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5 Ways To Make Money As A Cruise Ship Speaker
In my book, “Cruise Ship Speaking: How To Build A Six Figure Speaking Business While Traveling The World For Free” I go into detail about the various ways you can profit from your cruise ship speaking engagements.
The basic idea is this:
Although the cruise lines won’t pay you for your talks, you’l be getting a free cruise for two and the opportunity to present in front of hundreds or even thousands of their passengers. The savvy cruise ship speaker can more than make up for the lack of an upfront fee though the following five profit centers.
Here Are The Top 5 Ways You Can make Money As A Cruise Ship Speaker:
1. Sell your books, CDs, and DVDs in the back of the room
2. Build a valuable list of people who know, like, & trust you
3. Market to that list for additional products and services
4. Use these talks to generate spin-off bookings back on land
5. Put on your own “seminars at sea” and make the big bucks
If you’ve got my book “Cruise Ship Speaking: How to build a six figure speaking business while traveling the world for free”, then you already know just how profitable cruise ship speaking can be.
Unfortunately, there are some other speaker trainers that either don’t understand how to use these amazing opportunities to build a six figure speaking business or don’t want you to know how.
If you’d like in-depth information about each of the 5 profit centers outlined above,
check out The Complete Cruise Ship Speaking System
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Choosing Your Cruise Ship Speaking Topic
I just got off a coaching call with Vicki. She’s a speaker who wants to present on cruise ships but didn’t think she had a good topic for this market. She’s been speaking to corporate groups about software for the past 20 years and didn’t think that would be a good fit for cruise ships.
She said “we’re not all hypnotists who can talk about hot topics like weight los.s after all”.
So I asked her what her hobbies and areas of interest are. She rattled off a pretty long list. “American history, the American Revolution, self-improvement, genealogy, and motivation for women.”
Hold on, wait a second… genealogy! And you don’t think you’ve got a good topic for cruise ship audiences? Do you know how many elderly people take cruises and would love to learn how to trace their family history or put together a family tree?
That topic’s a real winner. Sometimes you just can’t see the forest for the trees, right?
How about “American history”? Don’t you think you could combine our knowledge of American history with cruise ship destinations in Alaska, Hawaii, and the Caribbean?
Again, this is a great topic area.
Think About Your Own Hobbies And Interests
Which of them would appeal to:
• a broad cross section of the population
• or to the elderly
• or to families traveling together
…or can be combined with a knowledge of history or geography to make a compelling cruiseship presentation?
But What If You’re Not An “Expert”?
It doesn’t matter if you’re an “expert” in these areas. You just have to know more than your typical audience members.
During the course of our call, Vicki shared with me that she didn’t think she was qualified to speak in these areas because she didn’t have any credentials in them.
Don’t let a lack of credentials stop you from putting together a talk in an area that interests you. Your own passion for the subject matter will be enough to get through the modest amount of research and organization necessary for putting together a simple cruiseship talk.
This isn’t a dissertation you’re outlining. And it isn’t a closing argument you’re making. It’s just a fun little talk that will be of interest to cruise ship passengers looking for a way to kill 45 minutes during a day at sea.
That’s it. Simple.
Oh, and by the way, whenever you are up in front of a group talking about a subject in an organized and prepared fashion, you are perceived as an expert in that area.
You’re the one with the microphone in your hand. You’re the expert simply by virtue of your position in the room. Sure, you can increase the expert status by having some products prepared on the topic. Even better if you’ve written a book on the subject. But it’s not necessary. You just need to pick a topic and outline a simple talk.
Now Vicki’s well on her way to putting together her first cruise ship enrichment lecture. Pick a topic and you’ll have taken an important first step too.
For more information about becoming a cruise ship speaker watch this video here.
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As A Man Thinketh
FREE Audio recording of the book “As A Man Thinketh” by James Allen.
This book, written in 1902, is pretty much responsible for the creation of the entire personal development industry. It’s based on the biblical verse from the Book of Proverbs chapter 23 verse 7, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”.
