How To Earn Money from Public Speaking Engagements

Paid Speaking Engagements for Creative Business Leaders

As a creative business leader you have work experiences, including experiences motivating others and balancing profits and losses during challenging times, that college students, corporate employees, military members and leaders of community organizations are interested in learning more about. It’s this knowledge that can set you apart as an “expert” in your field, helping you to land paying speaking engagements.

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You don’t have to have prior speaking experience to get started on the public speaking or motivational speaking circuits. However, having a naturally engaging and conversational tone can help you to connect with listeners, increase the numbers of responses you get from audience members during Q&A sessions and increase the numbers of community organizations, schools, companies, etc. that invite you back to connect with their audiences again.

Organizations that Support Public Speakers

Toastmasters International, the National Speakers Association, Speaker Services and Amplify Professional Speaker Services are a few organizations that support public speakers. Amplify works with speakers and organizations to schedule public speakers to appear at events. For example, you can use the services to land a gig speaking at a corporate or non-profit organization’s annual session.

If you want to get tips on how to become comfortable speaking before crowds, ways to more fully engage audience members and how to use humor to liven your speeches, organizations like Toastmasters International may be able to help you. Tips you gain from working with organizations like Toastmasters International and the National Speakers Association include:

Steps to accepting an award and/or presenting an award to another award recipient
Ways to use hand gestures to power-up your public speeches
Impact of visual aids like PowerPoint slides and video
Techniques to relax before and during speaking engagements
Actions to improve your confidence as a creative business leader who’s also a public speaker
How to introduce another speaker
Strategies to speak clearly so your voice picks up well on taped recordings
Ways to effectively speak to the camera and a live audience
Effective steps to conclude your public speeches

Creative Business Leaders Landing More Speaking Engagements

You can get certified as a public speaker through the National Speakers Association. The organization offers affiliate and professional memberships. You can also attend educational seminars and receive educational scholarships through the National Speakers Association.

The more experienced you become as a public speaker and as a creative business leader, the more speaking engagements you might be asked to fill, allowing you to possibly earn several hundred thousand dollars a year. In time, you might be asked to deliver college and university commencement addresses. Be sure to bring books and other printed materials you and your company create so you can give them away or sell them at the end of your speaking engagements. Also be sure to include your website or blog URL on all materials you hand out or sell, giving you more opportunities to connect with your target audience as a creative business leader.

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Sources:

http://www.brandingonthenet.com/articles/booking-speaking-engagements.htm (Branding on the Net: 14 Tips for Booking Speaking Engagements)

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos086.htm (United States Bureau of Labor Statistics: Public Relations Specialists)

http://www.toastmasters.org/mainmenucategories/freeresources/needhelpgivingaspeech/tipstechniques.aspx (Toastmasters International: Tips and Techniques)