Today Kimanzi shares with us how you, as an individual seller or an entrepreneur , can find unique ways to get more clients and more business than just picking up the phone and doing cold calls.
You will find tons of golden nuggets from this episode as you get to learn more about finding ways to gain new opportunities either by speaking, consulting, or creating your own event. You will discover different ways for you to go out there and position yourself as an expert and thought leader and eventually see great results!
Here are the highlights of my conversation with Kimanzi:
Kimanzi’s coolest sales experience as a customer
The little things you do for your customers can make a rich experience.
The 3 aspects of paid speaking:
- Speaking
- Consulting
- Throwing your own conference
The power of growing your business through speaking and consulting:
- Companies paid outside consultants $39.3 billion in 2013.
- Speaking gives you the opportunity to travel to cool places for free and get paid for it!
- Getting treated like royalty when you’re speaking in other countries.
- Selling your book (if you’re an author) at conferences or when negotiating something with consulting.
Gaining opportunities through speaking:
Big events (e.g. New Media Expo, Social Media Marketing World, Podcast Movement) – they don’t normally pay average speakers.
So where is the money at with speaking?
- Industry associations (healthcare, lawyers, auto, etc.).
- Different industries have association meetings and they’re willing to pay money.
- A certain industry normally brings in a variety of topics (ex. social media, leadership, etc.).
Ways to find where you can speak:
Lanyrd.com – website containing an extensive database of conferences all over the world.
Whether or not organizers would say they’d pay:
- It’s all about you and your topic.
- Don’t be discouraged if they don’t indicate that they pay their speakers.
- Make your topic really appealing.
- Negotiate with the organizers and tell them what’s it going to cost.
- If they want you and the topic, they’ll pay. If they don’t, move on.
Places Kimanzi has visited as a speaker: Australia, Kenya, London, Paris, Philippines, Japan, etc.
Tips for making your proposal format:
- Write your bio – who you are.
- Leverage anything you can.
- List where you’ve spoken before – links to your presentations, speaking at a website or even at a library).
- Speaking topics – You have to be specific to that event and make it good!
- Include your fee – hourly rate or flat rate.
- Figuring out how much you’re going to charge.
- How to close your proposal.
How to do consulting:
- Start local. Identify the companies.
- Do research.
- Identify what problem you can solve.
- Go to the owner and invite them for coffee or lunch to pitch what you want to consult on.
Kimanzi helping a local McDonald’s franchise and growing social media presence by 89%.
Pitching strategies:
- Show why this is a problem, how he’s losing money, and how you can fix it.
- Back up everything with data.
- Show the company why you are the person to do this.
- Figure out what you’re going to charge.
Other unique approaches to access more opportunities:
- Know who your market is.
- Leverage is huge in this game.
- Give yourself a goal.
- Send out proposals.
Here’s a challenge for the listeners:
- Identify three events that you want to speak at.
- Identify three companies you want to pitch consulting to.
- Tweet Donald or Kimanzi @kimanzic or email him at kconstable29@gmail.com
- Send them this list of six places.
Current projects Kimanzi is working on:
Stop Chasing Influencers – 3-week class with Kimanzi and Jared Easley
Class on self-publishing with Jimmy Burgess
Hosting your own conference:
- Reframing what you think of what a conference is
- Cost-effective
- Decide what you’re going to teach on.
- Major kicker: How to host your conference for free!
Connect with Kimanzi at www.kimanziconstable.com or go to www.livingorexistingbook.com
Kimanzi’s books:
Tales of the Everyday Working Man and Woman
Are You Living or Existing?: 9 Steps to Change Your Life
Kimanzi’s Major Takeaways:
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