You can bid on everything from laptops to lava lamps online, so why not professional speakers? Speakersdirect.com offers nearly 1,000 orators for event planners, PR pros, and
company heads looking to fire up the troops with some third party motivation. Full bios and streaming video are available on site, where buyers submit bids for consideration
directly to speakers. The service costs roughly the same as booking speakers in the real world, says Marketing Director Debbie Saylor. But it's a heck of a lot more
convenient.
(Patrick Kreider, 202/721-7650)