And how one could potentially utilize it in a very technologically based world.

Get some insights on the multitude of ways on how to build your own social proof and credibility when it comes to public speaking.

Speaking nation, what’s happening, and welcome to episode number 11. I’m your host, Victor. I’m super excited for you to be here and absolutely sorry that I missed last week’s episode. I know some of you were messaging me saying, Yo, vic, we haven’t seen this week’s episode. It’s because I have been super busy with some really, really exciting things, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t love you. I will give you kind of what I’ve been up to, kind of leads into today’s episode and it’s on testimonies and testimonials and how beneficial they can be for you in your business and you as a speaker and just in general from a whole range of things in regards to social proof. So I want to share with you a little bit about that and how that all came to be as I’ve just come back from New Zealand being the keynote speaker at a conference for New Zealand speech teachers.

So it was the New Zealand Speech Board Associations Annual Conference and I was brought in and spoke on a couple of core topics. One was podcasting, which I’ve had a lot of success and how they could potentially utilize that with the students coming up to kind of vary the way that public speaking is used as we’re in a very technologically based world. And it was really cool conference to be at my old speech teacher from high school. She was organizing it. And uh, yeah, it was great to kind of go full circle back to where it all began. And my second talk was about how to charge what you’re worth and how to leverage your time a little bit. And I’m probably gonna do an episode on that, uh, in the basis of what they’re talk look like because I think it’s really valuable for anybody regardless if you’re trying to build a speaking business, if you’re trying to build your own business or you’re trying to show more value in your workplace.

So I won’t delve too much into that. But one of the things was that I spoke about was how to build your own social proof and credibility. And there’s a multitude of ways to do it. But one of the ways was getting testimonials, so if you’ve had successful clients, if you’ve had students, if you’ve had a amazing collaborations with people or you’ve just been in a situation where you’ve provided a ton of value, then what you’ve got to do as simple, you’ve got to ask for the testimonial, ask for a pe