The Art of Passive Income

John Vuong is the founder and president of Local SEO Searches, a professional speaker, business coach, and mentor who thrives on helping business owners with their short-term and long-term goals, in order to get the absolute best results at all times. He is a seasoned sales professional and Internet marketer with an extraordinary track record for helping companies increase their clientele and profits. John has amassed a deep understanding of local marketing dynamics and consumer behavior throughout 15 years of experience working with CEOs, business owners, and marketing leaders at some of Canada’s most successful corporations. With an entrepreneurial spirit, many years of experience working with more than 5000 local business owners, and strong knowledge of digital marketing trends, as well as, the essential functions of search engines like Google and Yahoo, John was inspired to create his own company, Local SEO Searches, in the year 2013. He also invests time in getting to know each client, taking a personal approach, and making customers feel valued and appreciated.As a child of South Vietnam immigrant parents, he learned the value of hard work and community support from an early age and as such, he worked multiple jobs with the aim of one day owning his own business and giving back to the local community. At present, John is a proud father who conducts an annual school supply campaign to assist admirable young people in the elementary and primary grades. His company Local SEO Search also offers free education to small business owners through live events and their podcast, Local SEO today. Listen in as they discuss:John’s journey to where he is at now.Getting better at Sales and Marketing.Understanding your client/prospective customers’ consumer behaviors.How SEO helps businesses determine their rank on Google search?Understanding how to scale your content for maximum impact when posting on the internet.Familiarizing yourself with the media platforms that guarantee the best ROI for your business.The importance of doing your own in-depth research to paint your business as an expert in a niche.And, more!If you don’t invest now, it’s only going to get more expensive in the future. ~John VuongTIP OF THE WEEKMark: My tip of the week is also about saving time and making money, learn more about John Vuong and dominating, owning, and renting. Go to localseosearch.com and learn more.Scott: Check out this app anyline.com/anyline_keyboard; download this app on your phone. What it does is it instantly copies and paste which saves time. It can scan passports and anything.John: Over the last weeks I read a couple of these books from Paleo Taquito to understand how fats work. I never studied health and nutrition, so this is all new and interesting to me. Over the last 6 months, I lost about 35 pounds, where now is all about optimizing my life. This is very impactful for me. Check out other great books from Gary Taubes, Nina Teicholz, and Catherine Shanahan.Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

Joining Mark this week are:Scott BossmanMike ZainoTeria HarrisErik PetersonScott ToddListen in as they go around the table and discuss geeky tools that can be used to set up a website and landing page and where you can hire someone who is able to create a website for you.TIP OF THE WEEKTeria: A pin-point for us, especially when we’re hiring new VAs is coming up with the catchy deal of the week, email titles. There’s this new company called Swifter HQ that will generate email titles for you. It’s not a new company, they’re offering this new service I should say. But, what I like about it, it asks a lot of questions like what type of communication is this going to be: business to business, business to your clients or customers; you got to choose the product of your brand, you got to provide the description of what’s the email is going to be about, and you choose what type of email: friendly, bold or professional. And the, it will build several variations of the email title. They are offering it for free for now, you have to sign-up for an account.Mark: My tip of the week is an app called WeCroak; it is based on a thing called Bhutan ritual, they are the happiest country in the world, it is a reminder that we are mortal and it gives you a quote of your mortality.Are you ready to learn more about land investing? Just click HERE to schedule a call.Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want, and with whomever you want?

Ken Wentworth is a best-selling author, public speaker, cash flow pro, 6-time World Record Holder, fractional CFO, and B2B Radio host. He has been advising businesses for more than twenty years across the financial services industry. Leveraging extensive experience with financial management, business development and operations, he has advised businesses from Fortune 15 companies to startups on how to establish a solid financial path. Ken’s level of expertise includes revenue generation, financial excellence, strategic direction, operational efficiency, change management, and risk management. He is passionate about sharing his strategies that yielded consistent results for his clients. Listen in as they discuss:Who is a fractional CFODiversifying revenue streamsCreating passive incomeAssessing your business marginsAnd, more!Ken also shares some of the worst advice he has seen or heard given in his area of expertise.TIP OF THE WEEKMark: My tip of the week is learn more about Mr. Biz at mrbizsolutions.com, learn more about being a fractional CFO, and how it can help small businesses. He's got a lot of content: live streams, articles, books. Get smarter!Scott: There's this guy Ian Ray, he created this website called tvcharts.ianray.com; when you go there you can type in any show and it will show you by series and by episodes for the show.Ken: My tip is to take action, progress not perfection. Very important. The way I illustrate that is, and try to make this humorous, so people remember it and I say the road is riddled with a lot of flat squirrels who couldn't make a decision. Are you going to cross the road or are you coming back? Which one are you doing, commit to it, and make it happen. You got to take action and don't be a flat squirrel.Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

