

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What you’ll learn:

  • The different ways to build your gig pipeline. 
  • The big issues that are preventing speakers from filling their calendars.
  • A benchmark for how well your talk is performing.
  • The big myth of representation.
  • How you need to approach outreach.
  • The huge mistake speakers make when they get interest.
  • And more!!

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