Hey there, fellow audience-riler.

Highly-paid speaking gigs. The idea sounds great, right? Travel to exotic destinations, stay at incredible hotels and resorts, share your message with an enthusiastic audience, and then collect a huge check at the end? What could be better than helping people AND having fun AND earning game-show-contestant-like money?!?

Well, for starters, it would be nice if it were a bit easier to get into, yes? It seems like you're either in or your out. And if you're out, then it’s not easy to find your way in.

• Who books these gigs?

• How do you reach them?

• What do you say to these people so that you don't sound like an idiot?

• Why would they hire you when there are hundreds of other, more established, more experienced speakers available?

How can you possibly break into an industry like paid, professional speaking if you've never done it before?

When I was 27, my oldest daughter was born. I was a professional freelance magician averaging about 300 shows a year all around the United States. I had a blast, but hated being away from her for so long.

I saw public speakers earning insane fees, so I did some math. If I could book speaking gigs instead of magic gigs, then I could earn three times as much while working 90% less.

BUT... 

So, How Does ANY SPEAKER Get that All-Important First Gig???

This is the "plan" I saw most speakers following:

1. Beg anyone and everyone to let you speak for free.

2. Wait for "word-of-mouth" to kick in.

3. Practice your speech some more.

4. Join Toastmasters to count some "ums."

5. Submit yourself to the bureaus. Then submit yourself to the rejection.

6. Post some quotes on social media. Waste 40 minutes scrolling aimlessly. Go back to see if the little numbers next to the little hearts went up. Repeat.

7. Get some new business cards made just so you can go to all the networking events that you hate.

8. Google speakers who are more successful than you. Get depressed.

9. Decide to start a podcast. Spend months researching. Quit after 2 episodes to start a blog instead...then a YouTube channel...then a Facebook page...then a...

10. Fill out 279 "Calls for Speakers." Get ZERO calls from planners.

11. Send your "weekly" email newsletter out once per month. (To twelve of your friends.)

12. Nag a few meeting planners on LinkedIn. Demand an explanation when they don't hire you. Deal with the restraining order later.

13. Max out your credit cards on an expensive web site, 1-sheet, and sizzle reel.

14. Obsess over article marketing, SEO, networking, PPC ads, branding, postcard marketing, and every other DISTRACTION that comes along.

15. Go to a speaker's association meeting and find someone to whine with about the speaking business being "all dried up."

This is what pisses me off. It's as though the guru's who teach them this stuff don't remember what it was like to start out.

There's no way that stuff was going to work for a no-name like me with no budget, no web site, no demo video, no prospects, and no hope of any prospects!

(SPOILER ALERT: I obviously found a workaround. Here's a pic from my first paid speaking gig!)

It worked insanely well and insanely fast. I started in October, I was standing on stages in November, and I had booked my first paid gig by February.

I went from absolute zero (not even a speech or a speaking TOPIC!) to building a relationship worthy of a $995 paid gig in less than five months.

People were asking me how I was booking gigs and I happily jumped on the phone and told my system to anyone who wanted to listen.

Months later though, they were still right where I left them.

Same system as me, zero results for them. WHY!?!?

Well for starters, some didn't do it.

• "That won't work for me."

• "I'm not ready yet."

• "That's too much work."

• "I'm too old."

• "I'm too young."

...were all common excuses.

For the few who DID try, every single one of them botched it.

• Some had no idea how to pick which kinds of organizations to start with.

• Nobody was doing ANYWHERE NEAR 39 things at every gig to get leads and paid gigs.

• Others blew it in the strategic follow-up phase.

• Some tried to get too creative and ended up just complicating things.

• Some got so wrapped up trying to write the perfect email, script, or come up with the perfect tool that paralysis by analysis set in and they got nowhere fast.

I Finally Got So Frustrated that I Just Did Everything FOR THEM!

I hand-picked their prospect lists, I wrote their emails, I created their most important marketing and business documents, I made videos that held their hands through the process and spelled out exactly what to do and when, with plenty of samples and examples along the way.

And all that was just the beginning of this course...

• My complete, turnkey system for getting on stages by next month.

• My ENTIRE 39-point action item checklist that turns gigs into multiple gigs and multiple pay days (including the exact $12,000 piece of paper.)

• Exactly what to do the next time someone asks for "more information" so that a hot lead never slips away again.

• How to market and sell yourself, set your fees, negotiate, and book the darn gigs!

• The real secrets behind successful web sites and the number one thing that yours MUST do.

• How to save thousands on a demo video that will STILL blow away the competition's.

• Forget about “paying your dues.” I’ll show you how to be the kind of “overnight success story” that the other speakers are jealous of.

• How to talk to prospects so you don’t sound like an inexperienced, uninitiated idiot.

• And SO much more! (Including lifetime updates)

You will literally learn EVERYTHING that you need to get started as a wildly successful speaker in TODAY’S marketplace from someone who is doing it right now.