TJ Walker says aspiring motivational speakers should build audiences through daily short videos on social media, not books or infomercials. Post constantly like Gary Vaynerchuk does, and speaking invitations will come.
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So you want to be a motivational speaker? Well, the days are gone when you start by writing a book or getting booked on a talk show. Oh no. And forget the demo tapes. The number one way to be a motivational speaker these days is to motivate yourself to make interesting, compelling videos and share them on social media every day and motivate millions of people online. That's the Gary Vaynerchuk way. Unless you can get in a time machine and go back to the 1980s and start running infomercials with Anthony Robbins, the old way won't work. You've got to earn your audience every day in social media. Then you will be invited to give motivational speeches around the world. First step motivate yourself to create an interesting motivational speech every day and share it on social media. And that's.