Killer Keynote Speech Teleseminar
Join me at 9pm EST via phone or streaming on your computer for a no-holds-barred presentation about the truth about paid professional speaking.
Mar 08, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
How to Create Your $2500 – $5000 Keynote Business Audio
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“There is a significant amount of mythology about the real world of paid professional speaking.” Rick Butts
In this rambunctious and energetic audio Rick shares his experience and the unvarnished truth about:
Public Speakers vs Professional Speakers
The Market for Paid Speaking – Where to Get Booked
The Truth About the Meeting Planner Gig
What Meeting Planners REALLY Want
Typical 3 [...]
CSP CPAE EIEIO?
In doing some research for this site I happened to open up an article on the NSA website from their very creatively named magazine Speaker. It only took 3 paragraphs to encounter the hysterical use of CSP/CPAE in the endless ass kissing worship of people who have been members the longest.
If anything demonstrates the obsolescence [...]
Feb 15, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post
Wordpress Dream Theme 2.0 Rocks!
Regardless of whether the Saints or the Colts win the Super Bowl today, I can tell you with dead certainty that the Wordpress theme you use to run your blog/website is crucial. Yeah, it needs to look professional and cook, and it needs to be easily navigable, (and of course it needs to SELL your [...]
Feb 07, 2010 | 10 comments | View Post
The Most Important Tool of the Professional Speaker is a Great Speech
The single most important tool you’ll ever have as a speaker is a killer keynote speech delivered with maximum skill.
“A great speech will carry you further, get you booked easier, keep your calendar full, make you more money, and cost you less, than any other endeavor you’ll pursue in your speaking career.”
Being a really good [...]
Feb 06, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
What Meeting Planners Really Want in a Keynote Speaker
I’m probably going to get into a lot of trouble here, (what’s new?) but, the mythology about what meeting planners are looking for, and willing to pay big bucks for, in a keynote speaker is widespread.
The National Speakers Association under the leadership of past president Mark Sanborn conducted a useful survey that shed a great [...]
Feb 06, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Welcome to Stardust Factor
A blank sheet of blog paper turns into a new and unique place for a strange little group of people who want to be speakers. Am I talking to you?
Whether you are a successful professional speaker looking to sharpen your biz, just getting started, or anywhere along the way, this site will help you become [...]
Jan 27, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
On The Death of Jim Rohn
I sat at the back of an audience of 1000+ people at the Hyatt Regency in Houston Texas in astonishment at the life changing message “The 5 Major Pieces of the Life Puzzle.” I’d gotten a free ticket to see Jim Rohn as a bonus for buying a ticket to see sales trainer Tom Hopkins. [...]
Dec 17, 2009 | 4 comments | View Post
How to Change Your Twitter Username ID
When I first got on Twitter I had no idea that the username would be SO IMPORTANT.
In fact, if you are trying to use Twitter to get famous, attract clients, or grow your business your Twitter Username is as important as your domain name in the social media world!
I originally got /Rick_Butts – thinking that [...]
Aug 10, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
