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The Business of Public Speaking: Interview with Tod Maffin

The Business of Public Speaking: Interview with Tod Maffin

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I recently recorded an interview with a professional speaker I’ve admired for a while, Tod Maffin. He works in the digital marketing space with private and government organizations. We crossed paths while speaking at a real estate conference last year and just now had the chance to connect. I personally picked out a ton of extremely valuable tips and ideas from our interview and I’ll share some with you below.

You can get access to the full interview in MP3 once you join The Speaker’s Life community (sign-up form is below this post). Just scroll down to the Special Bonus section of the page once you sign up. Here is some of our discussion, edited for the blog format.

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32 Public Speaking Tips From Some Of The World’s Best Speakers and Coaches

32 Public Speaking Tips From Some Of The World’s Best Speakers and Coaches

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I am incredibly excited to share this post with you!! It took a couple of weeks to pull all the material together and now you get a chance to pick through public speaking tips from some of world’s most sought after experts and speakers like Carmine Gallo, Garr Reynolds and Nick Morgan amongst more then 20 other contributors from a SpeakerMatch group.

When reaching out to these professionals, I asked two questions:

  1. If you were to start as a speaker all over again, what one thing would you do differently?
  2. What one tip would you have for someone just starting on their journey as a professional speaker?

The goal was to give you real world, actionable advice you could take and implement in your speaking practice immediately. Below is a selection of those answers:
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How I Doubled My Speaking Fees In One Day

How I Doubled My Speaking Fees In One Day

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Note: names, genders and event titles will remain anonymous – to save face and preserve everyone’s ego.

Sometime mid-2009, I was invited to speak at a local trade industry conference. The pay for a 2 hour session was less then $1000. Without much hesitation, I accepted the offer because money was tight – everyone was still reeling from the 2008 recession and I was certainly feeling the pinch in my early entrepreneur days.

Sidebar: If you go to CAPS or NSA meetings – most members will tell you it’s all rainbows and unicorns ALL THE TIME. They’ll tell you times are good and they’ve never been more busy. Take their platitudes with a few spoonfuls of salt. Of course, they want to portray a sparkling image of success while behind the scenes – they’re in the same boat as everyone else, with a VERY rare exception.

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