Speaking Your Brand: Public Speaking Tips and Strategies

If you’re interested in speaking at conferences and/or being a guest on podcasts, this is an episode you won’t want to miss. I met my guest Kerry Gorgone over 8 years ago and I’ve seen her influence rise, both online as she’s become the host...

Show Notes

If you’re interested in speaking at conferences and/or being a guest on podcasts, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

I met my guest Kerry Gorgone over 8 years ago and I’ve seen her influence rise, both online as she’s become the host of the MarketingProfs podcast and a contributing writer to well-known sites like Social Media Explorer and Entrepreneur.com, as well as offline through speaking and training.

In this episode, Kerry and I talk about how she got started speaking, how she approaches creating her presentations and engaging the audience, what makes a great podcast guest, and much more.

About my guest: Kerry Gorgone is the host of the Marketing Smarts podcast and Director of Product Strategy for Training at MarketingProfs. She trained as a lawyer and is now a speaker, educator, and contributing writer to Spin Sucks, Huffington Post, {grow} blog, Social Media Explorer, Entrepreneur.com, and more.

 

Highlights:

  • Repurposing content from Q&A sessions at speaking engagements
  • The value of meeting people in person to build relationships
  • The process Kerry took to get speaking engagements in the beginning
  • Tailoring your presentation for the audience
  • The kinds of stories Kerry uses in her presentations
  • Tips for engaging the audience
  • What to put on your slides and what to include in handouts
  • How showing up at conferences can lead to speaking engagements
  • What makes a great podcast guest
  • What to put in your podcast pitch email
  • What Kerry sees companies doing that they shouldn’t regarding content marketing
  • Marketing trends, including marketing automation and personalization

 

Links:

Connect with Kerry on LinkedIn

Kerry’s Twitter = @KerryGorgone

Marketing Smarts podcast hosted by Kerry

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What is Speaking Your Brand: Public Speaking Tips and Strategies?

It's time to escape the expert trap and become an in-demand speaker and thought leader through compelling and memorable business presentations, keynotes, workshops, and TEDx talks. If you want to level up your public speaking to get more and better, including paid, speaking engagements, you've come to the right place! Thousands of entrepreneurs and leaders have learned from Speaking Your Brand and now you can too through our episodes that will help you with storytelling, audience engagement, building confidence, handling nerves, pitching to speak, getting paid, and more. Hosted by Carol Cox, entrepreneur, speaker, and TV political analyst. This is your place to learn how to persuasively communicate your message to your audience.