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#591: What Should I Charge to Speak? The 3 Things That Drive Your Fee
“If you don’t know your number before the conversation, the buyer will pick the number for you.” Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! In this solo episode, host Dan Irvin tackles one of the most common — and most avoided — questions in the speaking business: what should I charge? Everyone asks it. Almost nobody answers it straight. You’ve probably heard “charge what...
The Speaker Lab Podcast
#591: What Should I Charge to Speak? The 3 Things That Drive Your Fee
“If you don’t know your number before the conversation, the buyer will pick the number for you.” Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! In this solo episode, host Dan Irvin tackles one of the most common — and most avoided — questions in the speaking business: what should I charge? Everyone asks it. Almost nobody answers it straight. You’ve probably heard “charge what...

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#571: How to Create Exceptional Audience Experiences with Neen James
“My job is to make [event planners] look like a rock star when I get off stage…I stand beside them so I can also have them hear the lovely things people are saying in line when people want to hug you and...
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#570: Turning Adversity Into Purpose with Lance Cibik
“I’m trying to use stories so the audience can find themselves in the story as it relates to their life, but then extract the lessons learned, the principles to help, to overcome, to move through the process...
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#569: Mastering Your Speaking Pipeline: Live Coaching with Erick Rheam
“The whole purpose of the Speaker Lab is we’re here to help speakers, to give them confidence, to get them out there and to translate their experiences, their stories into something that they can take...
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#568: Crafting Talks That Audiences Remember with Donald Miller
“I have a friend who used to call it putting the cookies on a lower shelf. And you want to say to the audience things that they can absolutely understand and they can take action on and that are not confusing.”...
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#567: Mastering Speaking Logistics with Advance Agent Lori Kennedy
“When speakers communicate directly with the clients and leave me out of the communication, it can get fuzzy. And there have been times when that’s happened and logistical details have not occurred and...
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#566: Self Awareness and Forming Lasting Relationships in Speaking with Brad Lomenick
“Content is still important, but content is much more of a commodity. So the premise has to be that we’ve got to create something…It has to include conversation, it has to include community, it has to...
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