A) You can certainly find cheaper trainings.
B) You'd get a lot more value out of simply connecting with a few experienced wingmen in your city who can show you the ropes for free.
Bootcamps can be a good way to get yourself in the game but the chief problem is that they are too short. Your results will not come from the bootcamp but from the daily follow-up work you do. The follow-up work is the most important part. Because every weekend needs to become your personal bootcamp.
Don't underestimate the importance of having just 1 or 2 experienced wingmen to go out with every weekend. This is HUGE! It's worth much more than a bootcamp in terms of results.
But if you got the money to burn, a bootcamp can be a good way to jumpstart this whole process.
I did a bootcamp for $2000, but I got a lot more value from finding great wingmen. I also had lots of money to burn, so $2000 was not a big deal to spend.
You can find wingmen via online forums or by attending an RSD FreeTour in your city. Befriend everyone at the FreeTour. Get their phone numbers and start going out with them every night.
All that a bootcamp really is, is some dude telling you to approach girls and forcing you to do it all night long. If you can discipline yourself to approach all night long, you don't really need a bootcamp. But of course this discipline is really hard for newbies, so you may need it.
If we were doing a bootcamp, we would just walk into a club and I would point out random girls and force you to approach them. After you fail, I would just tell you to immediately approach the next girl. We would do this 20-50 times over 3-4 hours.

Hehehe, of course a girl will never text you first. Why would she?
Your problem here is that you fundamentally misunderstand how girls works and how texting works.
You as the guy are supposed to proactively pursue her until you win her over. She will resist until you win her over.
P.S. You cannot build attraction via text. If you fail to attract her face-to-face, the texts will go nowhere.
Flake rate for phone numbers is about 90%+. If you're getting phone numbers you need to have REALLY solid face-to-face game AND you need lots of numbers. Hundreds of them. A number means very little. Girls give out their number too easily, even if they have zero intention of dating you.
Your volume is too low and the quality of your face-to-face interactions is too low, failing to be memorable or spark attraction.
Try harder. Make yourself memorable when you approach girls. You need to reach a hook point after opening. The hook point is when you can see she's interested in you. It's a very clear shift in the interaction. Hook point usually takes 3 to 10 minutes to hit. You won't hit it with every girl simply because the chemistry isn't meant to be there with every girl.

