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How you get from your area of expertise to your first talk on a conference stage. Here you will find positioning, speaker types and realistic expectations for your first year as a speaker.
You become a speaker by choosing an expert topic your clients care about, turning it into a talk and submitting it to the right industry conferences. You need no training and no protected title for this, because a …
Speaker training teaches you to speak clearly and confidently in front of an audience, and it costs between around 150 euros a year and 18,550 euros net for a course …
A speaker audit is a paid starting point that gives you a written roadmap: where you stand as a speaker and which steps make sense before your first submission. A …
You get onto an AI conference stage with a talk that shows what AI achieved in a real company, submitted to the type of conference where your clients sit. AI is the …
Twelve months are enough for one to three appearances, and most of them fall in the second half of the year. The reason lies in the conference calendar: between your …
A speaker system emerges when you build up five assets that grow over the years and make every new submission easier. The speaker without a system writes a new abstract …
Four to six appearances a year cover the share of a consulting business's annual client acquisition that the stage takes on. Most of your clients will continue to come …
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You get onto a conference stage by one of two routes: submitting to an open call for papers, or writing directly to the organisers. Invitations come later, on the …
You become a conference speaker in five steps: sharpen your topic, name your audience, write abstracts, submit to suitable conferences and collect references from your …
Which type of speaker you are depends on where your credibility comes from: a project you led, your own data, the ability to bring order or a well-founded …
Talk about a problem you have worked on yourself, that a potential buyer recognises as their own and that a conference has a programme slot for. If one of these three …
In German, Speaker, Referent and Redner all refer to a person who speaks in front of an audience, and they differ in setting and expectation. Speaker is the word of the …
Becoming a speaker pays off if your buyers attend industry conferences, because the stage changes the starting position of every sales conversation you have afterwards …