How To Land Speaking Engagements From Your Book
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2024
- Speaking engagements are a fantastic way to sell books, make money, and expand your reach as an author. But, if you're new to speaking on your book subject matter, where do you start? In this video, author, speaker, and founder of Book Launchers, Julie Broad, shares 8 tips to land speaking engagements from your book.
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My first speaking engagement discussing content from my book went great! I can't wait to get on that stage again 😃
Fantastic to hear!! :)
As a 35+ year veteran of public relations and creator of the "Engaging Your Audience" workshop that transforms presenters into Story Tellers, I'm very impressed with your work and your communication skills Julie. Having just relocated to the Greater Toronto Area I hope to engage your services to support my book sales, speaking engagements and leadership workshops. You are doing very important work. ❤
Thank you!! That is so kind. I loved my time in Toronto.
We have some great stuff coming out this year to support your book marketing. In addition to our full service marketing, we have a book marketing mastermind and a book marketing course. www.booklaunchers.com/magic for details on the course that starts in February.
I love your workshop talk topic - that is such an important skill!!!
Look forward to seeing you around.
Julie, I am so glad that I found you. I began speaking to corporate groups about three years ago. Speaking engagements came so quickly that I didn't have time to write books or create a solid infrastructure for my business. So, now I am working backwards. Your videos are informative, well done, and presented efficiently so that much can be learned in a short amount of time. I look forward to watching your remaining videos and reading your materials. I expect to complete my first book in a few weeks. BTW, what you said about starting with free speaking engagements is "spot-on!" At the same time, it is important to survey what other speakers in your genre are charging when they speak before similar groups. Then, have the courage to take a deep breath and quote a competitive price. Besides making sure that I had an engaging topic that I was capable of delivering well, that is probably the most important decision that I made when launching my speaking career. - Larry Moody, BBQ Team Building
This is excellent advice Larry! And congrats on getting your book done. If you need any support post writing please reach out - this is our wheelhouse.
The deep breath part is right ... and pausing after you say the number so you don't talk yourself down from that number right away. :)
You’ve helped me so much Julie. I finally published my book titled Ten Lost Children. It’s doing great! Thank you!
Love your 5 steps Julie. As you know speaking is my primary business plan. Thank you for this great video.
Another excellent video! I am getting so much help with my soon to launch book!
I've just written a book about my experience with high elevation and harsh climate lavender farming (I'm in Montana (of all places) over the course of 20 years that will basically teach you how to do it better than I did - the first time! I got a second chance after a freak cold snap annihilated 90% of my original crop, a weather event I call the Devastation. In Lavender Farming: Secrets from a Hard Row Hoed I offer comparisons btwn the new state-of-the-art farm and the old failed farm. I've done many craft demonstrations and teaching gigs and am comfortable with an audience and encourage their participation. I'm really looking forward to book tours! Thanks for your encouragement!
Thank you so much for saying hello! If you’re ready to market a book our Gameplan for selling 1000 books with less than $100 is a great way to start planning your book marketing. You can download that for free at www.booklaunchers.com/gameplan
I love your enthusiasm and smiles - always great see your videos!
Thank you David! Always nice to hear that. :)
JULIE....as Always Awesome! I need this.....
Thank you so much for your tips. I found this so useful
I have another one coming out next week on how to leverage those speaking engagements! Hope you catch that one as it's useful too!!
You are too good, and your info is sinfully good. I say thanks.
Thank you so much for saying hello! If you’re just getting started with writing, I highly recommend our 7 steps to write a non-fiction book. You can get that at www.booklaunchers.com/7steps and if you’re ready to market a book our Gameplan for selling 1000 books with less than $100 is a great way to start planning your book marketing. You can download that for free at www.booklaunchers.com/gameplan
Hope to see you again soon!
Always loads of advice! I'll be watching your videos again and again!
If there is a topic you want me to cover in the future please let me know!
Grrrreat! Thank you.
Thank YOU and for commenting the day a video is released you'll be entered to win some great swag. We do the draws on our LIVE streams. The next one is happening on Thursday, May 30th at 2:30pm PST / EST. Normally it's on Facebook but this time it's happening right here on the CZcams channel.
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THANK YOU!
We're having a special livestream February 23rd at 2pm PST right here on BookLaunchers.TV. Why is it special? Well … it’s the launch day for my latest book, Self-Publish and Succeed and we are going to celebrate. I do hope you can be here. If not - you can catch the replay.
Also - our next Deep Dive Training is all about the Business of Being an Author. It’s happening on Saturday at 10am PST. You can register right here: booklaunchers.com/deepdive
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And you may not know this but for commenting the day a video is released you'll be entered to win some great swag. We do the draws on our LIVE streams. The next one is happening on Thursday, May 30th at 2:30pm PST / EST. Normally it's on Facebook but this time it's happening right here on the CZcams channel.
This was really a great video.
Thank you so much for saying hello! If you’re just getting started with writing, I highly recommend our 7 steps to write a non-fiction book. You can get that at www.booklaunchers.com/7steps and if you’re ready to market a book our Gameplan for selling 1000 books with less than $100 is a great way to start planning your book marketing. You can download that for free at www.booklaunchers.com/gameplan
Hope to see you again soon!
This is so very helpful! Thank you Julie🙏🏻You explain things so clearly😊
You are so welcome! I've got a lot more content coming on this topic!
Love your videos,thanks for sharing x
Thank you!! I appreciate your comments and being here!! And you may not know this but for commenting the day a video is released you'll be entered to win some great swag. We do the draws on our LIVE streams. The next one is happening on Thursday, May 30th at 2:30pm PST / EST. Normally it's on Facebook but this time it's happening right here on the CZcams channel.
