Professional Keynote Speaker

I hear from many new Professional Speakers about the difficulty they are having in getting signed by speakers bureaus. I’ll be posting some secret tips on getting signed with bureaus in a special report any day now. One place to start getting a foot in the door is to sign up for a speakers showcase that is hosted by a bureau. These are incredible venues for you to get some great exposure for not only that specific speakers bureau but also for the meeting planners who attend.
I’ve been a Motivational Speaker for many years but this year was the first time I had spoken at a Speakers Showcase. I spoke at the Capitol City Speakers bureau hosted a showcase which was a full day event allowing each speaker the chance to speak twice. From that one event alone I have 14 bookings confirmed and 6 more “holds” in my speaking calendar.
The bureaus who host showcases still have some basic requirements in order to be accepted into the showcase. One is that you must have a DVD or video on your website that displays your speaking ability. I recommend the video be editing to display some key moments from your speech. You’ll want to show humor and the audience laughing on your video. This is a big deal to the bureaus because they realize that this is the entertainment business and making people laugh is part of being a great keynote speaker. Next you’ll want some footage of your signature story that shows the audience being engaged in your telling of the story. Be aggressive in contacting the bureaus but when you send them an email or a package with your materials be sure to make it easy for them. Label everything clearly and be very gracious and thankful to them for considering you. Now more than ever people are trying to enter the speaking industry which means bureaus get more requests than ever. You want to be make sure what you send them doesn’t get lost in the stack but also that when they find your material is will be easy to read and understand. Be relentless and aggressive in getting on the showcase program but also respectful and not pushy. It is a hard balance but appreciation and respect go a long way with everyone. Something as simple as writing a personal card with a $5 Starbucks gift card inside could make all the difference in getting you on the program of the next speakers showcase.

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Remember your passion. 

“We choose to forget who we are,  

and then we forget we’ve forgotten.” 

– Gunther Bernard 

There is a horrible disease in the world today. It attacks 

people of all ages. I have coined it, “Passion Alzheimer’s.” 

It’s a condition where people can no longer remember their 

passions or their dreams. They can no longer recall their 

desires or their purpose. 

The fantastic news is that this ailment is curable! 

Do you remember your dreams? 

Can you recall your passion? 

If you need a refresher course, read the book Discover Your 

Passion by Gail Cassidy. 

And scan over again some of the tips in this book. There’s a 

lot of passion glowing on these pages. 

Find the spark that will rekindle your passion. Rejuvenate 

yourself. 

In one of his last interviews, the truly inspirational  

Christopher Reeve talked about the frustration he felt when 

he saw an able-bodied person who was paralyzed in other 

ways. He said that he wanted to tell that person to just  

get up and go for it! 

Remember your passion. Watch my video on being Passionate Professional Keynote Speaker.

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Remember your passion.
“We choose to forget who we are, and then we forget we’ve forgotten.”
– Gunther Bernard
There is a horrible disease in the world today. It attacks people of all ages. I have coined it, “Passion Alzheimer’s.” It’s a condition where people can no longer remember their
passions or their dreams. They can no longer recall their desires or their purpose.
The fantastic news is that this ailment is curable! Do you remember your dreams?
Can you recall your passion? If you need a refresher course, read the book Discover Your
Passion by Gail Cassidy. And scan over again some of the tips in this book. There’s a
lot of passion glowing on these pages. Find the spark that will rekindle your passion. Rejuvenate
yourself. In one of his last interviews, the truly inspirational Christopher Reeve talked about the frustration he felt when he saw an able-bodied person who was paralyzed in other
ways. He said that he wanted to tell that person to just get up and go for it! Remember your passion.

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As Professsional Business Speaker one skill and potential power you possess is the power of your subconscious. Overstatement? I don’t think so. Consider a few of the empowering thoughts found in my favorite book on the subconscious, Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind, by James K. Van Fleet:
• …[Your subconscious] is a source of energy stronger than electricity, more powerful than high speed explosives. Your subconscious mind is unlimited, infinite, and inexhaustible. It never
rests, for it keeps right on working for you even when you are asleep…
• …Of all the creatures on this earth, man is the only one who does not need to depend upon past experience to control his future. Another way of saying this is that man is the only one of God’s creations who is allowed to finish the act of Creation himself… …Your subconscious mind will react automatically to give you whatever you program into it, either real or imagined…
• …It is important to point out to you here that your subconscious
mind will not take the trouble to work for you if you do not believe in
it. Next, it is also highly important that in transmitting your message
to your subconscious mind, you should do so in the spirit that the
work has already been done.

Let’s apply these concepts to being a Professsional Business Speaker. To maximize your abilities, you must not just hope that one day you will be a better speaker, but already believe that you’re a
good conference keynote speaker. This is the key!
The vast majority of people I train and coach do not think this way. They come in with the belief that they’re not very good keynote speakers and are just hoping for some improvement. Of course, this belief is the opposite of what is needed to activate your subconscious mind to produce positive results. For most of my life, I’ve wanted to be a Professsional Business Speaker. Yet, I found that
when people would ask me what I did, I’d say something like — “Oh, you know…a little
of this and a little of that…oh yeah, I also enjoy speaking…maybe, one day, I’ll be a
professional speaker.” Even in the last five years, after having been a corporate motivational speaker in my company, I’d still tell people that I did training, worked for conferences, and sometimes
dabbled as a professional business speaker. But this past year, something phenomenal happened. I was on an airplane when a gentleman sitting next to me began talking with me.
“What do you do for a living?” For some reason, I looked directly at him and replied,
“I’m a professional business speaker.”
I amazed myself when I responded with those words. “professional business speaker”?!
Never before had I answered the question that way. And, even more amazingly,
my schedule soon started to shift. Fewer meetings, fewer trainings, more conference keynote
speaking. I had never done conference keynotes speech before, but that’s what I do all the time now.

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