Athletes Access Teleseminar Series: Becoming a Successful Professional Speaker

Register today for one (or all) of our three-series phone coaching sessions specifically designed to help you create a long-term and highly profitable speaking career! These teleseminars are tailored to professional athletes and provided at no cost through PBFN’s new division, Athletes Access, and in conjunction with FIVE STAR Speakers & Trainers.

The one-hour seminars will be conducted by Steve Gardner, Owner and Partner with FIVE STAR Speakers & Trainers. Steve has worked with thousands of speakers and more than 200 athletes/coaches/sports executives since 1991. During that time, he has been responsible for negotiating more than $10 million in speaking fees, training fees, and celebrity appearances.

Teleseminar #1 (July 25th): Becoming a Successful Professional Speaker: The 5 Keys to Creating a Long Term, Highly Profitable, Speaking Career. Find out more about this seminar.

Teleseminar #2 (August 8th): Are You Leaving Money on the Table? (Yes you are!) How to Price Yourself the Right Way for Speeches and Appearances. Find out more about this seminar.

Teleseminar #3 (August 22nd): Running Your Speaking Career Like a Business: Creating the Systems and Avoiding the Pitfalls. Find out more about this seminar.

Register now.

*Include your name, athletic affiliation (retired NFL, current WNBA, etc.), e-mail address, and contact phone number and we will send you a confirmation e-mail with the call-in number and pass code. *Space is limited - only 25 spots per session.

Teleseminar #1: Becoming a Successful Professional Speaker: The 5 Keys to Creating a Long Term, Highly Profitable, Speaking Career

Date/Time: Weds., July 25, 2007 at 5:00 PM (PST) / 8:00 PM (EST) for 60 minutes
About: The 5 Keys to Creating a Long Term, Highly Profitable, Speaking Career

During this fast-paced and information-filled teleseminar, Steve will address the 5 keys every athlete needs to be aware of in order to truly build a dynamic, successful, and long-term speaking career. Specifically, you’ll leave with the following tips and information:

• Building a powerful presentation. Are you prepared to build an effective talk that will relate to an audience that never has played professional sports? Do you know what people will walk away with when you're done?
• Marketing and selling your services. The most successful speakers are not necessarily the best on stage. They are the ones who know how to market and sell what they do. You'll learn the keys to building an effective brand as well as the questions that must be asked and answered.
• Developing products. Learn the 4 reasons to develop products that can significantly enhance your revenue.
• Working with speaker bureaus. There are around 200 bureaus in the country. You need to understand what they do, and how they do it. Steve will also address the critical keys to making a long-term relationship work with those bureaus that can take you out to the market.
• Running it like a business...not a hobby. You can be good at the first four areas, but if you don't have the systems and processes in place in the office, your career won't take off the way you want it to.

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Teleseminar #2: Are You Leaving Money on the Table? (Yes you are!) How to Price Yourself the Right Way for Speeches and Appearances

Date/Time: Weds., August 8, 2007 at 5:00 PM (PST) / 8:00 PM (EST)
About: Are You Leaving Money on the Table? (Yes you are!)

During this teleseminar, Steve Gardner, Owner and Partner with FIVE STAR Speakers & Trainers, will address the critical pricing and negotiation strategies and tactics that will make you more money...sometimes dramatically more money. This highly tactical session will include more than a dozen effective strategies and tactics you can use tomorrow.

They include:

• Negotiating value for value - how to make sure you're not giving away more than you need to.
• Understanding the game companies play...and how athletes are frequently losing it.
• How to effectively turn down all those free requests for appearances you get while still being a good guy...and even making a fee with some of them!
• Positioning yourself so the client is less likely to even attempt to negotiate with you.
• How to quickly make a higher fee than normal when you are asked to decrease your fees.

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Teleseminar #3: Running Your Speaking Career Like a Business: Creating the Systems and Avoiding the Pitfalls

Date/Time: Weds., August 22, 2007 at 5:00 PM (PST) / 8:00 PM (EST)
About: Running Your Speaking Career Like a Business

During this teleseminar, Steve Gardner, Owner and Partner with FIVE STAR Speakers & Trainers, will address the critical elements of the behind-the-scenes business of professional speaking. Without these basic systems in place, a successful speaking career becomes much more difficult to achieve. During this session, Steve will provide you an effective playbook for the tools and systems you will absolutely need when growing your career. Those tools include:

• What kind of database system should you be using...and if you don't have one, why do you need one?
• How should you manage your speaking calendar?
• We'll identify the key advisors you need to strongly consider, those that are optional and those you don't need.
• What kind of contract do you need to have in place to protect you and your clients?
• and many more...

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