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Positioning yourself as a speaker

Positioning yourself as a speaker

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Positioning yourself as a speaker

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- Rule number one in finding speaking gigs: people can't book you to speak if they don't know you're a speaker. Would you walk up to someone and ask them to do a clown performance at your kid's birthday party if you weren't 100% sure they were a part-time clown? I sure hope not. That clown has to make it known that it's a clown and open for business. So we have to do the same thing as speakers, and LinkedIn is a great place to start. Let's take a look at my LinkedIn profile. The first thing you see is my header photo, with a picture of me speaking on stage. If you don't have any speaking photos yet, don't worry, you can still put Speaker in your headline. Then, as you scroll to my About section, you'll see I have uploaded my speaker video, which is basically a two-minute mashup of me speaking at different events. Footage is so important as you start to scale your speaking business, so try to get as much of it as…

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