The Speaker Lab
by Grant Baldwin · The Speaker Lab
Weekly podcast from Grant Baldwin and his coaches on building a paid speaking business: finding and pitching events, setting and negotiating fees, marketing a speaker brand and interviewing working professional speakers. Listeners learn how conference and keynote speakers get booked repeatedly.
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