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Karen Schmidt is an award winning speaker, workshop leader and author living in Brisbane, Australia.
In this podcast Karen explains how being a speaker can enable you to sell more books and build your profile as an author and as an expert.
Show Notes
· How Karen came up with the idea for her book
· How she wrote the book by organising the chapter headings and filling in the blanks
· How a self-published book can be professional and sell in bookshops as well as being sold “at the back of the room”
· Why authors need to be speakers as well as just writers
· The difference between Toastmasters and National Speakers Association and how they can help you develop your speaking ability
· 3 tips for promoting your book while speaking without directly pitching it to the audience
· How speaking is a competency, and like any other skill, takes time to master. Reference Malcolm Gladwell “Outliers” for the 10,000 hours it takes.
· How consistent and long term networking in person can create contacts and relationships that develop into business and media opportunities
· Why authors and other small business people need multiple streams of income and can use a book as a marketing tool to generate more business
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