5 This refers to “true” buyers, whom I call “economic buyers,” not meeting planners and bureaus, which are merely middlemen. See my book Million Dollar Consulting (New York: McGraw-Hill, 4th edition, 2009) for discussions of economic buyers and how to recognize them.

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