Become A Professional Speaker

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With This 8 Week Course

8 Weeks of Coaching With Alexander Van Buren

Who Should Take This course

If you're just getting started and want to learn how to become a professional speaker - this is the place to begin.

Or, if you're already a speaker/trainer and want to take your success to the next level, book more speeches or get higher fees - take a look at our BLUE or GREEN coaching plans.

Your 8 week course includes:

	Two 1-hour phone coaching sessions with me, Alexander Van Buren, owner of The Alexander Speakers Bureau.
	Two email correspondences with me - in between our phone coaching sessions, so you can ask questions from the past weeks lesson and take the next step.
	Complete hand outs and instructions, - some online, some emailed to you.
	Help with individual areas that may be challenging you - from your video to your web site to your topics.
	Evaluation and step by step instructions and help with every key requirement to be a paid speaker or trainer. See the detailed curriculum below.

One week you'll have a phone coaching session. Then the next week an email lesson - for a total of 8 weeks of training and coaching.

The entire mini-course takes about 2 months to complete and phone sessions will be scheduled at convenient times every other week or so.

You'll have assignments to complete every week - and an extra week now and then to complete your assignments.

I'll be personally looking over your web site, video, 1 sheets, marketing materials, topics and much more.

The Curriculum

Four sessions in all - two 1-hour phone coaching sessions and 2 email lessons. You'll receive insights, next steps and support in developing:

Your topics and key $-making presentations
How many topics & which ones should you choose
Positioning yourself and your topics
Which topics will make you 10 times the money
Branding phrases to match your presentation style

Your speaking fees
Negotiating rates & getting more
How to get more gigs by the way you set your fees
Avoid these common mistakes most speakers make
Contracts

How to build confidence and skill
Get lots of local 'speak for free" bookings in your area
How to get better and improve rapidly
How to start charging for your speaking

Help With Your 1 sheet - fax version and online version
Review of your 1 sheet, help with the lay out and copy
What NOT to do
Online 1 sheets and off line 1 sheets
What is a bureau friendly 1 sheet

Help With Your web site
What MUST be on it, what should never be on it
Review of your web site
The most common mistakes speakers make
What type of site gets you more bookings
How to get a great web site for less

Your demo video(s)
How long it should be?
The right kind of video the wrong type. Multiple videos?
How to get your video to play on your web site
Where it should be on your web site
How to develop your own video on a budget
View correct videos and disasters online

Your Press Kits
Your online press kit
Your Offline Press Kit
How to make a great press kit for less

Working with speakers Bureaus
Language for approaching bureaus
How to approach speakers bureaus
Biggest mistakes speakers make with bureaus
How to be irresistible to speakers bureaus

The Incredible Opportunity List!

The list of opportunities SO MANY SPEAKERS miss out on and don't take advantage of! This set of insights alone is worth the entire investment you make in this coaching package and is rarely ever known by beginning speakers - only the top pros know about these things and are doing them.

You Will Also Receive

Hand outs and forms

Online web tutorials in which we'll view other speakers' web sites and look at their 1 sheets and videos.

An email every week and weekly assignments to help keep you in momentum so you stay in action and complete your next step. You'll always know exactly what to do next.

Not Included

a. Presentation skills - You should already have basic skill at giving presentations.

b. Sales system for booking paid speeches and trainings. (Green & Orange coaching plans only - see coaching plans for details)

c. Bookings, leads, referrals or representation by our speakers bureau.

d. I will not do your 1 sheet or create your video for you. I will give you the key insights for doing these things yourself, so you can save yourself thousands of dollars and avoid years of wasted time.

Why I KNOW I Can Help You

As owner of a national speaker bureau, I've been booking speakers for over 14 years, and currently book professional speakers every single day, 5 days a week.

I know every facet of the speaking industry and precisely what it takes to become a professional public speaker.

I've coached speakers so they make as much as $50,000 for a single presentation.

And I've had the pleasure of coaching hundreds of professionals - including the CEO's of public companies doing hundreds of millions a year in sales - to become better speakers.

You'll learn, step by step, how to become a professional public speaker.

This 8 week course is designed to help you identify and complete the necessary things to make you a professional speaker earning at least $2500 per presentation, and giving at least 2 presentations per month - as soon as possible.

"After a year of thrashing around, trying to get direction for my speaking career, Alexander and I made contact and within the first two weeks of coaching, he had me on the path moving forward. Without his coaching, I would still be thrashing around getting nowhere.

But more important to me is that I recommended he contact several of my friends (after receiving their permission) and they called me back and thanked me for putting them in touch with Alexander.

I enjoy working with Alexander and have made great progress in just four coaching sessions so far. Than you, Alexander."

Hugh Curley, LSC, J.D, DTM
Engineer, Motivational Speaker & Trainer
www.HughCurley.com

"This coaching has been extremely useful in several presentations I've had to make, some of which included the communication of difficult news. Your techniques really work."

Chris Hanes, General Manager
Del Web Corporation

"I spoke to a group of over 200 people and I truly believe your help with my introduction and closing language was a big part in my being able to bring in over $50,000 in my 45 minute presentation.!"

Scott Letourneau, CEO
Nevada Corporate Planners

Your Next Step

If you wish, you may schedule a FREE 30 minute phone consultation with me. He'll be happy to answer your questions and help you determine if this coaching plan is for you.