Some Reasons You Might Not Be Getting Booked Getting paid speaking engagements can be a mystery starting out. It can come as a surprise that being a new speaker doesn’t have people knocking down your door to put you on their platform or stage. So you really have to look at yourself from an objective standpoint in order to get the proper assessment of why you are not getting booked.
You Know You Haven’t Put In The Work
This means that you know you haven’t invested in yourself and your speaking career to get better at what you. Most adults can cook on some level. But I doubt that most who say that their cooking would have people running to their kitchen to grab another plate of whatever they cooked. But if they had made the investment in learning what seasoning and spice work well together. If they learned how a dish can be balanced out by another dish, then they are on the road to having their own cooking show… LOL… :-D So when it comes to your speaking, are you working on your craft to the point that it becomes second nature to you? Are you so at ease with delivering the message that you can wait for the audience to feast on the mental meal that you have prepared? If you can’t answer “Yes” that could be one of the reasons that you are not getting booked.
No One Knows You Exist
If you have put in the work and have mastered your delivery style. If you have delivered soul-stirring speeches and created life-changing events then another reason that you might not be getting booked is that “No One Knows…” If the message that you have to deliver is that good, if the information is the aspirin to someone’s headache then you can’t wait to wait for someone else to sing your praises. You have to sing them yourself. You have to make some noise for you. For the person that you have become and the work that you have done in order to fill up your speaking calendar. Knowing your market and then marketing yourself to that market is a sure fire way to make the impact that you desire and leave the legacy that you will be proud of. 16
