In mental toughness training, I speak to Fortune 500 sales teams about critical thinking to increase sales. For all of you who have the dream of being a fee paid professional speaker, I have a critical thinking question for you. I ask this question completely out of love. After all, I dreamed the same dream 15 years ago. We are kindred spirits. Listen to this post and do some soul searching this New years eve. I really want you to make it in this business. The reality is as good as the dream! YOU can do it! Happy New Year, 2010!
Steve Siebold
Steve, if people go to the workshop, and take immediate and continuous action, they WILL have a successful speaking business. I took the workshop in 2006 and have followed the program. I have learned that the speaking business is simple to understand, but not easy to create. But the payoff is huge and it is a blessing for me to have my dreams fulfilled. I went from about $20,000 in speaking fees when I took the workshop to a solid six-figure income in two years, and my business has increased steadily. My current rate of growth (which I expect to accelerate) will put me in 7 figures in the next 18-24 months. You have given me the best advice I have received in this business and I am grateful. If speakers are not growing incrementally, they need to really look at what they are doing because opportunities are not down in this economy — they are everywhere! If someone is serious about becoming a professional speaker, he or she will take the workshop and then immediately implement the concepts and keep at it. To do otherwise, IMHO, means they are really not that serious about becoming a successful speaker. Thanks for the blog!