Grant Baldwin and Erick Rheam hosted a Facebook Live to talk about how speakers are still getting booked and paid to speak.
During the live stream, Grant and Erick discuss:
- The state of the speaking industry
- Dealing with ambiguity and anxiety
- Long-term ramifications of social distancing
- How some speakers are still getting booked and paid to speak
- Reaching the point of turning down new opportunities
- When to say no if a gig is outside your brand/industry
- Thinking about the balance between virtual and live events in the future
- How do you stay positive and keep moving forward?
- Why proven systems don’t break even if the variables change
- What speakers can do to work with live events to postpone without losing income
- The value of relationships and why you can’t ignore them
- Now is the time coaching really matters
- Are speakers still booking events that are happening in the future? (Spoiler Alert: YES!)
- Pros and cons of virtual events and how to book them
- Why speakers are in the problem-solving business
- How to adapt live event keynote to virtual offers that are still on message
- Being prepared to pivot a lot
- Starting somewhere and being willing to try new things
- The dangers of a scarcity mindset
- Never knowing who’s in the audience
- How many sleeps are you gone for live events vs virtual gigs?
- Going from 40 potential gigs in his pipeline to 81 during the pandemic
- Industry insights direct from event planners
- Using this time to position yourself for when the wave of live events comes back
- And more