I see a chronic problem on this sub-forum, which is young males who complain about lack of success with women and failing to take responsibility for their situation.
The #1 rule of all growth and personal development is taking 100% responsibility for your situation. I know how hard that can be when you're struggling with women/sex. It feels very much like life is treating you unfairly and that it's the women's fault. Let me tell you right now: this is a total ILLUSION! It's not the women. It's not society. It's not post-modernists. It's not the Marxists. It's not the feminists. It's YOU!
This is not me blaming you. This is simply how all personal development works. Whatever problem you have in life you must begin by getting honest with yourself how you created it. Sometimes this is difficult to accept. It's much easier to blame someone else, or even blame yourself (for being too ugly or too short or too introverted). I am not suggesting you blame yourself. Rather, take ownership of the fact that you are the creator of your life. Whatever is missing in your life, you can correct, but only if you stop blaming yourself and others.
Be very mindful of how your ego-mind creates narratives which justify your sense of lack, brokenness, or inability to attract women. All of these narratives, justification, rationalizations, logic, "facts", scientific studies, proofs, etc are sneakily fabricated by your own mind! Your own mind is the enemy! Watch it like a hawk. Your mind will try to come up with reasons and excuses for why your life is unfair and how success with women is impossible. This is all horseshit! Do not believe your own mind here. Your mind is clouded by fear, insecurity, and neediness. That is totally normal and understandable, but you cannot resolve your problems from such a place. From such a place your problems will get worse as you start to blame the world and solidify your victim worldview with cherry-picked evidence, "science", and "logic". Be extra suspicious of "logic" and "science" here. There is nothing logical or scientific about your victim attitude or lack of success with women. It's purely about meeting the survival needs of your ego. Sex is a very powerful survival need which will drive your mind towards all manner of mental gymnastics to ensure that you get it, or at least feel better for not getting it.
There's good news and bad news. The good news is: Your looks are NOT the problem! The bad news is: your personality, attitude, and mindset are terrible! The good news is, it's possible to change that. The bad news is, it won't be easy and you will resist it like the devil that you are.
So what's the solution? Take ownership of your problem and commit to resolving it. For this you need faith and confidence in your ability to self-actualize. You must have enough hope and vision to see yourself get much better with attracting women. This is NOT a pipe dream or fuzzy thinking. The reality is that any man can become 100x better at attracting women if he really takes ownership of the matter. Yes, it takes serious work. But it's also highly worth it. Imagine that within 3 years you're able to attract pretty women and feel confident about yourself when it comes to dating. Isn't that worth the effort? It sure is. This is not a fantasy. I've done it, many men have done it, and so can you! Your looks are NOT the bottleneck, your mindset is.
So what do you do after you've established this vision? You must do lots of research to educate yourself about how dating actually work (not how you think it works). Find videos, find books, buy online courses, hire a coach, take a bootcamp, take a workshop, etc. There are literally hundreds of excellent resources available online these days. Most of them are legit, not scams. Study them hard and then get into the field. Start talking to women. Start approaching women. Start flirting with women. Start being much more social.
If you struggle attracting women I can tell you right now what your top problems are. It's not lack of money, looks, muscles, car, height, or dick size. Remember, attraction and dating is EXTREMELY counter-intuitive. It's works exactly the opposite of how you initially think.
Your top problems are:
You live in your mancave and never go out! You must go out into social spaces where real women hang out. You spend WAY too much time online, indoors You spend WAY too much time on Youtube, Netflix, and playing video games You work too much You are never around cute single women You never start conversations with strangers You have terrible body language due to lack of experience You are not comfortable doing small-talk and being emotional and random in conversations You are far too logical You approach zero women on a regular basis You are terrified of approaching a women who you find attractive, talking yourself out of every approach You have terrible eye contact, you don't smile, and you don't project your voice properly You are crippled by fear and tongue-tied You are unable to start and sustain an interesting conversation with a human being You are disconnected from your body, your heart, your feelings, your emotions You have terrible self-image issues. You hate yourself, you hate how you look, you judge yourself way too harshly. You judge yourself just as harshly as you judge women. You have a bad sense of dress style and you don't groom yourself well You have no experience with physically touching women in a non-creepy way. You don't know how to rapidly physically escalate on a women without creeping her out. You don't know how women think or what they truly value in a man You don't know how to flirt and be authentic You are trying to be masculine in all the wrong ways -- fake masculinity You are needy, needy, needy You are terribly inexperienced You have no sense of passion or purpose in life, which robs you of confidence and masculine vitality Your attitude sucks: you whine, complain, bitch, moan, blame, and are so negative You think you understand life, reality, and how attraction works -- you don't! So work on fixing all of that before you go blaming women. All of the above can be deliberately worked on and fixed.
You need to learn how to be a real man. Being a real man has nothing to do with big muscles, big dick, or a fast car. A real man is grounded on the INSIDE. It's ALL about inner game! You need to cultivate that confidence. It doesn't come naturally. You must build it!
80% of getting good with women is just actually being much more social. You need to deliberately re-structure your life so that you're automatically being more social. So that you're going out every weekend. So that you're bumping into new people constantly. So that you're making new friends all the time. This kind of re-structuring is very doable. You just have to be willing to change your lifestyle.
And stop watching or listening to any of the following:
Jordan Peterson, MGTOW, RedPill, Incel material/forums/reddit All of that is cancer of the mind. It's reinforcing your victim mindset and robbing you of your ability to change yourself.
I've been where you are. I know it's tough. But hang in there, hold your vision, have hope, get to work, and things will dramatically improve for you. You will become a new person by the end of this journey and you will be so proud of yourself. You will become a real man, not some whiny JP fanboy.
The #1 thing a real man does is take 100% responsibility for all his problems. A real man NEVER blames anyone, and certainly not women or feminism. A real man is a feminist. A real man fearlessly works on himself.
So start right there! Start by fixing that.

Watch my video about The Role Of Balance In Personal Development.
Balance is a tricky business. You cannot ever formalize it because it is dynamic.
You might as well ask me, "So how do I balance myself on a unicycle?"
By doing it. No one can tell you in words how to do it.
You should expect to fall over many, many times before you master it.
There is a very fine line between getting laid and being a sociopath

There's a bit of a hypocrisy about sex in the woman's mind. She likes it. She will often have it frequently will random dudes. But then she will deny having done so because she doesn't want to appear easy or slutty.
From the guy's perspective it's frustrating because the more a guy tries to be a nice guy, the less his chances of sleeping with the girl. She often sleeps with the fun asshole instead because he makes her feel spontaneous. Girls rarely reward nice guys. So we are incentivized to be jerks.
The more a guy cares about a girl, the less likely she is to sleep with him. If a guy is totally detached about a girl, the higher his odds of sleeping with her. That's the paradox of attraction.
From the guy's POV, total detachment until sex is necessary for success. You cannot invest in her at all until sex. And the guys who are best at that are total asshole players. So they get laid the most. It requires an almost sociopathic level of detachment. So ironically, the hottest girls reward sociopaths the most. And of course that makes perfect sense from the POV of survival. The more selfish the better, until it comes back to bite you in the ass. The problem with dating a sociopath is that he also doesn't give a damn about you.

