6 Steps to Speaking Like a Pro
Covers everything about your defining statement, your marketing message, the 6-Step Formula you can follow every time, materials you’ll need and how you can measure your success as a speaker.
Offering Package Rates & Discounts
In addition to offering hourly rates, you can also charge through packages, and offer occasional discounts and savings. What is a package? Basically, it’s a bundle of hours sold at once. Typically, if you charge $50 an hour, and you got paid by a client your for 10 hours, that’d be $500, and 20 hours would be $1,000. But […]
Get Known, Get Business Through Speaking
Debbie covers why to speak, who to speak to, when do you charge, where you can market your talks, what you should do when you’re booked and the next steps to take. Don’t miss this!
Deciding on Your Base Rate
Now it’s time to start talking about money, but more specifically, what to charge when starting out and when it makes sense to raise your rates! It seems this should be a straight-forward topic and an easy thing to decide on, but we’ve had so many questions and so many people undervaluing their organizing services over the past years…
Marketing Your New Organizing Business
Debbie’s first part covers defining your target market, following your talents, tried and true first steps, measuring your success, building a portfolio and creating your marketing plan.
Your Logo and Business Cards
Business cards are a classic addition to any company, and for good reason! You never know when a conversation at a party, the gym, or the hair salon may turn into a business opportunity for you. I can’t tell you how many times my business cards have been useful as I market my organizing services!
Referral Business
We’ve covered many areas of marketing so far, including building up your database, your elevator speech, offline advertising, networking, and public speaking. Now, we just have one area left! So take a deep breath, we’re almost there. Our last topic is referral business.
Finding The Best Clients
One of the biggest concerns I’ve seen that people have about starting their organizing business is the ability to find paying client… let alone, finding the people who are ready to hire you right away…
Don’t Let Competition Get You Down
So maybe you’ve done a little research and found a few others in your area who offer professional organizing. They have certifications galore and 15+ years of experience. How can you possibly compete with that? Well, if you’re the type of person who gets intimidated or shrinks back if you don’t feel you are qualified enough, this video shows […]
Expected Start Up Costs
It’s likely you already have most of the items you’ll need, and even if you don’t, you don’t need to invest in all of them upfront. Either way, all the items in this video are very inexpensive. Just think of it this way… The amount you make from your very first organizing client will likely cover all […]
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