Deliver Keynote Speeches Without Ever Leaving Home

This next way of using video sort of piggybacks on the last lesson regarding Skype.

It’s not something most people typically think of but here it is.

Give a keynote speech at a convention entirely through online video.

Regardless of what field you’re in if you’ve been doing it for a while and you have any sort of reputation you’re likely to be invited to speak.

Now you might not get invited to speak and have a big twenty or thirty thousand dollar keynote speaking fee as a professional speaker.

Chances are a lot more likely you’re asked to speak for free to give and give back to a community or profession or as an opportunity to promote your business.

Well here’s what I now do with speaking opportunities around the world.

If someone says T.J.

can you speak in New Zealand and we can’t afford your normal fee I say sure let’s do the whole thing through Skype video and it works extremely well.

All you have to do is let people on the other end know that it’s even possible because if you can speak on Skype video or any other platform all they need is to connect the computer or laptop that you’re speaking into and their end to a projector they can projected up on a wall a screen that’s 50 feet they can plug the audio out of that computer into speakers you could be seen by 50 people.

Five hundred five thousand people.

You think about it.

Many conventions you go to.

There’s more than a couple hundred people in the room.

Quite often you’re not watching the speaker speak.

You’re watching the big jumbotron you’re you’re watching the big IMAX.

The image magnification the screen so it’s not that much different from the standpoint of the audience.

It saves you a ton of time.

This way let’s say I’m not going as far away as New Zealand but if I’m just going to the next state over to give a speech that’s a whole day out of my life.

By the time I’ve traveled there gotten there shaking hands other things talked to people afterwards traffic.

That’s a day out of my life that’s eight hours out of my life.

But now I can give a keynote speech to any organization of the world or any business in the world and I can do it in my case I have a home studio.

So I don’t even have to put on shoes I can wear slippers and it only takes me the time when I am speaking.

So it doesn’t take a lot of extra effort.

This is a simple white backdrop.

We’re not going to spend a lot of time on backdrops and productions as I warned you in the beginning but this is a white PowerPoint slide.

I’m just in front of a TV and yet it can be a great experience for the audience.

I’ve done this now with speeches all over the world.

I’ve got my speaker here.

I can hear them just as you would any Skype video or zoom conference.

They just had to plug a microphone in on there.

So this is another great tool.

Most people even if they like speaking and are ambitious and energetic will try to say yes to speaking engagements but if they can’t fly to the place they’ll just say sorry it doesn’t work I’m recommending you don’t turn anyone down.

You just say yes I’ll do it but it’s going to have to be a keynote speech via Skype video or some other platform you’ll reach a lot more of an audience.

No travel time.

It’s a huge huge win and it’s underused.