Sometimes we need to learn new skills, but don't have the time, energy, or money to go back to school. We could try to learn from online courses, or from watching videos but that only goes so far as well. We could also try to learn from someone else, another person that we know for instance, but then you only know what they tell you and you are not sure if they really know whats going on or they can't explain it properly.
Then we have seminars, this seems like a great idea right? You can sign up for a day or a weekend seminar, pay a low fee and then you can start learning or get an idea of how to start something.
There are seminars for everything, real estate, house flipping, poker tips, gambling strategies, stock market utilization, public speaking, start your own business, tax tips, time share utilization, and thousands more. Most of the time, all of these seminars revolve upon making your self more money by using loop holes in the system that nobody knows about, and if you follow their ten easy steps to the letter, you will be a millionaire within a year.
The real scandal here is how they convince you that their technique works, "Jodi Smith from Vancouver used my technique and is a millionaire living in the Bahamas!" As they show you a picture of a blond woman with a big smile on her face, holding a Margarita. Maybe they show you a video of her too. The lure is cast and you are hooked, and when you leave the seminar you are excited and happy to be able to go out and make your millions. Sadly this is never the case.
Why do I say it's a scandal? How would I know that it is?
The Proof is sitting right in front of you, The seminar itself. If this seminar is so fool proof and you can be rich beyond your wildest dreams, then why isn't the person selling you the idea doing it themselves? They might say they are, but why charge you money for their seminar when they are rich beyond belief? If they have flipped over a thousand houses and made millions, why are they travelling around the country doing seminars? Seems counter productive to me, when instead they could still be flipping houses.
Any seminar that deals with making more money easily and cheaply is a scandal and a complete lie. But if you want to spend your money foolishly, then who am I to stop you?
Scott Goerz
