3 Please send your cards and letters elsewhere. I know that there are fine meeting planners and that some of them are actually closely tied to key business goals. But that is the overwhelming rarity. Speakers who focus on meeting planners as their primary buyers will never be able to escalate their fees dramatically because the value/results dynamic is simply not important to those buyers.

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