Mating is an arms race.
Both sides manipulate to get the most they can while trying to minimize their survival risk.
There's nothing personal about it. It's just unconscious selfishness.

@ugreglo Dude, you're WAY overthinking it.
Sex happens all the time for the dumbest reasons. All you need to do is go out and talk to girls.
Sex cannot happen while you sit at home on the internet.
All your attention should be on going out of your house and being face to face with lots of new girls. That's it. Do not worry about anything else.
If you put yourself in lots of social situations girls will want to sleep with you.
Tons of girls will reject you. It doesn't matter. Don't even think about it. Get rejected 10 times a day and you will stop caring.

@mandyjw In practice the mating game is a lot more brutal than your ideals.
Nice guys and socially awkward guys aren't necessary fake. But you girls still don't like them.
Attraction is not based on ideals or unconditional love. It is blind survival and there's nothing "fair" or "honest" about it.
But hey, don't take my word for it. Discover for yourselves how mating works.
If you observe it carefully you should see that it's pure selfishness on both sides. It can be quite disgusting when you really look into it. After all, you would not be mating at all if not for survival needs.
Notice, you don't mate with your vacuum cleaner. Why not?
Or maybe some of you do? But again, that would also be purely to satisfy your survival needs.
For this reason the male and female perspectives on mating when never be fully reconcilable because they are not interested in truth or fairness, they are interested in maximizing survival while justifying it as truth. So the key here is to notice the self-bias of both sides. You and your partner are both biased and in denial about it.

This goes hand in hand with "how do I stop caring about what do people think about me" and the the uphill battle coming with it. 
First of all, it is important to acknowledge and accept that this is what you do without demonising yourself.  Most of us, no matter how developed or conscious, still care about what do people think about us so we go around needing to impress others...it is extremely difficult trait to get rid of. 
It helps to realize that in the grand scheme of things people don't really care. Everybody is constantly worried about what do you and others think about them, whether they look good, whether their face is clean, hair neat, clothes clean and they may seem to judge you but at the back of their mind they are worried about themselves. Also realise that no matter how hard you try to please others, there will ALWAYS be something they don't like. 
Some practical steps you can try: 
consider reading or listening "the art of saying NO" Start by becoming aware of your tendencies of needing to impress people. Just observes yourself and every time you catch yourself, just say to your self "ah, there goes another one!" If you want, you can mark them down at the end of each day and collect all your neurotic tendencies in excel. Then you can ask yourself on each "Why am I doing this? " and "How am I benefiting from doing this? " also observe yourself how you judge other people who probably just as you are trying their best to get your approval.  start rejecting people's proposals and offers, reject parties, birthday offers, wedding invitations. Reject offer from colleague to go for lunch, reject to donate , say no to the person stopping you on street try to expose yourself to mental pressure such as: taking forever to choose at the coffee shop, pretend you cannot find your debit card in supermarket and delay the entire line, stand on the wrong side of escalators, stare at people until they have to look away, talk to stranges  

Great!
Keep a positive attitude. The first girl my brother approached at a book store coffee shop ended up going on a date with him.
Took me 400+
Beginner's luck

@Ampresus Become friendly with her social circle in a chill, casual way. Tell them a funny story or something like that. Or ask them some opinion opener like, "Hey girls, I need your opinion on something..." and then think some interesting topic to ask them about like: "Does it count as cheating if my friend has a girlfriend but he's texting other girls?"
Something gossipy like that is good.
Then you can focus more on chatting her up individually. "Hey girl, you look like the biggest troublemaker of this bunch. It's the quiet ones which are the biggest troublemakers. Hey, has anyone told you yet how beautiful I am? ;)"
The biggest secret for attracting girls is simply to learn to be more social. Practice starting random conversations with strangers.
It's hella hard to build attraction through social media. Your odds will be much higher in person where you can charm her a bit with words. And it will build better charming skills for you.
In school girls most get attracted to the guys with the most social status. Being a loner is not helping your cause. It'd be better if you built a circle of your own friends. This shows you're a somebody. Then your odds will improve.

