Have you ever wondered what you need to do to land speaking gigs?
Looking to keynote on the big stages?
Want to know how to speak at industry events?
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Then you want to check out this episode with Tim David found of getspeakinggigs.com
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Victor Ahipene: Speaking nation. Welcome to another episode of public speaking secrets podcast. I’m your host, Victor Ahipene, super excited to have you on here because I know a lot of you are looking to get your message out there more, whether that be for your business, your brand or your legacy. And I’ve got just the person to help you today, Tim David on the show, he is the founder of get speaking gigs.com which I think a, yeah, kind of says what it does on the wrapper would that uh, with that domain name, it’s nothing that you have to kind of start getting yet. Start getting, figuring out what it is. So welcome to the show, Tim.
Tim David: Thank you so much victor. I appreciate you having me.
Victor Ahipene: Yeah, it’s my pleasure. Before we kind of get into what get speaking gigs dot commerce and some insights on how people, I guess, can get into more speaking gigs, how to, how to Joel speaking, uh, life, I guess kind of begin? Well, I started as a professional magician and a was doing 300 to 350 gigs a year. Touring all over the place. I did that for almost nine years. It was a lot of fun. So glad I did it. Um, quite a profession with lots of stories to tell. But then I had a baby and I wanted to be home and not touring for 350 days a year. Problem was, I started my magic business right out of high school, had zero work experience other than McDonald’s and uh, just had no marketable skills. You know, it’s like anything that you, you need experience to get the job, but you need the job to get the experience. So I was at a catch 22 and I asked myself, how can I leverage the talents that I already have, which is basically standing on a stage, talking into a microphone and doing magic tricks. How can I leverage that to where I’m doing fewer gigs every single year, but making the same amount of money. And as it worked out, I’m doing a lot fewer gigs. I’m under 50 now, which I never thought possible. And, uh, making still three times as much as I was making touring as a, as a professional magician. So that’s how I got started. A or rather was my motivation to get started. I know people have a lot of different motivations. Uh, but for me, I’m going to be frank, it was not about, uh, spreading a message or, or a legacy. It wasn’t about so much about making an impact in the world. Yes, I had those motivations and no speaker will ever be successful without a passion for helping people. But I’ll tell you, I wanted them checks, I wanted them checks and I saw how much pay speakers were getting paid compared to what magicians were getting paid. And men, Oh man, here in the states, you know, 5,000, 10,000, $20,000 a speech was, was blowing my mind. So, so that’s where I went. I focused exclusively in the corporate world, corporations, associations, and anybody who has any questions about how to break into that market, how to maximize your revenues as a speaker in those kinds of markets. Uh, happy to, happy to talk to you. And that’s where it gets speaking. gigs.com came from.
Victor Ahipene: and it’s, so was it speakers coming to you going, hey, you’ve, you’ve done a lot of these, uh, how, how can we get into some of
Tim David: it was a magicians coming to me. My first, I don’t know, a hundred clients were probably magicians, jugglers, face painters, stilt walkers. It was a, it was weird. I would hold live events and it was weird in the hallways, man. It&