T he highest paid and ability to effectively communicate and persuade will be key to your success as an expert. For example, I was positioned as a small business and retail expert when I first started speaking over 25 years ago. Back then I didn’t set out to be a speaker or an expert; I just wanted to share my years of knowledge and experience to help others succeed. Yet, what I most powerful people in the world are master communicators. Your
get paid to speak after my first speaking engagement. My speaking career took off quickly because of my positioning. My speaking expertise grew out of my own life experiences, building and selling companies. My continued education came from hiring other experts to help advance my business and marketing skills. These are the lessons I was teaching. The majority of professional speakers are motivational speakers or trainers who
discovered was that being in front of an audience definitely positions you as the expert. Get Booked and Paid to Speak Most professional speakers begin their careers by speaking for FREE and even pay their own travel expenses on top of that, just to get the opportunity to practice and improve. This can be a very costly and ineffective business model when you are just starting out.
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