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Originally Posted by Dave Kaminski  A business partner of mine and I are attending the Learning Annex Real Estate Wealth Expo in Boston, MA on December 2nd and 3rd. (Hope my stalker doesn't read this  ) Anywho, has anyone had any luck with this particular forum of people?
I know the Don is a big tool and Kiyosaki may or may not be a liar. Anthony Robbins is another who gets mixed reviews. I can only imagine that this will be a venue for selling $500 video programs and books etc. If Trump's name wasn't on some huge towers I'd doubt he made any money from anything else. He seems like a hustler.
My skepticism aside, I'm going in with a close-to-empty wallet and an open mind. Any tips?
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I've read Robbins' books and found them to be of some value. I can't say it changed my life or anything, but there were at least some sound concepts there.
I'm very familiar with the casino gaming industry, and its important to keep in mind that the Donald damn near went bankrupt with his Atlantic City casinos. If you've got the kind of name recognition he does and can't run a casino profitably I really don't have much interest in taking any sort of financial guidance from you. I don't have anything personally against Trump and he's always struck me as a pretty entertaining guy, but a lot of his success was more a case of being in the right place at the right time vis a vis the NYC real estate market. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but its not like he reinvented the wheel or anything. He's done better marketing himself and selling the "character" of Donald Trump than he has at anything else....
Having said that, if you can avoid being hoodwinked by the hype (and it definitely sounds like you can) I think it'll be a worthwhile experience. I know I'd sit through the gig if I were you. I had a professor tell me once that if you got even a single valuable concept, idea, etc. from a book it was valuable to you. I'd suggest its the same deal here. I've found inspiration in a lot of strange places--for example, I've always had this strange fascination with tele-evangelists. Not serious preachers and theologians, but the full on snake oil salesman types that come on late night infomercials and late night AM radio here in the south. I got one of my most financially successful business ideas while watching one of the real bottom feeders of the TV preacher industry, Benny Hinn. Granted, I'm a notoriously non-linear thinker but the light bulb popped over my head due to something I saw "Pastor Benny" doing on one of his shill fests.
Along this line, even if the "Trump-a-palooza" thing you're going to degenerates into a hard sell for books and videos that could still provide inspiration or value--even if its just observing the techniques they use to pitch their wares and what works and what doesn't.....