Get Motivated Seminar

Get Motivated Seminar Inc. is a personal training and development company. Motivational speakers have included George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Bill Clinton, and Zig Ziglar.

Criticism

Some former participants and observers have criticized the company's sales/marketing techniques in two senses:

• That the seminars are a lead-in to more expensive products marketed to people of limited means.

For example, one speaker touts his STOCK-market program whose green arrows and red arrows are said to tell the optimum time to buy and sell individual stocks. While the actual price is said to be $3200, he discounts it to $99 for attendees. There is also a subscription component available. Many hundreds of people line up to purchase this program, which they carry back to their seats in distinctive red bags.

• That the seminars have an unacknowledged religious or proselytizing component.

The majority of the speakers are thankful to their fundamentalist Christian faith for their success. Tamara Lowe, wife of motivational speaker Peter Lowe, has a specific 3-minute segment of praise to God. She describes her ascent from [...] addict and dealer with an 8th grade education to a person who has met 6 U.S. presidents and has earned a Masters degree.