How to Raise Your Speaking Fee (even if it's currently zero)

08/23/21 • 31 min

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So you’d like to start charging (or charge more) for speaking gigs, but aren’t feeling confident with how to approach this with potential clients.

Today I’ll walk you through the main factors to consider when choosing your speaking fees plus tips for confidently presenting on speaking inquiry calls.

Inside this episode you’ll learn:

Whether or not to charge for speaking
Factors that influence your speaking fee
How to confidently choose a rate you’re excited about
Tips to navigating an effective speaking inquiry call
What to do when they say no to your rate

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So you’d like to start charging (or charge more) for speaking gigs, but aren’t feeling confident with how to approach this with potential clients.

Today I’ll walk you through the main factors to consider when choosing your speaking fees plus tips for confidently presenting on speaking inquiry calls.

Inside this episode you’ll learn:

Whether or not to charge for speaking
Factors that influence your speaking fee
How to confidently choose a rate you’re excited about
Tips to navigating an effective speaking inquiry call
What to do when they say no to your rate

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The Ramble Refinery with Heather Sager - How to Raise Your Speaking Fee (even if it's currently zero)

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Well, hey friends, welcome to the money episode today where we're digging into speaking fees, specifically, I'm going to share tips and strategies to help you charge more when you speak on a stage. And if you're thinking I don't charge anything right now, I speak for free. I got you. I'm going to teach you how to get paid, how to charge your fee, how to increase your fee if you have it, if that is something that you would like to do. So here we go, this is going to be good one today. Also, I'm