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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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