Directory Promotion
So many speakers
mistakenly believe speaker bureaus and online speaker
directories should provide free marketing campaigns to get
them paid speaking engagements... as though they worked in
the same way literary agents do. Please understand that it
works in reverse.
In order for meeting planners to want to book you, you
first need to become a drawing card for them. In other
words you need to have reached some form of celebrity
status so their audience will register and pay to hear and
see you. Making you famous and desired as a speaker is the
mandate of public relations firms. Not speaker bureaus, and
not book publicists; but
personal public relations firms who specialize in
positioning and raising the profiles of specialists and
authorities with one specific area of expertise.
If you aren't generating paid speaking engagements and want
to have them flow to you effortlessly, hire a
personal public relations consulting
firm to position you and
create an awareness campaign.
That said... we plan to promote the online directory
as a
whole through
press and media contacts
developed
over nearly 30 years. That means you and all the member
speakers will share equally the attention resulting from
regular promotional efforts. You'll have access to the
same attention as your peers.
Remember... your profile here can help you generate not
just
paid and unpaid speaking opportunities but also
press interviews, media appearances, paid writing
assignments, paid consulting assignments, and book
sales. The sooner your profile is
posted the sooner you may start receiving exposure.
Pay
your membership here:
Alternatives.... read through the Resources and Articles and consider some of the Services.