Find Speaking Opportunities In ONE Step With This AI Tool

Are you a thought leader? A keynote speaker? A paid speaker for corporate events? If speaking is part of your business in any way, you have to watch today’s podcast episode! 

James D Feldman is here to show us an AI tool that is absolutely game-changing. My mind was blown as soon as I saw what it can do. Watch this demo video and see how it quickly and easily finds me paid speaking engagement opportunities along with email pitch and voicemail scripts highlighting the exact needs from the speaker RFP. You are going to want this powerful tool in your arsenal. (Video transcript at the end of the post).

What is the most challenging thing for professional public speakers in today's world?

Finding new speaking gigs! In fact this has been a challenge for a very long time. In a perfect world there would be an easy way to get all the open calls for speakers for upcoming events in your area customized to you and your specific topic within minutes instead of hours of searching and giving up in frustration. Great news!

There is in fact a tool that takes the hard work out of finding opportunities in your speaking career.

This tool is a great opportunity for an expert speaker or new speakers. It finds you relevant opportunities whether it's a live event, local events, smaller events, or a large event. It generates marketing materials in the form of listing out the challenges that the audience of that event and suggested emails, follow ups, and voicemails for the event planner or conference organizers.

One of the very special aspects of AIStageFinder is the challenges area. It uses the call for speakers and other information about the hosting organization to tell you the three main challenges their audience is facing. That way you can customize your pitch and it shows that you are paying attention to what they need.

This is for business owners, motivational speakers, corporate executives, keynote speakers, and any other kind of professional speaker. I'm new to the speaking industry myself and I've only spoken online. I'm ready to take my place with the industry leaders and successful speakers and as soon as I saw AIStageFinder demonstrated I said "I need this, my audience needs this, everyone I know needs this!" 

After you purchase, the first step is filling out the Google form that will give James and Aiden the information they need to completely customize the tool to you. Then when you are looking for public speaking opportunities you only have to confirm the location and put in the month you would like to speak. That's it!

AIStageFinder is on the expensive side but it's understandable because of what a valuable resource this is. It takes so much time and energy out of finding paid speaking opportunities that you could be booking far more than ever before with a fraction of the effort. Feldman recommends using Paypal financing to get a zero percent interest for six months credit and you’re bound to get paid speaking gigs to pay it off within that time. One paid speaking gig could be enough to pay it off and then you just have it, working hard for you.

Since it is a premium product, James is very available to help tweak it and make sure it's all working as well. You'll see in the video that the troubleshooting he has to do is usually because of something like one speaker who put her own email address in wrong and so wasn't getting any responses! 

Here is my affiliate link to sign up! https://aistagefinder.com/?aff=carolyn.moir

James D. Feldman, a luminary in innovative problem solving, stands as a beacon of innovation and transformative change, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to redefine industries. With a robust career spanning over three decades, Feldman has consistently driven advancements that blend technological sophistication with keen operational insights, profoundly enhancing customer experiences and operational efficiencies across diverse organizations.

As a globally recognized expert in AI-driven business transformation, Feldman has skillfully interwoven cutting-edge technologies with traditional business models. His visionary approach not only adapts to the customer's evolving demands but also sets new standards for service delivery and client satisfaction. His strategic acumen is highlighted through his consultancy work, where he has advised Fortune 500 companies, startups, and boutique establishments, crafting bespoke solutions that tackle complex challenges in customer engagement, digital transformation, and strategic growth.

Here is a transcript of the demo video:

Carolyn Choate: Hello! I am Carolyn Choate, and I am joined here today with a very special guest, James D. Feldman, who has created such a cool tool. As soon as I saw him show it off, I said, oh, my audience needs to see this. And I need this. And everybody I know needs this. This is incredible.

So it is a way for speakers to much quicker and easier find places, to speak. So, James, would you like to introduce yourself and a little introduction to what the tool is?

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Certainly, as she said, I'm James Feldman. You call me James because it searches better on Google. But then everyone else calls me Jim. So I've been a speaker for a very, very long time. I've done over 1,500 speeches. And part of the difficulty was always finding the opportunity to speak. You've created your speech, you've created your sizzle reel. You created all the materials but at the end of the day you still got to sell it to somebody.

