Speakers Should Be an Inch Wide and a Mile Deep
As much as I love my motivational speaker friends, most are experts at delivering an incredible speech, with little problem-solving content. Their expertise lies in exciting an audience for 45-minutes and moving on to the next speech. In corporate America, they’re known as “slot-fillers”, filling slots on a convention agenda, kicking-off or closing the meeting....
The Fortune in Free Speeches
Preparing yourself for the world’s biggest stages and highest potential speaking fees requires hard work and sacrifice. It’s much like preparing to become a professional athlete, minus the physical torture. The good news for speakers is that a couple of years of solid preperation can lead to a lifelong career that may carry you into...
Bill Gove Speech Club Launches Worldwide
If you’re an aspiring or emerging professional speaker, or you’re ready to increase your speaking fees, the Bill Gove Speech Club will give you the tools, tips and strategies to make it happen. The club meets weekly via Zoom to watch members deliver keynote speech vignettes, followed by an immediate critique and coaching session with...
How To Fast-Track a Million-Dollar Speaking Career
For many years, I held the record for being the fastest non-celebrity professional speaker to go from zero to a million-dollars in speaking fees, in just under 5 years. Many people attributed my success to marketing and sales talent. I wish! The embarrassing truth is that I lost over $50,000 my first year in the...
How to Become a 6-Figure Professional Speaker in 2024
Is it possible to become a $100K professional speaker in the next 12-24 months, even if you’ve never been paid to deliver a speech? The answer might surprise you. Contrary to what you see advertised online, the secret has nothing to do with marketing. The only people that make money promising to give you leads,...
Should Speaker’s Live Below Their Means?
The professional speaking business can be intoxicating. Especially as your popularity and fees grow. It’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming it will continue forever. In the past 20 years, speakers have had two massive wake up calls that shocked and decimated thousands of careers: the great recession and Covid 19. I skated...
The Real Reason Aspiring Speakers FAIL
Why do 95% of aspiring professional speakers fail? Why do speaker marketing companies ignore this completely? Why don’t most aspiring speakers take this reason seriously? The answers to these questions are obvious to seasoned veterans in the business, although it’s rarely discussed. It’s the speaking businesses dirty little secret, and it kills more careers than...
The Subject Speakers HATE
Professional Speakers tend to be highly creative, emotionally driven people. Their strengths revolve around moving people with their message and inspiring audiences to make positive changes. But there’s one topic that 99% of the speakers I know HATE…so much so that they refuse to even discuss it publicly. It’s also one of the most important...
Professional Speaker’s $3 Million Dollar Demo Video
This professional speakers demo video generated $3.2 million dollars in keynote speeches over a 3-year period. It’s a classic mix of keynote speech footage in front of thousands of people in different convention halls from the RIO Hotel on the Las Vegas strip to the San Diego Convention Center. It also includes TV appearances on...
Why Writing is the Foundation of Professional Speaking
Many speaker marketers like to tell new and aspiring speakers that the most important reason to write a book is to use it as a business card. This is bad advice, and an even worse philosophy. If you want to be taken seriously as a thought leader, you should not only write book, but write...
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