Speak and Market Like A Pro

Speak and Market Like A Pro Improve your speaking skills and learn how to market your speaking business from pro-bono to paid!

Jump-start or fast-track your way to becoming a paid professional speaker. Discover time-tested speaking techniques to deliver powerful presentations that get you invited back time and time again. Learn proven marketing strategies that you can put to use IMMEDIATELY to get booked. Coaching and Training Events Will Teach You How To:
* Find an area of expertise from which you can speak, train and make great income.
* Create presentation titles and marketing content that sells and gets you booked to speak.
* Shorten your learning curve dramatically by learning from a professional speaker with 20+ years experience.
* Turn free into FEE by becoming a successful paid professional speaker.
* Overcome nervousness and gain greater confidence in front of any audience.
* Tighten structure, flow and presentation organization.
* Develop your authentic message and speaker fee schedule.
* Craft effective marketing materials that sells your presentations.
* Develop products that align to your presentation topics.
* Conduct productive and energized meeting with innovative audience engagement. Professional speakers make thousands of dollars per hour speaking and traveling to amazing locations. Are you ready to start making money sharing your message as a professional speaker? Get your FREE 15-minute complimentary consultation to learn how Sheryl’s events or personalized coaching programs can best support your needs. http://speakandmarketlikeapro.com/


Sheryl Roush, the “Speak and Market Like a Pro™” Coach has been a highly-respected veteran in the field of professional speaking and training since 1988. She provides real-world insights of the speaking business with her clients. Sheryl shares her expertise and experiences from having presented over 3,000 programs in 10 countries around the world. Her personalized coaching helps clients break through barriers to their natural talents, aligning more to their authentic messages and deeper connections. She helps her clients turn free speaking engagements into FEE-based speaking with her professional speaking and marketing skills.

09/10/2026

Exposure doesn't pay a mortgage, a flight, or a hotel room.

Every week, a member tells me about the same call. A company loves their message and wants them on stage, but there's no budget this time. Just do it for the visibility, they say, the room will be full of decision-makers, it'll open doors.

Here's what I'm seeing: the companies asking for a free keynote almost always have a marketing budget. What they don't have is the belief that speaking deserves a paycheck like everything else at the event does.

If a company can pay for the venue, the catering, and the AV crew, they can pay the person the whole event is built around.

Know your worth.

- Jaime Nolan, CEO, National Speakers Association, 9/9/2026

08/24/2026

A publisher just killed a $2.4 million book deal because nobody could prove a human wrote it. Wait, what?

Literary agents pulled the deal because they couldn't authenticate how the manuscript came together, and it wasn't a quality complaint or a legal problem. It was a trust problem, the first case like it I've seen, and I doubt it's the last.

This isn't really about plagiarism anymore. It's about proving you wrote the thing at all, and that question isn't staying with novelists.

Ghostwritten memoirs, business books built from a keynote, "as told to" projects, all of it is headed for the same test.

If you're working on a book right now:
save your drafts, your notes, your voice memos, your messy first attempts. The stuff that used to feel like clutter is becoming your proof.

If you've written a book, or you're working on one now, do you have anything that proves it's yours?

by Jaime Nolan, CEO of NSA, 8/24/2026

Honored to be referenced / quoted in this feature article in the August issue of TOASTMASTER Magazine, "Before You Write...
08/05/2026

Honored to be referenced / quoted in this feature article in the August issue of TOASTMASTER Magazine,
"Before You Write a Word"
What great speakers do first—and why it makes all the difference.
By Lauren Parsons, DTM, AS, CSP, of New Zealand.

Valuable tips and insights.. from professional speakers!

What great speakers do first—and why it makes all the difference.

07/26/2026

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