Speakers for my Meetup Group

[Lisa Henrich]

I recently started a meetup group for women in real estate in the Lancaster, PA area and was wondering the best way to go about finding speakers.  I have just over 20 members and we have met two times, but the conversation has become repetive and a bit stale without having a speaker.  I posted something on Linked In to see if there was interest in speaking to the group but didn't have any responses.  Understandably, I do not want to pay for a speaker, but is paying for a speaker routine practice?  All advice is appreciated.

Thank you,

Lisa

[Tammy Vitale]

I'd check in with local mortgage folks to talk about financing, or hard money folks, or attorneys, or title companies - my experience is they are always willing to go in front of a group.   This group is their target market.  It would be good to set parameters:  information, 2 minutes of selling (maybe) at the end.  If they do a good job at providing information they can sell themselves....good ones should jump at it.