Speaker & Event Planning Resources

Expert insights, practical guides, and proven strategies for event planners and professional speakers.

Talkacon 2026: Your Speaker Data Treasure Map

Introducing Talkacon 2026: a two-day, in-person training and masterminding experience where you’ll receive a “Personalized Speaker Data Treasure Map”, a custom benchmark report that turns your Talkadot history into strategic clarity and direction. Using your private data plus anonymized, aggregate Talkadot benchmarks, your report identifies the highest-opportunity niches for your topic based on real booking and pay patterns, how to position yourself and your message so buyers “get it” instantly, recommends pricing based on what comparable speakers are actually being paid, and pinpoints what truly makes you stand out, often in ways you haven’t been leveraging.

Arel Moodie

Talkadot Cofounder

February 11, 2026

Talkadot Feature Release Notes

Find out the newest features of Talkadot here!

New Features

Arel Moodie

May 7, 2026

Message-Market Fit: Why Some Speakers Get Booked at $20,000 and Others With the Same Topic Don’t

wo speakers can have the same topic. One gets polite smiles. The other gets booked over and over at $20,000+. That difference is not the website. It is not always the video. It is not always the title. It is not even the credentials. It is something most speakers never name. Sometimes the real difference is whether the buyer hears the message and thinks: “That’s exactly what our audience needs right now.” If you feel are working harder than you need to...this is for you. I wrote a longer breakdown on the $20,000+ answer called "Message-Market Fit." And once seen, the way speakers get booked starts to look very different.

Speakers

Marketing Strategies

Arel Moodie

How Talkadot Pays Speakers (And Why Your Leads Stay Yours)

Marketing Strategies