WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE  MAINSTAGE MASTERCLASS PROGRAM?

1. Learn The Main Stage Method™

Join our 4 MainStage Trainers explain how to Build a Profitable Speaking Business with a Proven 9-Stage System:
- How to position yourself as the only choice, not just an option
- Learn how to turn your expertise into a repeatable, scalable keynote offering that drives consistent consulting gigs, re-bookings, and referrals.
- How to get booked consistently at higher fees and close more high-fee gigs without pitching or posting endlessly online.

2. How to Get In With a Speaker Bureau

Michael explains EXACTLY how to get the attention of bureaus so you’re never ignored again (direct from the owner of a bureau!)
- Understand how speaker bureaus and agencies REALLY work
- See why traditional approaches rarely get you on their radar
- A foolproof absolutely guaranteed way to get your foot in the door with ANY bureau .

3. How to Get Paid to Speak - and It’s NOT How “Big” Your Story Is

The best way to maximise success in speaking sales is to ensure you’re targeting the right clients. Sometimes the events that look impressive never actually pay speakers.
- Learn the key tell-tale signs that an event doesn’t pay in cash, only “exposure"
- Understand what client groups are the best to target to get the best and fastest results
- Stop the frustration and waste of time wondering where your next lead is going to come from.

4. What Do Speaker Bookers Actually Use Showreels For?

DON'T waste $000’s on flashy showreels, only for their efforts and cash being wasted when they don’t drive enquiries. In this session you’ll learn:
- What is the real purpose of a showreel anyway? What is its role in the sale process?
- What does every single client want to see in your reel
- What simple trap most speakers fall into that actually turns clients off and the content should you include instead.

5. What Bookers are looking for RIGHT NOW

In this session Michael & Marty pull back the curtain and give you exclusive insight into what’s in high demand in the speaking industry, what’s selling and what’s not!
- What hot topics are clients looking for right now, and into next year?
- What key criteria clients are using to choose speakers for big events?
- How to position yourself to maximise your chances of enquiries

6. How to Build Your Speaker Profile So That It Makes You Money

In this session Michael + Marty explain how you should - and definitely should not - build your profile to make them irresistible to conference bookers.
- Learn the one critical thing speaker bookers really look for in your personal brand
- Know what you must do before trying to get famous
- Understand what type of profile building is a complete waste of your time and money

7. How To Make Clients Love (and Book) You 

A little known secret that so many speakers don’t even think of - just make ‘em love you, and they’ll book you
- The one critical thing you need to do for a sustainable and profitable speaker business that has NOTHING to do with your keynote
- Whose PASSION are you pitching? The vital realisation every keynote speaker needs to make in their keynote business positioning if they want to be successful.
- Know WHO are you proposing to? The one huuuge mistake so many speakers make that once you realise it, you’ll attract and convert SO much more business. 

8. How to Get On Those Massive Event Stages - from MDRT Nashville 

Michael and Marty pass on the lessons they learned from working with the Speakers Holy Grail, Million Dollar Round Table
- What bookers look for when they are wanting to fill those huuuuuge event stages
- How to design a true "Big Stage Keynote" 
- Why just “being awesome” on stage isn’t enough, and what you should aim for instead 

9. How To Make Speaking Your Full Time Profession 

If you want to jump in and make speaking your full time occupation, this is the session for you
- how much time and effort do you REALLY need to put in
- How to up your game, and finally be in control of your speaking bookings
- Understand what speakers earning $1M+ per year do differently to you?

10. Use Your Speaker Contract To Sell Speaking Gigs 

Most speakers think of their contact as a necessary thing to send last, if they have one at all. Big mistake, this session will show you:
- How to use a speaker contract to convert more enquires
- The 1 phrase EVERY SINGLE SPEAKER CONTRACT must have in it
- How to write a contract so that it IMPROVES your number of rebooking and referrals

11. Red Hot Tip To Close More Speaking Enquiries 

Most speakers are awesome on stage, but awful at sales. This session will explain why, and what you can do about it instantly…
- The key tactic WORLD CLASS SPEAKING AGENTS use to sell more keynotes to clients 
- Why MOST SPEAKERS default mode of communication blocks their sales, and how you can change it in an instant.
- The one thing ALL SUCCESSFUL SPEAKERS DO when selling to clients that doubles their sales

12. How to Get Booked and Rebooked - Lessons from MDRT Singapore

Far too many speakers don’t understand how the business of speaking runs. In this masterclass you’ll learn
- Why “The 3 R’s” referrals, recommendations and rebooking are the cornerstone of a successful speaker business
- The unimportant things you DON’T need to focus on
- Why dropping the vanity and focussing on your product is the key to success

13. FIVE Ways to Make Money From Speaking

The Speaking Industry is worthy US$2BN in the US alone every year - don’t you want your slice of that pie?
- The 5 very different ways to make money in the speaking industry in today’s market…
- The enormous upsides and totally unavoidable downsides of each
- How to choose which one is right for you