How to Become a Motivational Speaker

Do you have what it takes to become a paid motivational speaker? Do you dream of sharing your story with audiences around the world? Can you see yourself living a life that most people only see in movies? If so, take the FreeSpeakingCourse.com, where you’ll learn how to select a topic, how much to charge,...

My Interview on CBS News Oklahoma City

I just did my 120th TV interview in the past 14 months for our best selling book, How Money Works: Stop Being a Sucker. The media has driven my speaking business for the past 12 years and created millions in profits for our companies. YOU can do the same! Watch this interview and set your...

How Speaker’s Are Earning $10,000+/Month During COVID-19

None of us were prepared for a world wide shutdown. Who could have projected 2-years without meetings and conventions? The fact is the speaking business won’t return until 2022. Its too risky for companies to hold large meetings. Meanwhile, the savviest speakers have pivoted and some are earning over $10,000+per month. I’m not talking about...

How to Prepare for the Post-Covid Speaking Business

COVID-19 is still raging around the world, but the vaccine is being distributed and the end of the shutdown is in sight. Meetings and conventions should return by early 2022, and professional speakers will once again be in high demand. Now is the time to prepare in an area that most emerging speakers ignore: platform...

3 Secrets to Speaking to an Empty Room

One of the most valuable skills Bill Gove taught me was how to deliver an entertaining speech to an empty room. And make no mistake: this is a formidable skill that most speakers don’t have. Most need the energy derived from a live audience, and without it, they are flat and out of step. This...

Is This a Sales Pitch?

Last week I sent out an email to a group of speakers offering to place 10 of them that were qualified on our How Money Works Speakers Faculty to conduct 30-minute classes via Zoom once a week. We currently have 28 speakers on our faculty, earning anywhere from $600 to $9,000 per class. How Money...

“#48 of The 50 Greatest Speaker Marketing Secrets for the Post-COVID 2021 Market

Secret #48: You must be able to clearly articulate your value proposition. Here’s the undeniable fact: COVID-19 has changed the professional speaking business forever…but not necessarily in a bad way. Just like the industry fall-out from the great recession, the best speakers rose to even greater heights as the mediocre speakers went out of business....

New Years Eve Keynote Speaking and Publicity Training Offer

The two most powerful things that propelled my speaking career have been learning world-class level keynote speaking skills and leveraging the press. Thousands of new speakers attempt to break into the business every year with substandard speaking skills, usually because they’ve never had professional training. They come from speaking clubs, academic backgrounds, teaching roles, and...

Speaker Marketing Secret #49—Post COVID Era

Many speakers miss this one, yet as the owner of Georgia Speakers Bureau, I’ll tell you in no uncertain terms that you need to. This is about your public profile matching your avatar. We reject speakers every day after a quick google search reveals comments, images and discussions that fail to match our corporate clients...

“The 50 Greatest Speaker Marketing Secrets for the Post-COVID 2021 Market”

The speaking business has taken a beating in 2020. I’ve personally lost over $2 million in keynote fees, training contracts and licensing residuals. All meetings and conventions will likely be cancelled until Q3 or Q4 of 2021. In the meantime, I’ve decided to disclose what I believe to be the 50 greatest speaker marketing secrets...