Speaking Your Brand: Public Speaking Tips and Strategies

[Part 1] Booked Without Burnout: A Smarter Way to Land Speaking Gigs with Outbound Strategies

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Sep 8, 2025

Discover effective outbound strategies to land speaking gigs without the burnout! Learn how to schedule a weekly Pitch Power Hour that boosts consistency. Uncover efficient research techniques using tools like Google Alerts and AI for customized proposals. Find out how local community engagement can pave the way for invitations. Plus, explore ways to align your speaking efforts with your visibility, making pitching feel natural. Get actionable steps to kickstart your outreach and build momentum in your speaking journey!

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INSIGHT

Pitching Prevents Burnout When Strategic

Burnout often stems from lack of excitement, unclear results, or repetitive tasks.
Targeted, meaningful pitching prevents burnout by producing tangible results and renewed purpose.

ADVICE

Book A Weekly Pitch Power Hour

Schedule a weekly "Pitch Power Hour" and treat it as a standing meeting on your calendar.
Spend 15–20 minutes researching opportunities and the rest customizing and submitting one or two pitches.

ADVICE

Research Smart With Search And AI

Use Google, Perplexity.ai, and Google Alerts to find and save relevant conferences and calls for speakers.
Upload event pages to ChatGPT to quickly customize proposals for each conference.

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You know speaking is one of the best ways to grow your business and your visibility.

But between running your business, serving your clients, and managing everything else on your plate, finding time to pitch yourself for speaking engagements feels impossible.

If you’ve ever thought:

“I know I should be speaking, but I’m too busy to figure out where to start.”
“Pitching myself feels overwhelming. I don’t even know what to say.”
“It seems easier to just keep posting on social media, even though it’s not moving the needle.”

This new 4-part series on how you can land more speaking engagements is exactly what you need.

Today’s focus is on outbound activities = the steps you can take to actively pitch yourself without burning out.

The next episode is on what I call inbound activities: setting yourself up so that speaking engagements come to you. Then, we'll wrap up the series with an episode on how to get paid to speak.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why scheduling a weekly Pitch Power Hour will help you stay consistent (and how to structure it).
How to research speaking opportunities efficiently using tools like Google Alerts and AI.
The importance of showing up in your local community and building relationships that lead to invitations.
How to align pitching with your existing visibility efforts so it feels natural, not forced.
The mindset shift that makes pitching less intimidating: event organizers need great speakers like you.

By the end of this episode, you’ll have three specific strategies to make pitching a sustainable and even enjoyable part of your routine. And most importantly, you’ll see how consistent, strategic outreach leads to more of the right opportunities on the right stages.

✨ Work with us: Want to create your signature talk, build your speaking strategy, and get booked without burnout?

Join our online Thought Leader Academy for step-by-step coaching and a proven process to elevate your message.
Prefer in-person? Attend our 1-Day Speaking Accelerator in Orlando and walk away with your talk and action plan.

Links:

Show notes at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/441/

Discover your Speaker Archetype by taking our free quiz at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/quiz/

Attend our 1-day in-person Speaking Accelerator workshop in Orlando: https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/orlando/

Enroll in our online Thought Leader Academy: https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/academy/

Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolcox

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