Celebrity speakers are continuing to draw in audiences of the masses at events across the globe. With their international appeal and exciting presentations, more and more Clients are turning towards booking well-known speakers. With their motivational and inspirational presentations, they are a great choice for all types of events.

At Worldwide Speakers Group, we have the ability to help Clients contact and book the most well-suited speaker for their event, which includes their desired celebrity speaker. There are differences, however, when booking a celebrity speaker as compared to a professional speaker.

Meeting and event coordinators are vital players across every industry. They are expert planners and communicators, and ultimately responsible for creating experiences that bring every team’s vision to life.

One of WWSG’s experts, Carleigh Blewett, answered some questions about her past and present experiences as an Event Planner across different industries.

The heart of any business lies in marketing. The most successful companies, big or small, depend on effective marketing.

The term "marketing" covers a lot of different activities -- all associated with selling your company's products and services. This can be tricky for a lecture agency, like the Worldwide Speakers Group, where the products and services are people and their keynote speeches.

Rahna Faddoul, Manager of Marketing at WWSG, understands the importance of determining what the client needs and creating demand, the two things marketing should encompass.

Some may think that finding the cost for a keynote speaker is as simple as a Google search. After all, Google holds the answers for almost anything. Unfortunately, many factors play into how much a client spends on a keynote speaker, which is why many speaker bureaus do not automatically list a speaker’s fee, also known as their honorarium. Instead, their website will read: “contact us for fee” in order to share the number.

When searching for the estimated cost for a keynote speaker, most search results will lead in the direction of a speaker or lecture agency. Some may see this as secrecy, but it is because fees can vary depending on many factors.

Depending on location, duration of the keynote and audience size, a speaker may adjust his or her honorarium. Due to this, many speakers and clients use lecture agencies as their resource to negotiate and contact more notoriously private speakers. Lecture agencies specialize in finding and contacting highly sought-after keynote speakers.

Despite the variation in costs from speaker to speaker, there are some trends that help estimating the price for certain keynote speakers.

With the change and evolution of modern technologies, businesses big and small are doing everything they can to keep up. For it is the process of attracting targeted audiences to the company and brand that will spell the difference between a successfully thriving business – and a failed one.

Sharon McMahon, the digital mastermind at the Worldwide Speakers Group, is the in-house expert at all things graphic design, aesthetics and digital marketing. She shares her inside views and just exactly what it means to keep up (and excel) in the digital world.

This article was originally published on MacroPolo.org, and has been republished here with permission from the author.
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Imagine, for a moment, that you’re writing a short history of reform euphoria in China. Your essay would be, well, pretty short.

From my vantage point, at least, in the last decade there have been just two notable moments of exuberance about the prospects for economic reform in China. One was in 2011, when China issued its 12^th Five Year Plan (2011-2015). This document marked a noteworthy shift in the underlying thinking about China’s growth model and distribution priorities. And it came at an important juncture in China’s post-1978 economic history: Four years earlier, in 2007, then Premier Wen Jiabao had called China’s economy “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable”—a searing indictment of the prevailing growth model that seemed to lay the political groundwork for a much-delayed shift in strategy.

By 2011, that shift seemed finally to have come—at least on paper.

Every year, the month of March is a time we celebrate and honor all of women’s history. In 1987, Congress declares March as National Women’s History Month in perpetuity. Now, it is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. It is celebrated throughout the month of March in just the United States, but also the United Kingdom and Australia.

This article was originally published on KyivPost.com and has been republished here with permission from the author. 
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It cannot be repeated often enough that the Kurds were, in Syria as in Iraq, our dike, our rampart, the wall of valor and energy shielding us from the Islamic State.

In Syria, no less than in Iraq, they have been the bolt that barred the border doors that the Iraqi and Turkish armies left swinging open. The revolving doors through which passed the same Islamists who, after tormenting the Near East came to carry out attacks in Europe.

Their victory won, the Kurdish fighters were naive enough to think that they would be allowed to live in peace on the land that they had defended and on which their brothers and sisters died and were buried.

At Worldwide Speakers Group, we pride ourselves in being a leading global professional services firm combined with the best customer service and sales experienced team. Each professional on our team has the experience our clients may need when planning their perfect event.

We sat down with Bill Hart, Vice President of Sales, and asked him what trends and tendencies he has seen with his clients.