The content corresponds with the four core competencies identified for success as a professional speaker. Members of the National Speakers Association, who have built thriving speaking businesses, weigh in with valuable insights and proven strategies on a gamut of topics.

Have you ever desired to become a professional speaker? If you are already speaking, do you desire to be PAID more? The chapters of this book, 'How to Become a Professional Speaker,' are written as transcribed coaching modules within the PAID to SPEAK!(tm) program. This book will teach you everything you need to know about how to get started in the professional speaking business as well as how to get PAID more! Each of the five modules has a unique focus and is designed to carefully guide you step-by-step through a systemized process that personalizes your objectives and helps you to identify a transparent strategy for your speaking business.This book is not about how to SPEAK; rather it is about how to get PAID doing it. Those who complete this book will receive a special gift - a complimentary 30-minute coaching call via phone valued at $125! Also, this book contains a bonus chapter titled, 'How to Write and Publish Your Book!'

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.

In this hilarious and highly practical book, author and professional speaker Scott Berkun reveals the techniques behind what great communicators do, and shows how anyone can learn to use them well. For managers and teachers -- and anyone else who talks and expects someone to listen -- Confessions of a Public Speaker provides an insider's perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. It's a unique, entertaining, and instructional romp through the embarrassments and triumphs Scott has experienced over 15 years of speaking to crowds of all sizes. With lively lessons and surprising confessions, you'll get new insights into the art of persuasion -- as well as teaching, learning, and performance -- directly from a master of the trade. Highlights include: Berkun's hard-won and simple philosophy, culled from years of lectures, teaching courses, and hours of appearances on NPR, MSNBC, and CNBC Practical advice, including how to work a tough room, the science of not boring people, how to survive the attack of the butterflies, and what to do when things go wrong The inside scoop on who earns $30,000 for a one-hour lecture and why The worst -- and funniest -- disaster stories you've ever heard (plus countermoves you can use) Filled with humorous and illuminating stories of thrilling performances and real-life disasters, Confessions of a Public Speaker is inspirational, devastatingly honest, and a blast to read.

Tell your story, change your life Think about people who are paid to speak at events. They're all celebrities, former politicians, or award-winning experts in their fields, right? Wrong. The truth is that every year, thousands of ordinary people generate five- and even six-figure incomes—just from speaking. And you can too. With the right know-how, anyone can harness the power of their own story to carve out a lucrative speaking career. Listen in as veteran speaking agent James Marshall Reilly shares insider knowledge and tells compelling stories about dozens of successful speakers. Packed with clearly defined strategies and techniques, this book offers the tips and information you'll need to be well positioned for success as a paid speaker, including how to: Identify, hone, and frame your personal story—or message—so other people will pay to hear it Create compelling marketing materials and get an agent Work with that agent to develop a personal brand and own your niche Increase your speaking fees over time, interact with audiences, and handle failure Use paid speeches to sell an idea, attract customers, build your profile, and generate revenue for your business or nonprofit One Great Speech is the only resource written by an insider that details the ins and outs of the paid speaking industry. It is the essential blueprint for finding that one great speech that will lead you to speaking success.

It's Time You Made Money Speaking. Big Money. TRUTH BOMB: Making excellent money as a paid speaker is NOT about how well-known you are. Instead, it's about how you package your speech and present yourself. In Speak Your Way to Cash(R), entrepreneur and professional speaking coach Ashley N. Kirkwood takes you behind the scenes and unlocks the secrets to landing high-paying five and six-figure corporate speaking contracts using her firm's proprietary P.A.I.D. Method.(TM) Ashley developed her method while taking herself from someone who spoke for free at the Rotary Club to being an in-demand corporate speaker commanding 5-6 figures. And she did this in record time. Would you like to be a highly paid speaker? Then get this book, because it'll show you how to: ​Develop the mindset of a highly paid speaker; Develop your speaking brand and using the media to explode it; Use what you already know to craft an awe-inspiring speech/program; Assemble a six-figure corporate speaking offer that gets noticed; ​Provide world-class customer service that keeps the majorplayers coming back to you. Again, you do not need to be a well-known, experienced speaker. If you have professional skills or knowledge (e.g., an advanced degree, superior sales or entrepreneurial skills, upper-management experience, a professional trade, or similar) you already have what organizations will pay handsomely for. The fact is, corporations, universities, and other organizations have an insatiable need for experts from every imaginable field. Whether it's for training purposes, team building, sales, marketing, diversity/sensitivity training, seminar presentations, or similar, thousands of people are hired and paid 5-6 figures to share their knowledge. Stop starting at the bottom. You already have what the people who pay the big money want. Let's get you acquainted with them. Speak Your Way to Cash does exactly that.

Motivational humorist Judy Carter believes ordinary people have the ability to find the extraordinary stories tucked away deep inside of them, stories that not only can make a difference in the lives of others but also can result in a money-making career for the storyteller. In her previous bestseller, The Comedy Bible, Judy taught everyday people how to turn their problems into punch lines. Now, she is helping professional speakers, techies, entrepreneurs, survivors, and even complete novices to transform their tragedies and triumphs into hilarious and motivational speeches that not only educate, inspire, and entertain but also pay the rent.--From publisher description.