The topics for speakers also have changed. Technology and health care also are popular topics, Hall said. Hall advises most corporations to shy away from comics when securing entertainment for company meetings. You have to be careful not to offend anyone. If you want a comic, stay with someone such as Bill Cosby or Norm Crosby.
Endorsements stretch across a wide range of products and services.
For example, Hall lined up golfer Lee Trevino to endorse a Nintendo game cartridge. Dick Hall is president and owner. His office is in Clayton. His wife, Patsy, works out of an office in Frontenac, planning weddings. Her clients are within a 150-mile radius of St. Louis.