ML99 – The Power of One Hour on The Stage with Pete Vargas

PeteVargas is founder and CEO of Advance Your Reach. Since 2003, Pete and his team have booked over 20,000 events that have generated more than $40 million in revenue—and reached tens of millions of people. The reason why people flock to learn from Pete is not just his intensity and passion for the stage. But, his ability to find the right stage, book that stage, and scale any speaker, author, or entrepreneur’s enterprise far beyond the stage. He has booked legendary speakers including Ryan Deiss, and Shark Tank’s Daymond John and shared the stage with titans such as Michael Phelps, Robert Cialdini, Howie Mandel, and Brendon Burchard.

Pete Vargas

Top Takeaways: The Power of One Hour on The Stage with Pete Vargas

  • There are 5 people in your life that you love, and you need to let them know you love them
  • Stages, the fastest way to make a deeper relationship and see people go deeper
  • Stages have been around for thousands of years, they aren’t going anywhere
  • First step to stage success is getting super clear on who your audience is
  • Dream stage- the majority of the audience is your ideal client
  • I’ve never changed someone’s life with a speaking gig, but sometimes they buy my tapes and cassettes and I have a chance to change their life – Zig Ziglar
  • The stage is the starting point, not the ending point
  • You must measure everything- to be successful
  • 8 ways to scale past the stage
  • Meeting planners don’t want you to be a vendor, but a content provider
  • The sales cycle is expedited when using the power of 1 hour (stage)
  • Break through the resistance of using stages for marketing, it will catapult your business
  • The head, the heart and the hands – to win onstage
  • Stages impact people’s lives

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Learning From Leaders: 

Current Book: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

Leadership Superpower: Woo and stages

Motivational Mantra:

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel

Maya Angelou

A lot of the most powerful messages that live on this earth are in the graveyard

Prince EA

Book Most Often Gifted: The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) by Hal Elrod

Additional Items Mentioned

Special offer from Pete Vargas and his website: https://advanceyourreach.com/ML/

About the author

Jake Carlson is a popular speaker, accountability partner, and host of the Modern Leadership podcast. Jake built his business while traveling with his family around the world. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn. Read more about him here.