Any speaker worth their salt should never speak for free. What many people (including many meeting organizers) don’t understand is that even though a speaker is “only speaking for an hour”, in reality, there are several days of prep, travel,…
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Chris Houchens
Marketing Speaker + Marketing Author
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maybe you should cancel your meeting
Here’s something that sounds weird coming from me: Most conferences and meetings are a complete waste of time/money/resources for both organizers and attendees. I do several events a year as a marketing speaker. Since, no matter what business you’re in,…
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Tagged with: bestof2009, big ideas, business speaker, conferences, marketing speaker
Posted in speaking, strategy
Posted in speaking, strategy
speaking south
A few notes on upcoming speaking events: (near) Birmingham, AL – On Fri Nov 14, I’ll be talking healthcare B2B marketing at the annual national meeting of the Contact Lens Manufacturers Association.(more info and registration) Baton Rouge, LA – I…
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Tagged with: adfed, b2b, business speaker, healthcare marketing, marketing speaker, self promo
Posted in speaking
Posted in speaking
muscle shoals has got the swampers
Back in my radio career, in addition to managing operations for the stations in the group, I also held down several airshifts as a “radio personality”. DJs get sick of songs way before you do. On the CHR formatted station,…
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Tagged with: bestof2008, big ideas, management, marketing speaker, radio
Posted in marketing, speaking, strategy
Posted in marketing, speaking, strategy
wanna see me?
A brief blogging pit stop to announce some public events I’ll be speaking at in the next few months. April 11 (Chicago) — Inland Press Interactive Media SeminarsA big day for newspapers with lots of discussion on multimedia in journalism…
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