Thom Singer: Invent or Re-invent Your Business

Description

Whether you’re a newcomer to the speaking business or have you been on stages for 20 years… This presentation is for you.  Thom Singer, CSP has been NSA member for over 15 years.  He built a successful speaking career, and then in 2020 he watched it all evaporate in the pandemic.  What he did to build his business the first time was not going to get him there the second time around.  The meetings business had changed and the world had changed.   This presentation will share a variety of ideas on how to build or rebuild a speaking business.  It will also be interactive, and we will hear from some of Kentucky’s local members who will add their two cents to invention and reinvention in this wacky world of professional speaking.  

Key Takeaways  

1.  Why “speaker friends” make all the difference.  

2. How your personal brand matters if you are not famous.  

3. There is not one way to build a business as a professional speaker.  

—-  Thom Singer, CSP is the CEO of the Austin Technology Council and a professional speaker on the topic of building human connections in a digital world.  He founded the National Speakers Association podcast, “Speakernomics”, and is currently the newly appointed chair of NSAs content committee .  www.ThomSinger.com