Speaker Friend Friday 10.07.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room.

Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific the first Friday of every month.

Our October 07 meet had about 60 speakers show up to share information and insights, and ask and answer questions. Here is the recording of the event for members who couldn’t attend.

Here are few topics we covered:

– Think outside your industry

– Getting speaking engagements through government contracts

– When can you start making money from speaking?

– Do I have a positive bias about my speaking and presentation? Am I in front of the wrong audience?
How do I approach a debrief meeting?

– Should you share your presentation ahead with the people you are going to speaking for?

– Tools to boost your career

Here is the link to the chat.

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Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/hXwk-nOK32c Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: Speaker Friends Friday 07.28.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/PaQ69C6yJT0 Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: West Coast Speaker Friend Fridays 07.21.2023

We host West Coast Speaker Friend Fridays noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific every other Friday. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. Our July 21 meet had about 30 speakers show up to share information and insights, and ask and…...

Private: Speaker Friends Friday 07.21.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/jgZDrkM59_I Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: Speaker Friends Friday 07.14.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/_CFs3QCG9iI Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: West Coast Speaker Friend Fridays 07.07.2023

We host West Coast Speaker Friend Fridays noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific every other Friday. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. Our July 07 meet had about 32 speakers show up to share information and insights, and ask and…...

Private: Speaker Friends Friday 07.07.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/d8oMX71V7Bc Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: Speaker Friends Friday 06.30.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/xaR4Yd5wtx0 Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: Speaker Friends Friday 06.23.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/UZ6BrSpxOv0 Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: Ask an Event Manager: Tips for Panels

South by Southwest® (SXSW®) is a global celebration of the convergence of tech, film, music, education, and culture. Held every year in Austin, Texas, SXSW offers speakers a unique platform and a global audience. We invited one of the senior managers and conference organizers to give us a look behind the scenes at SXSW. https://youtu.be/pFlTvnKP72A…...

Private: Ask an Event Manager: Proposal acceptance metrics

Private: Ask an Event Manager: Unique take on popular topics

Private: Ask an Event Manager: Proposal Tips

Private: Ask an Event Manager: Getting attention for your book

Private: West Coast Speaker Friend Fridays 06.16.2023

We host West Coast Speaker Friend Fridays noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific every other Friday. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. Our June 16 meet had about 24 speakers show up to share information and insights, and ask and…...

Private: Speaker Friend Fridays 06.16.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/TywG3oo4e4w Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: Speaker Friend Fridays 06.09.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/UmQGUH-IS4c Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: West Coast Speaker Friend Fridays 06.02.2023

We host West Coast Speaker Friend Fridays noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific every other Friday. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. Our June 02 meet had about 29 speakers show up to share information and insights, and ask and…...

Private: Speaker Friend Fridays 06.02.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/ZsfByNLVzPM Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: Speaker Friend Fridays 05.26.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/qpxsi4QWqj8 Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: West Coast Friday Speaker Friends 05.19.2023

We host West Coast Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific every other Friday. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. Our May 19 meet had about 35 speakers show up to share information and insights, and ask and…...

Private: Speaker Friend Fridays 05.19.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/QEUKmWQi-hE Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: Speaker Friend Fridays 05.12.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/WxBp0xGnUHc Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: West Coast Friday Speaker Friends 05.05.2023

We host West Coast Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific every other Friday. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. Our May 05 meet had about 35 speakers show up to share information and insights, and ask and…...

Private: Speaker Friend Fridays 05.05.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/WOwOZipLtWM Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: BEST STORIES, ORIGIN STORIES AND STORIES FOR THE MEDIA

Knowledge Session - Check out the video for best stories, origin stories and stories for the media https://youtu.be/749zfPLbY7g BEST STORY AND ORIGIN STORY IN INNOVATION WOMEN PROFILE PAGE Origin Story - To give you a place to include detail that you might feel belongs in your biography, but could potentially make your biography be too…...

Private: Speaker Friends Friday 04.28.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/FGKxNapexJ0 Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends and Third…...