Now whether you're doing it so that you can sell from the stage, or whether you're getting paid to speak, you still have to find the opportunity. And the old way of doing it was Google search, etc. And really just a long process.

With the advent of AI my partner and I were able to create a tool that searches the Internet, based on who you are. Based on your content. Based on your target audience. And based on your geographic preferences. Do you only want to work within a certain Zip code?

Only in certain parts of the country, all over the country or all over the world? And so, to use the tool, you fill out a form one time.

We then test it. You then try it a few times. We then tweak it until we're sure that it is indeed searching for those things that you have identified. The rest of it is up to you. It will do lots of the call it heavy lifting. But at the end of the day you still have to send the emails. You still have to make the phone calls, but highly targeted. And of course. Very very productive.

Carolyn Choate: And you'll see in a moment, because we're going to demonstrate. You'll see that it gives you some scripts and ideas about what emails, what voicemails to send. Really really takes so much of the effort out of it. So I think we should just jump right in, and I'll share my screen and show you mine.

So this is the one that was built for me. So like, James said, I only have to do this one time filled out a Google form. And they put in like what I speak about, and who I am, so that all I have to do is put just these things. So I'm not going to put somewhere else. I'm going to put Northeastern because I'm in Massachusetts, and we're gonna pick a time that I want to speak. Should we try August?

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Hmm. Now, when you're putting in the time, remember that most opportunities are already filled less than 90 days out. That's not to say you might not stumble on an opening. But if you really want to get the best value of what it does, give it at least 90 days or more. And then, if you started to fill up all those opportunities, you could work backwards and say, Let me see if there's something that somebody canceled out on and interestingly enough, I was testing this with somebody over the weekend, and that individual said, well, let's see what happens in April. And I thought, Oh, this isn't gonna... 3 opportunities popped up. [It was March]

Carolyn Choate: Wow!

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: And I was shocked. I really was. And so we sent it out and got a response, Oh, thank you so much for reaching out. You know our keynote speaker got sick, and we reposted it, and tell me more about you, and I think today or tomorrow she's going to end up with the the opportunity.

Carolyn Choate: That is amazing. Okay. So after I do my like, 6 months out, I'm gonna try because I have a book launching in April, I would love to see.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Right. I can't. I can't promise that. It was just...

Carolyn Choate: You made a guarantee right?! [laughing] Alright. So I hit submit. It's gonna take a little time to scour the entire Internet and find me amazing opportunities. And I've played with it a little bit already, so I know that that is true.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Remember, it is literally scrubbing the entire Internet. In that particular criteria. So you see, search for August 25th marketing or small business events or conferences in the Northeast United States. We only want official information.

Carolyn Choate: Now, this is where you really have to be patient, because I have been like, oh, it's not doing anything, I'll put a different month, and then it comes up with August, and then immediately erases it, because I wasn't patient enough. And it gives us a little update about what it's doing. So that helps.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: And then, while we're doing that, if you point out those 2 little pages over here. Once this is done it'll create a Pdf that you can post into a word Doc, or notes, or wherever you keep things. Because one of the things that you want to remember is that after it's done, all this scrubbing. Keep everything, pick the one that you want. And then go from there. Now, you see, that took us. What a minute.

Carolyn Choate: The amount of time that it would take me to search through Google trying to find speaking opportunities. I I can't even put into words, how much time that takes it is so annoying.

Okay. So they had trouble finding something for me in August in this area with my topic. But they said, Okay, well, how about some of these ideas? So.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Now you picked August look. What it came up with came up with June.

Carolyn Choate: Even earlier. We like that. Right, and it's like, why, this event is a good fit for me. Right.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Yes, so every time it comes up it will tell you why it thinks this works.

Carolyn Choate: Oh, this is suggesting August might even be too far out that maybe haven't posted their things, yet recommended actions, monitored listings. Okay. But we can take this one that we found, and then. Basically, you said last time, I don't have to copy and paste the whole thing in. I just.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: No, no, not at all. All you really need is the website.

