It's Time to Face Facts: Speaking isn't a business. GETTING THE GIG IS THE BUSINESS!
The popular Business Speaking Retreat with David Avrin, CSP and Tiffany Lengyel have been officially retired. The good news is that all of the content is now available as a video series!
David Avrin Explains Why Most Speakers Starve!
If you want to book more paid speaking gigs, don't fall for the hype or the scams!
Here is the Truth: Making money as a paid speaker is NOT about:
- Following your passion - Living your "truth" - Communicating your "authentic self" - Telling your story - Lighting someone's fire - Blah, blah, blah...
I guarantee you that the people who are telling you that are NOT making money speaking, They are either a naive, (but well-intentioned) friend, or they are scamming people selling a touchy-feely dream and teaching garbage!
Getting hired (and paid well) to speak, IS ABOUT using your knowledge, passion, skills and experience to solve a problem an organization is willing to pay to solve.
For nearly a decade, my brilliant assistant and business manager Tiffany Lengyel and I have build a profitable speaking and sales and marketing machine — but it wasn’t easy. Ugh! So many mistakes along the way that cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Here's the good news: We made the early mistakes, so you don't have to!
Hundreds of speakers have either come to our sessions at multiple international speaker association annual meetings, or made the pilgrimage to Denver for our annual two-day retreat. Why? Because we tell the truth about the hard work, the smart strategies and the effective tactics needed to create a predictable, consistent speaking revenue stream. Speakers have made hundreds of thousands of dollars from implementing what we showed them.
Speakers have traveled from around the world to attend our live events!
CLARIFICATION: We do not automate - Anything! This is the hard, smart work of finding qualified contacts and turning them into speaking leads, leads into prospects and converting prospects into paid speaking gigs. It's quality content, smart pitches and diligent follow-up. It's hard work to be sure, but for what we get paid? Are you kidding?
What some of the best in the business say about the Speaking Business Retreat:
“This retreat re-launched my entire speaking business during a sudden and surprising downturn in my career.”
Jason Hewlett, CSP, CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame
“Brilliant content. What every professional speaker needs to be successful.”
Stephen Shapiro, CSP, CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame
“I have never experienced anything like this! It’s a no-brainer.”
Linda Larsen MFA, CSP, CPAE Speaker all of Fame
“This 'Masterclass' program was simply my best business development investment in the last 5 years.”
Lesley Everett, FPSA/CSP, PSAE Speaker Hall of Fame
"Attending this event is like adding jet-fuel to your speaking business. Highly recommended.”
James Taylor, Keynote Speaker, Founder & Host of International Speakers Summit™
"We’re already closing business that we would have never had otherwise.”
Manley Feinberg II, CSP
Hall-of-Fame Speakers, Newer Speakers and even Staff raved about the Speaking Business Retreat!
Your Session Leaders
DAVID AVRIN, CSP
One of the most in-demand Customer Experience and Marketing keynote speakers in the world today, David Avrin, CSP has presented for enthusiastic audiences across the USA and 24 countries on 6 continents around the world. David is the author of the celebrated: It's Not Who You Know, It's Who Knows You!, Visibility Marketing and his newest book: Why Customers Leave (and How to Win The Back) is being published worldwide in English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish and an English version in India.
TIFFANY LENGYEL
Tiffany Lengyel has been the rock star assistant and business manager for David Avrin for 8 years. With a background in organizational management and sales, Tiffany took David's already successful business and created the business structure and sales marketing machine that brought his business to a new level. Tiffany reaches out to dozens of new contacts every week and will teach you how to do the same!
PAUSE — Let me make one thing clear! I DO NOT make a living teaching other speakers how to get booked. I am a busy full-time keynote speaker and consultant having spoken in 24 countries. So many people helped me over the years, that Tiffany and I just decided to “send the elevator back down” and help our speaker colleagues fix the business part of their speaking business.
The Speaking Business Video Series Includes 7 Candid, Honest and Actionable Lessons:
- Overview of the speaking industry and discussion of changing models, criteria for speaker selection, etc.
- Required materials for promoting your speaking business, and what has changed in terms of meeting planner expectations and rising standards for speaker videos, websites, ROI, etc.
- Clarifying target markets and clever strategies for finding organizations hiring speakers
- An effective daily process for researching, prospects and crafting pitches for meeting planners.
- A step-by-step system for using a CRM system to enter, pitch and track leads. (This is really good!)
- How and when to follow-up, what to say and why it works.
- And much, much more!
THE HARD TRUTH: THE PHONE ISN’T GOING TO RING! (at least not enough to give you the lifestyle you want) You have to reach out and go after the gigs you want!
We know that many speakers can’t take time off their calendar to attend our once a year retreat, so we put all the information is an easy, online video series. All the insights, hard lessons, strategies and step by step process we use to: create, contact, connect, convince and convert paid speaking gigs. This is for both experienced and new speakers. The only requirement is that you already have to be good at what you do! We do not teach, stage skills, speech writing, hand gestures, story telling or anything regarding performance. This is just about creating or refining the business side of your speaking business.
Watch at your own pace and review any lesson whenever you want.
This series WILL NOT teach you better stage craft, story telling, hand gestures or speech writing.
This series WILL layout all the steps necessary to build a legitimate business around your speaking skills and content. From content that meeting planners want, to prospecting, pitching, track and converting, you will learn what works today, what doesn’t and why.
This series will take years off your learning curve!
Purchase the Speaking Business Retreat Video Series for only $599 or three payments of $235
(Yes, I know the math doesn't add up. It's a bargain regardless!)
The live events have been retired. This video series is the only way to learn how we research, prospect and pitch meeting planners. I know that if you watch, and do what we suggest, you will book more paid speaking gigs. You should make back this small investment in your first 5 minutes on stage.
