The Successful Speaker

Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform

De: Grant Baldwin, Jeff Goins

Narrado por: Grant Baldwin

Do you have a message you want to get out into the world? Have you ever dreamed of speaking for a living? Is there something you have to say, but just aren't sure what to do next? The Successful Speaker is a proven, easy-to-follow guide to helping you do just that.

Whether you want to speak at your next board meeting or community gathering, start making some extra money on the side, or become a full-time professional speaker, Grant Baldwin knows how to get you from here to there. Why? Because he's done it himself, and has coached over 2,000 speakers.

In The Successful Speaker, you will learn the five-step road map to start and scale a speaking business from the ground up, including:

• How to hone your message and know exactly who it's for.
• The preparation process to help your next speech move an audience to action.
• What it takes to establish yourself as an in-demand expert.
• Practical steps to finding and booking paid speaking gigs.
• How to know when it's time to grow your impact and income.

In each chapter, you will get specific action steps and case studies from professional speakers (including some of the most successful communicators in the world) to put you on the fast track to booking gigs, getting paid, and building your speaking platform.

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More tips for paid gigs?

Liked it greatly! Wish for more practical tips to find paid gigs!
Thanks for all of the great work.

Outstanding!!!

Better book than I ever expected! Clear, organized, to the point, and thorough. Great job at outlining all the steps necessary to become a successful speaker. He also did a great job motivating you to-take action and set achievable goals. I’m highly recommending this book and his podcast which I’ve been listening to for years.

Awesome Book

Loved all of the amazing info about starting a speaking business. It was very informative and insightful.

Snake Oil Salesman

Grant is a speaker who speaks about how to become a speaker. Jeff is an author who writes about becoming an author.

There are plenty of people who become successful in these categories and then looped back to teach others. These are two guys who prey on people's desire to succeed. The equivalent of people who charge people to get photos to become a model. 100% a scam.


The only success these guys have is from converting others they can help them make it. They collectively have no life experience outside of this.

This is the combined summary of their careers.

Want to be successful? Create and sell content to others who want to be successful.

This is the Multilevel Marketing Scheme of 2024. It won't age well. There are tens of thousands of people who found success naturally and lap back later to share with others. Not this boomer Trump mindset of self-promotion and ghostwriting from people who have no career success before their shift to self-help. It might not have been so obvious aside from Jeff's constant need to put his name on everything and talk about his ghostwriting firm. Jeff sure talks about not faking tell you make it a lot. Now it's in Grant's voice. Its all very gross. Takes a little time after listening to get the stink off.

These guys need to go find some success completely unrelated to self-help. If their advice works it should be easy. But let's be honest...