Great Advice For Those New To Speaking Gigs
Speaking at SMX West 2009
My good friend and business blogger Janet, aka Newspapergrl – who runs the blog over at Orange Soda, as well as her own gave me a challenge several years ago to speak at industry conferences. I have always been very comfortable just sitting back in my home office and taking care of my clients and doing my own thing (being a hermit), but I could not get this challenge out of my mind.
I have spoken before at Universities (BYU-Hawaii for example) and other niche specific marketing conferences like the E-Tourism Summit, but never a main stream Search industry type conference. That changed a few weeks back when I spoke at SMX West 2009 in Santa Clara, Ca. I enjoyed it more then you even know, and it will take another blog post to even describe the benefits of being able to do something like that, but I appreciate Janet for challenging me. She got me out of my comfort zone, but in the process I also learned some great lessons and met some great people, and that was all even before the speaking gig, and THAT is the purpose of this post.
