From the course: Relationship Building for Creative Leaders
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How to book engagements and what to expect
From the course: Relationship Building for Creative Leaders
How to book engagements and what to expect
- Booking your own talks requires some insight into the how, why, and what of the speaker world. Let's look at the inner workings of becoming your own booking agent. Many creatives expect conferences and events to ask them to speak and believe that asking them to speak somehow puts them at a disadvantage and can even sound desperate. This is anything but the truth. While there are conferences that still want the big names, there is also more of a trend in recent years for events to add diversity or fresh, new voices to their lineup, especially because there are so many conferences these days and having new speakers can be a differentiator in a saturated market. The best way to book a speaking engagement is to ask. Here's how you do it. Follow the research steps I mentioned in the movie on deciding where to go and how to narrow your choices. Identify the conferences or events you want to speak at, and do your due…
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