How Speakers Should Handle Their Finances in This COVID World

With Mike Michalowicz

Grant Baldwin and Mike Michalowicz hosted a Facebook Live to talk about how speakers should handle their finances in the midst of crisis.

During the live stream, Grant and Mike discuss:

  • Pivoting business to accommodate canceled or postponed events
  • Expediting projects to fill the gap created by live events
  • Amplifying communication frequency while decreasing quantity
  • Super long, rambling emails can have a negative impact on your brand
  • The difference between seizing an opportunity to serve and being opportunistic
  • Sending out short sound bits of value to your audience is powerful
  • Ask your email list what they need to identify themes
  • Create products to meet those needs at a reasonable rate (not free)
  • The economy is built on paying for stuff. If we all give everything away, it falls apart.
  • Lessons small businesses and speakers can learn to prepare for the future
  • The business crisis trend
  • What can you do to keep the lights on
  • 1-Step Back Technique to discover new opportunities
  • And more

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