Ep #79: Speaking is one of the fastest ways to start positioning yourself as an expert. You already have enough experience to share it with others. As terrifying it may be for some people at the end of the day it all comes to practice.

And about the technical stuff, we’ll talk about in this episode. You’ll have an exercise for finding your topics to speak about, tips on what will help you to build credibility, and how to use that in marketing. All you will need after that is to start speaking.   

In this episode, Michael Hudson shares how to start a speaking business based on your knowledge.

Michael is a teacher, speaker, writer, facilitator, coach, & ideapreneur. He helps people discover their vision, write their story, and speak their vision into existence using his proven VisionSpeaker™ System.

He is also an author of the Public Speaker Secrets: 52 Proven Ways to Increase Your Impact Every Time You Speak.

Time Stamped Show Notes:

• [00:22] About the episode and Michael Hudson
• [01:59] Michael shares his journey of working in different fields that turned out to be full-time speaking, coaching, and consulting
• [04:07] How he avoided public speaking at the beginning of his career and how he overcame this fear
• [08:43] The power of successful public speaking in the storytelling
• [10:09] An exercise that will help you to find speaking ideas
• [11:44] How to align your life stories with business
• [14:32] How to gain credibility as a speaker
• [18:06] Where to practice your first speeches and the tips on how to rehearse it
• [20:28] The industry-focused approach for public speaking that helped Michael to build a speaking business
• [23:02] How to find the industry to specialize in
• [23:56] What will help you to market yourself as a speaker
• [27:27] How to ask about the testimonial after you delivered a speech
• [29:10] How to ask about the referrals
• [32:47] How to get more business with video and testimonials from your previous public speaking
• [36:35] Four steps that will help you to promote yourself as a public speaker and build a business around it
• [39:13] Where to find Michael online
• [40:42] For the show notes go to marinabarayeva.com/79 and subscribe to the Marketing for Creatives show

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