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How to Hire a Speaker Without Losing Your Sanity: 5 Tips For Hiring a Speaker

How to Hire a Speaker Without Losing Your Sanity: 5 Tips For Hiring a Speaker

If you’ve ever been to a live event, you know just how important having a great speaker is. Speakers that engage with the audience and can create a dynamic connection with everyone who attends are worth their weight in gold.

When you’re hiring a speaker, there are five tips that you can use to make sure that you’re investing in the best and most engaging speakers for your audience. Here are some of the ways you can ensure that you have the best speaker possible for your event and can help you expedite the hiring process with your speaker and save you time and potential frustration, too!

Congratulations to Amber Shelby!

Congratulations to Amber Shelby who received the eSpeakers 10-year service award this month. Thank you, Amber, we appreciate your continued outstanding dedication to eSpeakers and our customers. We are lucky to have such a loyal and hardworking team member. A big thank you for being simply Excellent!

How technology is changing the way speakers get booked

Would you like to know how speakers will be booked in the (very near) future?

In this presentation by eSpeakers’ own Dave Reed to the Mountain West chapter of the National Speakers Association (NSA) teaches, he teaches the audience:

  1. The new third way that getting hired
  2. How to have a potent presence that pulls in buyers

Meetings industry is looking great in 2016!

Last week at IMEX America (one of the largest meetings-related events in the world), I attended three different sessions on the “state of the union for meetings”. I was curious if my speaker friends could look forward to more engagements, or if I should tell them to start tightening their belt.

Want to know what the outlook is?

Professor Matthew

Matthew Wright, lead developer at eSpeakers, presented to a group of peers last night about a technology that eSpeakers developed and subsequently open sourced.

Way to go, Matthew!

iPad app available

We are excited to announce that the eSpeakers iPad app has been approved by Apple and is now available in the App store!

The iPad app is free for PRO members, so grab your copy and enjoy this additional way to access your speaking business with eSpeakers.

If you’re not yet a PRO-level member, upgrade with the promo code IPAD and save $99 on your first year of service (good through end of June; choose “annual” billing for the code to work).

What does the eSpeakers iPad app do?