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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Dr. Alok Trivedi is the latest graduate of the Bill Gove Speech Workshop to cross the million-dollar mark in professional speaking. Through hard work and dedication, Dr. Trivedi has built an incredible speaking and coaching business. He’s appeared on TV all over the country, and also in Canada. He’s followed the Bill Gove system to...
While most of the professional speaking world is in free fall, the topic of money is hotter than ever. 95% of the U.S. population is financially illiterate, and they’re starving for education. My last class via Zoom on How Money Works had 174 attendees, and tonight’s class, (Tuesday, November 17, 2020) is titled “How Millionaires...