Comments on: Ruining It For Legitimate Conferences http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2007/03/24/ruining-it-for-legitimate-conferences/ Lessons From the Launch of Tradeshows & Internet Media Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:06:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Shane Gibson, author Closing Bigger http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2007/03/24/ruining-it-for-legitimate-conferences/#comment-6139 Shane Gibson, author Closing Bigger Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:00:28 +0000 http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2007/03/24/ruining-it-for-legitimate-conferences/#comment-6139 TIM....I was responding to "Seems Red Herring is producing a conference where the speakers are charged $2,500 for the privilege of presenting" Possibly I misunderstood your posting? Then the statement was: "I guarantee any speaker that pays $2,500 is going to consider it a ticket to promote their company and give a sales pitch during their panel - a total disservice to the attendees." Wasn't that post about speakers being asked to pay to speak? (Something that seems very foreign to me as I get paid to speak as an author) A lot of these paid to speak events start of telling the speakers that they have been specially selected etc. etc. and once you're roped in they drop the "by the way it will cost you $2500 (as much as $20,000 for one group) for the privelege to speak. Cheers, Shane Gibson author Closing Bigger the Field Guide to Closing Bigger Deals TIM….I was responding to “Seems Red Herring is producing a conference where the speakers are charged $2,500 for the privilege of presenting” Possibly I misunderstood your posting? Then the statement was: “I guarantee any speaker that pays $2,500 is going to consider it a ticket to promote their company and give a sales pitch during their panel - a total disservice to the attendees.” Wasn’t that post about speakers being asked to pay to speak? (Something that seems very foreign to me as I get paid to speak as an author) A lot of these paid to speak events start of telling the speakers that they have been specially selected etc. etc. and once you’re roped in they drop the “by the way it will cost you $2500 (as much as $20,000 for one group) for the privelege to speak.

Cheers,

Shane Gibson
author
Closing Bigger the Field Guide to Closing Bigger Deals

]]> By: Tim Bourquin http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2007/03/24/ruining-it-for-legitimate-conferences/#comment-6015 Tim Bourquin Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:48:00 +0000 http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2007/03/24/ruining-it-for-legitimate-conferences/#comment-6015 Shane your comment doesn't make a lot of sense. Un-conference organizers don't pay speakers. Not sure what your point is in the second paragraph and I'm tempted to delete the comment entirely. Shane your comment doesn’t make a lot of sense. Un-conference organizers don’t pay speakers. Not sure what your point is in the second paragraph and I’m tempted to delete the comment entirely.

]]> By: Shane Gibson http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2007/03/24/ruining-it-for-legitimate-conferences/#comment-6013 Shane Gibson Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:04:41 +0000 http://www.tradeshowstartup.com/2007/03/24/ruining-it-for-legitimate-conferences/#comment-6013 I totally agree. What kind speaker pays? As a professional speaker and author if I did that I would be basically saying that I am such a low rate speaker that not only am I desperate for business but I am such a bad speaker that I have to pay others to watch me speak. Honestly, who is going to hire this guy? I get the calls all the time, an invitation to speak at a conference and the person is pretending to be a confrence organizer but they are actually one of many un-confrence sales people in a boiler room. I totally agree. What kind speaker pays? As a professional speaker and author if I did that I would be basically saying that I am such a low rate speaker that not only am I desperate for business but I am such a bad speaker that I have to pay others to watch me speak. Honestly, who is going to hire this guy?

I get the calls all the time, an invitation to speak at a conference and the person is pretending to be a confrence organizer but they are actually one of many un-confrence sales people in a boiler room.

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