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The Six-Figure Speaker: Formula for a Six-Figure Income As a Professional Speaker

Cathleen Fillmore
Robert Reed Publishers (2008)
ISBN 9781931741927
Reviewed by Dr. Michael Philliber for RebeccasReads (7/08)

The mechanics of becoming a successful Professional Speaker can be a bit daunting. Cathleen Fillmore has laid out an easy-to-follow set of plans to profitably negotiate those mechanics in her 166 page paperback titled “The Six-Figure Speaker: Formula for a Six-Figure Income as a Professional Speaker.” In this book Fillmore assumes the reader has already mastered the ability to speak in public, and focuses her energies on how to break into the professional speaker market.

The practicality of “The Six-Figure Speaker” begins at page 1 and flows all the way to the end. Several chapters lay out various game plans for generating speaking engagements. Other chapters explain the ins and outs of speaker bureaus and agents. Some tackle the pros and cons of bringing on staff members, and when it might be unnecessary and when productive. A couple of chapters lay out ideas on how to divide your time between speech preparation, presentation and generating leads. Other topics cover building websites, what to look for in contracts, and how to be a long-term winner with speaker bureaus and program organizers. Fillmore also includes chapters that are written by flourishing professional speakers who describe their own methods of achievement.

Though the material sometimes gets a bit monotonous, some themes are repeated in several chapters, overall this is a great how-to book on becoming a winning certified speaker. If you’re looking for ideas on how to break into the speaker market, succeed and come through it alive and thriving then “The Six-Figure Speaker” is the book for you.

  

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