In this episode, Josh Elledge, CEO of Upmyinfluence, a company that turns thoughtful entrepreneurs into media celebrities, shares his thoughts on becoming a keynote speaker. Insights he shares include:
- Why become a keynote speaker
- Is keynote speaking for everyone
- Are the economics in becoming a keynote speaker favorable
- How to become a keynote speaker
- How to build your skill level as a keynote speaker
- How to address the issue of diminishing value of the content we deliver
- Is media training a must for those interested in becoming a keynote speaker
- How to build your visibility and brand when you don't have any public speaking experience to date.
- How to rate the opportunities available to you
- The people you need to engage with when seeking keynote speaking opportunities
- How to better understand what you're getting paid for as a keynote speaker
- How to develop your content strategy for an event to make it work from a business point of view
- and much more
Predictable B2B Success
If you lead a bootstrapped or funded B2B tech company and need revenue to be predictable, not just possible, this podcast was built for you.
Predictable B2B Success is the only show built exclusively for CEOs at seed-to-Series C tech companies who are ready to replace random acts of growth with a scalable, repeatable revenue system from first dollar to $50M+ ARR and beyond.
Each week, host Vinay Koshy sits down with elite revenue operators, GTM leaders, and founders who have solved the hardest problem in funded B2B tech: turning chaotic, unpredictable growth into something structural, a system that holds under investor pressure, market shifts, and scale.
What you will walk away with every episode:
- Operating frameworks for building predictable revenue pipelines
- Real playbooks from founders who have scaled B2B companies from seed to Series C and beyond
- GTM, RevOps, demand generation, and category design insights built for C-suite decisions, not marketing teams
- Strategies that compound across your organisation, not one-off tactics that fade
Why 500+ episodes and a 5.0-star rating?
This is not a show about inspiration. It is a show about operating clarity. Every guest is chosen because they have built systems in sales, content, community, product, or customer success that made revenue predictable. After 500+ episodes, the patterns are unmistakable. This archive is your competitive advantage.
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