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Re: Subject: Re: Finding Places To Speak
This has been a great thread, though for me it is mostly hypothetical. I'm
just not good at self promotion. I love speaking to groups, am usually very
well received, love meeting with gardeners, but mostly I wait for them to
call me.
Now I'll fess up. I do the 25 and 50 dollar talks. I suspect there are
others on this list who do, too, and who have kept quiet, intimidated by the
big draws. I live in a rural area, and 15 member garden clubs just don't
have much money. They call on a lot of extension agents which, around here,
means cows and geraniums. If I turned down a 25 dollar gig, I couldn't have
coffee in the local diner without dirty looks. OTOH, my column runs in some
exurban weeklies, and their garden clubs are considerably more flush and
lucrative.
Three years ago I did a presentation at a Pennsylvania Master Gardeners
conference on container gardens on the cheap. It relied on found containers
and generally trashed the popular trend toward whiskey barrels with six
different plants. Ran three hours. The large room booked full, sending many
reluctantly on to other presenters. It was well received. Oh, I guess I can
say -- it got raves. (Wish I knew you were looking, jo ellen.) It got an
invitation for two slightly shorter presentations at Longwood Gardens and
one hour or less in several venues. It is a very popular topic and --
(blush) -- I do it pretty well. Without Powerpoint. No one dozes.
In a way I am sorry it caught on. I know a few other topics. And I
particularly enjoy the Q&A afterwards. (At my first Longwood presentation,
they finally turned out the lights on us.)
I do a one hour talk with notes made on the back of a business card. I don't
sit at a desk and sweat out a script. I consider the topic and run it
constantly through my mind while I'm out working in the garden. It works for
me. And for my audiences.
D
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