Thanks,
Mojo
For-Profit Guest Speaker Rules & Regulations
Thank you for the valuable service you provide the community. We look forward having you share your knowledge and advice with the members of the Dallas PUA Society. To provide smooth operation setting up the event, read the Rules & Regulations for visiting speakers. Second, contact the Event Organizer to set up the event.
Reading the Rules & Regulations ensures that your visit proceeds smoothly and allows for an efficient means for you to communicate your valuable knowledge while maintaining the ethics of the Dallas PUA Society. As a non-for-profit, our policies and procedures forbid us to promote PU for-profit businesses events and products in return for monetary compensation. Please note it is against the Society policies for the Executive Board or Event Organizers to benefit in anyway from having gurus here which include monetary reward, accepting free products, free workshop passes, etc. Below is the step-by-step procedure to organize the events followed by the Rules and Regulations.
1) Read rules and regulations
2) Contact Event Organizer, include
a. E-mail description of your event to be posted in the forum
b. Optional: Description of any free product(s) to be randomly given away to a member
3) Work with Event Organizer to set up free meet and greet
4) If free product give away (2b.), a mass-email will be sent to all registered forum members
We both share the goal of improving the PU skill set of the individuals in this community. As such, if you provide a free pass(s) to your workshop/seminar or product(s) for us to randomly give away to a member, we can help out the community while providing you more exposure. Contest for prizes are communicated to the members through mass e-mail and not just a thread on the forum.
In order to keep the Dallas PUA forums running smoothly and providing a constructive way to learn pick-up, please follow these simple rules. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact the Event Organizer (Credit to Formhandle whom originated most of the following material).
1. Speaker/guru can not be paid to appear: Nothing is paid for
except for refreshments at the event or unexpected stuff which is
a burden to the visiting speaker. They are here to share info not self-promote
(of course they ARE there to self-promote, that should not be their only
or primary interest in being there or they should not be invited).
2. No self-promotion of speaker: DO NOT allow the speaker to self-promote during their "talk", no "My web site is at...”, no "Talk to my buddy in the back who's collecting
email addresses... ", no flyers or business cards handed out. All the promotion they should require is the fact that the Lair is promoting them to be there to talk in the first place and Lair members given info on how to get in touch with them IF they are interested after the talk. There should be no unsolicited practices occurring. If someone is
interested, they should be the one to approach the speaker and/or his biz, not the other way around. This puts the focus on the guy having a good talk and having him see your lair members as targets to sell expensive products.
3. No workshop promotion: No promotion of workshops the guy is doing in that location after the talk. For example no "Don't forget guys, I'm only in town for 4 more days, so sign up to my $1500 bootcamp in the back before you go. We take Visa and Amex!" If they are hosting a bootcamp/workshop event before/after, it can be stated by the lair to members at the time the talk is "promoted". Then it's up to the member to decide on their own whether they want to pay for the a workshop or product. If he has to hype to members at the meeting, then he's using the lair to be a salesman for his business (unwittingly or otherwise).
4. No kick-backs: No kick-backs of any kind to organizers of the event (especially the Executive board). If there is a cost to get a room or place for the meeting, you take the REAL cost and divide it up among how many members you estimate will attend, add $2 per head on top of that and you got how much you might have to charge members to attend. NONE of that money goes to the speaker(s) and if there is any left over it goes into the Society’s coffers. If there is not enough, you contact those who did attend and ask if they can cover the minor difference.
Once you have read and understand the regulations, contact the Society’s Event Organizer. He will answer any questions you may have and work with you to arrange the event. Either contact one of the Forum Moderators (at www.dallaspua.com/forum) for the Event Organizer’s information or send in a request to info@dallaspua.com. Again, thank you for your part in helping to improve the members of the seduction community. We look forward to working with you.
