Joel Osteen charges $10 to get a ticket to his sermons in other cities. This is a location specific thing, trust me. When Billy Graham and Joyce Meyer go somewhere, they go to stadiums or college campuses to avoid having to charge. (I don’t know how Joyce got the BI-LO Center in Greenville, SC to allow her to speak without charging for tickets.) I don’t think that this is a good thing, but he has the right to charge a lot more.

I’m going to a conference in August that is $65 each for my wife and I. We are meeting in a hotel conference center and 500+ are expected to attend.

I’ve done these events before and I understand that it costs about $20 – $25 per person to pull off an event. $700 for the room, $1600 for the speaker, $150 for materials… I hated charging but that was the price for everything. The year before we lost money only to break even selling tapes for $3.

The event I’m going to is probably $1000 to $1500 for the space, so I guess the rest of the almost $30,000 is going to …