I expected a flood of contest entries by now, but none have come in yet. Maybe everyone is thinking about what they will write. Instead, I have sold several advance copies of my 150 page e-book, Your Wisdom is Worth a Million. I guess more people would rather pay for a book that will help them increase their incomes than write 10 sentences that could win them a home. People teach me new things every day and I have to chuckle when they surprise me by blowing my expectations.
Now that I have found that I can open my old web pages with Dreamweaver I can get on with erecting my online speaker directory to promote speakers, CommissionFreeSpeakers.com. I've been offering a year's membership for $49 until September 1st and that includes a private forum just for experts who speak to discuss marketing and promotion. I think that I will offer a free speaker profile on Commission-Free Speakers with every purchase of my e-book YWIWAM until September 1st.
I am considering increasing the membership fee as of September 1st. Perhaps speakers are thinking that $49 for marketing them for a year is too little. My thinking was that if 500 speakers joined at $49, $24,500 would be enough money to promote all of us to meeting planners for a year. Perhaps I'll charge $495 and promote only 50 speakers. The great thing about the directory is that there are no commissions to pay on any speaking engagements a speaker receives. If I speaker wants to speak for free, he can. Or if a speaker wants my help in negotiating a contract I can, for a straight fee. Or speakers can receive 15 minutes of my time and advice and negotiate their own fees and contract terms.
Keeping in mind that speakers don't like having an "agent" or advocate increase or multiply their fees in exchange for a percentage of their fee, how does this concept grab you?
As I work on these two web sites I will also be completing Your Wisdom is Worth a Million and then raising the price to $89 to new buyers as soon as it is ready to deliver. I'm working on a news release to promote the book to consultants, lawyers, doctors, psychologists, veterinarians, chiropractors, speakers, and specialists.
Who I am
- Andrea Reynolds
- Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
- I'm a 72-year-old single female now living in the Tampa Bay area, from Erie Pennsylvania. I spent almost 30 years in Ontario Canada where I owned a personal public relations consultancy and wrote books on getting paid to consult, speak, and write. I stopped blogging in 2011-2012 when I attended to both parents' separate estates.
