So that ends the lecture. 

The scheduling of incidental business activities during a trip, such as viewing videotapes or attending lectures dealing with general subjects, won’t change what is really a vacation into a business trip.

Not everyone is a book learner, some are lecture learner, some are hands on learners. 2.

LOL, Skin in the game, put up your own money, plus pay for coaching calls and your own marketing is not enough skin for some, lolThe fact that I put that fee on the Credit cards and had that monthly payment staring in my face every month, pressured me to come home after work scrutinize my marketing, practice my sales pitch on my wife, read/watch persuasion books/lectures and just be non-stop until I started getting leads.

When I responded to the photos with some questions I got a lecture from the owner, Kathleen Bassett, how the person who had taken them was her highly paid bookkeeper who was doing a favor.

Responses sound more like lectures than conversations, and it seems like the goal is to win rather than to persuade. 

I'm not your typical boring lecturer.

Not what I got lectured on by them, part of the yelling at me and nasty emails.  

He didn't say.This proctor's lecture changed my whole perspective, and like you said, Don, it's important to not confuse being an advocate or activist with being an investor.

People you can trust and would treat your money and time as they would their own money and time.Through my experience, plus all the info I get through intel on the lecture/conference circuit that the Gurus speak on, here is essentially where you wanna get to as an investor:You're moving cash around, sometimes without 100% vetting, but purchases will be under market.