Joining Mark this week are:Scott BossmanMike ZainoTeria HarrisErik PetersonTate LitchfieldScott ToddListen in as they go around the table and discuss how much they paying their VAs to post on Facebook, Craigslist, and other marketing platforms. They also discuss the strategies they use for posting ads per unique APN in a geographical area.TIP OF THE WEEKTeria: My tip is pretty basic and it’s kind of one of the Land Geek’s staple, it’s what we first heard when we got the Bootcamp and we held on to it, it’s Remember Your Why. There were times in our business where things are going really well and things aren’t going well and it’s when those moments where we’re really frustrated, there were times we really thought this is not going to work, we’re going to give up. But we always went back to our WHY: Why did we get into this, what’s the purpose of it, what are we going to get out of it? That was our driving force, so REMEMBER YOUR WHY.Are you ready to learn more about land investing? Just click HERE to schedule a call.Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want, and with whomever you want?

Gary Boomershine got into real estate full time in 2004. He founded RealEstateInvestor.com in 2005 out of the need to scale and grow his own real estate investing and home buying business. With a family legacy in the real estate niche and a long successful career in enterprise and emerging technology markets, Gary saw the vision for RealEstateInvestor.com. He noticed the glaring opportunity to leverage people, processes, and technology to gain a leg up in a changing and competitive marketplace. Under his leadership, his business has launched a technology revolution within the real estate niche; offering an alternative to the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) by bringing pre-screened motivated sellers and buyers face to face at the right time. As he worked to develop and use the initial product and service, he saw his real estate business flourish by allowing him to work smarter and not harder. By doing that he is able to focus on the one thing that makes money which involves talking to sellers and making offers. Gary currently resides in Northern California with his wife and two daughters where he continues to be a visionary for RealEstateInvestor.com. He is actively involved in real estate investing and private lending. Listen in as they discuss:Gary’s journey to where he is at now.Building or implementing systems that work for your business.Delegating work to people who will add value to your business.Why are people resistant?The concept of getting a return on your investment and time.The concept of opportunity cost.The fastest and easiest way for businesses to make offers and close sales.And, more!If you are doing a ten dollar an hour work, you’re going to have a ten dollar bank account. ~Gary BoomershineTIP OF THE WEEKMark: My tip of the week is going to make you millions of dollars for your lifetime, but again, it’s leverage points. Luckily, Gary Boomershine can help you just go to realestateinvestor.com and learn more.Scott: Check out find-your-next-startups-name.now.sh, your next startup is going to be simple and furb.Gary: These changed my life. First, in anything that I want to excel at I get a coach. The second thing is Masterminds, being around like-minded, sharp, and sharper-than-me people has been a life-changer. The third is the book Traction by Gino Wickman Model. They have an operating Model called EOS, it’s been a life-changer.Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want? 

Joining Mark this week are:Scott BossmanMike ZainoTeria HarrisErik PetersonTate LitchfieldScott ToddListen as they go around the table and outline what each geek would do if they were to re-start their land business in 2021 with $10,000 cash on hand. Will they invest in training, wholesale, or land arb? Will they focus on good ole fashioned mailing and marketing? Tune in to find out!Plus, Teria shares that she’d invest in infinite banking. Want to learn more about infinite banking? Learn more here! TIP OF THE WEEKTeria: On Facebook, I used to be able to do my strike-out in a Word Document and copy it and paste it into my Facebook Ad, and with improvements and changes that they’ve made they’re no longer able to do that. So I found a website called yaytext.com; it allows you to go in and bold your text or strike–through all the other grammatical new ones that you want to put in your ads, it’s there on that website and you can copy it and put it into your Facebook Ads and it shows up the way you want it to. It’s a pretty cool little tool. Are you ready to learn more about land investing? Just click HERE to schedule a call.Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want, and with whomever you want?

Mike Simmons wasn’t born into an entrepreneurial family, however, real estate investing became his fascination in 2003, and from then, has gained knowledge and experiences which have made him a wealth of knowledge for budding entrepreneurs worldwide. Today, he is a speaker, podcaster, business coach, and author. He has been in real estate since 2008 and has flipped houses, bought rentals, and wholesaled hundreds of deals. Since then, he has grown his business tremendously which is detailed in his book, Level Jumping, which is available on Amazon.He is the producer and host of the popular podcast Just Start Real Estate where he interviews inspiring investors who share tips and strategies for growing an investment-based business.  He is also a partner in 7 Figure Flipping which is one of the nation’s largest real estate mastermind groups. Listen in as they discuss:How Mike got started and how he took his business to where it is today.Doubling down on your strengths as opposed to your weaknesses.The wholesaling method.What does it take to scale a business?When is the best time to scale your business?And, more!TIP OF THE WEEKMark: My tip of the week is going to help make you wealthy. Learn more just go to mikesimmons.com, check out the book Level Jumping, check out their Podcast, and listen to my talk with the other people to inspire you.Scott: Check out this Chrome Plug-In called Tab Save, you can look it out in Chrome Store. What it does is when you tap it will easily save all of your open tabs right to a file. You won't lose them.Mike: My tip is a book, I think, it's an important one because if you ask me to "boil down what you did to scale or like key things": number one was hiring and number two was creating systems and processes, and running my business in a systematic way. The name of the book is Traction by Gino Wickman.  It's a short and easy read; and they call it EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System). It's a simple method of running your business like a business.Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want, and with whomever you want?