Private: West Coast Friday Speaker Friends 04.24.2023

We host West Coast Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific every other Friday. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. Our April 21 meet had about 40 speakers show up to share information and insights, and ask and…...

Private: Speaker Friend Fridays 04.21.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/WJP07KVS7uU Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 04.14.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/a2XstdIwaTo Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: First Friday Speaker Friends 04.07.2023

We host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific the first Friday of every month. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. Our April 07 meet had about 40speakers show up to share information and insights, and ask…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 04.07.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/QJVQr3294Vg Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 03.31.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/esDJhk_n2Ns Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 03.24.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/QzbLrhaM72s Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 03.17.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/um-WE7h4sDA Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 03.10.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/Kq-o1WdWsDI Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: First Friday Speaker Friend 03.06.2023

We host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific the first Friday of every month. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. Our March 03 meet had about 30 speakers show up to share information and insights, and…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 03.03.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/jEvTcDjcz2Q Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 02.24.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/07SdqdDGD20 Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 02.17.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/jQL0jg_p98Y Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 02.10.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/bdGw2V791Fc Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: First Friday Speaker Friend 02.03.2023

https://youtu.be/zlz_LXY0FWo We host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific the first Friday of every month. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. Our February 03 meet had about 36 speakers show up to share information and insights,…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 02.03.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/SF8vNDTl-kU Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 01.27.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/8hFTkTSrfYg Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Thought Leadership Positioning To Better Attract Opportunities

If you are truly a thought leader, you are more likely to be the one person that everyone thinks of immediately when they need a vendor, speaker or an expert on a particular topic. Thought leaders tend to focus on particular topics. That focus helps them get recognized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyV9sBkng0 There's a difference between being an…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 01.20.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/tAOMsMDipWc Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 01.13.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/OBB5farPodA Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: First Friday Speaker Friend 01.06.2023

We host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific the first Friday of every month. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/dAg-0naZQXs Our January 06 meet had about 30 speakers show up to share information and insights,…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 01.06.2023

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/OoSZYsbOyT0 Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Tools for Speakers

Prep phase starts before you even begin speaking. It involves the branding and the content creation that you will need to gain speaking engagements. There is another knowledge session on the branding aspect as a speaker, as well as some of the content creation if you would like to learn more. There's research, the sales…...

Private: Speaker Business Models

I'm going to address a topic that we get asked about a lot: speaker business models. We’re going to review some of the different speaker business models, and also help you understand where Innovation Women's offerings fit in. We do offer different things that might make sense for different people with different speaker business models.…...

Private: CRM, Sizzle Reels, Signature Presentation, etc.

Customer relationship management CRM stands for customer relationship management. It's a tool to manage all your company's relationships and interactions with customers. More importantly, potential customers. This is one thing that I feel like a lot of speakers and a lot of small businesses get wrong. They tell me they have a direct funnel from…...

Private: Speaker Bureaus

What does a traditional speaker's bureau do? Speakers are not really their customer, their customer is the event, the corporation or the organization that is looking for speakers. Speakers are inventory for a speaker's bureau. A speaker bureau maintains a speaker catalog. A traditional speaker's bureau will also pay speakers; they will do things like…...

Private: Panels, FTW

When we talk about public speaking, a lot of people just think about the keynote. They think about the featured speaker and the panelist kind of ends up a little bit down the list. They really don't think of it so much when they think about speaking careers. So I always point out that public…...

Private: Public Speaking for Authors

Books drive speaking opportunities and different types of compensation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9MaQUUL53U Carly Fiorina was the keynote speaker at a college university event. I found out from the event organizers that Carly had waived her speaking fee for this particular event as long as the university bought a huge number of her books, her first book, on…...

Private: Getting Paid When There’s No Budget

Getting paid to speak when the event organizers tell you they have no budget. https://youtu.be/5_FfdnxpxWw Survey: We surveyed more than 300 event managers. 50 percent said they had absolutely no budget for speakers. (2016) We updated that survey in January 2020, December 2019. 40- 41 percent of event managers never paid speakers at all. 45…...

