Press and Media Releases

Contact Andrea Reynolds info@CommissionFreeSpeakers.com


For release: January 15, 2008

You CAN launch your speaking career without agents and bureaus

Andrea Reynolds, veteran speaker and owner of a new online speaker directory, CommissionFreeSpeakers.com offers this advice to new speakers who want to be the next Les Brown, Tony Robbins or Dottie Walters....

1. Become the expert on one narrow subject you can call your own.
2. Choose a subject you are passionate about - become an activist.
3. Hire a speechwriter to develop well-crafted presentations that inspire standing ovations.
4. Hone your speaking skills, voice and speech patterns, with or without a coach.
5. Achieve recognition locally as a household name and then expand your sphere of influence.
6. Have an online presence: both a web site and visibility where other speakers congregate.
7. Develop a good speaking contract to protect your interests.
8. Stop speaking for free and start charging in incrementally larger amounts until you meet with resistence.
9. Learn to negotiate your own fees and contract terms so you can keep the 25-35% commission payable to agents and bureaus.
10. Learn to market your expertise with both online and offline promotion.

Membership in CommissionFreeSpeakers.com is $99 a year and offers monthly promotion and a members-only marketing forum for speakers and promotion as a group to meeting planners and bureaus. Order the $2 Tip Sheet: "16 Ways to Promote Your Professional Speaking Online" on www.CommissionFreeSpeakers.com.


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Note to speakers: Andrea Reynolds has nearly 30 years experience as an independent publicist and public relations consultant. She has obtained press coverage in the following publications and on the following stations for clients through private PR campaigns, multiple times. This is the kind of exposure she will generate for CommissionFreeSpeakers.com.


NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

Time Magazine
Success Magazine
USA Today
Entrepreneur
Canadian Business Magazine
The Financial Post
Financial Post Magazine
The National Post
The Globe and Mail
The Toronto Star
The Toronto Sun
Calgary Sun
Vancouver Sun
Industrial Management Magazine
Sales and Marketing Management Magazine
New York Air Magazine
Canadian Living Magazine
Canadian Business Travel
Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover "Gazelle Gazette"
St. Catharine's Standard
Rocky Mountain Times
Las Vegas Review
Erie Morning News
Erie Daily Times
Jamestown
Virginia Beach Ledger-Star
Regina Post Leader
Canadian Manager
The Korea Times
Canadian Association Executive
The Enterprise
Presque Isle Focus
Metro Toronto Business Journal
Oakville Beaver
Oakville Journal Record
Etobicoke Guardian
Industrial Management
Skylines Magazine


TV AND RADIO

CBC Evening News
CBC Morningside
Dini Petty Show
Shirley Show
CityTv's Breakfast Television
CFRB 1010
WFLP 1530
WJET 1400
640 AM Toronto
740 AM Toronto
CHCH Hamilton
CHAM Hamilton
CHML Hamilton
WQLN Erie
WGR Buffalo
Q107 Toronto
CHUM AM
CHUM FM

Please contact Andrea Reynolds: info@CommissionFreeSpeakers.com