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title: "Are You Stuck with the Same Old Boring Keynote? Stop it Now!"
canonical: https://jimcarroll.com/2018/04/are-you-stuck-with-the-same-old-boring-keynote-stop-it-now/
updated: 2020-07-15T10:20:24+00:00
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# Are You Stuck with the Same Old Boring Keynote? Stop it Now!

Are you tired of booking a keynote for your event – having a perfunctory phone call with your selected speaker – and having them show up at the last minute, only to deliver a  canned message that doesn’t relate to anything that is important to your participants?

So am I. They give the industry, and folks like me who work hard for your event, a bad name. And that’s not me. I really go the extra mile in working with you on material that goes beyond the event date.

Here’s a good example – I was recently booked to headline the annual summit for the Trapeze Group known as Think Transit – a company that provides software for the urban transit industry. It’s coming up this June in Nashville.

Beyond several planning conference calls to talk about content, and how I can best align my message to their overall event gaols, I took on a number of other projects to give them some extra benefits:

- a full Q&A interview about the future of their industry, which they ran as a blog post

http://www.trapezegroup.com/blog-entry/innovation-is-more-than-just-a-buzzword-interview-with-thinktransit-keynote

- and a highly customized event promotional video, that they have been using to heighten interest in the event

In addition, I’ve been doing extensive research in my go-to tool, Dow Jones Factiva, which lets me access thousands of newsletters, newspapers, magazine, research reports and more information, so I can zone in on the specific industry issues at hand. I describe that in this short video here.

So if you are bored with the typical keynote speaker who does little to pay attention to your needs, give me a call! I’ll even [pick up the phone](/keynotes-workshops/hell-pick-up-the-phone/)!