Winner of 10 national book awards and an Amazon bestseller ...Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE, Past President, National Speakers Association Why Speak?How about ... change lives ... to sell truckloads of books ... to make money ... to go places you never thought you would ... to make a difference ... to have fun? Did you know that for authors, speaking is the #1 way to sell thousands of books?You have written a book, you KNOW the content, and you have a passion for the topic/message. NOW, go share it. In How to Create a Million Dollar Speech, you will to pitch to the decision maker.How to move from free to fee. How to identify your key points and create stories to engage your audience. How to hook an audience within the first few minutes of your presentation.How to create a closing that delivers the buzz factor.How to discover sponsors and secure them.How to market your speech to meeting planners. IIf you want to be a professional speaker; if you want to learn how to create a speech and speaking career that is successful; if you want to know how to write a speech that meeting planners and audiences want to hear; if you want to learn how to soar like a TED talk; if you want to be sought after as a public speaker, How to Create a Million Speech is the book for you.Finally, here is the guide that speakers and wannabe speakers need. It is the ready-set-go tool on how to create a speech, market you as a must-have speaker, and turn speaking into a business that you can love and make an excellent living at. How to Create a Million Dollar Speech is book four in the multi-award-winning and best-selling AuthorYOU Mini Guide series. Other books include How to Create Crowdfunding Success for Authors and Writers, The AudioBook Guide for Authors, How to Avoid Book Publishing Blunders, AuthorYOU-Creatng Your Author and Book Platforms, and Snappy Sassy Salty Success for Authors. If you want to be successful as a speaker, this is the book for you.
Judith Briles is an advocate for authors and writers and is known as The Book Shepherd. Delivering practical authoring and publishing information and guidance, she has authored 37 books, won multiple book awards and co-founded Mile High Press. Judith is the Chief Visionary Officer of AuthorU.org, a membership organization dedicated to the author who wants to be seriously successful and founder of the Colorado Authors Hall of Fame.
Each summer, she presents Judith Briles Unplugged, a two-day exclusive “happening” for authors who want to create and put their Book and Author GamePlan into action.
Judith knows publishing and she gets the challenges that authors go through in creating and publishing their books. Known as The Book Shepherd to many, she’s personally guided thousands of publishing clients throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zeeland. If you were to describe her, she would say, “I’m a blunt, butt-kicking, benevolent book coach and book doctor.”
Her latest book is Snappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Writers joining her multi-award winning and #1 bestseller on Amazon, Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms. She lives Colorado, working with authors in her offices remotely, reaching out to Australia, New Zeeland and China.
Her books and her mouth have generated in excess of $5,000,000 in revenues and taken her from Oprah to GMA to CNN to Time to People to the Wall Street Journal. Her websites are TheBookShepherd.com and AuthorU.org.
How to Create a $1,000,000 Speech is a necessary resource for any author who wants to promote their book(s). Public speaking is the #1 way for authors to sell books, and Dr Judith Briles provides helpful tools for achieving success through public speaking. We all have a story to tell, and there is an audience waiting to hear our story. Dr Briles shows us how to find that audience and then hook them within minutes of hearing our first words.
Excellent book covering the considerations for all aspects of creating a speaking business. It’s filled with practical, how to strategies and tips along with some insider secrets Judith learned from her 30 year speaking career.