Making Money With An After Dinner Speaker

The majority of fundraising events and charity do’s have the sole purpose of raising money and support for their cause. This support can be in the form of more volunteers, more financial contributors or networking contracts who can help with the charitable organisation in the long term.

Using an after dinner speaker can help the organisers to achieve all of these things. A speaker can help your event to gain publicity, more attendees and raise extra money through holding an auction, especially if they have celebrity value.
Publicity
Your event will enjoy a higher level of publicity of your after dinner speaker is famous or a celebrity. more people will find out about the event if a person of notoriety speaks out about it in the media or on the internet.

Increase Attendance
You will enjoy more attendants at your event when it gets more publicity from the speaker. Their fans will want to attend so they can see the speaker and people who have a general interest in current news stories will also sign up to attend.   The increased publicity will also let people know about the event who have an interest in the cause, and who might not have known about it had it not been for the speaker.

Boost Donations
Some of the best after dinner speakers will bring an item to your event that can be auctioned off to raise even more money for your cause. Signed photos, CDs and DVDs are always popular as are items of clothing and sporting equipment if the speaker is a sports star. Special items that can be bid on include tickets to a performance of the speakers or even a date!

Organising a heavily populated event which raises money for your cause as well as support in the form of volunteering is why fundraising events are held. Unless they are organised as a thank you to members for their hard work, you can usually get away with charging a set price for every place at the event. The attendees at your event will be willing to pay money for their ticket or their plate if they are promised an entertaining evening. You can ask for a large amount for the ticket of the after dinner speaker you hire is classed as an A-list celebrity.