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A shorter one-sheet books more speakers than a full one. The editor lets you switch sections off. · Speaker Hub
A shorter one-sheet books more speakers than a full one. The editor lets you switch sections off.
Every section in the one-sheet editor has an eye icon, and most speakers never click it. Here is which sections to hide, which two you cannot, and how to decide what stays.
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Open the layout panel in the one-sheet editor and you will find a list of sections, each with an eye icon and a pair of arrows. Most speakers scroll past it on the way to the text fields. They fill every box, leave every section on, and end up with a page that answers questions nobody asked.
The editor's own note on that list is blunt: switch off anything that is not selling you. A shorter sheet that answers the planner's questions beats a full one that buries them.
Every section you leave on competes with the others
A planner skimming a one-sheet is trying to settle four things quickly. What do you speak about, will their audience care, is booking you safe, and what do they do next. Each section either helps with one of those or it dilutes them.
A weak client logo row does not add proof. It dilutes the proof you already have. The editor's logo tip says it plainly: an unknown logo costs you more than an empty row. The same logic applies to a thin stats strip, a testimonials block with one generic quote, or a "seen in" row with a single outlet nobody recognizes.
Hiding a section is not admitting you have nothing. It is choosing which argument goes first.
Two sections cannot be hidden, and that is a hint
The name and headline block and the contact block are locked on. You can move the middle of the page around, but nothing can jump over the header or the footer.
That tells you what the page is for. Everything between those two blocks exists to get a planner from "who is this" to "where do I email them". If a section does not move someone along that path, it has no claim to the space.
What to switch off, in order
Anything empty or embarrassing. A section with one weak item is worse than no section. Hide it until you have something to put there.
Sections that repeat each other. If your flagship keynote already says what you do best, a long topics list underneath it often says the same thing in five different words.
Logo rows you would not name out loud. If you would not mention the client when a planner asked who you have worked with, the logo should not be on the page.
The topics section deserves a second look before you hide it. The editor lets you list up to six, but its guidance is that three or four reads as focused. If you have more, cut to the strongest rather than showing all of them.
Order matters as much as visibility
The arrows next to each section move it up or down. Use them. Whatever sits just under your header is the first thing a skimmer reads after your headline, so it should be the section that does the most convincing for you.
If your strongest asset is a result, lead with testimonials or stats. If it is a talk with a clear name and a clear outcome, lead with the flagship. Sections the current template does not draw will not appear in the list, and switching templates keeps your order and your content, so you can test both without risk.
Hidden is not deleted
This is what makes the whole exercise cheap. The eye icon flips a flag on the section. It does not clear the text or remove the images behind it. Hide your media logos today, win a feature next month, and switch the row back on with nothing to redo.
The same goes for the stuff that never belonged on the sheet in the first place. The editor's print tip says to keep your full A/V rider, travel policy, long bio, and complete client list somewhere else, in a separate planner kit. The one-sheet is the page that gets you onto a shortlist. The kit is for after you are on it.
A ten minute pass
Open your one-sheet and go section by section. For each, ask whether a planner who read only that block would be closer to booking you. If the answer is no, click the eye. Then look at the order of what remains and move the strongest section to the top.
No. The eye icon only marks the section as hidden. The words and images stay saved on your one-sheet, so you can switch the section back on later without retyping anything.
Which one-sheet sections can I not hide?
Two: the name and headline block at the top, and the contact and call to action block at the bottom. They are structural. Everything else, from the bio to the client logos, can be switched off and reordered.
How many topics should my one-sheet list?
Three or four. The editor allows up to six, but its own guidance says three or four reads as focused and nine reads as someone who will speak about anything.
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