Funny Articles About the World of Meetings, Conventions and Professional Speaking

The following articles offer a purely funny and wacky look at the world of professional speaker by motivational business speaker Michael Kerr.

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• A Brief History of the Meetings and Speaking Industry
• A Meeting of the Minds Between Professional Speakers and Meeting Planners
• Bridging the Generation Abyss at Your Next Meeting
• Building a Speaker Business
• Conventional Wisdom
• Deepity Thoughts: Missing Terms from the World of Meetings and Conventions
• Everything About Meetings I Learned in Kindergarten
• How Meetings Offer The Joy of Discovery
• How to Cut Corners and Save Money On Your Next Meeting
• Life-Long Learning in Meetings
• Meeting and Convention Terms Explained: What IS the Difference Between a Conference and a Convention?
• Meeting in the Middle? Customizing Meetings to Match All Canadians’ Needs
• Meeting Your Planning Peeves
• Meetings at Warp Nine
• Money-Making Meetings
• Monkey Business: Marketing Lessons from the Ikea Monkey
• Now I’m No Expert…But I Think Facts Are Dead!
• Oh Canada!
• On The Outs With Outhouse Training
• People Who Need People
• Return on Inspiration
• Social Marketing: How to Be Socially Savvy at Your Next Meeting
• Speaker Pet Peeves: Things That Annoy Professional Speakers About Meeting Planners
• The Fax About Professional Associations
• The Jet Trekking Life of a Motivational Speaker
• The Meeting Matchmaker: How Do You Know You’ve Hired the Right Motivational Speaker?
• The Possibilities Are Mind Boggling
• There’s Got to Be A Morning After: Surviving Meeting Disasters
• Thinking Outside the Meeting
• Traveling On a Shoestring Budget
• Unpacking the Fine Art of Packing
• We’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe?
• We’ve GOT to Keep Meeting Like This…
• Why Your Meetings Need to Go Green or Go Home!
• Words from Mouths