176: Three Shifts That Changed Everything For My Business

“Where you are at now, is not when you are going to end up. There’s always room for growth as long as you are open to growing”. In this episode, Ashley speaks about the shifts that she made that literally changed her business radically!In this episode, Ashley covers:•Change your mind about the 6-figure year to 6-figure clients! You need to start thinking about getting big contracts. You can sell to big corporations but first, think about selling to individuals that work in a big corporation.•To find the best clients in your industry, don’t look around at your competition, look up!! Look to the top players in your industry and look to the best clients.•To avoid feeling bad about charging high rates, you need to master the skills and invest in becoming a better speaker, which should be a priority for you. The more you are an expert in your field and invest in becoming an expert the more confident you’ll feel to charge high rates. Please leave us a review! Be sure to follow Ashley on Instagram at @theashleynicoleshow and @speakyourwaytocash To Register for Speak Your Way To Cash’s next FREE Pitch Your Way To Cash Challenge, register here: www.pitchyourwaytocash.com Join our Speaker Mailing List & Learn About Our Other Resources Here: https://www.ashleynicolekirkwood.com/connect-with-ashley Register for the Speak Your Way To Cash Live Event here: www.speakyourwaytocashlive.com About Speak Your Way To Cash: Speak Your Way To Cash® was started to help speakers, authors, experts and entrepreneurs start at the top of the speaking market instead of working your way up from the bottom! The company is designed to help speakers land 5-6 figure corporate speaking offers! Side note; our clients also work with colleges, associations, corporations and government entitis too! If you want to grow your business - speaking or otherwise - there’s a Speak Your Way To Cash® Course, Event or Coaching Program for you! Learn more about us at www.speakyourwaytocash.com About Ashley Kirwkood: Speak Your Way To Cash® (‘SYWTC’) founder and former Fortune 100TMTrial Attorney Ashley Nicole Kirkwood has carved a niche as one of this nation’s leadingthought experts on the speaking and training industry. Her internationally recognizedpodcast and book - both titled, Speak Your Way To Cash® - helps speakers around theworld learn to land five and six figure corporate speaking contracts. Her clients havegarnered national media attention and landed hundreds of thousands of dollars in speakingcontracts!Ashley is recognized as a distinct, inclusive, and authoritative voice by Forbes, The ChicagoTribune, FOX32 Chicago, NBC5 Chicago, Crain’s Chicago Business, The American Lawyer,Black Enterprise, and many more. She lives in Chicago, and her unique workshops,programs, and talks are highly sought after by companies across the United States whowish to become better, both internally and as community citizens.Want to connect with Ashley? Email her at ashley@ashleynicolekirkwood.com or check outspeakyourwaytocash.com to learn more about how she can help you!

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Ashley Kirkwood from the Speak Your Way To Cash podcast will share business tactics, tips, and strategies from her own experience and interviewing experts in the speaking, sales and entrepreneurship space. Ashley has built several successful businesses including her law firm and speaking business, where she speaks to colleges and corporations on confidence, leadership, and student success. Her signature speech is entitled, The Currency of Confidence. Ashley has spoken to audiences with as many as 4,000 people in attendance. She has helped several universities reinvigorate student engagement and enjoys speaking to law schools and sharing her story, which is chronicled in her book, The Law School Hustle.Ashley hosts an event called, Speak Your Way To Cash for speakers looking to enhance their speaking business and learn knock-it-out-of-the-park sales strategies! Email Ashley at admin@passionpurposeandpaychecks.com.