Want to Know What it Takes to be a Speaker in the College Market?
Introducing the COLLEGE SPEAKERS ACADEMY. Our first academy showing you the ins and outs of being a college speaker will take place Summer 2010. Click HERE for more details.
How to be a Speaker with CAMPUSPEAK
We receive approximately 100 requests each year from speakers wishing to work in the college market. Applicants are reviewed annually in February for promotion beginning the next academic year.
Speakers are chosen using a variety of criteria:
- Proven ability & experience with college audiences
- Proven ability & experience with college audiences
- No existing or conflicting obligations to other agencies
- Letters of recommendation
- Originality of approach to their issue
- Interest in the issue among college students
- Our need for speakers on the issue
- Willingness of speaker to invest in their own success
- Quantity of business we can expect from the speaker
- General attitude and friendliness of the speaker
- Speaking style and comfort with large audiences
- Enthusiasm of speaker
- Recommendations from other speakers, colleagues, college professionals
- Realistic expectations
- Does the proposed program have educational value?
- Would a campus pay at least $3,000 for this program?
All speakers seeking representation from CAMPUSPEAK are invited to send materials for consideration by staff and other CAMPUSPEAK Speakers Team members. The deadline for submission is February 15th. Decisions will be made by March 31st.
Although not an exclusive list, if your specialty is any of the following topics, we encourage you to submit materials for consideration:
- Unique personal stories that offer teachable moments for others
- Fraternity and sorority issues and motivation
- Alcohol abuse prevention, especially unique perspectives
- Illegal drug or prescription drug abuse
- Depression or other mental health issues (male speaker)
- Healthy relationships
- Sexual health
- Hazing prevention (high school, athletics, club or fraternity/sorority)
What to send us:
We require that potential speakers submit the following materials.Incomplete packages reduce the chances of a favorable evaluation. Please send the items in one package, not in several separate mailings, and please do not send anything that you want returned. We will not return submitted materials! So, do not send any originals.
- A video or DVD clip (15 minutes is enough, any quality is OK) of a presentation you have done in the last two years
- A professional photo that you would use for promotional purposes
- News clippings (if you have them, no more than three)
- A professional biography not exceeding 200 words
- Titles, descriptions and A/V requirements for all proposed programs
- Letters of reference from past clients (ones from colleges are most useful)
- Your website address, if applicable
- A copy of a book or articles you have written, relevant to your proposed speaking topic
- A statement detailing your goals related to speaking, your current level of speaking experience, and why you would like to work with an agency
Send materials by February 15th to:
Amy Butler
CAMPUSPEAK
P. O. Box 440560
Aurora, Colorado 80044-0560
butler@campuspeak.com
A few things to consider:
- Except under very special circumstances, we are not interested in speakers who are already represented by another agency in higher education
- We generally do not represent speakers that have overtly political or religious topics
- Potential speakers might be asked to do a free program at a nearby campus or at a higher ed conference attended by a staff member to be evaluated
- All new speakers are required to pay a one-time fee of $2,800 to CAMPUSPEAK upon acceptance. This fee covers administrative costs of start-up marketing, contracts and legal work. Although some special exceptions have been made, a speaker unwilling to make this initial investment should not apply
- New speakers will be required to attend a new speaker training session in Denver, June 10-12, 2010
- It is very important that potential speakers subscribe to CAMPUSPEAK’s Core Values. Please review them before you submit to us.
- We realize that you probably will have many questions about our financial policies, commission levels and other internal procedures. Please give us time to do an initial review, and then if we are interested in continuing conversations, we will happily review all of this with you.
Additional questions you have about your submission to us should be directed to Amy Butler via email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). We prefer to handle initial inquiries by email rather than by phone.
Thank you for your interest in joining our team!