Carolyn Choate: So copy this link. Put it in here, and it's gonna come up with my whole proposal.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Now, while it's doing that, make your Pdf. Of the left side. So you have scroll. There you go!

Carolyn Choate: And you do have to actually copy and paste it. I did not read those instructions the 1st time.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: So what we're seeing now, Carolyn is, it's going through rather rapidly a lot of information. Let it finish. You'll see the progress bar still moving.

So here's the 1st thing you're never going to get this on your own Google search. What are the challenges? How did it come up with the challenges? It scrubs any Linkedin Facebook, Twitter. Anything that's on the Internet. That mirrors up to the what do we call it? Digimarcon Northeast, and it comes up with the 3 challenges. Now, right off the bat you've got information that you can use in your introduction.

Carolyn Choate: Yeah, you can really customize.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Well, it shows the the meeting planner that you're paying attention to who they are that you're not just a you know, spray and pray kind of person going out there.

So now let's scroll down a little bit. Here's an introduction email to your audience and to everybody else. This is generated by AI. You have the obligation to read it. And customize it, and make sure that it's factual. So, for instance. Another client was showing me she sent out a lot of emails without checking. And one of them was to Sydney. And she kept referring to Sydney as he and Sydney was a her. AI doesn't know the difference.

Carolyn Choate: Oh, boy, yeah, that's quite a misstep.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Okay, let's scroll down a little more. Here's a voice script!

You and I know that most people are not going to pick up the phone. So be prepared with the voice script.

And you can augment it. This is your voice script. So sometimes. I'll leave one and say. "I was doing some research, and I discovered that one of your challenges and we go back up, pick out one of the challenges." Now you've got my attention. This is not just somebody trying to sell me bells and whistles.This is somebody who is seriously offering to collaborate.

And that's a magic word I talk about collaboration. As opposed to hire me for this, or pay me for that. Because my client is not the audience. My client is the meeting planner.

And I say to the meeting planner all the time, my job is to make you the Rock Star. Not me. I'm on stage for 60 min or 90 min, or whatever the time is, and then I'm gone. You're still there. I want you to get all the kudos. I want you to get all the credit I want. You to take all the applause.

Carolyn Choate: That is a great way to look at it. Yes.

And here is a follow up email sequence. So. We all know that follow up is crucial to all kinds of things in the business world. So you definitely need to keep on checking in. Make sure that they're remembering to book you basically.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Now I use a product called Engage Pro, and set up all of these in a folder, that I will for the moment called Digimarcon. And it will say on: March 17, I sent out the welcome letter. A week later I want send you, have it. Send me a reminder to do this 1 2 weeks later, or another reminder, etc. It is not going to send them out automatically. But it is just a very easy to use reminder system.

And then once again, depending on how important this is, I always suggest you go to the website, you go in and you look for the team or the staff, or about us. And you find who's the decision maker, the meeting planner, etc. Maybe it's not identified that way. Maybe you just go right to the President. And then you read the bio of the President. It turns out that the bio of the President says that he or she has an affinity chocolate. Well, I'm a chocolatier. So I'll get the address, and I'll send some chocolate and say I was reading your bio. I understand you like some chocolate. I make this chocolate myself. I hope you enjoy it. And how many people will pick up the phone and say. Thank you. What else do you do?

Carolyn Choate: Wow! That is above and beyond.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Again, let's say, for conversation. You're not a baker. Spend $25. Is it not worth that for prospecting? You'd spend that on a Facebook Ad. Or Google, or whatever.

Carolyn Choate: Some real relationship building which is one of the core traffic strategies that I will preach about collaboration. Partnership affiliate is like one of the core ways to get attention to your business and.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Okay, so let's scroll down. We've got a short description for the Rfp. We've got a detailed description.

We've got the learning objectives that's always in an Rfp. What's the audience going to get out of this. Here's the benefits that the audience will get.

Then they want to know who you are as quickly as possible so that they can publicize it. So you put that right in.

And then your AI stage finder looks for additional events that mirror, the one that you've just worked on. And it can come up with as many as 10 additional events.

