You've got a speech, you told the world you're a speaker. Now all you have to do is sit back and wait for the phone to ring from those speaker bureaus, right. Sorry, it's not that easy. In fact, Speaker bureaus are not going to call you unless you're already famous from something else. If you are retiring NBA star Sure, Speaker bureaus will call but if you're not a household name, Speaker bureaus will not call you. Well, that's okay.

I'll just call that now. At this stage of your career, it is a complete utter waste of time to reach out to Speaker bureaus. They will be interested in you after you have a very solid track record of speaking for substantial fees at least $5,000 per speech for several years and there's a proven track record. Then and only then will speaker viewers be interested in you so don't waste your time. time chasing the elusive speaker bureau they are not the answers to your questions. These days, people look for speakers all over the place and your own contacts on Twitter, Facebook, on YouTube, people who know you people who read your blog.

Those are the people if you're putting out the right message, who are likely to engage you as a professional speaker. So, for now, just put aside the whole speaker bureau at some point, they may be an important part of what you do, but you need to have a real track record. Give a whole lot of speeches make a bunch of money, before the economics makes sense for speaker bureaus.