For many years, I held the record for being the fastest non-celebrity professional speaker to go from zero to a million-dollars in speaking fees, in just under 5 years. Many people attributed my success to marketing and sales talent. I wish! The embarrassing truth is that I lost over $50,000 my first year in the...
Is it possible to become a $100K professional speaker in the next 12-24 months, even if you’ve never been paid to deliver a speech? The answer might surprise you. Contrary to what you see advertised online, the secret has nothing to do with marketing. The only people that make money promising to give you leads,...
The professional speaking business can be intoxicating. Especially as your popularity and fees grow. It’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming it will continue forever. In the past 20 years, speakers have had two massive wake up calls that shocked and decimated thousands of careers: the great recession and Covid 19. I skated...
Why do 95% of aspiring professional speakers fail? Why do speaker marketing companies ignore this completely? Why don’t most aspiring speakers take this reason seriously? The answers to these questions are obvious to seasoned veterans in the business, although it’s rarely discussed. It’s the speaking businesses dirty little secret, and it kills more careers than...
Professional Speakers tend to be highly creative, emotionally driven people. Their strengths revolve around moving people with their message and inspiring audiences to make positive changes. But there’s one topic that 99% of the speakers I know HATE…so much so that they refuse to even discuss it publicly. It’s also one of the most important...
This professional speakers demo video generated $3.2 million dollars in keynote speeches over a 3-year period. It’s a classic mix of keynote speech footage in front of thousands of people in different convention halls from the RIO Hotel on the Las Vegas strip to the San Diego Convention Center. It also includes TV appearances on...
Many speaker marketers like to tell new and aspiring speakers that the most important reason to write a book is to use it as a business card. This is bad advice, and an even worse philosophy. If you want to be taken seriously as a thought leader, you should not only write book, but write...
The Professional Speaker’s Apprentice Program is the fast-track to 6-figure success in 12-24 months as a Professional Speaker. Past Apprentices have gone on to 7-figure success. Most 6 and 7 figure speakers were ushered into this business by a family member, mentor or other high-level contact. Very few make it without some kind of inside...
If you’re in the professional speaking business, or you would like to be, this podcast will help guide the way. This is NOT a motivational podcast. The purpose of this program is to reveal the jealously guarded secrets of a very lucretive industry that’s dominated by a few hundred people worldwide. This is what you...
Former Police Officer Vernice ‘Flygirl’ Armour was a new speaker when she first attended the Bill Gove Speech Workshop in 2007. 4 years later she was earning over 1 million dollars per year. When she attended again in late 2022, she was earning $40,000 per speech and ranked among the Top 10 professional speakers in...