Some days I feel an urge to dig holes for a living

Great post, Michael!

I've organized several seminars, workshops and tradeshows, and found it easy to get speakers and facilitators to "show up and get paid" and do a great job, but darn few willing to work to get "butts in the seats", even for a larger cut of the revenue.

If the audience is pre-arranged, they're ready - if they have to work to attract the audience, it's too hard.

It's happening right now - my partner in developing a workshop for May decided to take the weekend off and go to a spa because of the "hassles" of having to work so hard to get participants - even though we got 150 replies from a hot list of 200 previous clients wanting more info and details!

As usual, your post is spot on, and I'll use it to help get my partner back on track!

Bob