"Seize the Day" - $4.95; "Get Motivated" - $1.95

The motivators are coming to Atlanta.

Two different, perhaps competing, mega-celebrity-starring, all-day programs of motivational speeches to get people taking charge of their lives and their businesses are coming to Atlanta just a week apart.

November 1: "Get Motivated," described as a business seminar. For only $1.95 admission fee, you can hear Colin Powell, Bill Crosby, Steve Forbes, Goldie Hawn, Rudy Giuliani, Gen. Stanley McChrystal -- and more big names that I don't recognize because they're from worlds I don't inhabit.

"Huge Door Prizes: $10,000 cash, Disney World vacation, and much much more." "A Can-Do, Win-Win, Multimedia Extravaganza."

This one will be at the Georgia Dome, seating capacity 71,000. Tickets at the door $225. But right now you can get a ticket for $1.95.

Or you could wait a week and on November 8th attend: "Seize the Day" at Philips Arena, seating capacity 21,000. General admission $99, but act now and you can get a ticket for $4.95 or $19.95 for your entire office. Also with door prizes and give-aways.

For $4.95 you get speakers: Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly, Laura Bush, Terry Bradshaw and more.

Wow !! Atlanta is going to be jumping with all that motivation and revitalized businesses. Goodbye unemployment.

What a bargain -- forget the motivation and inspiration. If you just want to see these people live, it's pretty cheap.

What intrigues me about all this though is really the math. Even if they sell out the Georgia Dome (71,000 x $1.95) that's only $138,450. I doubt that even covers renting the GA Dome for all day. It wouldn't even pay for the repeated full-page AJC ads they've been running for weeks. And then there's Palin's six-figure speaking fee on top of that, plus all the others. There must be a lot of hidden extra costs; probably what they do is motivate you to buy all these people's books and meet with them in small groups, etc.

I think I'll pass

Ralph