The Public Speaker : How to Get Paid as a Professional Speaker

You can become a successful public speaker as a profitable sideline to your present job or business or you can become a professional public speaker by making public speaking the focus of your career.  It is up to you!  Professional speaking is a flexible and lucrative enterprise.  Good public speakers make all or most of their money from public speaking and they earn a very decent living from it. Fees for public speaking can range from the low hundreds for those just starting all the way up to six figures for those who have impressive credentials and experience. What are the types of public speaking you should practise? Many public speakers enjoy speaking at workshops seminars and conferences. A typical speech could run for a half-hour to one hour depending on the different factors. Lunch speeches for example will be shorter than a keynote address at a banquet. You may be asked to speak to a lunchtime networking meeting. Workshops and seminars are generally lengthier than speeches. In workshops the participants would always get hands-on experience in your area of knowledge. Like workshops seminars may run for two or more days but they don’t necessarily include a hands-on element. Both workshops and seminars can be presented as a part of a bigger conference.