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title: Don’t tell the audience you aren’t prepared.
author: kazu634
date: 2009-10-30
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<blockquote title="Speaker’s Tip: Don’t tell the audience you aren’t prepared by Jason Fried of Basecamp" cite="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1989-speakers-tip-dont-tell-the-audience-you-arent-prepared">
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      People take days off of work, spend hundreds on a conference ticket, travel for thousands of miles, and pay hefty rates for flights and hotels to come hear you speak, and you tell them you didn’t have time to prepare a talk? What’s cool about that? The audience is busy too, but they found time to come to the conference. You can’t find time to properly prepare a presentation for them?
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<cite><a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1989-speakers-tip-dont-tell-the-audience-you-arent-prepared" onclick="__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1989-speakers-tip-dont-tell-the-audience-you-arent-prepared', 'Speaker’s Tip: Don’t tell the audience you aren’t prepared by Jason Fried of Basecamp');" target="_blank">Speaker’s Tip: Don’t tell the audience you aren’t prepared by Jason Fried of Basecamp</a></cite>
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