Turner: Speaking Is Ancillary Revenue for Vast Majority of Speakers
Jamie Turner · Genius Way to Go From Freelance to $100k/Year with Jamie Turner of Sixty Marketer Episode 22 · Mar 1, 2016 · at 6:07
Marketing author and keynote speaker Jamie Turner outlines the economic realities of the professional speaking industry.
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“If you think that you're going to get rich as a speaker, that's actually not true. Speaking is ancillary revenue for my main business. There are very, very few people who can actually make it just as speakers. Typically, They're extremely famous. Seth Godin could probably live just on a speaking revenue. Donald Trump could live on a speaking revenue. But the vast majority of us who are either authors or just going around being speakers, typically it's additional revenue on top of what we're already making for other things.”
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