How To Earn Money With A Public Speaking Job
Sell what you know
Your knowledge and expertise in a specific field will make them
come, so make sure to build your base in that area through a
variety of different mediums and formats. You can reach a lot of
people if they are familiar with your works, books, CDs, or
audio tapes. They could recognize you easily and instantly know
what it is you are an expert at. You could get hired without
difficulty and be conveniently invited to various speaking
engagements. This could instantly translate to a thriving
business as well as numerous speaking engagements.
Try Corporate Sponsorship
You can attempt to get companies to sponsor your fees when you
speak by being in touch with those organizations who might be
interested to be associated with whatever is the message of your
speaking engagement. There are a lot of opportunities to be
creative. Think of any specific group or company that would be a
perfect audience for your subject and propose your concept to
that corporation's PR Department.
Try Speakers Bureau
What this type of organization does is to actually locate
speakers for their clients. This bureau earns a bit of a
percentage from whatever is the speaker's fee. Usually the
percentage ranges between fifteen percent up to thirty percent.
Although having a speakers bureau hire you would be a lot easier
if you were a celebrity or already have a record of proven
success in the public speaking field, it won't hurt if you try
them out. It is also highly advisable that the materials you
have for promotion do not include your contact number but the
bureau's. This is done so that any client who is interested in
booking you again will contact the bureau and not you. The more
fees you earn, the higher their earnings. So the benefit works
both ways.
Do Seminars in Public
The idea behind this is simple, you do a speaking engagement in
public and people buy tickets to that engagement.
Or you could also inform several corporations of your public
seminar and any interested employees that they may have will buy
the tickets to your speaking engagement. You could do your own
promotions through your website or through mailing lists.
Do Seminars on the Phone
Yes Virginia, it is possible. An inexpensive telephone bridge
line could be requested or a more expensive conference call.
Would-be participants then call and once connected, the seminar
is delivered over the telephone line. It saves a lot of travel
expenses for everyone. Any visual aids needed may be had via
your website so participants should have ready access to a
computer.