Today a young speaker asked me for advice about a conference that was making sketchy demands. It's good to know what's typical and what's not, when to push back, and when to outright bail. SO: Experienced speakers: what are YOUR conference red flags?
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Replying to @avdi
Acknowledging that people have varying perspectives on this: 1) Under no circumstances should you ask speakers to pay for a ticket. 2) For-profit conferences should generally comp travel. (I feel less strongly about speaking fees than many people.) 3) Professionalism: have it.
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Professionalism in this context means that you don’t do anything to a speaker that you wouldn’t do to an attorney or senior management at your employer.
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e.g. Would you ask your attorney to share a hotel room with someone they don’t know to economize on costs to your for-profit business? No. That’s absurd.
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And while this is squishier than that observation: if senior management traveled to your city at your request to take a meeting, would you ever intimate to them that you were doing them a favor by having called them to the meeting?
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