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Learn to Command Any Room (Kristin Thompson)

Written by Wes Schaeffer | Feb 24, 2015

 

About Today's Guest on The Sales Podcast

Kristin Thompson is the founder of Speak. Serve. Grow.

She can help you use speaking as a way to grow your business by not only getting the speaking gigs but by creating and delivering more "functional" talks vs. motivational talks. Hear her story on episode 111 of The Sales Podcast.

Sales Tips you'll learn in this interview with Kristin Thompson of "Speak. Serve. Grow."

  • How much you should let people into your world.
  • How to get more speaking gigs.
  • Whether or not you should script your presentation.
  • What size group you should start with.
  • Whether or not you should have a signature talk.
  • Where to begin (local, regional, national?)
  • The 5 keys to monetizing your talk.
  • Whether or not you should invest in big tools or do it all manually at first.
  • How to use your ego to help you go big.
Create your signature talk around helping 'Joe Average' get over the hump"

Links Mentioned

Sales Growth Tools Mentioned In The Sales Podcast

  • Hire The Best Speaker for your sales meeting or marketing conference
  • Take The CRM Quiz: get a free consultation with me
  • Donate: Just because you like the show, the no-bullshit approach, and don't want to buy a book, software, or The Make Every Sale Program.
  • The Sales Agenda: take control of every sales opportunity like a pro.
  • Leadferno: Turn lurkers into leads
  • Founders Card: Get $20,000 in free processing from Stripe, save 15% on Bose, and save on hotels, travel, car rentals, you name it.
  • Send Drunk Emails: ...that get opened and get you paid!
  • Phone Burner: work the phone like a machine so you can be a human when you connect.
  • Apollo: Find targeted accounts and send cold email at scale to them and hit the inbox with Apollo

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