{"id":2761,"date":"2013-07-14T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2013-07-14T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T15:05:17","slug":"professional-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/07\/14\/professional-speakers","title":{"rendered":"Professional speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the opensource world, we go and give talks for free. This is generally the consensus with regards to the tech world as well. You don&#8217;t pay for speakers. Some speakers have fees and you somehow negotiate with them to provide you a talk for free. Or you just don&#8217;t have them speak at your event (I know this from organising large events too).<\/p>\n<p>But paying for speakers must be common. There are so many speaker bureaus out there.<\/p>\n<p>Look at Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. Now it seems that Timothy Geithner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/3dd59602-e42c-11e2-91a3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Z1zCEOjZ\">earned<\/a> USD$400,000 for 3 speeches (seems his average is $100,000 per speech). Hillary Clinton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/12\/us\/politics\/hillary-clinton-hits-the-lucrative-speechmaking-trail.html?pagewanted=all\">charges<\/a> USD$200,000 for a speech on average.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, I must be in the wrong industry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Professional%20speakers&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F07%2F14%2Fprofessional-speakers&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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