27 QUALITIES OF ALL SUCCESSFULL PEOPLE
1. Passionate
 a. Inspired on some level by life, almost on a spiritual level
2. Hardworking
 a. Abnormally hardworking
 b. Obsessive about how they work
 c. Almost workaholics
 d. Can’t stop doing work
 e. Strong work-ethic is absolutely necessary
 3. Extremely Persistent
 a. High tolerance for failure
 b. Don’t take failure personally, don’t get depressed by it
 c. They plow forward every single time until they get to there goal
 4. Iconoclastic
 a. Rule breakers, do not follow rules of the society, the organization, the family unit, the religious structure
 c. Flexible with the rules
 d. Able to think outside of box
 5. Clever
 a. Abnormally clever, than the bunch
 6. Manipulative
 a. Good at manipulating situations and people to get what they want past through (e.g. maybe good at manipulating bureaucracy, manipulating a government system, manipulating their family, manipulating their friends, manipulating people in their company, manipulating giant masses of crowds, the way that politicians sometimes do)
 b. Manipulation is a tool or tactic, not necessarily evil—it’s an ability some people have
 c. Need to be clever in your manipulations
 7. (Highly) Creative
 a. Highly creative people
 b. Not just in the artsy, imaginative, or poetic sense (although that’s a great attribute to have)
 c. Fundamentally, you can create stuff (the ability to create), not just in the arts, but anywhere, in business, or anywhere else
 d. Successful people are creative people—they create lots of stuff
 e. Creative people generate massive value (i.e. impact thousands or millions or even billions of people, with their work, or with their ideas, or with their ideas speeches, or with whatever). You need to generate massive quantities of value in today’s world in order to become successful
 8. (Strong) Training In Technical Skills
 a. Willing to train hard to develop their technical skills in whatever field they are trying to master and become successful at
 b. Deliberately, methodically practice a certain set of skills over and over and over again until you master it finally. They invest thousands of hours mastering technical skills
 c. Most people are mediocre because they have mediocre technical skills
 9. A Value In Excellence Above The Mediocre People
 a. They really want to do excellent work, they take pride in their work, they have this sense of being the best at what they do, or doing something really exceptionally well that gives them a certain joy, and a certain satisfaction above the mediocre person
 10. Vision
 a. Visionaries, they see a big bright picture of what the future should look like, for them, for their life, for their followers, for their business partners, for their customers; they see into the future. That’s a very powerful skill to develop
 11. Leaders
 a. Because they have this vision, they lead people, they’re fundamentally carving their own path through life, they are on the cutting edge of their field, and they’re not content just to be followers, they break off on their own and do it themselves, their own way, and that usually means some new unique way that hasn’t been done before
 12. Intuitive
 a. Intuitive, they know how to use their intuition
 b. They’re guided by their heart and by their gut, more than just by their logical mind, they’re right-brain thinkers, they’re holistic thinkers, they can take in and assess multiple variable in a kind of complex holistic way, and then they can get this kind of big picture of what need to be done, and sometimes it just comes as a gut feeling
 13. Decisive
 a. Quick, firm, and very crystal clear about what they want
 14. They Don’t Do What They Do Because Of The Money
 a. It’s not about the money
 b. Motivated because they want to impact the world, want to have a positive contribution to society, maybe because they’ve got a big ego and they’ve got a lot of pride, and they want to grow and expand and aggrandize that ego, which is not necessarily a very healthy drive, but that’s still that’s superior than being driven by money, alone.
 c. Most successful people love the work they do, they’re passionate about it, so it comes more or less comes naturally to them, not because of the money
 15. (Highly) Focused
 a. Able to select one field or domain and invest years of time and build up a lot experience in that one field
 b. Like a laser beam
 c. Mediocre people are like a diffused light bulb, shining in all different directions
 16. Ambitious
 a. Have a desire to be the best, to be at the top of your field, to be the one who accomplishes something really great and extraordinary
 b. Almost an ego thing (not necessarily the healthiest drive)
 c. You need that, to rise to the top
 17. Have a Rapid Speed of Implementation
 a. As soon as they hear an idea, or they have a great idea, they go off and immediately start to implement that idea
 b. Have a bias towards action, rather than sitting and thinking (paralysis by analysis)
 18. Opinionated
 a. Have firm and strong opinions because they have firm and strong values and beliefs because of course they are decisive
 19. Have A Spine
 a. Stand up for themselves and their values, and their beliefs, and their ideas
 20. Optimistic And Hopeful
 a. Fundamentally they believe in themselves, they believe that they can, and they believe that people around them can, and they believe that society can
 b. Different from depression—a lot of people are actually quite depressed, a lot of successful people kill themselves from depression
 21. Courageous
 a. Willing to act in the face of fear
 b. Don’t let the fear paralyze or stop them or scare them away
 22. Value Knowledge And Learning (In Some Capacity)
 a. It doesn’t necessarily need to be book smarts, it could be street smarts, it could be learning from your coworkers, or learning in a social environment, or learning from brute trial and error experience
 23. Willing To Endure The Cost And They’re Willing To Make Sacrifices To Get Success
 a. Willing to sacrifice fun, socializing, sex, partying, drinking, doing a lot of entertaining stuff as much, spending as much time with family; their relationships could suffer. They select success over all this other stuff
 24. Highly Self-Motivated (Intrinsically Motivated Versus Extrinsically Motivated)
 a. Fueled from the inside, nobody has to kick you in the ass to tell you what to do, you do it yourself, you kick yourself in the ass
 b. Can become a neurosis
 25. Longterm Thinkers
 a. To be successful you need to spend at least 5 or 10 years developing some sort of proficiency or excellence in some kind of field
 26. Pragmatic
 a. Practical, more so than idealogical or idealistic
 b. Willing to align to the realities of the marketplace, the realities of the political climate, the realities of the time you’re living, the realities of the organization you’re trying to create change in
 c. Willing to compromise certain elements of your ideology, compromise your integrity a little bit, in favor of pushing something through, not always will you get it your way, not always will the perfect scenario just materialize for you and this is exactly how it’s going to be; rarely do you get the “perfect” when you’re trying to achieve something big. Usually you have to cut corners and you have to make sacrifices there, and this requires a willingness to be practical versus idealogical
 27. Work For Themselves
 a. They’re fundamentally advancing their own agenda
 b. The best leaders are a little bit egotistical, a little bit narcissistic, and they’re a little bit selfish, and these qualities turn out to be effective when you’re trying to reach the top

