{"id":25117,"date":"2007-02-01T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/public-speaking-tip-7-ways-to-get-on-a-panel\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:13:53","slug":"public-speaking-tip-7-ways-to-get-on-a-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/public-speaking-tip-7-ways-to-get-on-a-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Public speaking tip: 7 ways to get on a panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Lorenz of Westwood Communications<\/a> has helpful tips on how public speakers\u00a0can land a spot on a conference panel.<\/p>\n

It’s in the latest issue of The Navigator, the ezine published by Bacon’s.<\/p>\n

Most important: don’t wait for an invitation!\u00a0And tell them you’ll help promote the panel as well as the conference.<\/p>\n

Here’s my personal experience with panels. I stopped wasting time filling out\u00a0RFPs to speak at conferences and conventions. In fact, I can’t\u00a0remember one time when an RFP has led to an invitation.<\/p>\n

For me, the three best magnets that attact invitations\u00a0to speak at conferences:<\/p>\n

—My weekly ezine, “The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week.” If you’re an expert and you aren’t publishing an ezine, or a tip of the week, start now. See “How to Turn Your Ezine into a Cash Machine.”<\/a><\/p>\n

—The free articles<\/a> page at my website, where I can flaunt my expertise.<\/p>\n

—Word-of-mouth referrals from happy meeting planners who have hired me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you’re a professional speaker, learn everything you need to know about how to grow your speaking business from my mentor, Tom Antion<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Lorenz of Westwood Communications has helpful tips on how public speakers\u00a0can land a spot on a conference panel. It’s in the latest issue of The Navigator, the ezine published by Bacon’s. Most important: don’t wait for an invitation!\u00a0And tell them you’ll help promote the panel as well as the conference. Here’s my personal experience\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[518,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-25117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-public-speaking","8":"tag-writing-articles","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40903,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25117\/revisions\/40903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}