As the name says, there are no commissions because I don't provide any services beyond promoting the directory to meeting planners. To show that I do have the ear of meeting planners, Here's an article in which I was interviewed for Exhibitor magazine: http://www.exhibitoronline.com/exhibitormagazine/article.asp?ID=656
Separate from the directory, I am a speaker advocate and marketing consultant to consultants and specialists, negotiating larger fees, quantity book sales and better contract terms for speakers. I also produce some manuals for speakers, which will be e-books shortly, and some services. See: http://www.AndreaReynolds.com/books.html and http://www.AndreaReynolds.com/store.html
As a former speaker agency owner, I promoted more than 50 speakers on my speaker agency web site just as I had done before the Internet. Because of the Internet meeting planners could find speakers on my web site and then Google them to engage them without my knowledge. Speakers could then either speak for free to avoid paying me a commission because I had, in their minds, done no work for them. So I never got the opportunity to double or triple their fees for them. So, recognizing I had to be the one to change the way I played the game, and being the contrarian that I am, I turned things around so it works for everyone.
Andrea
