3 Myths About Starting a Motivational Speaking Career and Business

Like in any industry, myths tend to precede realpay my bills!
knowledge and it’s time to debunk some ofNow, I teach people to get rid of this kind of thinking
those false ways of thinking and false bits ofbecause it simply doesn’t do much for them.  In
information.  Myths hurt any motivational speakingfact, I teach the people I mentor to get motivated
career because they often present themselves asby finding different ways to get people to give them
barriers for a growing and thriving business. money.  As they learn how to make money with
People often ask me the same kinds of questionsmotivational speaking they essentially learn to start
over and over – how to make more money withthe cycle of earning to help more and more people.
motivational speaking or how to get bookings forThe last motivational speaking myth I hear most
motivational speaking.  What these people don’toften is that one must work harder in order to make
realize is that the answers to all of these questionsmore money.  Sorry folks!  That kind of thinking is
come when they deal with the three myths listedagain wrong!  My Dad was the hardest working man
below.  in my life but he never made more than $29,000
The first most common myth that people in aannually.  He was the model hard worker but did he
motivational speaking career have is that money ishave the kind of pay that matched his effort?
bad.  As a result, these people inherently pick lowThen I learned about working smart which again, is
paying speaking engagements or worse yet work foronly half of the picture.  The other half of the
free because it’s all they think they can attain. picture is working right.  The truth is that it
These are often the same people asking me how todoesn’t matter how smart you work.  If
get bookings for motivational speaking.  Don’tyou’re not working right, you’re still off.  In
get me wrong.  I’m not talking about the peoplethis motivational speaking industry, people often beat
who are using free speaking gigs as leverage to getthemselves silly trying to fulfill their egos instead of
their foot in the door or to build credibility andfilling their pocketbook.  I also often find people who
notoriety in their niche as an expert.  I’m talkingdon’t have a clue about the kinds of needs that
about the people who seem to think that money willtheir target niche market has and as a result, they
eventually come despite not ever being paid a dime!don’t market themselves correctly in their niche.
Here’s what I learned.  When I got seriousGet your motivational speaking career off the ground
about learning how to make money with motivationalby dealing with these three myths in your mind! is
speaking, I decided to get “myself” out ofwhere you can find over 100+ hours of downloadable
the way.  Once I got old ways of thinking and doingaudio and video lessons that will show you how to
out of my motivational speaking career, I found thatmake $100,000 to $1,000,000 dollars PER YEAR as a
there were people who were willing to pay me a tonprofessional speaker. James Malinchak, the author of
of money just to speak.  That’s the revelation Ithis article can be your online business coach and
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The second most common myth in motivationalFREE professional speaking audio recordings.
speaking I hear is that motivation is all you need. **Attn Ezine editors/Site owners**
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