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Shawn Ellis

How to Get Lucky in 2011 (in your speaking business, of course)

Optimism and ambition always abound at this time of year. We all have high expectations for the year ahead. Right? What are your big goals?

The good news is, indications are that the speaking market will be better this year. We closed 2010 strong at The Speakers Group and several speakers shared similar reports with me.

I don’t believe the speaking market will ever look like it once did — that’s partly due to economic reasons, partly due to advancing technology, partly due to… well… time moving forward. We must never become too attached to doing things a certain way, because if we do, progress will run right over us. But opportunity for growth and even greater success than we’ve ever experienced is there. Here’s the bad news…

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Create a Paperless Speaking Business

As a speaker, you’ve got lots of papers to manage, right? Receipts… Contracts… Questionnaires… Evaluation Forms… YUCK! You can actually replace a lot of papers using a variety of web apps that are available. A few ideas: Use Wufoo or Formstack for your pre-event questionnaires and other forms Use Docusign […]

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