Grant Baldwin and Phil Jones hosted a Facebook Live to talk about the true confessions of a professional speaker dealing with the impact of COVID-19.
During the live stream, Grant and Phil discuss:
- Rescheduling or canceling 27 events
- Where do new event scheduling start coming from
- How does the market react and build on the other side of this crisis
- Using new technology and trying new things
- Taking advantage of the opportunity to serve past clients
- Finding joy in the gift of time to refocus priorities and spend time with family
- Leaning into new revenue streams and discovering new ways to distribute value
- Navigating schedule conflicts for Fall events with postponed Spring events
- Creating custom programming for events now instead of rescheduling
- Helping clients address the needs and fears of their customers
- Showing up in the moment and modeling generosity
- Maintaining the integrity of your speaking business long-term
- What speakers have in common with 5-star Michelin chefs
- Building a speaking business so that you’re not living month-to-month
- How speakers are actually running two different businesses simultaneously
- Discovering gifts and opportunity amidst the crisis
- What you have permission to do now that you didn’t before
- Inventing a new business model the creates recurring income
- The Cupcake analogy
- Redefining what success looks like now and thinking about your business in a different way
- Why you need resume points on the other side of this crisis
- And more
