It's Summer Planning Season!
Earn extra income, get in front of new audiences, and open the door to speaking opportunities that can take you places you never expected. But first, event organizers need to find you — and you need to find the right opportunities to pursue.
See Where This Summer Can Take You →This can be the Summer you stop merely thinking about speaking and start building the business around it. The Summer you prepare for Fall events, putting yourself where organizers can find you and discovering speaking opportunities that fit your goals. Now's the time to begin creating the kind of momentum that can eventually lead to speaking fees, new audiences, business relationships, travel, and more control over how you spend your time.
Dear Fellow Speaker,
Let's talk about a brutal industry statistic: 31 out of 32 emerging speakers fail to launch a successful speaking business.
When I say emerging speaker, I don’t mean amateur. An emerging speaker is someone who is not yet earning a full-time living from speaking and is not yet consistently earning at least $5,000 per engagement.
You may already have a powerful message, real expertise, or past speaking experience. But if speaking is not yet producing the opportunities, income, and business growth you want, this message is for you.
Why do most emerging speakers fail to successfully launch a speaking business? It's because they approach speaking as if nobody has ever built a speaking business before them. Most have the talent, expertise, or a powerful message, but they just don't know how to leverage it all. They try to figure out marketing, lead generation, follow-up, negotiating, referrals, repeat bookings, speaker materials, and sales copy by trial and error — usually while guessing their way through every step.
That's an expensive way to build a speaking business. Some speakers waste hours chasing random leads that were never a good fit. Others barely look for opportunities at all and wonder why the phone is not ringing. Many have no real follow-up system, no clear process for turning one event into the next, and no idea how to write profile copy that makes an organizer quickly understand why they belong on the shortlist.
SpeakerMatch gives you a better way to build your playbook. For more than two decades, we have worked with speakers and event organizers, watched what works, built tools to help speakers create attention-getting profiles, and developed resources to help them understand the mechanics of a sustainable speaking business.
That includes doing much of the lead-finding work for you, so you can spend less time digging through search engines and more time reviewing opportunities that may fit your expertise, fee range, availability, and location. It also includes tools, resources, and expert webinar training designed to help you improve your marketing, sharpen your positioning, strengthen your follow-up, and build a speaking business using proven principles and cumulative experience you do not get on your own.
After working with speakers and event organizers for more than two decades, I've noticed something interesting: event organizers are rarely sitting around hoping to discover "the world's greatest speaker." They are trying to solve a very specific problem for a very specific audience at a very specific moment.
Someone needs a speaker for healthcare leadership. Someone else needs a speaker for financial advisors. Another planner is trying to energize a breakout room. Someone else needs a keynote for a leadership retreat. Their world revolves around solving problems, not discovering celebrities.
That creates tremendous opportunity for emerging speakers — if they make themselves easy to find.
Think about the last time you searched for a travel duffel bag. You used specific filters to weed out the junk. If a product didn't explicitly state it had the right features, you scrolled right past it. Event planners use the exact same mental filters. If your current online presence is vague, they will scroll right past you. Organizers frequently choose speakers who are easier to understand over speakers who simply have stronger credentials.
Before I go any further, let me say something that has irritated me about this industry for years.
Traditional speaker bureaus built their businesses around gatekeeping. The old model often expected speakers to sit quietly, wait for permission, and hand over 25% to 50% of their hard-earned speaking fee for the privilege. That may work if you're already famous. It is a terrible model for emerging speakers trying to get booked, get noticed, and build a real speaking business.
SpeakerMatch was built differently. No gatekeepers. No waiting for someone to decide whether you deserve an opportunity. No commissions taking a chunk of your success.
For more than two decades, SpeakerMatch has helped connect speakers and event organizers. Instead of sitting around hoping someone magically discovers you, SpeakerMatch helps put you where planners and opportunities already exist.
Create a professional profile that showcases your expertise, videos, topics, and experience so organizers can quickly understand where you fit. Review speaking opportunities and open calls. Explore leads gathered from a wide range of sources and relationships built over years inside the industry.
Most speakers know they need stronger materials. They just do not always know what to say. PitchPerfect AI is our speaker-focused profile assistant designed to help you clarify your positioning, strengthen your bio, shape better program descriptions, and present your expertise in a way event organizers can understand faster.
It does not replace your message. It helps you express it more clearly.
Create a powerful speaker profile and highlight the programs you offer.
Browse curated speaking opportunities that match your expertise and goals.
Review detailed event information and act on the best-fit opportunities.
From healthcare and education to cybersecurity, finance, leadership, travel, and trade events — SpeakerMatch helps you discover opportunities across industries, audiences, and event types.
After working with speakers and event organizers for more than two decades, I can tell you something with certainty: speaking opportunities rarely appear by accident.
A meeting planner can't possibly book you if they don't know you exist. And you can't possibly book a gig you don't know about.
That simple reality explains why so many emerging speakers struggle. Some speakers work hard to become visible but never actively pursue opportunities. Others chase opportunities constantly but make it difficult for event organizers to understand who they are or what they bring to the table.
SpeakerMatch was built to help solve both sides of that equation. Create a professional presence that helps event organizers quickly understand where you fit. Make yourself easier to discover. Review speaking opportunities, open calls, and leads gathered from a wide range of sources and industry relationships developed over more than two decades.
Because speaking success usually starts when visibility and opportunity finally meet.
