become a speaker - how to make money as a professional speaker

BECOME A SPEAKER

How to Make Money as a Professional Speaker

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About Niquenya D. Fulbright

• President & CEO

• Over 15 years’ experience as an entrepreneur, consultant, coach, and trainer

• Bachelors in Technical Management with a concentration in Small Business & Entrepreneurship

• Have helped hundreds of entrepreneurs, small business owners, executives, nonprofit groups and career transitioners reach their goals

• Passionate about seeing people make their wildest dreams come true

• Have presented to and provided corporate training for nonprofit organizations, major corporations, and government agencies

"It is vital to be able to communicate with others. It adds at least 50% to your

value.”  ~Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, in a 2009 BBC

Interview

Why Speak?

•To establish yourself as a subject matter expert

•To expand your brand presence

•To get more clients

•To increase your sales

•To test new ideas or concepts

•To add an additional income stream

”Your careers will be determined largely by how well you speak, by how well you write, and by the quality of your ideas… in that

order." 

~MIT Professor Patrick Henry Winston 

5 Myths About Public Speaking

1. You have to be famous.

2. You have to have great credentials.

3. There is too much competition.

4. I have to be a REALLY good speaker.

5. It is too difficult to get started.

Preparation

•Develop your material

•Know your audience

•Target and diversify your client base

•Determine your worth

•Practice! Practice! Practice!

•Start doing it

Get Started NOW!

On a sheet of paper…

• Write 3 topics you know a lot about or are really good at doing

• Write 3 topics you want to learn more about

• Circle 1 thing you find the most interesting from what you have written

• Brainstorm titles

• Go do it!

Getting Your First Gig

•Get a website

•Develop a press kit

•Get active on social media

•Write!

•Tell everyone you know

•Respond to “Call for Speakers”

•Join a Speakers Bureau

Tips to Get Started

•Make personal and professional development a priority!

•Develop personal stories

•Observe other speakers

•Always be marketing

•Don’t speak for FREE!

•Leverage your bookings

•Be yourself!

How canBuilding Bridges

Chicago help YOU

to become a speaker?

Join Our Toastmasters Club!

• Learn-by-doing workshop in which participants hone their speaking and leadership skills in a no-pressure atmosphere.

• International non-profit organization with 280,000 plus members worldwide

• No teacher, self-paced, peer-evaluated

• Increase your self-confidence

• Become a better speaker

• Become a better leader

• Communicate more effectively

• Very affordable membership fee

Why join Toastmasters?

Video 1: Society Speakers ToastmastersVideo 2: Toastmasters Speech #9

Join Our Speakers Bureau!

• Connects speakers to meeting and event planners seeking to book talent

• Broadens your brand presence

• Rotation in our Featured Speaker section on every page of our website and in our newsletter

• Aggressively marketed to those who need your expertise

• Includes 1 year paid membership to our club

•Only $500 Life-Time Membership Until February 15, 2014!

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