Most personal development books out there today are at least in part based on this classic, but little known work. It’s all about the power of our thinking to shape our lives. The concept that thoughts are things and we become what we think about.
I recorded an audio version of this book (it’s in the public domain) to make it more accessible to more people. You can listen to it right now by clicking on the playbar below or download it by clicking the link on the left. Enjoy!
I’m giving this away so as many people as possible can benefit from it so go ahead and post a link to this page wherever you want online. And make sure you check out all the other free personal development and business improvement resources at joshuaseth.com/free
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Cruise ship speaking travel tips
So this is what happens when you miss the ship…
Suzy and I were flying down to Florida today to get on a cruise ship for a speaking and performing engagement this week.
The flights were delayed, then rerouted, and finally cancelled due to the severe winter storm that’s going on.
As I write this we’re stuck in an airport hotel at what should have been our layover.
So the bad news is that we will miss the ship tomorrow 
The good news though is that the airline is flying us at no-cost to the ship’s next port of call, the island of Antigua, where we will relax at the beach for 3 days until the cruise ship arrives and we board it for the rest of the voyage and fulfill the contract.
So I guess the lesson is: sometimes missing the ship isn’t all that bad!
No,really, the lesson is, never check your bags. I always carry what I need on with me so that we’re comfortable if anything like this ever happens.
Travel Tip #1: Always fly to the ship a day in advance so at least you have options if there are flight delays or cancelations
Travel Tip #2: Carry emergency contact information with you for airlines, hotels, and ground transportation. Calling can save you from having to stand in a long line in the event of a flight cancelation and can get you a seat on the next flight quicker.
Travel Tip #3: Carry on your luggage. I actually wrote an article about how to pack without checking any luggage here:
http://www.joshuaseth.com/how-to-pack-for-your-next-trip-without-checking-any-luggage/
It’s an excerpt from my upcoming book,
“Cruise Ship Speaking: How to build a six figure speaking business while traveling the world for fre.e”.
That book will be out first thing in January. In the meantime, if you’d like to get a head start on becoming a cruise ship speaker, check out this new video.
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Cruise Ship Speaking Teleseminar
Join me on Thursday Dec. 3rd and discover how you can become a cruise ship speaker during this one-time-only free teleseminar. You see just how easy it can be to:
- Travel the world for free
- Speak in front of thousands every week
- Promote your products and build your list fast!
There is no cost to participate in this event, but you must sign up ahead of time to get access to the call.
There will only be 100 lines available and I cannot guarantee that it will be recorded or replayed.
After you sign up for the call, you will be directed to a secret page where you can post your most important speaking question. It can be anything relating to speaking, back of the room sales, writing and self publishing for speakers, presentation skills, or anything else that I’m qualified to speak about.
I’ll answer whatever questions I have time for on the call as well as talk about how to speak on cruise ships and travel the world for free.
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College Hypnosis Show Review Continued
Last week I posted a link to a review of my college hypnosis show that the Buffalo newspaper ran after my event at Niagara University. If you missed it here’s the link to that article.
Anyway, they’ve published a followup piece where the reporter interviewed me about hypnosis, life on the road, and “the future”. I ended up revealing quite a bit and think the piece came out great. Thanks to Mike Kamo for an excellent interview.
Here’s an excerpt from the article where I discuss the difference between hypnosis and mentalism:
“Q: Could you explain the difference between the mentalist and hypnosis portions of your show?
A: With the mentalism, everyone is awake. I’m applying the same principles [body language, influence, persuasion] and thought projection, while picking up on people’s emotional states using intuition- a variety of techniques that are all basically rooted in psychology and listening on a deep level- in order to tell people and get them to think of the things that I am projecting. That’s the mentalism- everyone’s awake, but I’m using sort of hypnotic procedures in their awake state in order to get that effect. I’m influencing them to make certain decisions and perceive certain things.
