<blockquotetitle="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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