Private: AUTHOR PROMOTION INSTRUCTIONS

Why do we have special promotional services for authors? Because speaking and authorship often go hand-in-hand. Many speakers discover that authorship helps them be seen as more credible and the status conveyed by authorship helps them command bigger stages. On the other side, many authors become speakers in order to promote their books. Innovation Women…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 12.30.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/sjNSe57Sr-M Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 12.23.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/yyaPPAWsIqs Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Sample Letter to Promote the Affiliate Program

Dear Friend, I am a speaker/subject matter expert with Innovation Women (insert your affiliate link here), and I thought you might be interested too. I’m letting all my friends know NOW because their membership price is going up in January 2025, but current members will keep paying the same ridiculously low price. Innovation Women is…...

Private: Affiliate Program Next Steps

Thank you for joining the Innovation Women affiliate program and helping to support our mission to provide career and business-building visibility for women through speaking and media opportunities. The following tips will help make your program a success: When you signed up for the program, you should have received your own unique affiliate link to…...

Private: Learn about the IW Affiliate Program

We love hearing about women supporting women. Let us help you grow and expand your own network with Innovation Women’s new affiliate program – share a link to Innovation Women and earn a commission. Earn while being a champion for women! At IW, our mission is to support and provide exposure to women through speaking…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 12.16.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/IlYQFmg-1Tw Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 12.09.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/N5xfAXVqlQY Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: First Friday Speaker Friend 12.02.2022

We host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific the first Friday of every month. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/UY5DhnofckQ Our December 02 meet had about 20 speakers show up to share information and insights,…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 12.02.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/dybFLs0M-JA Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 11.25.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/Nni45guAEok Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 11.18.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/Vy6-dvvsT6Q Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Advice for Submitting a Speaking Proposal

Dear Innovation Women, Recently my friend and I submitted a topic to a local group. It was rejected and now we’re awaiting feedback on why. What makes a good speech proposal? How can you shape an idea to best fit the audience? Any suggestions? Sandra https://youtu.be/Kxj68n81mfo Dear Sandra, Thanks for writing! There are lots of…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 11.11.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/Pl_lKTgQpXM Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: First Friday Speaker Friend 11.04.2022

We host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific the first Friday of every month. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/gXf5wW6XkQ4 Our November 04 meet had 20 speakers show up to share information and insights, and…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 11.04.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCx3Ar_f-sM Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 10.28.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3n2-gPhuVQ Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 10.21.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjTUvBvsx58 Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 10.14.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gajjfgpNHQ Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 10.07.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/tp_vjs2jvHM Everyone brings questions, topics and victories to share. Event managers are welcome too! We also host First Friday Speaker Friends noon Eastern/9:00…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 9.30.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/Vzl7uhuC4pE Now we start introductions a bit earlier at 8:45 am and then jump into discussion at 9:00 am Eastern. Everyone brings questions,…...

Private: Speaker Friend Friday 9.23.2022

Every Friday we host Speaker Friend Fridays on Zoom. With so many awesome speakers, authors, event managers, podcasters and others joining us, there is an amazing amount of knowledge in the room. https://youtu.be/qiArNWZr1KM Now we start introductions a bit earlier 8:45 am and then jump into discussion at 9:00 am Eastern. Everyone brings questions, topics…...

Private: How to Find Opportunities & Get On Stage for TED/TEDx

TED and TEDx have really changed how we all see public speaking. They’ve become the gold standard of public speaking. The recordings are freely available and can be found online on their website and their YouTube channel. If you talk to most people who are involved in any type of professional organizations, it's a rare…...

Private: Credibility as a Speaker

A lot of us think about credibility in terms of getting on stage but when you have a higher level of credibility, you also get more invitations. One of the things that we say at Innovation Women is “Speaking begets speaking” - the more speaking you do, the more speaking you will do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAMtv2ySPTw How…...

Private: How much should I charge to speak?

1) Find out more about the speaking engagement. How big is the audience and who is in it? Are the audience members of a particular group? Is the event open to the public? Is the organizer selling tickets? How much are the tickets? Is it part of a larger event? Are there other speakers or…...