Anyone can search Google for open calls. You can dig through association websites, conference calendars, chambers of commerce, networking groups, nonprofit directories, and event listings. You can make a spreadsheet, chase dead links, check deadlines, compare locations, guess at fee ranges, and try to figure out whether the opportunity is even worth your time.
But that is only one side of the problem.
The other side is just as important: event organizers are searching for speakers, too. While some are busy running Summer events, others are already planning Fall conferences, Winter meetings, year-end retreats, association programs, training events, and leadership sessions. When they start looking, your profile, programs, topics, videos, and positioning need to make it easy for them to understand where you fit.
That is where SpeakerMatch helps on both sides.
We help you review leads, open calls, event details, contact information, application links, deadlines, fee clues, locations, and other decision-making details so you can spend less time digging and more time pursuing opportunities that fit your expertise, fee range, availability, location, and goals.
At the same time, SpeakerMatch helps you create a professional speaker profile that makes it easier for event organizers to understand who you help, what you speak about, and why you may be the right fit for their audience.
One event can still change everything. But the event that changes your direction usually starts long before you walk on stage. It starts when the right organizer finds you — or when you find the right opportunity before the deadline passes.
Six months from now, some speakers will still be buried in random searches and hoping something turns up. Others will look back and realize they spent the Summer getting visible, reviewing better-fit opportunities, and putting themselves in position for the next invitation.
The right room. The right audience. The right opportunity. That’s where everything starts to change.
Find smaller, consistent opportunities that fit around your existing schedule and help put you back in control of your bank account.
Explore new places, share your story, and pursue opportunities where travel may be covered as part of the engagement.
One event can become consulting work, new clients, podcast invitations, strategic relationships, and introductions that continue long after the applause ends.
SpeakerMatch has paid for itself every year I have used it, and I have received gigs that have landed me 5-figure speaking fees.
If you're looking for a magic button, close this page. If you believe speaking success somehow falls into people's laps, close this page. And if spending fifteen minutes creating a polished profile sounds like too much work, SpeakerMatch probably isn't for you.
The speakers who build momentum usually do something very different. They put themselves where opportunities already exist. They make it easy for event organizers to understand them. They show up.
Right now, event organizers are building agendas, searching for speakers, creating shortlists, and making decisions that quietly shape the next several months.
Some speakers will spend the Summer waiting for a lucky break. Others will put themselves where opportunities already exist. They'll create visibility, review leads, make it easier for organizers to discover them, and quietly create momentum that can lead to speaking fees, introductions, referrals, consulting work, business growth, and opportunities they never saw coming.
That's what SpeakerMatch was built to do.
See you on stage,
Bryan Caplovitz
Founder, SpeakerMatch
Your Summer Speaking Business Playbook
By now, you have seen the real problem. Successful speaking is not just about talent. It is about understanding the mechanics of the business: how to be found, how to find the right opportunities, how to position your expertise, how to follow up, how to turn one event into the next, and how to build a repeatable system instead of guessing your way forward.
This 25% Summer Discount is reserved for a limited time, along with immediate access to The Speaker's Success Toolkit: Essential Guides for Emerging Speakers.
Instant access to 8 bonus guides
when you join today.
The Speaker's Success Toolkit gives you practical resources for building the parts of your speaking business most emerging speakers try to invent from scratch. Use it to tighten your materials, sharpen your marketing, improve your follow-up, and approach speaking with a clearer plan.
SpeakerMatch helps you attack the business from both sides: organizers can better understand and discover you, and you can review real leads, open calls, deadlines, contact information, application links, fee clues, locations, and event details without spending endless hours digging through random searches.
That means you are not just buying access to another directory. You are putting more than two decades of speaking-industry experience, lead research, profile tools, business resources, and expert training behind your speaking goals.
Review the open calls. Build your profile. Use the tools. Explore the resources. Attend the trainings. See whether SpeakerMatch belongs in your speaking-business playbook. If you are not completely satisfied, let us know before the end of your first 8 weeks and we will refund your full investment.
As a motivational keynote speaker, I’ve worked with many speaking platforms over the years, but few offer the sophisticated tools needed to truly connect the right speaker with the right audience.
SpeakerMatch stands out.
It’s the Cadillac of speaker platforms — equally valuable for emerging speakers and seasoned professionals like myself who are looking to build meaningful connections with event organizers.
This 25% Summer Discount is reserved for a limited time after you arrive on this page. Choose the plan that fits how much visibility, media, and lead flow you want to build.
Best for getting started, creating visibility, and screening opportunities.
Recommended for stronger profile content, better presentation, and a more complete marketing presence.
Best for maximum visibility, expanded media assets, and stronger lead flow.
Need the full feature-by-feature breakdown? Review the complete Silver, Gold, and Platinum comparison.
No. SpeakerMatch is designed for emerging speakers at different stages, including people who want a first opportunity, more opportunities than they have now, or a clearer path to building a real speaking business.
No. SpeakerMatch uses a low-fee membership model. You keep every dollar you earn from the business you book through the platform.
No honest service can guarantee that. SpeakerMatch helps you become more visible, spend less time chasing the wrong opportunities, and pursue leads more productively.
You are protected by an 8-week money-back guarantee. Review the opportunities, build your profile, use the tools, and decide for yourself.
Yes. There are no long-term contracts on 4-week plans, and you can manage your membership directly through your account.
Silver is a simple starting point, Gold is the strongest middle option for most speakers, and Platinum is best when you want the broadest media and profile-building capacity.
SpeakerMatch helps you find better-fit speaking opportunities, get found by event organizers, create a more polished presence online, and keep building over time.
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