Re: gardenwriters Digest, Vol 85, Issue 13

**S* B* <s*@aol.com>**

RE: GardenSpeakers

Hi Amy,
Great idea! I'm working on some new projects for Garden World Report that
dovetails into what you are doing- promoting garden authors.

We should touch base at some point to talk about how we can cross pollinate
each other's effort and gain better traction.

Shirley Bovshow

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:20 AM,
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> From: "Amy Stewart" <amy@amystewart.com>
> Subject: [GWL] GreatGardenSpeakers.com survey
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> Hello all,
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> I've been working with Debra Prinzing, Scott Calhoun, Mary Ann Newcomer,
> and
> Nan Sterman about the possibility of creating a website to help promote us
> as speakers.  If you are currently speaking as part of your career, we
> would
> love it if you'd take a quick survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ggsto
> let us know what you think of the idea.  Please feel free to forward this
> link on, post it to your blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc, and otherwise spread
> the word.
>
> There's more detail about how this site would work in the introduction to
> the survey, but here's the short version:
>
> GreatGardenSpeakers.com is founded by garden speakers to provide a way for
> garden clubs, botanical gardens, and other venues to easily find and book
> speakers. The goal is to raise our visibility as speakers and garden
> writers, and to help us better connect with audiences. We've also noticed
> that program chairs of garden clubs & other venues have a hard time finding
> speakers to begin with, and we really see this as a service to them.
>
> The site's unique featuers include:
>
> 1.  Active, ongoing outreach to potential venues to help promote us all.
>
> 2.  "User reviews" allow audience members to directly post testimonials for
> each speaker.
>
> 3.  "Coming to a City Near You" feature allows speakers to list cities
> they're already traveling to.  Visitors to the site can search by location
> to find out what speakers are already coming through town, thus making it
> possible to arrange several events in the same region and save on travel
> expenses.
>
> 4.  "Featured Listings" allow speakers to promote a new book or topic.
>  They
> could also advertise a "package deal" of a few speakers who want to promote
> themselves together for a full-day symposium, panel, or other multi-speaker
> program.
>
> 5.  Membership is open to all speakers who speak to these venues,
> regardless
> of their organizational or publisher affiliations.
>
> There will be a small fee for speakers to participate, which covers the
> monthly hosting costs for the website and some outreach or advertising to
> venues.  Our goal is to operate it on a break-even basis and to keep it
> affordable.  We may accept limited advertising, perhaps from garden book
> publishers, to help cover our costs.
>
> Speakers, please take the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ggs ,
> and
> feel free to include your comments and ideas.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Amy Stewart
>
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> email:? amy@amystewart.com?
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