To my speaker friends around the world: This is a call to arms. I need your help. It’s no secret that the world is a mess. Never in any of our lifetimes has any of us experienced this level of global negativity and psychological suffering. War, terrorism, corruption, political polarization, economic uncertainty, pandemic, school shootings,...
Several years ago a young author from Minnesota followed me around the country over the course of a year to document the life of a million dollar professional speaker. He followed me backstage, taped my speeches, attended TV and radio interviews with me, and asked me every question imaginable. The result was a book called...
Georgia Speakers lost 66 speakers over the 2-year Covid shutdown, and is actively searching for new talent. Our main clients are in Healthcare, Big Pharma and Financial Services. We’re looking for motivational, insprirational and business content experts. GSB was a full service bureau for 10 years, but has transitioned to a referral-based bureau. That means...
n 1959, a brilliant young speech writer named Theodore Sorensen graduated from the Bill Gove Speech Workshop. He was talented and ambitious, and Bill Gove took notice of him immediately. Bill Gove taught him his famous vignette system of professional speechwriting, and Theodore Sorenson was a quick study. 2 years later he would pen the...
Should you go for a standing ovation? How about sharing your final profound words? Or do you simply walk off? These strategies have been debated for many years. Since 1996, I’ve followed the famous Bill Gove System, and it helped me build a multimillion dollar speaking business. That doesn’t mean its the only way, just...
In the age of mobile devices and short attention spans, capturing and keeping an audiences attention is tougher than ever. Everyone seems to want to be somewhere different than they are. Keynote speakers arm themselves with a battery of strategies that they implement to offset this cultural phenomenon. Many speakers (amateurs) are terrified of the...
The most common question we get at Georgia Speakers Bureau is “when will the speaking business reopen?” While no one can be 100% sure, we’ve been calling our corporate clients for the past few weeks to get their take. Watch this short video for the results of over 50 conversations with Fortune 500 executives.
I often look back on my 23-year professional speaking career in amazement. I was fortunate enough to exceed every hope and dream I ever had as an international best selling author and speaker. But sometimes I wonder what level of success I would have had without my million dollar mentor, the great Bill Gove. My...
Tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 27, 2020, I’ll be presenting my first How Money Works Mini-Masterclass called “Learn 3 Life Changing Strategies in 30 Minutes That Will Transform Your Financial Future.” This is 1/8 30-minute Masterclasses I’ll be conducting via Zoom, and eventually to corporate America when the shutdown ends. If you’re trying to break into...
Our national media campaign for How Money Works: Stop Being s Sucker continued this week in West Virginia on NBC-TV. In the 6-months since it’s release, the book has sold over 300,000 copies. Our goal for 2020, pre-pandemic, was 1,000,000 copies sold. With all the interest in the book from the media, we may still...