This was the weekend of the Learning Annex Expo… Saturday and Sunday with a Free starter workshop on the Friday for those with VIP tickets.
With the exception of Tony Robbins & a few other smaller headline speakers the topic of all of the smaller breakout workshops was basically real estate.
The workshops each started the same way ( at least the ones I attended) with the speaker telling everyone about how he started out in almost poverty, just about living on the streets and gave his tale of how he attended multi-millionaire status through some aspect of real estate investment.
Then the speakers went on to deliver their real estate investment wisdom… This is where I have a problem. Their stories are boring, but some people need to hear them. It’s the content that’s the problem. They each gave tiny dribbles of information usually a definition that any good investment realtor or investor would be happy to divulge free of charge at any time. But that’s not the point… these little dribbles were intended to entice the prospect to buy the investor teachers big package.
Package prices seemed to start about $1000. up to $6000.. The Learning Annex staff were of course handling the sales. Typically in events like this the promoter gets 50% of the take and the speakers speak free because they are allowed to promote their packages.
This is all the breakout seminars were in my humble opinions big upsells. I would gladly diseminate most of this infortmation freely to anyone who would like to come to my investment workshop and learn how it works in Canada. Yes I do invest in real estate and I am Canadian understanding the Canadian way of doing things.
There didn’t appear to be a single Canadian there that I could figure.
Now Tony Robbins was fantastic as always and brought the house down. I’m a Richard Branson fan but couldn’t be bothered showing up Sunday morning for 8 A.M. so that’s my problem.
But I truly despise seeing people gouged for thousands of dollars for information that is readily available locally or available in books that you can buy at Amazon.com albeit the technics described will be American and work well in U.S. markets as were the speakers at this event..who came with their Canadian counterparts or managers.
There is valuable information to be had, but not at these prices. This was a thinly disguised big bucks money grab on the part of the Learning Annex. If they didn’t have Tony their it would have been positively a smokescreen.