Yeah, that is a classic newbie problem. You gotta train yourself to talk your mouth off about yourself. Be totally self-absorbed. Become a chatterbox. Don't hold any thoughts back. Talk about your opinions, desires, hates, plans, feelings, etc.
Talk about the smallest, dumbest things like how you were flossing your teeth today.
You can practice at home in front of a camera. Record yourself explaining how you ate breakfast today and how you felt about it. Make it sound interesting. You gotta turn ordinary life into stories.
STOP BEING LOGICAL in your conversations with girls! That is crucial. Untrain your logicalness.
A good trick is, rather than asking questions, make observations and statements. So instead of asking, "What do you do for work?" or "Where are you from?", you make random or informed guesses like, "You seem like a California girl" or "You seem like you work in marketing."
It makes no difference if your guess was right or wrong.
You can even make the dumbest observations such as: "Hey, did you know you're sitting next to a palm tree? Did you bother to think about it's feelings? What if it hates when you sit so close next to it? What if you smell like a skunk to the palm tree? Why are you so inconsiderate? "
This kinda stuff is gold, but you gotta train yourself to be this stupid.

Yes
You can also just go to the mall and walk around while practicing making funny observations to yourself about ordinary things you see in the mall. Train yourself to have a commentary on any random thing you see: a tree, a car, a bird, a dog, a bench, an ad, etc.
DO NOT try to script or memorize this stuff. It won't work. Rather you need to train the ability to improv it on the spot.
It helps a lot to put yourself in a good mood as you try to do this. You gotta be relaxed and playful. Not stiff and business-like.
When talking to girls you gotta be like a kid in a candy store. Passionate, playful, spontaneous.

Online dating requires above average looks, REALLY good professional profile photos (no selfies), and massive volume.
Online dating requires serious work. You don't just put up a profile and start getting dates. You gotta game it more than real life.
Online girls are screening you almost entirely on looks because they have nothing else to go by. Your personality has no chance to charm them. In real life you can hit much higher outside your league with charm and boldness. This cannot be done online. The girl has to decide whether she will sleep with you purely based on your profile photo in 1 second.
If you're turning online because you're too lazy to do it in real life, chances are your results will be bad. Laziness is not a viable strategy for finding attractive females.
If you have a classically handsome appearance, you can do well online. If not...

I just used that as fodder for making a joke.  I like you, don't worry.  I'm not taking as much personal anymore.  Even my shitty performance on my own schedule this week I'm not taking personally.  Momentum is hard to build, all I can do is just keep plugging away.  I know I can get to peak performance again because I was there before.
 

@kieranperez Thinking empowering thoughts is far better than worrying.
Affirmations will of course not resolve the fundamental issue of duality or ego. But they can be a good intermediate technique. Not every technique has to be existential.
This work requires nuance.

@Andreas Do lots of the techniques I have given you numerous times in the videos.
Meditation Journaling Reading Contemplation Shamanic breathing Psychedelics Solo retreats Visualization Body relaxation Keeping a commonplace book Etc You must start doing that shit to get results. Seriously!