Professional Speakers #1 Skill
This is the most skipped over skill in professional speaking, yet it’s what makes or breaks you in the business. I first heard it back in 1997, and knew immediately it was the missing link. My first year as a full-time professional speaker, I lost over $50,000. My second year, after hearing this advice, I...
Why Professional Speakers Fail
The vast majority of professional speakers fail, yet the reasons why are grossly misunderstood. Thousands of retired executives, doctors, college professors, attorneys, and small business owners attempt to break into this business every year, and most fail miserably. Some of them are good speakers. Almost all of them are smart, successful people. The problem is...
How to Triple Your income in 12 Months
25 years ago I went from earning $40,000 per year to $182,000 in 12 months, all from a single skill I learned, practiced and implemented. The following 12 months I earned over $300,000, and the next year over $500,000. In my early thirties I became financially independent from this one skill that few people understand...
How to Start a Speech
Professional Speaker’s have numerous ways of starting a speech, all designed to grab the audiences attention in the opening seconds, without making it sound like speech. Counterintuitive, I know, but this is an important distinction. The best professional speakers sound like they’re having an intimate conversation with their audience, as opposed to sounding like they’re...
#1 Reason Professional Speakers FAIL
This is the most overlooked area of the becoming a professional, fee-paid speaker. This is the reason so few speaker training companies advertise in this area. New speakers assume it’s not important, and yet it’s the single most important aspect of the becoming a successful speaker. Maybe the best example is how little attention is...
Bill Gove Speech Club Launches Worldwide
If you’re an aspiring or emerging professional speaker, or you’re ready to increase your speaking fees, the Bill Gove Speech Club will give you the tools, tips and strategies to make it happen. The club meets weekly via Zoom to watch members deliver keynote speech vignettes, followed by an immediate critique and coaching session with...
( Part 2) Why Professional Speakers FAIL
This is one of the most overlooked reasons professional speakers fail. As obvious as it seems, most speakers bypass it or take it for granted. Making at the 6 or 7 figure level as a speaker is equivalent to becoming a 6-7 figure actor or singer. Not many succeed, but it’s often because they fail...
Dr. Alok Trivedi’s Journey from Speaker’s Apprentice to Millionaire Speaker
Dr. Alok Trivedi was one of the most successful chirpractors in the United States when I met him, but he desperately wanted to share his message with a broader audience around the world, specifically through professional public speaking. He became one of my original speakers apprentices, and over the next 5 years, he worked tirelessly...
Why Professional Speakers FAIL. (Part 1)
Hollywood has a lot in common with the Professional Speaking Industry. At any given time, there are approximately 500,000 actors in Los Angeles looking for work. The odds of an unconnected actor breaking into the business and earning $100K per year are long. Unless…you have connections. Professional Speaking has smaller numbers, but your odds of...
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