The seminars are really just a scam for the promoter to stick his hand in your pocket.Check out this article on a guru seminar my company attended earlier this year.

Also, as someone else mentioned, online "courses" and whatnot are promoting virtual wholesaling/JVing and people are locking up deals without knowing the market.

Without self promoting my company other note funds that people mention and have a great reputation are PPR and DLP.

Kendric  BP is pretty much anti self promotion.. that's the issue. 

You Never Know Who You’re Talking To Never assume that someone is not worth promoting yourself and your services to.

Therefore, it’s important to treat it as your most important promotional activity when scheduling your day.

With Pre foreclosures and Free and clears the two top.If you have a limited advertising/promotion budget it might be wise to start with direct mail activities.

It might work for BP as a series of articles rather than one big doc.Or, you can upload it to an outside site - say google docs or similar - and then post a link to that under the "promote your site" forum.

Which isnt saying it doesnt produce only thats its expensive1) MLS2) Assigning3) Door Knocking except for 6 specific doors4) Sweat marketing... ie anything you have to do personally to promote yourself.5) Doing NOTHINGBTW I have spent 600 grand in a single year advertising and track everything...Happy huntingMichael

We used to have about 250 members but we are now down to about 100 members.Most of the members that are active real estate investors run their own ads in the newspaper and get their own leads.Sometimes I wonder if the reason that Gurus promote going to local REIA groups is that they know that they have a larger audience to sell to.