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Get ready to rock your brand, your talk, and your biz! I’m Kristin Thompson. Welcome to the Rise Formula.
Now we’re going to talk about Rockin’ Your Talk. How can you take your expertise – all the stuff you know – and package it into one rockin’ talk that will be a lead-generating, sales-generating, cash-generating, visibility-generating machine!
I want to prove it to you in this session so that you understand the true power of being able to rock your talk. It is the skill. If I could only teach one thing to entrepreneurs, this would be it. We’re talking about not just getting compliments at the end of your webinar or teleclass or talk that you give at an event or at a chamber. I don’t want you to finish that talk and get compliments. I want you to walk out with cash, leads, and clients in hand.
Imagine you have a room full of 100 people and you close 20 of them. That’s a 20% closing ratio. That’s an “okay” closing ratio. It’s nothing extraordinary. I’ve closed 100% of the room. I’ve actually closed 120% of a room before. I sold more items than there were people in the room. But we can’t promise that and that’s not going to happen all the time. It’s possible. 40% of the room, possible. 20%, definitely doable.
Let’s say you sell 20 out of the 100 people in the room on an entry-level program. Let’s say it’s $550, an entry-level series or home study program – nothing crazy. $550, a pretty simple offer. That would generate $11K right out of the gate. 20 people X $550 is $11,000.
Do you imagine that out of those 100 people, that maybe you could convince one person to want to be a client of yours – not just go through your baby introductory program, but really work with you. Let’s say you close a coaching client. You sell an annual contract for $12,000. That would automatically kick just that one talk up into $23,000. Boom shakalaka boom!
Now I’m going to give you a real world example. I was invited to speak at a colleague’s event. It was her first multi-day event. She had about 100 people in the room. I closed 40 of them into a $550 product. That was $22,000 right there. I got one private coaching client. That was another $12,000 at the time. That generated $34,000 just for that one-hour talk. One-hour talk, $34,000 instantly in the room. That’s not including the long tail of profits and follow-up and things like that.
Is that worth your time? I would say so. That’s for some people’s annual paydays. I’ve given one-hour talks that have generated $50,000-60,000 just in the first 30 days, meaning what I close right in the room and then in the couple of weeks following the event. Whether you want to generate a couple of thousand dollars and some new leads or you want a big payday like an annual-sized salary coming off of one-hour talk, you can do it.
Here’s the key. You want one talk. Listen to me, people. You’ve got to stake your claim on your topic. Get good at that talk. Get known for that talk or topic. Get consistent results.
One of the big mistakes I see is people generating a lot of different ideas for different talk topics and then going out with all of these ideas and just seeing what people want. I want you to think of it backwards. We want to reverse engineer. We want you to be purposeful. “Here’s the talk I am going to give because this is the talk that will feed my funnel.”
The first year of my business as Speak Serve Grow, I gave one talk. By rocking that one talk all year round, we effectively funneled people into Command Any Room. Then on the backend of Command Any Room, people were opting to go into our Rock Your Talk & Biz Club, maybe private coaching, or VIP days. That one talk, funneling through Command Any Room into our VIP days and private coaching, generated over six figures in that first year.
That is why I just shout this from the mountaintop. This is a proven method to feed your business and keep your programs and products full. Rock Your Talk consistently all year round.
Here’s how you want to structure your talk. We go into a lot of detail in this in Command Any Room, but I want to give you a couple of quick tips right here.
Number one: grab them from the get-go.
Don’t stand up and use the introduction of your talk like a warm-up. Stand up with your shoulders back, be dressed sharply, and rock your expert status from those first moments. You can say you are the founder of , you are the creator of , you are the author of .
It sounds a little like this: “Hey, I’m Kristin Thompson. I am the founder of www.SpeakServeGrow.com and creator of Command Any Room and The Rise Live event.” That’s the quick version for this. That gets you started.
The key to your opening is that you want to open strong, confident, and make it interactive from the get-go. Get people raising their hands and get them taking notes. This is part of the art of closing the room that we teach you in Command Any Room. It begins right in the opening of your talk. The minute you get interaction, you have buy-in. That’s what you’re looking for in your opening. You’re really proving why they should listen to you and why they should listen to this topic, and getting buy-in and interaction. That’s the key to the opening of your talk.
In the core of your talk – the midsection, the content – you’re walking them through the steps of your signature system. The key here is not to over teach. There are two cautionary tales here. Don’t be a winger. Don’t be flying by the seat of your pants. You’re going to get lost and you’re going to go overtime and it’s going to get out of control.
But also, don’t be so dry and content-heavy that you’ll bore the living pants out of us. Please don’t bore us. We want to be educated and entertained. So you want to keep it interactive, interesting, and teach us just little bite-size pieces from each step. Think of it like the mini version, the appetizer version, just a little nugget on each step to help us get started.
Then as you transition to the close, don’t get weird. That’s my rule for closing the room. Don’t get weird. Think of your close as an invitation just to those people who are fired up about getting those true results. They don’t want to leave it in the room. They don’t want to stop the journey wherever they are right in that moment with you. They want to go on the full journey with you.
Invite them, inspire them, and encourage them:
“If you’re ready to XYZ, if you’re sick and tired of this problem and that problem and this problem, and you’re ready to experience this kind of transformation, here’s your opportunity. I have this amazing resource that I can offer you and here’s exactly how you can step into it.”
That is the tone in the vibe of a close. It is truly an invitation and encouragement for everyone in the room to step into a higher version of themselves. When you do that, you will close more business.
I’m going to give you a sneak peek into Command Any Room here, into some of the deeper training with you on closing the room and give you a quick outline. The first thing you’re going to do is offer the resource of your product or program. You’re actually going to invite people to step into it.
Next, you’re going to build the value.
What is the total value of all of the components of the package you’re offering? Maybe it’s valued at $2,000 if you add up all of the nooks and crannies and goodies you’re giving them in the package.
Then you can offer your guarantee. If there’s any kind of money-back or good service guarantee, you want to state that. Then you’re going to drop the price. We built up the value and now we drop the price and it feels inexpensive in comparison. “The value is $5,000, but today at this event when you buy now, it’s only $500.” That’s a price drop.
Then you can add in the bonuses. I call that sweetening the pot. Not only is it a great deal because we’re giving them a special rate for buying at the event while you’re there, but now you’re going to sweeten the pot with some extra goodies and bonuses. That is something you definitely you want to do. In the beginning I did not have bonuses or a price drop. When I made these changes and really learned the art of speaking to sell, boom! Sales went through the roof. Have some bonuses. It could be extra audio, PDF downloads, templates. Think of stuff that you can give people that’s leveraged. Bonuses, audios, and videos are great bonuses because of that.
Now you want to review the total value. We’ve got the total value of all the elements of the program, and now we want to add in the value of all the bonuses we’re also giving them and give them a total package value and then repeat the reduced price. When we add in the bonuses to the $5,000 and training, it’s a $10,000 package, and you can get it for X amount of dollars.
Then you want to give them specific instructions on how to enroll. Walk people through your order form. We really go through this slowly in our coaching programs because it’s an often misstep, but you want to walk people through your order form so they know exactly what they need to check where, what they need to sign, and where they need to bring it in order to say yes to you and your program.
That was the ten-minute down-and-dirty version of how to take your message and turn it into one rockin’ talk you can deliver online and off so that you can build your business, your brand into multiple- six figures this year.
P.S. If you’re not quite ready to join me in the Rise Mastermind or the Rock Your Talk & Biz Club, you can get started creating a talk that converts rooms here in Command Any Room.
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