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Powerful Goals = Powerful Results
In sales and investing, we talk a lot about setting goals. In almost every instructional venue that discusses business startups, personal development, and anything strategy, goals are encouraged and in many cases mandated. A Goal Written Isn’t Always Great Unfortunately, many of these events push really hard on the writing... -
IRA Investment
There has been a huge shift in our country regarding retirement accounts. After the big crashes of 2008 and 2009 and all the turbulence between now and then, the average everyday person is looking to self-direct their retirement. This has created an entire new industry of self-directed retirement account custodians.... -
Real Estate Investor & Note Investor Marketing
Real estate investing, note investing, starting a business – it’s all just business. Businesses live and die based on ONE thing – leads. It doesn’t matter if you have the coolest product in the universe, if no one knows about it, you’re dead in the water. You could be the... -
Real Estate Investing for Beginners
Real estate investing is actually a pretty simple endeavor and one that beginners can tackle. There are many more important factors to determine than your experience. Namely your capital to invest, your creditworthiness, and your aptitude for going into business for yourself. I teach thousands of new and seasoned investors... -
Tax Lien Certificates Investing
A lot of people come to our events to learn about investing in notes, flipping real estate, buying rentals, and really anything to change their financial condition. Many of these same people are intensely interested in tax lien certificates investing and tax deed investing. Tax Lien Certificates Rate of Return... -
Halfway In Equals All the Way Out
Whether you are an employee trying to climb the ladder, a salesperson trying to increase commissions, or an entrepreneur trying to build a solid business, you need to invest yourself towards your outcome. Commit to Success You can’t go halfway. You have to go past the job description. You have... -
Fire Your Friends
When you finally make the difficult decision to push your boundaries and expand your financial horizons, lose that weight you’ve been trying to lose, and do anything else that’s not inside your comfort zone, you will always have people who doubt you. This is never more true than when you... -
Reverse Lead Generation
When we think of generating leads for our business, we often think to cold calling, direct mail, and traditional networking. Basically, we think inside the “comfort zone” of traditional marketing methods. The movement in the lead generation space is to have people come to you. Sounds great, huh? Step 1:... -
Why Realtors Need to Understand Seller Financing
Let’s face it, it’s a rough world out there. The real estate market is in trouble – sagging with no immediate signs of recovery. While prices aren’t sinking nearly as fast as they did in 2008 to 2009, they aren’t going up. Inventory is still slow to be absorbed by... -
Your Financial Advisor is GUILTY
My friend and old college roommate Ryan Smith posted a very enlightening quip on Facebook the other day. So enlightening in fact, that I feel obligated to post it here to my seven readers (okay, five). I find it humorous that with the recent volatility in the markets, many RIA's and Financial Advisors are telling their clients "it will bounce back". Isn't that an implied guarantee of future returns? Past results do not guarantee future gains! If your advisor tells you this ask for it in writing!
