Blair Nichols - Stage Expert

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today's episode, our guest is Blair Nichols, the Director of Stages of Advance your Reach. He’s also a Coach, Consultant, and Co-host of</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Inside the Greenroom with PV3 Podcast</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. He has deep expertise in developing speakers for corporate events, conferences, and other thought leadership opportunities, including internal and external communications. Blair enjoys helping unique individuals and companies foster new strategies for operations, communications, business development, and partnerships to further develop and enhance their bottom line and brand. Today, he is going to tell us how we can share our message with our audience.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:34]</span> <strong>Why should we listen to you?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I guess it just depends on where we pick up and why you should listen to me. A lot of the time, when people reach out to me, they want to know about how they can get on stages, how they can spread their message, and get help figuring out how they can really get heard.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[7:39]</span> <strong>What do you think is a difference between a $2,500 speaker and a $25,000 speaker?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It usually just comes down to demand. If people are coming to you and inviting you to speak, it's a lot easier to ask for a fee than hustling and getting out there and trying to get on a stage where people don't know you.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[8:57] The greatest speakers that probably work with bureaus are in that 10 to 20, 25k range. Once you get above that, it's because you've got a bit of demand. Maybe you have a best-selling book or some name recognition. Once you get into that 25k to 30k range, that's where people are doing that because they've already got some sort of established platform that's generating that interest.</span></p> <p><sp