Contact Andrea
Reynolds adviceempire@gmail.com
(412)
440-3704
For release: January 15,
2008
You
CAN launch your speaking career without agents and
bureaus
Andrea Reynolds, veteran
speaker and owner of a new online speaker
directory,
CommissionFreeSpeakers.com offers this advice to new
speakers who want to be the next Les Brown, Tony Robbins
or Dottie Walters....
1. Become the expert
on one narrow
subject you can call your own.
2. Choose a subject you are passionate about - become an
activist.
3. Hire a speechwriter to develop well-crafted
presentations that inspire standing ovations.
4. Hone your speaking skills, voice and speech patterns,
with or without a coach.
5. Achieve recognition locally as a household name and then
expand your sphere of influence.
6. Have an online presence: both a web site and visibility
where other speakers congregate.
7. Develop a good speaking contract to protect your
interests.
8. Stop speaking for free and start charging in
incrementally larger amounts until you meet with
resistence.
9. Learn to negotiate your own fees and contract terms so
you can keep the 25-35% commission payable to agents and
bureaus.
10. Learn to market your expertise with both online and
offline promotion.
Membership in CommissionFreeSpeakers.com is
$99 a year and offers
monthly promotion and a
members-only marketing forum
for
speakers and promotion as a group to meeting planners
and bureaus. Nonmembers may wish to order the
$2 Tip Sheet: "16 Ways to Promote
Your Professional Speaking Online" on
www.CommissionFreeSpeakers.com.
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Andrea Reynolds has had nearly 30 years experience as a
independent public relations consultant for speakers,
speacialists and consultants. She obtained press coverage
in
many publications and on many radio and
television stations for clients through private PR
campaigns, multiple times. This is the kind of exposure she
will generate for CommissionFreeSpeakers.com.
Please contact Andrea Reynolds: adviceempire@gmail.com (412) 440-3704