Comments on: Speakers and fees: an insiders view

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:40:11 +0000

FYI – this post looks empty in IE8

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:14:21 +0000

Livia, to address your questions about where we source talent:

We seek out speakers we feel have content or expertise or other attributes that would be beneficial to our clients. We also learn of speakers from our clients – a meeting planner’s endorsement of a speaker is about as good as it gets! And we also take note of recommendations from other speakers whom we respect. Hope that helps!

Thanks for reading.

By: Miguel Cavalcanti

Miguel Cavalcanti — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:50:00 +0000

Hi Scott,

Got here from twitter. Great post, thanks for sharing.

I totally agree with her on the “energy” point.

And also, I would say the value of seeing the speeaker in person, face-to-face. It´s scarce. If I´m at event A, I can´t be at event B. I have to travel.

Also, I would say speeches are enternaiment events, not only information event. The best speakers learn to mix content with great humor and stage presence.

I´m trying to do that, learning and improving, day-by-day. Your post helped me.

Thanks a lot, Miguel, from Brazil

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:57:13 +0000

Thanks Matt – fixed.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:39:15 +0000

Small typo: “If a company does $500 million in revenue and a speaker offers some nuggets of wisdom that spark a 1% boost in performance, that’s $500,000.” A 1% boost in performance would be $5 million, a much more significant impact.

By: Livia Labate

Livia Labate — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:39:51 +0000

Thanks for sharing this Scott, very interesting. I would love to know how they source talent; How do they become aware of new speakers? Do they look for people in various conferences? Do they actively recruit new speakers?

I am also interested to know (maybe you know), if speakers who mainly do that for a living, coach other people; who is grooming the next generation of speakers?