If you want someone to speak you only need to really send them a few emails! One inviting & confirming them. Then one a few days before confirming details. Send them three a week and they’ll hate you for further cluttering their inbox and demanding their time for frivolous things
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Speakers do loads of these events and know their stuff, you don’t have to micromanage everything: if they need anything, they’ll ask. I took 12 minutes finding the address of a venue recently because the organisers had sent me 42 emails and I had to go through them all to find it
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Bombarding speakers with requests, misusing their phone numbers, texting them at night: it just means they’ll dread your event, never come back and recommend colleagues say no to you. Make a clear plan, stick to it, relax.
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I do lots of events, mostly unpaid (if you’re making a profit, I’ll want paying, if you’re a charity/campaign I’ll do it free as long as I’m not out of pocket) but you don’t need to send people dozens of messages/tweets/emails!
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We will remember this message when we invite you for a speaking slot
@DawnHFoster
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Do it! Happy to come along as long as you don’t send me 400 emails
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