The Up Your Fee Speaker Enrichment Center
is the official
career advancement site
for professional speakers, trainers, consultants
and other "information entrepreneurs".
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Are You Just “a Speaker”?
Or Are You a Professional Speaker?
The Up Your Fee Speaker Enrichment Center is for professional speakers of all levels — from aspiring speakers to established pros.
If you're just starting out in this exciting field, you'll see how you can get — and stay — on the path to speaking success.
If you've been in this business for awhile, you know that the speaking industry — like other industries — is undergoing a revolution. Many of yesterday's “gotta do's” are irrelevant today. Today's weird ideas will be the norm tomorrow. The moment you quit learning, you quit succeeding.
Will you survive? Up Your Fee is dedicated to the goal that you'll not only survive, you'll thrive in the tumultuous times ahead!
Here are just a few of the ways that the Up Your Fee Enrichment Center can help —
Do you make mistakes? (If you think you don't, that's a whopper right there!) Mistakes are OK — they're part of the adventure. But making avoidable mistakes? That's not smart. So I've compiled ten of the biggest mistakes (with action steps describing how to avoid or recover from them) into an incredible FREE e-port — Ten Boneheaded Blunders of Professional Speakers – Ten Big-time Gaffes, Goofs, and Mistakes That Sabotage the Careers of Professional Speakers (and Aspiring Pro Speakers). Not getting this free e-port would be a huge mistake!
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"Planning to succeed" isn't just a philosophy. As a professional speaker, you need a business plan. But not just any plan — you need a business plan written specifically for a speaking professional. You need to plan for your business success! You need the popular Mind Your Own Business e-port. It'll save you time. It'll save you money. And it just might save your asterisk.
You're the "expert", right? How'd you like to have a day honoring your expertise, and listing you as the official contact? It's free, it's easy to do, and you can find out how to create your own holiday right here!
As a professional speaker, your most valuable asset is your intellectual property... your speeches, your programs, your books, your CDs and DVDs. In short, everything you produce! But do you know how to protect your intellectual property? You need Copyrights and Wrongs — Protecting Your Intellectual Property, an e-port written especially so speakers, trainers, and other "information entrepreneurs" can protect their most valuable asset.
I'm sure you're already using a Preprogram Questionnaire to help you prepare the best possible presentations for your clients. But how good is your PPQ? If you're not asking the right questions — or if you're asking the right questions the wrong way — then you're not going to get solid, useful information to work with. If you're not completely happy with your PPQ, you need Learn What Your Clients Want with a Preprogram Questionnaire.
Speakers are repeated told the importance of having e-commerce capabilities. But, let's face it, that's easier said than done. Or is it? It's hard to believe, but you can have your own e-commerce web site, selling over 50 popular products — in under 30 minutes and for only pennies a day. You gotta see it to believe it. Check it out!
Do you ever agree to speak without getting all the details specified in a written contract? (No? What about your "freebie" speeches? They need contracts, too!) Do you ever sign a contract without really understanding what you're signing? Then you need Speakers Contracts That Work — Avoid Problems by Getting It in Writing. After all, you know what they say about "assume".....
Speaking of "assume", when you make a business decision, do you always go for the "obvious" answer? Then the Run the Numbers — Increase Your Profits by Ignoring the “Obvious” eport was written just for you! No formulas, no functions, no expressions... just plain ol' addition and subtraction (with an occasional "multiply by" and "gezzinta") will show why you just can't trust the "obvious" answer. You've got to 'run the numbers!'
Want to provide an exciting new benefit to your website? Want to provide an exciting new benefit to your website that doesn't cost you anything? You need a "Swiki"!
In short, professional speakers recognize it's a job. Granted, it's a glamorous job. An exciting job with almost limitless opportunities. A job where you can make an unimaginable amount of money... doing what you love to do — speak.
But when it comes down to it, it's a job. And that means treating your speaking career the way it's supposed to be treated....
It's a business.
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