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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I worked for a company that prided itself on "being careful with money." They hired a VP of Marketing who was amazed to be asked to share a room with the founder/CEO on a big trip to a conference.
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He offered to pay for his own room. The CEO declined, saying that if they asked other employees on the same trip to share, they should share. He agreed that was reasonable. Of course, strangers were not involved.
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The Japanese salaryman in me is markedly less scandalized by asking for it within an org boundary, and (contingent on asking any employee to do it, which I wouldn’t) I am supportive of the logic “management should be under same constraint; heavy is head that wears the crown.”
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