I could get some speakers to call in and share their expertise.

@Alex Tadros and @Robert Garcia  look at some of the REI meetups at meetup.com - I really like the TVREI which meets on Wednesdays once a month and has speakers and a small fee, and the Saturday coffee in Temecula the first Saturday of each month. 

The speaker was not trying to give you rei tips but promoting NR as the next best thing since slice bread.

In April the primary speaker was pitching an MLM, telling everyone how rich they were going to get, people were walking out and I was sure that this was the death knell for the club.At this point I was talking to another club member about the sad state of the affairs.

I know the owner and will be a regular speaker at her club.

Anybody need a speaker at a seminar?

He's a pretty good speaker, so it was fairly entertaining, if quite long.

Often speakers are limited to a short time period--3 minutes or so.

i have seen nothing but wasted money from email lists. firstly, ESPs are becoming very stringent about spam, making the inbox a near impossible place to reach.secondly, email harvesters tend to use spammy practices that make your list of x,000 become more like x0 of actual valid email addressesthirdly, people on these lists by permission are rarely interested in the offer, and more about the incentives offered. and the ones that are on without their knowledge rarely respond to offers and are more likely to report you as SPAM and never use your services.if you are offering a valuable service, another approach would be to speak with landlord associations and try to arrange to be a speaker at one of their networking events, or to have your contact send your email to their members.

He did, however, send a very good speaker on his behalf to sell us his program.