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Hello. Let's bring actionable insights to the speaking industry.

Here at Talkadot, we're on a mission to provide the speaking and events industry with the right data to make great objective decisions when it comes to booking speakers.  

 

We’re here to help you discover your strongest differentiators, so you can effectively grow your speaking career.  We want to arm you with data, so you can prove to event planners that you are objectively great.

Our goal too, is to provide event planners with the transparency, visibility, and insights to confidently make decisions when booking speakers.  

We look forward to your input as we work together to achieve this vision!

Founding Team

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Arel

Arel is Talkadot's business development cofounder, best-selling author, and public speaker on likability, leadership and success.  Arel grew up on welfare in the Housing Projects of Brooklyn NY before going on to build a 7+ figures speaking and coaching business.  Arel has given thousands of talks and has been invited to be a featured speaker at the White House.  Inc. Magazine calls Arel a “high-energy motivator.”

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I know what it’s been like not to have people return my emails.  I know what it’s been like to have people ignore me and dismiss me quickly, without giving me a fair chance.

 

Right now, there’s no way for clients to know you’re the real deal – unless they’ve heard you speak or unless they have a trusted referral.

But what if there was a way for that to change?

 

Today, the speakers who collect and use data are the ones who command the highest booking fees.  That’s because these are the speakers who can prove their worth.


Through Talkadot, I want to create the same opportunity for all speakers, no matter their speaking experience and speaking level.

I want your clients to move away from seeing you as a commodity, and towards understanding the unique value that you bring to the table.

Please join me in the Talkadot movement for better transparency and for speakers to build a better speaking reputation.

- Arel

Pokin

Pokin is the product cofounder at Talkadot.  Before Talkadot, Pokin built and grew multiple businesses to millions of users each time.  Her last business (acquired by Penn National Gaming) was a mobile games studio whose games have been downloaded over 30M times.

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Jared

Jared is the technical cofounder of Talkadot.  Before that, Jared was employee #1 at JungleScout, the leading all-in-one platform for selling on Amazon.  Jared led all engineering efforts at JungleScout as VP of engineering, building a team that is actively serving 500,000+ individuals and brands today.

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Reach out to us anytime at [email protected] :) 

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