Events, The Well-known Secret

I was sitting in a planning meeting about an event to be held this May. Someone said, "If we could only get a celebrity to attend the event." I then said, "You can! If you have $10,000, you could get a celebrity to show." The group looked at me in shock. Gosh, I thought everyone knew about well known secret of celebrity wranglers.

From a BizBash article in 2005: "Wranglers may charge a per-celebrity rate or a flat fee based on an estimate of their time, the number of celebrities needed, the difficulty of securing positive RSVPs, whether the client is corporate or nonprofit, the event's location, the amount of motivating perks and gifts, and the complexity of logistics. While the cost can range greatly, one professional wrangler says getting a dozen or so celebrities to attend an event will run $10,000 to $20,000 on average, plus any expenses."