Speaking For Travel Perks
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Sam Parr shares his alternative compensation strategy for speaking engagements, focusing on luxury travel perks instead of direct payment.
Key Points:
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Core Strategy:
- Decline direct payment for speaking
- Request 2 first-class flights instead
- Require full hotel coverage for a week
- Must be at a destination worth visiting with spouse
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Value Proposition:
- Turns speaking engagements into luxury vacations
- Gets high-value travel perks instead of cash
- Creates win-win for both speaker and event organizer
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Requirements:
- Location must be desirable for personal travel
- Must include spouse in travel arrangements
- Full week of hotel coverage, not just event dates
This approach transforms standard speaking fees into luxury travel experiences, effectively using speaking engagements as a way to fund personal travel while still providing value to event organizers.
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.