The Certain Way by Victor Ekpo Bassey

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They wouldn't pay me so I sold them my voice

Hey there...


Many years ago, when I was living in Calabar, I wanted to become a well paid speaker.


There was just one problem.


Nobody knew me.


And the conventional advice was that I should go around speaking for free until, eventually, someone decided I was worth paying.


I wasn't particularly excited about that arrangement.


I'd walk into organisations and try to get them to pay me ₦10,000 or ₦20,000 to speak to their staff.


And they'd say no.


Then I encountered Janet Switzer's work and discovered information marketing.

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