Public Speaking Articles

A Guide to Booking Motivational Keynote Speakers

Whether you’re still hosting virtual corporate events or getting ready for in-person gatherings again, booking the right speaker is a vital part of the event planning process.

But how do you begin to choose the right speaker for your event? In the United States alone, there are 40,000 public speakers––and the industry is expected to grow by 4.1% every year until 2025. 

Work Life Balance Speakers To Help Your Employee Love Life Again

As the world becomes increasingly connected, and the options for employees to work from home continue to increase, it gets harder and harder for people to maintain a comfortable work life balance. This is not because employers are encouraging that more work be completed over longer hours, simply, the shift has happened on its own due to the accessibility of information and communication.

GigOS is the integration between eSpeakers EventCX and SpeakerFlow CRM.

We’ve been cooking up something BIG with the team over at SpeakerFlow. And after over a year of development, we’re excited to introduce GigOS.

It combines everything you need to run your speaking business in one place: custom CRM for speakers, EventCX specialized calendaring and automation platform, marketing exposure through the eSpeakers directory network, access to eSpeakers Lead Center, and 40+ other tools to run your business end-to-end. And they’re all integrated!

If you’re a professional who presents to or teaches remote audiences over a live video meeting tool like Zoom or GoToMeeting, this course is for you.

Nothing kills a presenter’s credibility, frustrates attendees, and buries the message faster than a presenter who is hard to see, hard to hear, or who is struggling with basic technology.

This course will help you avoid all of those issues. If you implement the practical guidance in this course, your content and presentation skills will be able to shine through the screen and impact everyone in your virtual meeting. This course includes about 2 hours of materials, and then you’ll be prepared to schedule your assessment to get the Certified Virtual Presenter — or CVP — badge. Follow this link to get started https://zcu.io/g84u or go to www.vpi.institute.

Everyone is a Broadcaster!

An interview by Hall of Fame speaker Mark Sanborn, with Riaz Meghji, a speaker and author. Riaz shares his thoughts on why everyone is a broadcaster in 2021. He also gives some tips on how to be a great virtual presenter and connect with your audience.

Riaz talks about how times have changed, and in 2021 everyone is a presenter. He shares some tips on how to become a great virtual presenter in 2021!  

Choosing the Best Virtual Event Software

Events have quickly taken themselves online as 2020 has brought on serious limitations when it comes to in-person gatherings. We all had to make these adjustments with little warning, which means that a lot of us went for the first virtual event software we could find.

Now that we’re a bit more settled in and better adjusted to this virtual world, we can take the time to evaluate software choices. Choosing the best virtual event software is a common problem many event planners have today.

5 Virtual Event Best Practices You Can’t Miss

We’ve all had to adapt to new ways of doing things this year. And for many of us, that includes how we run events! Today, more events are taking place virtually than ever before. That’s why we knew it was time to share our virtual event best practices with you today!

5 Virtual Event Best Practices You Can’t Miss

It’s going to take a long time (if ever!) for events to go back to how they used to be.

So it’s a good idea to get on board with these virtual event best practices now and make the most of them! Let’s get started.

How to Grow Your Email List with Webinars and Beyond

It’s no secret sending out emails is a great way to stay in touch, deliver announcements, and keep your business top of mind for customers. At the same time, it can be hard to grow your email list and get the subscribers you need.

Why you want to grow your email list

Email subscribers consist of a fantastic audience as they are a group of individuals who have interacted with your brand in some way shape or form. They are familiar with your brand and are more likely to engage with your email messaging over a cold audience.

How to Be a Great Virtual Event Speaker: Top Tips

The virtual space is currently booming and virtual events are now more popular than ever. With that, event speakers who have mastered the art of delivering in-person presentations now have to adjust. How do you become a great virtual event speaker and what adjustments can you make to keep your audiences’ interest?

How to be a great virtual event speaker

We’re here to give you our best tips for how to be a great virtual event speaker so you can deliver compelling content and a presentation to be remembered.

If you’re planning an event you might benefit from our social media marketing event strategy tips.

7 Ways to Improve Virtual Attendance at Your Next Event

If it feels like everywhere you turn, you see an invite to a virtual event or an ad for an upcoming virtual gathering, you’re not wrong! These remote events are more popular than ever as we adapt to a whole new way of living and working in 2020. But how can you make YOUR virtual event stand out from the crowd and get the higher virtual attendance you’ve been hoping for?

Today, we’re going to tell you how!