Comment by Jack_Christopher on Hanging Out My Speaker's Shingle · 2008-11-05T16:21:46.000Z · LW · GW

EY, were you ever in Toastmasters?

"Not doing too well this year? Ditch the expensive big-name speakers. I can give a fascinating and useful talk and I won't charge you as much."

The conventional wisdom the says that charging more will get you more gigs. The line of reasoning being, "If he cost that much, he must me an authority."

But you have a while before you'll be viewed that way outside of H+ (and OB now too, great to see ).

But do you think people who hire you to speak will adjust for that and end up paying you less?