The Events Podcast

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From being a PE Teacher to speaking and running events across the world with Adam Llevo Oct 03, 2018

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On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’ I was spoke with Adam Levo from mradampe.com . It was a really interesting chat and relevant both to teachers and employees looking to start speaking at conferences and running their own events.

Adam started as PE Teacher in the UK before heading off for some world travels and working in International Schools in Shanghai and Saudi Arabia.

Adam’s main advice for teachers and others looking to speak at conferences is to build a solid online presence and start sharing content, specifically posting all your presentations on Twitter and your blog. Also all his blog posts have a ‘call to action’ where he looks to get an email address, for example buy giving away an eBook or some content.

Also we discussed about not being greedy up front :) Adam picked the conferences he wanted to visit as an attendee anyway, then asked to speak. Only later did he ask for expenses or a fee, sometimes on his second or third visit to the conference. I can’t emphasise this enough for new speakers…. ‘Don’t ask for money until you really deserve it!’ Also at the event help out with everything! The organizer will love you and be MUCH more likely to work with you in the future.

I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please leave us an iTunes review it means a lot! You can email me at dan@eventsframe.com or get in touch with me via dantaylor.me

More info about Adam is below and if you’re a school looking to turbo charge the use of technology in your pE department he’d love to her from you

Adam is a physical educator originally from England, but has taught in the UK, China and Saudi Arabia across all age groups. He has presented at a number of conferences around the world sharing his love of physical education and meaningful technology to educators from all subjects. When Adam is not teaching he enjoys collaborating on projects with practitioners from across the globe and sharing his knowledge, via his blog or social media. Adam is a Google Certified Educator, Google Innovator, Google Trainer and Apple Teacher. He has a passion to use his knowledge to make life easier, by working smarter, not harder.

Checkout his blog: mradampe.com or his new Google Innovation project chargedupeducation.com

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https://goo.gl/NbdRfQ

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/mradampe/

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Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/MrAdamPE

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/mradampe/

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Gemma Stow - Empowering Female Entrepreneurs Through Events Sep 20, 2018

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Running Meetups for Female Introvert Entrepreneurs with Gemma Stow

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On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’ I was delighted to talk to Gemma Stow, founder of The F Movement - Empowering ambitious women to stop hiding, believe in themselves and run unstoppable businesses. It was a really interesting chat and relevant both to people with communities looking to run events, and also people looking to run public events to help get new customers.

Gemma runs an online community and hosts regular free meetups for her community members. We discuss how Gemma founded her community to help introvert women in business like herself support each other and get more confidence in things like networking, public speaking and sales.

It was interesting to chat to Gemma as she holds her meetups in wine bars and restaurants and keeps them super social and informal. Gemma has members across the UK so holds them in different cities to maximise the amount of attendees who can make it. This is a useful tact for community owners to reach the maximum number of their member in person. I also know of people with global communities running meetups in many different countries.

The second type of event that Gemma runs are public paid events called ‘Introverts Talk Business’ where she charges a small fee (£29) and holds a mastermind type format. We discussed how it’s great to charge a small fee any time you can as it means that people actually turn up to your free events (more on that in a blog post I made earlier in the year). One great tip was she has ‘place cards’ set out so there’s no confusion about where people will sit etc and a structure where everyone introduces themselves to get attendees more relaxed.

Gemma does a lot of online promotion and uses content marketing, where she writes a blog post giving some tactical advice about business or networking and shares it across every platform. LinkedIn was the one platform she mentioned that had generated a lot of attendees for her. She also said just being super active online on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram had served her well.

More information about Gemma is below and if you’re a female introvert entrepreneur she’d love to hear from you!

Gemma Stow helps female introverts who are building their own business, to have the confidence to be way more visible through different ways of networking online and offline to get results they want.

Founder of The F Movement - Empowering ambitious women to stop hiding, believe in themselves and run unstoppable businesses

Nominated for “Business Women of the Year” by Yorkshire Choice Awards 2018

www.gemmastow.com

https://www.facebook.com/gemmastowthefmovement

https://www.instagram.com/thefmovement

https://twitter.com/gemmastow

Ambitious women join us in our private community - The F Movement

'She believed she could - so she did’