Grants
Seminars
As part of our
Grants research we
recently attended one of these well know Nationwide
seminars
which always advertises on television when they are in town.
It went something like this:
Free seminar
(sounds
good – price is right)
It is one
big sales pitch that
gets you all pumped up! Just
telling you enough to keep your
interests peaked.
Then
for the last half hour or so they
start working on your emotions. Telling you stuff like “
Well if your
really serious about starting a business you need to sign up for our
full
weekend seminar.” They’ve
been
telling you all these great stories for 8 hours (all fluff of course)
and now
they lay on the pressure and the guilt trip.
Here comes the kicker (are you sitting
down) The price $1,000 Plus
So for research purposes
we bit the bullet
and reluctantly plopped down our money for the seminar.
The
Weekend Seminar (2
days 8am to 5pm)
Day
One:
The first day all they talked
about was lease options for Real Estate? I had to check
my ticket it states Grant
seminar, the materials had the word written all over them yet he spent
all but
about a half an hour talking about Lease options. Hmmm?
Although at the end of the first day he did
say the second day would cover Grants.
http://www.best-home-business-review.com/Creative-Finance.html
Day Two:
More on lease options? Just
before lunch he states after lunch we will cover
grants. O’boy!
He was right after
lunch another 20 or 30 minutes on
grants nothing specific just general info then back to lease options
and
general discussion.
But Wait There’s
More! At the end
of the second day another
“If
your Really Serious About your business
Speech” you guessed it another
seminar this one is a “Boot camp”
(OOOooo). Cost
about $5.000 dollars:
which we did not purchase.
Oh
yes it doesn’t stop there after
the seminar then the phone calls
start where they pitch you everything under the sun. If we had purchase
everything it would came close to $ (you really
better sit down for this one)$20,000.
Yes that’s is not a miss print $20k, and no guarantee you would get a
grant or
be successful, and did I mention most of this offer was focused on you
guessed
it “Real Estate”? Again I checked my ticket it did say Grant
Conference
Don’t waste your money on
those infomercial courses that
can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
Our Recommendation ”
Save Your Money!” Do not buy these books or
attend these seminars that Charge you
a fee.
There
are many
public libraries, government
and non-profit agencies that provide the same information for free!
If
you feel you would
still like to search for a grant for your Home–based business (click here) for
various links. It is
basically the same info as the seminar and we are not charging you
anything for
it.
One
final note: Once
you are in business
you may be able to do a joint venture with one of theses agencies or
non-profits to reap some of the rewards of the money that were made
available
to them. Example one company I know recently received a $15,000 grant
from the
state to train employees in lean manufacturing procedures.
P.S. Here is the
link to the tool that will help locate grants according
to the criteria you select, It's pretty amazing and it's FREE!
www.grantgate.com
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