When the hypnosis portion of the show takes place, I’m obviously taking volunteers from the audience and actually putting them under trance, which is also called “theta state,” which is a brain wave state that basically means you’re in a heightened state of sensitivity to suggestion. So when I suggest something in that state, you respond to though it’s real- your body believes it’s real. You’re hallucinating that it’s real, and that’s what hypnosis is.”
Here’s a link to the full article.
And here’s a link to my college hypnosis show site.
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College Hypnotist Show Review
Thanks to Niagara University for having The Joshua Seth Comedy Hypnosis Show for a 4th year in a row. We had an awesome turnout (despite the cold) and it was an amazing show.
Here’s a quote from an excellent article “My Buffalo” ran called
College Hypnotist Casts Spell On Campus:
“One participant was so far gone in dreamland, that when Seth walked up behind him and whispered “sleep now” into his ear (his phrase for getting his hypnotized victims to fall back asleep), the poor guy fell to the ground in a lifeless heap. Seth guided him down safely, of course, but the act was so sudden and convincing that one could not help but believe what they were witnessing.”
Nice 
Here’s a link to the full article.
And here’s a link to my college hypnotist show site.
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How To Self Publish Your Own Book – Day 3
Self publishing your book is a lot easier than it used to be. You can use dictation software to eliminate much of the actual writing, outsource the layout and design work over the internet, and use Amazon for worldwide distribution.
As a result of helping my coaching clients to write and self publish their own books over at www.YourBookInAMonth.com I’ve actually gotten better at this process myself. They say the teacher learns the most and I’ve found this to be true.
The book I’ve been writing and editing for the past couple of weeks, “Cruise Ship Speaking“, has turned into a case study for these techniques. I’ve tracked how many days and how much time it actually took to write this book. And here are the results:
Writing: 20 hours over 7 days
Editing: 16 hours over 3 days
As you can see, the editing took almost as long as the writing.
I think this is because as I went though the printout of the first draft I noticed areas that:
• needed to be expanded
• were covered more than once
• were unclear
• were out of order
That first draft took about 12 hours to revise. Then I printed out the second draft and whizzed through it in about four hours. Mostly nit-picky stuff like typos. Now that the last day of editing is done it’s off to the proofreader’s and on to the layout artist’s.
I have been tracking all of this to help demystify the process of writing and self publishing your own book. Every speaker should have their own book. Unfortunately, there’s so much bad information out there about how to go about this process that it can get downright overwhelming and confusing. It doesn’t have to be that way. Stick with me throughout the rest of this self publishing process and you’ll see just how easy it can be.
In the next post I’ll show you two different concepts for the cover art and let you vote on which one you think should make it onto the book! Fun
Total time invested today: 4 hours
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How To Self Publish Your Own Book – Day 2
Well, this is the second day of editing my new book for cruise ship speakers. I spent about six hours yesterday going through the print out of the first draft with a red pen. By the time I was done the pages looked like they’d been through a war, dripping with red ink and tattered.
I have to say, this is my least favorite part of the book writing and self publishing process. Like most speakers, I am extroverted and emotional. I do not particularly enjoy spending all day nit-picking at details, yet that is exactly what has to happen to get this book into shape.
Yes, I could have outsourced the editing to a professional. I will actually. But not in the first go around. I feel strongly that the first pass should be done by the author personally so as to maintain the voice and perspective intended when writing it.
Remember, I do not advocate having your book ghost written. The value in having your own book as a speaker comes in part from getting people familiar with your own unique voice and personality. If you have your book ghost written then you will miss out on that opportunity to connect with your reader.
I will have my book proof read, laid out, and designed by outsourced professionals. But I will write and edit it myself. I suggest you do the same. It takes more effort to do it this way, absolutely. But when you think long term about the business building benefits then the rewards far outweigh the effort.
Every speaker should have their own book. Most know this but few do because it’s not easy. I can show you how to streamline the process, make it more efficient, take a lot of the work out of actually writing it, but it is still work. The good news is that means most of your competitors will never have their own books and you will rise above them on the strength of yours.
Total time invested today: 6 hours
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