How to Set Up Speaking Gigs and Get Paid

HOW TO SET UP SPEAKING GIGS AND GET PAID provides a step-by-step guide to developing, organizing, and promoting your first speaking gigs and getting paid for them. It includes chapters on these topics: - Deciding what you want to talk about - Organizing your talk or presentation - Making the arrangements for your talk - Marketing and promoting your talk - Putting on your event - Developing a promotional video from your event - Using your first event to get other gigs. It includes examples from my experiences in setting up a paid gig on writing and publishing books for myself and clients, marketing and promoting the event, and working with a videographer to create a series of videos I could use to promote future gigs. GINI GRAHAM SCOTT, Ph.D., J.D., is a nationally known writer, consultant, speaker, and seminar leader, specializing in business and work relationships, professional and personal development, social trends, and popular culture. She has published 50 books with major publishers and over 150 through her company Changemakers Publishing. She has worked with dozens of clients on memoirs, self-help, popular business books, and film scripts.