So on the left side the 1st search is up to 10. You move one of them over, and it gets another 10.

So everyone that you get can have up to 20 at a time. Easily, assuming they're out there. If you do this for an hour a day, 5 days a week for a month. You're gonna end up with a couple hundred rfps. And by sheer numbers. You should be getting some responses.

Carolyn Choate: Yeah, wow. Gonna save those these look amazing. And I'll just probably put one of these back into here and start it over again.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: So so the simplicity of the tool is. Like everything else in AI, the more information you provide. The more accurate the information you give it. The tool learns about you. Your content, your preferences, your geographic interests, etc. And goes from there. Now, it may be that you are not looking for paid speeches. You're looking for stages where you can sell from the front of the room. You just tell the bot that's what you're looking for. And the bot will look for those as opposed to the paid ones.

Carolyn Choate: And you help people to get it really dialed in, even beyond what we put in our Google form you, you work with people to make sure it's it's all squared away.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: Well, it it does neither one of us any good if it's not working. So here's my favorite one so far. Person called me up and said. This just isn't working. It's taking way too much time. I'm not getting any responses, I said. How many of you sent out? I've sent out 65 emails. Well did you read them? No. Did you customize them? No. Can I just see one of the emails. Not only did she have the pronoun he versus her incorrect but the email address that she had put in of her own email was incorrect.

Carolyn Choate: Oh, wow! You can't get any responses if you don't put your own email in right.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago:  I mean AI is good, but it's not that good.

So so sometimes you have to go back to quote the analog way of doing things and make sure that you did put in the right email, address, etc. Somebody this week left me a voicemail with the wrong phone number.

Fortunately I found it on Caller Id called the fellow back. And I said, What's this phone number? It doesn't work. You're right. I disconnected that about a year ago, and I guess I was just in so much of a hurry.

You know everybody. Take a deep breath. Think about it. What are you trying to do? Make sure that the information is correct. This does work if you give it the right information and you spend the time following up.

Carolyn Choate: I just like, I said. I immediately caught the vision of this is. A huge game changer for anybody who is doing speaking as part of their business. It just blows me away that it takes. You know there's still effort to go into it. There's still putting time in to customize it, but it just saves. Weeks of effort. It's amazing.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: One of the things that we're going to start doing in the near term is we're going to start having a once a month or every other week. Open Forum for people to come to on a zoom call, and just say I got this question or having this issue, or can you give me this suggestion? Because I think everybody's learning, I mean, we certainly are learning from the users, so. Once the user starts to have that experience and says.

Hey? You know, I got these 10, and then I moved it over to the one and I lost the 10. Okay, fine. So that's how we ended up putting in the Pdf form, because we suddenly realized that that was something that people were not doing, that they weren't copying it on their own. So let's make it easier for them to copy.

Carolyn Choate: Yeah. Nice. I might show up to those meetings just as a set aside time where I can actually send out the proposal and send out the follow up email.

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: I have said to everybody, if you spend an hour a day. 5 days a week for a month. You're bound to get some business. I can't guarantee that I mean your your content is up to you. Your fees are up to you. There's all kinds of barriers to entry just from doing business.

But if you've sent out 200 rfps. The the law of averages and everything else would say, you're gonna land a couple.

Carolyn Choate: Yes. All right. Well, thank you so much for coming and showing it off, and I do have an affiliate link.  https://aistagefinder.com/?aff=carolyn.moir

James D. Feldman, CSP•Chicago: And then the other thing is that currently we have partnered up with Paypal. And depending on your credit score and and Paypal still having the program we've seen almost everyone get a 0% 6 month financing. So literally you have no money tied up. You have 6 months to pay for it, and certainly within 6 months you should be getting a few paid speaking engagements. And I'll basically say to most professional speakers: What's it worth to you to get more speeches? If you invest one speech and you end up getting 10 or 20 or 50 in the course of a year. It's got a pretty good roi.

Carolyn Choate: Alright! Well. Everybody go out and click and play with it, and have lots of fun making AI work for you.