Just a way to create additional value for the speakers and the group. 

The speaker responded that most investors desire to move to the lower right on the RK cash flow quadrant where their money works for them. 

You'll find those offered by speakers at your local real estate investment clubs, where you might pay $20 to get in to the meeting.

Consider a Roomba, August lock or home speakers. 

Each podcast has show notes and the guest speakers recommend books that they found helpful throughout there career.

Last I checked there was a seacoast investor group was still meeting at Chapel+Main in Dover NH though several of the events I attended were more traditional pitch/speaker than organized peer-peer networking opportunities.

Yes, Tony has a lot of good ones, just like Jim Rohn.To add to my original post, the speaker initially said he never lost money as part of a joke and came up with the heavy education part after that.

In terms of online ads, a guy (who does not work for the company I'm about to name) recently pitched a bunch of folks in my area on the notion that Linked In is the most "under priced attention" in the online ad space.The speaker's general theme was that a new thing comes out, no one uses it so it's cheap to advertise, then at the "middle" of the cycle the thing dominates it's space (Facebook and Google today) and the "attention" gets pricey.

Principles of Real Estate Syndication by Samuel Freshman is really goodAlso it’s a Whole New Business by Gene Trowbridge The Northstar Real Estate Conference in April in Minneapolis will have quite a few speakers talking about syndication 

Lots of landlords to network with, lots of great speakers on a variety of topics, reasonably priced tickets.