No. 1 bugbear with doing events: organisers who send you absolutely endless pointless and unnecessary emails, or late night/early morning text messages. Unpaid gigs are the worst for this, men (always men) acting like you should be spending an hour a day prepping for a 1hr panel
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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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