That media kit is beautiful o.O :O Ted talks are good examples of course. I think my favorite advice is to videotape every talk. Audio visual feedback is the best way to improve. Wooo I made the bestie list!
#youtubebesties :) The media kits my team are doing now are truly stunning. I wish I could take credit but really all I said one day was 'these need to look nicer' and voila that is what they came up with!
@@BookLaunchers Just applied to Book Launchers! Do you track/estimate conversion rates for your different advertising mediums? I'm curious about the cost/value ratio of print mediums like these vs digital tools, like short video or just the digital version of the same media kit. Averaging results across many clients could give new authors an idea of what balance in media they should strive for
great video
Thank you! Do you do any speaking engagements?
Great video as always, Julie. I love your end screen. 😂
HA! Someone wrote me and said my videos are a black hole vortex of awesome that sucks you in for an hour - I think it's because of my end screen .... :)
Book Launchers Your green screen videos are well done. It’s so funny that right as I quit doing green screen, you started. Haha one thing I adopted from your style is the bulletpoint approach. It’s really helped decrease stress for me.
Great tips ... I've given a couple of talks in the past but never really considered doing it until now - so these tips have helped immensely thanks :)
FANTASTIC!
I found this very informative and I am grateful for the information you provide. I will check out your book launchers website. I am a new author with a fairly new depression awareness book published . I am always looking for new ways to share my content and promote my book, as i feel it may help others and perhaps save lives. I'm also a new subscriber and happy I found your video, thanks so much, looking forward to watching all your videos now.
thank you Julie for your encouraging words on this video I really enjoyed and you are a great speaker on this video and I feel that I too can become a great speaker and Meetup has been trying to get me to bring my knowledge to them and you have gave me the courage to start thank you.....william
MeetUp groups are a wonderful way to begin speaking. I did a lot of great events at big and small MeetUp groups. Good luck!!
Julie you are simply amazing girl
ooohhhh thank you!! I am grateful to have your positive energy in the community. Plus, by commenting they day a video is released you're entered to win some fabulous swag - which I also love to get out into the community!!
Very Useful information!! 🔆
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I released my first Photo Book last week!
My Unfiltered Travels
Curiosity is key
I’m already scheduled to speak to a book club shortly after my book launch and wondered if Facebook Live would be advisable in addition to recording my talk.
Hey - Facebook live can add another element that causes stress ... me personally I would focus on making the talk AMAZING, recording it and using it. Once you're comfortable add more technology. That's me though ... technology ALWAYS messes up on me.
Been seeing your ad here on CZcams. Well done! Kinda freaked me out at first _"Wait... I didn't click on Julie's video...."_ LOL! Now, support fiction books, dammit! :^D
HAHAHAH love it - guess my ad guy is doing a great job then, although we should find a way to filter out so we don't make all you fiction writers jealous and bitter ... :)
Seriously - I really appreciate having you around and that you do find a way to find value in my videos even when they are for non-fiction.
Great tips, especially the one about working your way up to a larger audience. I know the knots that would be in my stomach if I had to give a talk to 12 people, never mind making the leap to 400. Also I loved your tip on creative titles for talks. I think it is a great reminder that while it is important to write an interesting and creative book, our creativity need not, and should not end there.
FABULOUS summary. :)
Maybe someday I’ll have something others would want to hear/could benefit from/find enjoyable.
No surprise to me, but this video is chock full of great suggestions for finding speaking engagements. I'm glad that you emphasized to point out what you can do for the event holder or audience instead of what's in it for you! Always great content #youtubebesties
Love the hashtag!
I can't say how much u thrill us more and more. So dead on for a bio. But one thing: though ur input would be prime- valued yet THE TRUEST SUCCESSFUL TRAVELER WOULD SAY "TO HECK WITH HER, I WILL MAKE MY BOOK SUCCEED WITHOUT A SINGLE OK ON IT FROM ANYYYYYYONE, WATCH ME DO IT!" Just for the ultimate potential attitude sake. I don't think I worded this good. But yes, trust in urself most I guess I'm trying to say. Love u!
Thank you!!!
Thank you for the videos you share. It is always informative and fun to watch.
I have a question about marketing please.
If I use facebook as a marketing tool, how much advertising is too much? There is one person who advertises his books on a daily basis and I find myself just scrolling by, not giving it any attention anymore. I don't want to be like that :-(
Have you seen this video: czcams.com/video/7HQjWa1PaiE/video.html
Speaking in front of groups ain't my thing. I'd just stand there not saying anything 😅
I laugh, but it's true.
Kevin Maguire hahahahah
Sure - you laugh at him. Some friend. :p
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Book Launchers 🤷♂️🤣 Kevin’s m’boy!
Julie how do you put your logo on the spine in kdp?
You need to have it designed into the cover ... we create an entire cover file that includes the spine.
@@BookLaunchers ahhh. I see. Thanks Julie
I don't know how to start venturing into paid engagements
Paid speaking engagements come from following these steps. :) And, if your book is a good fit for corporations you are more likely to get paid more money.
Bit of constructive criticism. I read the title, thinking, what is “land speaking.” It should say:
Land
Speaking gigs
Or How to land speaking gigs.
thanks!
You talked about what to say and how to plan but not 'really 'how' to book one.
So what piece do you feel is missing? This actually is how I got speaking gigs ... so I definitely want to know what else I should add in the future.
I need to master making a decent CZcams video before trying the speaking circuit. (Biting nails)🙄