Private: NEW Thought Leadership

What is thought leadership? If you are a thought leader you tend to be much more likely to be the one person that everyone thinks of immediately when they need a vendor, speaker or an expert on a particular topic. Thought leaders tend to focus on particular topics. And there's a difference between being an…...

Private: Presentation formats

Presentation tools PowerPoint is one of the most commonly used presentation formats. But there are so many other slide format options. Google Slides is a web based slide format option. Apple Keynote for Mac users. They also have a cloud version which allows anybody who has any Apple device to use Apple Keynote. Prezi has…...

Private: Selling From the Stage… or Not

Three ways to earn through speaking: Get paid to speak Earning from the stage Selling from the stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqMw4ILuSpo Earning from the stage Opportunity to get paying gigs by speaking Selling consulting services Selling a workshop Potentially selling another speaking gig Speaking to an audience that could potentially pay you to speak. So this is…...

Private: Building A Better Profile

Your profile is your ticket to the stage! The more complete and personalized a profile is, the more likely you are to be invited to speak. When you sign up for Innovation Women, you are building a profile that serves as an advertisement to event managers looking for speakers, to journalists looking for expert…...

Private: Getting Paid to Speak

Do you get paid to speak? Or want to? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJcqP38BkPI At Innovation Women, we talk with a lot of speakers and event managers and one of the reoccurring topics is speaker payment. Some great speakers continue to speak for free and wonder how to break into the “paid” speaking circuit. Some speakers who do get…...

Private: Better Presenting

Let’s talk about how to give a great presentation and your presentation content. Yes, yes. There’s a lot to being a good speaker (the mechanics) but so many of us are experts and are booked to teach. To tell people something new. To inform. To share our industry knowledge and know-how. With that in mind,…...

Private: DIFFERENT WAYS TO FIND OPPORTUNITIES

How do event managers find speakers? Through referrals - from a friend, within your organization, an event organizer. Industry coverage of other events, or of publications from your market. Social media such as Linkedin or Facebook. InnovationWomen.com or other speaker’s bureaus. Try different search engines - Google, Bing, YouTube. The Decision Makers The actual organizer…...

Private: HOW TO BUILD YOUR SPEAKER TOOLKIT

Speaker Biography Create a biographies file or document and keep dumping in the new variations and label them with the word and character count and the name of the conference. If you have one sentence to describe yourself, what do you choose? Action: Speaker Biography Worksheet Professional biographies are written in the 3rd person. Build…...

Private: HOW TO BUILD YOUR SIGNATURE TALK

A deep knowledge of the subject matter. Who are the other experts in your area? What are they saying? The speakers you most want to emulate and those you feel you most resemble now. What makes them different? Do they get paid to speak? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_8O7L7jQ9U Identify the most successful speaker in your space. Who is…...

Private: HOW TO GET STARTED WITH PUBLIC SPEAKING

Step 1: Identify your target audience. Who do you want to speak to (demographics)? Where are your potential customers and competitors? Step 2: Determine where and how often you would like (or are able) to speak (goals). How many on-stages annually? What kind of stages? How many people do you want to reach? What kind…...

Private: Laura Moran – Community Questions 4

Laura Moran of INBOUND answers some questions from the IW community - "What difference does being an author make to the success of your speaking career?"...

Private: Laura Moran – Community Questions 3

Laura Moran of INBOUND answers some questions from the IW community - "Are there any 'white whales' for you in terms of speakers and presenters? This is where you pull out your wish list - why those names?"...

Private: Laura Moran – Community Questions 2

Laura Moran of INBOUND answers some questions from the IW community - "How would you go about getting paid to speak?"...

Private: Laura Moran – Community Questions 1

Laura Moran of INBOUND answers some questions from the IW community - "Is there a topic you could point to and say, 'I never get enough submissions there?'"...

Private: HOW TO GET MORE SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES

Your prep Know whom you should be speaking to. What kind of audience is interested in what you have to say? Be a good speaker. Have a story to tell. Being a published author is great, it builds credibility. Be clear, concise and entertaining. Be interesting. Be inspiring. Be useful. Practice. Practice. Practice. If you don’t have a…...

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