Seminar for potential builders yes/no?

or rather your experience with the review of documents is not entirely wrong.

This is what I meant by people of different stripes. Those who need the advice most urgently, because they take little care of themselves (want/can), will rather make less use of the service or, due to their insistence on their "well-founded half-knowledge," will talk your seminar down.

The people who seek information themselves will be quite active in looking around on their own. They will also be willing to spend money on a contract review / construction supervision. To what extent they will invest additional money in a seminar – if they know about the competence of the speaker – maybe. Because this saves them a lot of research work. However, most do not know you and are unaware of your knowledge and intentions.

We went to model home parks 3 times before we had the first conversations. We talked to 7 construction companies. I grilled our general contractor in over 10 conversations (before signing the contract). I visited several construction fairs and attended various lectures there (however, the costs for admission to the fair were very reasonable). We used the advice of the police. In addition, we also had a free initial appointment with an energy advisor. However, I could not bring myself to commission the energy advisor further (not because the conversation was bad, but because of financial pressure).

Certainly, I would have been happy if I had had ONE person who answered all my questions or pointed out various pitfalls. But – would I have trusted you (as an unknown speaker) or would I still have gone out afterward to check your statements? Based on my experience with the "consultation" at Stadt&Land, probably the latter. Then the effect of "knowledge from a single source" would have been pointless again.

PS: Now that I know you, I would book your seminar. But I have been active here for almost 3 years now.

The construction company we built with also regularly offers such a seminar in Hamburg (called [bauherrentalk]). It is, of course, sprinkled with advertising from the construction company, but also filled with lots of information about building. The course is naturally free of charge, and there is plenty of food and drink. All trades of the construction company are on site and are available to answer questions from potential builders. There is also a supporting program. A paid seminar would only make sense if it basically becomes an interactive question-and-answer session. People don’t want to listen to hours of meaningless stuff about whether building makes sense or where the advantages lie here and there, but rather want their specific problems and questions clarified.

Hello everyone,

now I finally find the time to thank you for your - very helpful to me - comments: Thank you!

Basically, you confirm what I have always known deep down; I experience it every day. Of course, I know that competition of this kind makes offers available free of charge. However, I dare to assert that this offer is far from neutral advice. This distinction is more deserved by the well-known associations, although they - in my taste - tend to create fear scenarios. Also not what I hope for/envision.

New territory for me, the messages I received via PM on the topic of seminars. In them, users draw my attention to "webinars" or "online seminars" with the argument that my offer can then be accessed nationwide (I have not yet given that any thought). I cannot really imagine sitting in front of a webcam or Skype to make little videos or conduct a complete seminar - this has so far always kept me from accepting the offers from Haufe® - on the other hand, doesn’t it also say "Those who don't keep up with the times, will be left behind"? I will study, look at examples, and then hopefully know if it can be something for me.

It is crazy - potential builders need/search for lots of information, as in my opinion _at least_ a contact person who bundles this information and separates economic sense from nonsense. But they are not willing to pay for that, and if so, only in the range of the cost of a cinema ticket. Conversely, it costs many euros to accumulate knowledge, keep it updated, and above all experience how to convey that knowledge which is productive for the individual, instead of unsettling them even more.

Rhenish greetings

this forum is also a kind of knowledge database where free knowledge is exchanged. on the internet you can find many things and if you search long enough you can also get them for free.

I can't really imagine sitting in front of a webcam or Skype and making videos or holding a complete seminar

Nice idea.