Good day all Speakers and Trainers in Africa
This is a No Risk No Cost offer to you to promote yourself and your business to prospective clients.
The past 18 months have been particularly tough for all speakers and trainers and in discussions with many of you, we have determined that some people’s turnover is down by as much as 70% whist the average reduction in turnover is down by some 40% over the good times in 2007 and 2008. In general the reasons appear to be centred around the downturn in the economy due to the financial meltdown and the lack of confidence in the business circles. This has caused the Corporate Companies, SMEs , Government and Training Companies etc to severely cut back on Training, Conferences and the like and hence the knock on effect to the Speaking and Training industry in general. There are of course those Speakers and Trainers who have “Anchor” Clients who have not been hit as badly – but they too are reporting a slowdown in number of engagements (gigs).
Speakers101 launched itself in this same period to assist Speakers and Trainers to promote themselves to Conference Organisers, Event Planners and the Corporate , Business and Government sectors. We believe that the best thing to do when the business cycle is low is to Market and Advertise and Promote MORE – Not Less as this keeps ones name top of mind and gets you a fair slice of the available business even though it may be smaller than in the past. Stopping Promotions, Advertising etc just gets you and your business to be part of the general downward spiral.
However when times are tough we all look for ways to save money and the first place we turn to is usually Advertising and Promotions.
Speakers101 recognises your need to promote yourself and understands that cash flow does not allow you to register for its services right now. There are many people that have visited the site ( www.speakers101.co.za ) and sent us mails saying – yes we want to be part of this PORTAL but cannot afford the R900 annual subscription right now. As one person put it – “I am bleeding and cannot afford it even though I need it !”
We have therefore decided to:
- Offer you the opportunity to register on the site , create your Profile, list your Articles, Books, Products, Services
- To avail yourself of the full site benefits for speakers and trainers – See http://www.speakers101.co.za/site/suppliers.asp?ID=8&TID=12
- Creating a fully fledged Web Presence and the ability to view the stats to see how people are viewing your profile/li>
- Benefit from the Speakers101 Promotions to the Event Planners, Event Organisers, Corporate Companies, Government Departments, SMEs.
- Benefit from its listings in all relevant Directories and Search Engines
At absolutely NO COST and NO RISK to you personally.
Yes you are reading this right – we will not be billing you for one cent for this service for the remainder of 2010.
Note:- (here’s the catch ;-))
- At the end if the year i.e. End December 2010 - you will be able to assess if you like the listing and the promotion of yourself and your business and view the live stats on how often your profile was accessed and you will know what business you derived from this listing etc.
- If after doing this you believe that this is not the place for you to promote yourself and reap all the benefits from the site you merely advise us and we will deactivate your profile and that’s that – no questions no hard feelings etc.
- If however you would prefer to stay active on the portal and benefit from its promotion we will send you an invoice for the 2011 annual subscription of R 900. ( We believe by then the market will have picked up for all of us and that you will have benefitted from at least one Gig during this period that will make this fee insignificant in your budget)
So what have you got to lose? – Nothing except a bit of time to register and create your profile on the site.
P.S. If you would like assistance with creating your profile we have staff who will assist you for a small fee of R300 per profile. – but if you can use Word you should be able to do this all in about 1 hour on your own. This is the shortcut to the registration page which explains what to do. http://www.speakers101.co.za/site/view.asp?ID=21
P.P.S. Please remember that Speakers101 --- IS NOT – A Speakers Agency , NOR is it a Speakers Bureau.
It does NOT take any commissions from you for any business that you generate from the portal and it does not charge your clients anything either. This is a portal for promoting the Speakers and Trainers in Africa to the Marketplace and so ensure that you get more speaking and training opportunities. The Clients you make contact with from this portal are YOUR Clients and not ours we merely make sure they and other clients looking for your services find and contact you easier.
Finally I look forward to welcoming you as a member of the Speakers101 community and promoting you and your business to all the prospective clients in Africa.
Kind regards
Adolph
Speakers 101
Adolph P. Kaestner
Tel: 011-679-3145Cell: 082-493-9093
Fax: 086-565-1548 Skype me: adolphk
Web: www.speakers101.co.za
eMail: adolph@speakers101.co.za
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