Joining Mark this week are:Scott BossmanMike ZainoTeria HarrisErik PetersonTate LitchfieldScott ToddListen in as they go around the room and discuss ways to evaluate the effectiveness of your deal of the week. They also give advice and tips to compose a good deal of the week while sharing the approach they take to construct and manage their weekly deal of the week.TIP OF THE WEEKScott Bossman: There are two tips. One is fun and one practical. The practical one is everybody is always worried about water. What’s the water table like? Your buyers are worried about water, new land investors are worried about water. I’m not so much worried about water anymore but it was one of my initial worries. There is a website you can use nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov. You can search by county and area and really zoom in and see what maybe what the water table is like in a particular area. You can see how deep a well is dug in a particular area you work in.This is my fun tip of the week. Being that I work at home now, I have more time to read, listen to music, whatever. I would highly recommend listening to the 500 greatest albums of all time on rollingstone.com. It’s been very cool. I went through the first hundred albums last year and I’m finding some new favorites. So for those of you working at home and trying to pass the covid time, I recommend going through the list. Are you ready to learn more about land investing? Just click HERE to schedule a call.Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want, and with whomever you want?

Axel Meierhoefer is an experienced international coach, author, lecturer, training facilitator, and business consultant. He is a retired Air Force officer who served 22 years as an instructor and later became the executive director of ISG at Isera Group LLC, a software company in Santa Barbara, California.Axel holds a Bachelor’s degree in Aviation and Management from Hamburg College in Germany, a Masters degree in Organizational Management from Antioch University in Santa Barbara, California, and a Ph.D. in Leadership from Antioch University in Columbus, Ohio. Axel is the owner and managing director of a consulting company - AMC LLC, where he utilizes his decades of experience which specialize in four focus areas: Project Management, Facilitation and Teaching, Learning Design and Implementation, and Coaching. He is also the creator of Ideal Wealth Grower, an educational platform that helps people generate passive income with residential real estate investing. Today, he shares his system for achieving economic independence through the IWG platform and mentoring program. Listen in as they discuss:The ideal wealth growerChanging and building wealth mindsetSpeculations in real estateAnd, more!TIP OF THE WEEKMark: My tip of the week is going to make you wealthy, go to idealwealthgrower.com, there's a ton of information there. Start building your wealth, start changing your mindset; it's all there.Scott: Check out the book called Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy by Patrick Bet-David. The author has a YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, he walks you through the ability to gain clarity built-strategy.Axel: My tip of the week is the book from John Soforic called The Wealthy Gardener. It gave me a huge amount of input, and anybody who's looking about how I can get my mindset, approach, and my thinking about wealth, money, and life in the right direction I would say John Soforic did a phenomenal job on writing that book. My biggest take away from that book is that “Steady Discipline is the Path to Success”."Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?"

Peter Conti is the founder of Realty-Estate-101, an internet training program that provides straightforward step-by-step guidance for commercial real estate investors. He’s the co-author of Commercial Real Estate For Dummies and currently lives in beautiful Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland. Peter Conti went from an auto mechanic to a self-made millionaire in 3.5 years by using his creative methods to profit from both residential and commercial real estate.Peter’s innovative investing strategies have made it possible for thousands of people all across the world to make the transition into the exciting world of commercial real estate. He currently encourages and guides people who want to profit from real estate but who have limited time to find or manage real estate deals. He is also focusing on commercial lease options which involve acquiring commercial property using owner carry and commercial master lease terms combined with an assignment contract to create sizable up-front paydays.Listen in as they discuss:The commercial real estate modelFinancing component of commercial real estateThe lease option methodRisk factors associated with commercial real estateAnd, more!TIP OF THE WEEKMark: My tip of the week is the best tip of the week, Peter has been kind and generous enough to offer us a free book. Just go to petersfreebook.com, read the book and start learning about these options and how you can profit from it.Scott: Check out this website called Elocance. What it does is it takes your reading list, it turns whatever you want to read into a podcast like an audio version of it.Peter: One of the skills that I teach my students and has been very helpful to me in my 30 years of investing is being able to create a connection either with brokers or property owners, to quickly create rapport. There's a book available called Instant Rapport by Michael Brooks, I believe it's still available on Amazon. Great little study guide on how to get up speed on creating rapport quickly. The other thing is, right now is an amazing time to get going investing in Real Estate whether in commercial properties or investing in land. Let's face it when you're in quarantine and you're home you got a lot of time to focus on something new. People right now are at home and available to answer emails and phone, it's easy to get hold of people. Get out there, pick a strategy or method of teacher and start taking some steps.Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?