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Find Event Leads

Do you have time to commit to finding hundreds of event organizers or meeting planners for speaking opportunities? Most professional public speakers don’t – and hiring an intern or virtual assistant to find events leads for you is expensive and potentially frustrating.

Luckily for you, My Speaker Leads is the most effective way to find new leads for paid speaking opportunities. Our research team delivers hundreds of leads each month, saving you time and money.

Each week, we send you dozens of event leads to pick from and follow up on. Once you log in, you can download your lead data directly from the My Speaker Leads website in a convenient CSV format. Each lead file has information about the lead’s organization, upcoming event, contact name and info, and helpful contextual notes.

To get the most out of your leads, open and filter lead data in your favorite spreadsheet software. Find the events most relevant to you and reach out.

Here’s the process we recommend:

  1. Open the CSV in Microsoft Excel.
    Event leads CSV file opened in Excel
  2. Select the whole spreadsheet (Ctrl+A).
    All event leads selected in Excel
  3. Click ‘Format as Table’ and check the “My table has headers” checkbox.
    The 'Format as Table' drop-down menu in Excel

    Data entry box with 'my data has headers' checked

  4. Use the arrows on each header to sort and filter by whatever column you’d like. Our customers often sort the data by event date (next_event_date) or filter by lead type (lead_type), location or industry.
    Dropdown letting the user sort event leads
  5. You can also use Excel’s Form function to view individual lead entries and search within specific fields. First, add Forms to your Excel menu by adding it under Customize Ribbon.
    Customize the Ribbon dialogue box in Excel

    Then, you’ll be able to scroll through entries one at a time, or type in one of the fields to show individual event leads that match what you’ve typed.
    The form view showing a single event lead from the CSV in Excel

With so many leads and so much flexibility over how you sort through them, you’ll be able to focus on the outreach and follow-up portion of your sales cycle. You’ll be on your way to more paid speaking opportunities in no time.

This is a no brainer for me. I only need to land 1 gig every 5 years to pay for this service!

Shawn B