As the speaking business recovers from the Great Pandemic, the path to success has changed. Those who can adapt to what's ahead will thrive. And it's not going to be that hard...if you are willing to work a little smarter and employ a few simple tools. Attendees will learn: How to build a sustainable business model based on turning every engagement into opportunities for additional work. How to create value adds for your clients that separate you from your competition Simple content marketing hacks that will get you notices by paying clients

1. The Business Model Makeover
Create Opportunities, Add
Value and Market Your
Content Like a Pro

2. Aidan Crawford
President of Short Circuit Media
Online Content Delivery Strategies and Execution
I’m a former marketing director for a professional
speaker who now helps other professional speakers,
trainers and consultants create opportunities and
turn expertise into revenue.

3. Agenda
Get your business
opportunity ready
Ready
Get in front of
prospects/clients
Lay the foundation for
more work.
Aim Fire

4. Goal
I WANT YOU TO….
quickly implement a strategy
to get your business growing.

5. Goal
I DON’T WANT YOU TO….
TAKE NOTES
SHORTCIRCUITMEDIA.COM/KC

6. This year is going to be better than last year

9. Keynote
Online program
Workshop
Breakout

10. Virtual Keynote
Breakout
Online
Workshop

12. Keynote
GRAND IDEA
Your first opportunity to get people to
buy into your program and positioning

13. Breakout
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
They’ve already seen you on
the big stage and they like
what you have to say

14. Internal Workshop
IMPLEMENTATION
Teach the organization how to
implement.

15. Keynote
Online program
Workshop
Breakout

16. Online Course
CONTINUING EDUCATION THAT
CONTINUES
Onboarding, refreshers,
promotions

17. Send it
everywhere
There’s more to video
than YouTube
- Upload your files
directly to each platform
- Don’t make them look
too professional
- Include write-ups AND a
CTA
- Look like a PRO and
host your videos

18. So how do I get these gigs in the
first place?

23. What is
content and
why is it
important?
Content gets the attention of
clients and partners
- Expand your digital footprint
- Build credibility with your ideal
audience
- Engage your fans
- Create additional revenue streams
(courses, related breakouts etc)

24. Define your audience
- No need to carpet-bomb the
internet in spam
- It’s too easy for people to
ignore you with all the noise
- Generic content is a waste of
time

25. Be conscious of your bias

26. Your content
toolbox
The strategy to win
- Short videos
- Articles
- Images
- Webinars
- Podcasts
- Courses
- Keynotes
- Books

27. Turn your blogs
into video
Surrender to the machine
- Lumen5.com uses AI
- Video is more compelling than
text or images
- Create a 1000 character
summary of your post - including
the link to your blog AND a CTA
- Upload the file directly to
LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook
and Twitter

28. Scribble it out
Be clear. Sell your idea.
● Compile a list of topics that your
ideal prospects would be interested
in
● Publish it to LinkedIn and Medium
● Create an article around 2 of the
Alerts you are sent each week
○ Quote from the original
○ Link back to original post
○ Add your two cents

29. Put your content
to work
Revive old posts
- Revive.Social
- Wordpress Plugin
- Reposts your evergreen
content back into social
media channels
automatically
- LinkedIn, Twitter,
Facebook
- Vary the wording

30. Think visual
- Pull quotes from your speech
- Pull quotes from your book
- Images of you
- Send it to Fiverr.com
- Schedule through Hootsuite

31. Webinars

32. Workshops

33. Create a 24/7
marketing tool
Record once - use forever
- Easywebinar.com
- Record a webinar in advance
- Clickable calls to action
- Introduces you to new
audiences
- Allows you to schedule
webinars and not worry
about getting hired for a real
job.

34. Podcasting
There’s more podcasters
than people listening to
podcasts
- Interview the people
who are your ideal
clients
- Interview meeting
planners
- Transcribe for your blog
for feature articles

35. Course it up
Build your online course
- WP-Courseware
- Drag and drop
- Comes with shopping cart
- Inexpensive
Here’s my setup
- Woocommerce
- Affiliate program
(autoenrolled)
- Gave it away to 60 people
for testing

36. Pull it together
Be clear. Sell your idea.
● Transcribe your speeches
● Structure your blog like a book
● Have your book professionally
edited
● Use Fiverr.com to have it formatted
for KDP/CreateSpace
● Have it distributed worldwide
through Amazon
● Have a postcard created on
VistaPrint with a QR code to the

37. Add Value to Your Partner
Relationships

39. Thanks very much
Choose one thing to do today!
www.shortcircuitmedia.com/kc
aidan@shortcircuitmedia.com
And book your 30 minute consultation. No salesy BS. Just help.