When Jerry Teplitz was an attorney in the early 1970’s, he was peer-pressured into taking a Hatha yoga class. His plan was to use his legal skills to prove to his friends that Hatha didn’t work. The only problem, it did. In fact, Jerry was so impressed that he went on to become a master teacher of yoga and later earned graduate degrees in wholistic health sciences. He also studied Shiatsu, a form of Japanese massage that he honed to cure headaches, migraines, and even hangovers in just minutes.
Jerry turned to a career in professional speaking in order to share what he had learned with the world. Dr. Teplitz has also been honored as a Certified Speaking Professional by the NSA and selected as Top Rated Speaker by the International Platform Association and. Most recently, he was chosen Best in Class Speaker by the Professional Convention Management Association. He is the author of four books, including Switched-On Living and Brain Gym for Business.
The excerpt below is from Finding Speaking Success, a collection of over 25 interviews with public speakers who have achieved a full time income from speaking.
We also work hard to customize our offerings to each particular niche or market. If you go on my website at Teplitz.com, you’ll see programs and keynotes for about 20 different industries. When you click on one, you can see what I have done specifically within that industry. When you build a niche in one industry and go deep, the benefit is you become very well known in that industry.
When you run across economic difficulties – like we are going through right now – you can end up well-known in an industry that’s not booking anybody. Having niches in multiple markets has allowed me to survived four recessions.
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