THIS MONTH’S CHALLENGE: Make 15 calls to associations — You’re not trying to get a speech… your goal is to learn how they CONSIDER speakers

How are you doing on your COMMITMENTS for getting paid to speak? Post your comments here!

The biggest one they see is when they look in the mirror.

We all tend to get in our own way, and be so busy in chaos we neglect progress! So, this hurts me more than it hurts you, but I’m about to make the SERIOUS people accountable. If you don’t make an action plan and stick to it, you are not serious. I’d like THE SERIOUS people to have the GUTS to POST their action steps on MY blog for the world to see. Now let’s see how accountable you are and how much progress you make as a result of it.

Charli (who was in the room live) made things happen. This is how you get my attention. She sent me this e-mail today:

“Dawn and I are moving along in our plans. I shared with her what you said about “ just do something , it doesn’t have to be perfect, just get it done.”  We took your advice and had our first live Tele seminar on Friday morning. We sent out an email and asked what questions would you like us to answer about How to Create the Body you Want using the Law of Attraction. We got 3 questions and we spend the hour answering them.  We recorded it and  will be available for people to listen to if they missed the seminar. I am so excited to be working with Dawn  because we both have a desire to help people create what they want in their life!

“I have collected 180 and still counting emails from my students. Wherever I go, I have my clipboard with me and ask for email addresses because I am starting a Fit Tips News letter. My goal is to have 10,000 emails, too!! Blessings, Charli”

Charli is making it happen, how about you?

What will you commit to before the next Get Paid TV Webcast?

I’m so tired of people talking about the economy tanking! Why aren’t more people talking about how they will take better care of themselves and their families?

“We don’t know what we’re going to do!” Well, stop whining and decide to figure it out! Look for answers. If you’re spending time commiserating about it, you’ve lost time finding the solution.

Recently I invested in a T. Harv Eker business seminar. During one of his sessions, he said that there are two economies, “the economy” and “your economy.” It is SO true! Most people in the public speaking business have suffered a recent downturn in business. I didn’t. Mine went up! …by a healthy percentage, too!

Did “the economy” affect my business? You betcha! One of my streams of income went down, no doubt about it. Instead of whining about it, I invested all year on marketing and giving people what they wanted. As a result, my biggest stream of income jumped up.

Now, more now than ever, people are re-discovering that there is no such thing as job security.  Due to a new business owner, someone very close to me, in a high level job, was shown the door after 20 years of service. See, it’s the owners who get to decide. Business owners choose the direction and the people who are going to take them there. Two really great things about a small business is 1) it can be done part-time, and 2) there are so many tax write offs!

Why not BE the business owner? Have you ever thought of having a public speaking business?

What are you waiting for? Life is short. There’s no building you have to buy, no space you have to rent, and no employees you have to hire. The truth is, the only barrier to getting started is having an effective business plan. It’s easier and less expensive to start a business now than ever before. The highest-powered marketing tools I use now range from inexpensive to free.

What’s the most important reason that now is the best time is due to the economy? To understand that, you must know what business is about. T. Harv says it best, “An entrepreneur is someone who solves problems for people at a profit.” The worse the economy is, the more problems people have. The more problems there are, the more problems there are to be solved. The more people’s problems you solve, the more you will earn.

The public speaking business is geared perfectly for this… if you understand what you are trying to do. Solve problems for people. You aren’t selling speeches — those who do, fail.

Do I care if I solve someone’s problem with a live speech, or a book, or a new DVD set? Yes, I do. I love to speak, but I’m a businessman first. What do people need, and in what form do they need it? That is why I’m successful. I’ve never been to Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. But, some of the greatest testimonials I have come from those countries.

I love speaking, and it’s one of the best ways I generate business — even when I’m not being paid. As Zig Ziglar says, “You can get whatever you want, if you help enough other people get what they want.”

What are you going to speak about? That’s easy! What do you know? What have you accomplished? What industry have you worked in? What adversity have you overcome? You help people from your experience. Help people with that. The biggest problem with people who are new to the public speaking business is that they under-value their own experience.

After nearly every speech I give, people come up to me and say, “I want to do what you do.” It became such a common occurrence, I realized that this was a problem I could solve. After having a public speaking business since 1994, I knew that I could help people shorten their learning curve. Although my first speech was for $75, I learned it the hard way. So, now I tell them, “Give me eight hours and I’ll take eight years off your learning curve!” and tell them about my Get Paid to Speak by Next Week® program. My system takes people with no business experience, who have never gotten a paid speech in their lives, and shows them the secrets of getting their first checks. Their first checks have ranged from $250 to $650, some even more!

I show people how to use their unique background to get their first checks. There’s so much information & knowledge jam-packed into this system — my students tell me that every time they go through it, they get new ideas that bring them profit!

Will you take control of your life and your income? What problems will you help people solve? The cool thing about this business is that you don’t have to quit your day job to get started. If you lost your job, then you have more time to get things moving quicker. Dreams are meant to be achieved! Start your public speaking business, NOW!

I’ve made a huge goal for his business this year. I want to completely transform my business (even though 2008 was my best ever.) You?

As it has been said many times, “If you keep doing what you’ve been doing, you’ll keep getting what you have been getting.” Completely “reinventing” a business take a whole new perspective. That was why we packed our bags and headed to Whitney, TX. We invested time and money to learn from one of the best, Stephen Pierce. So far the investment is paying off incredibly!

Here is a quick clip of the greeting we got when we landed….

Mentoring time, mentoring time, mentoring time,

Darren LaCroix, 2001 World Champion of Public Speaking

Check out this video clip:

Stage time,

Darren LaCroix, 2001 World Champion of Public Speaking