• You have little or no speaking experience.
• You've only spoken for free.
• You don't have a clue about how to get started.
• You've tried other methods and been disappointed.
• You've fallen for the lies that it takes a long time to get established.

Stop Listening to Typical Advice About Professional Speaking

Here's the typical advice given to beginning speakers, and why I didn’t buy it when I got started.

Typical Professional Speaking Advice #1: Give a hundred or so free speeches so you can prove you’re a wanted speaker.

I didn’t buy it. Businesses and organizations are desperate to fill speaking slots for meetings. Everyday in an average sized city you could speak free at breakfast, lunch, and supper. I’m not against speaking for free. I encourage you to do two free engagements. But that’s it. You can do more if you like, but it’s not necessary.

 Typical Professional Speaking Advice #2: After you’ve proven your worth you can begin to charge $25 - $100 for an event. Wow! That much!! ;-)

I didn’t buy it. Certainly a life experience, or information that can change lives is worth much more than one Ben Franklin. Isn’t there an experience in your life, or knowledge in your head, that’s much more valuable than that? Of course there is.

 Typical Professional Speaking Advice #3: Once people are paying you tiny sums, you need to invest large sums. You’re expected to put together a media kit with a glossy photo, studio quality demo tape, professional one sheet, letterhead with logo that matches your positioning, classy designed brochure…(Can you hear the cash being sucked out of your account like water up the trunk of an elephant just so you can look like a professional speaker?).

I didn’t buy it.  Having all that gear does not guarantee a single booking. And how many bookings would you need to get to pay back all the expense? It’s just not worth it.

Typical Professional Speaking Advice #4: Make hundreds of cold calls and send one of those fancy media kits to anyone who acts remotely interested. Pray for a return call.

I didn’t buy it. Do you like telemarketers? Do you like people who you don’t know calling and trying to sell you something? Me either. There had to be a better, easier, way.

The Instant Speaking Success PROFIT System

In step by step fashion you’ll discover the inside secrets of…

• How I went from ZERO to $1,000 in only four engagements. Blow by blow. Detail by detail. Without a demo tape. Without a glossy photo. Without a press kit.

• How to choose a topic that organizations will pay top dollar to hear.

• Three critical questions that hold the answers to your professional speaking riches.

• Gain the confidence you need to command the fees you want.

• Who you must target if you want to get paid.

• How to attack the nerve of the industry you’re after.

• What to say when talking to someone who can hire you.

• How to get someone else to make the calls and get you booked – without costing you a dime!

• Perfect testimonial letters. You’ll get several real letters. Plus one of them is dissected so you can see the ten areas you need in every testimonial letter.

• Ways to turn one engagement into multiple events.

• 12 Keys to Maximum Fees.

• Techniques for tapping into expert resources that will save you years of painful experiences.

• Evaluating each engagement so you can strengthen your process and make more money. You’ll even get a checklist to help you do it right.

• How to silence the voices of doubt that discourage you from following your dream.

• The two psychological areas of attack speakers are most susceptible to and how to overcome them.

• Contrarian wisdom verses conventional wisdumb.

• The formula for discovering your message's true worth so you can maximize your fee.

• Why you don’t reveal how little or much you have been speaking.

• Two options for still getting paid even if your fee is rejected.

• The worst way to determine your fee. Steer clear of this money snatcher at all costs.

• How to find out you really could have made at an engagement. What you get paid and what you could have gotten paid are two different figures. This is like having a spy camera inside the walls of the organization.

• The risky move I made to get $1,000 for 32 minutes.

• Three ways to immediately raise your fees.

• The easiest way to create repeat engagements.

• The 7 most common fee blunders and what to do about them.

Who CAN'T Make Money with This System

This isn’t for everyone. Here are two types of people who absolutely DO NOT need to purchase this PROFIT system. I'm serious. If you qualify for any of the below descriptions, please do not order.

The Complicated. If you like to overcomplicate things, you won’t like this instruction manual. This is step by step with no guesswork required. It’s not like decoding a secret message. It’s easy to understand. You won’t get lost. A majority of materials out there on speaking for pay leave you wondering, “But will this work for me?”  Not this system.

The Workaholic. I know speakers who love the process more than the result. This system will not require you to produce mountains of flyers, signed photos, demo tapes, or any of the other stuff that can break you before you get started. The workaholic gets so into the method the he or she forgets to get booked. Or gets so excited about an engagement that fee is not discussed. These people are perfect for the 200+ free engagement mindset. The more they speak, the busier they are, the better they feel even if they have no money to show for it.

Who CAN Make Money With This System?

YOU!

To Sum Up...The Instant Speaking PROFIT System:

You Get...

1. The Instant Speaking Success PROFIT System

2. Maximizing Your Fees Through Value-Based Options by Alan Weiss

3. Choosing a Profitable Topic by Tag Goulet

4. Professional Speaking Forms

5. Professional Fee Setting Advice