Plagiarism Boundaries—Is Imitation A Form Of Flattery Or Downright Offensive?

In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income—Round Table edition, Mark is joined by:

• Erik Peterson
• Aaron Williams
• Scott Bossman
• Mike Zaino
• Mimi Schmidt
• Scott Todd

This week we go deep inside the moral dilemma and boundaries of Plagiarism.

You’ve put your heart and soul into writing copy and you’ve paid good money for a photographer to go out to the property to take pictures and then someone takes your content and uses it as their own… how do you handle this situation?

Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery or is this a blatant lack of respect?

Are there any exceptions?

• What if they change the copy and put their own spin on it?
• What if it’s a friend or acquaintance who takes them?
• What if it’s disclosed that is not theirs and give you the credit?

Listen in as the panel of geeks addresses these questions and more! 

[bctt tweet=”Be a purple cow in a sea of brown cows.” username=”TheLandGeek”]

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mimi: Check out the most recent monthly report from Lands of America.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

---

In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott are joined by the Project Ninja, Lyndsay Phillps!

Lyndsay is the CEO of Smooth Sailing Business Growth, a content marketing company to help you grow your business and it’s reach quickly and efficiently. Lyndsay’s 4 favorite words in her job are: Plan, Publish, Optimize, and Promote. She believes in the power of social media and the strength that promoting yourself can give you!

Some things we cover:

• The importance of email marketing
• Finding your ideal market
• Lyndsay’s favorite tools for marketing

Lyndsay makes sure that everyone who listens this week feels like they have a great place to start in their marketing journey. She does a great job of making Mark and Scott feel like she’d be a valuable asset to the two of them.

[bctt tweet=”Make sure your lines of communication are clear and open.” username=”TheLandGeek”]

Let this Task Master help you master your marketing tasks!

Lyndsay is offering listeners her Social Media Action Template to help outline your social media plan of action!

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: Learn more about Lyndsey at SmoothBusinessGrowth.com. Clearly, Lyndsay is an expert in all things content, marketing, and geeky tools.

Scott: Read the book, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss. Negotiate as if your life depended on it. You’ve got to ask for big things and you got to hold your own sometimes.

Lyndsay: One of the books that really resonated with me when I was starting out is, It’s Okay To Be Scared – But Never Give Up by Jim Palmer. It’s stories from different entrepreneurs. It made me realize that everyone has their own entrepreneurial journey and you always have to start somewhere.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

---

In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income—Round Table edition, join us as we take a look back at some of our most popular episodes. We chose three clips that have one common factor: TIME.

This first topic up is the artificial timeline some set on certain aspects of this business or even on the success of their business. It’s always good to have goals to strive for, but don’t make time your end-game.

Don’t put a period on your goals, use a semicolon.

While our first clip talks about why you shouldn’t set a timeframe for this business, the last two clips are centered around the value of your time and how to avoid the huge time-suck of overthinking it!

Listen in now…

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

---

In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott are joined by Whitney Nicely, a real estate investor who is all about girl power!

Raised in a family that sold dump trucks, Whitney originally thought that’s all she’d be doing with her life. But, upon realizing that her mom had been collecting checks in the mail for years, she decided to get out of the trucking business and into the new family gig: real estate investing! Whitney is all about empowering women to do what they love, especially real estate. She broke into the man’s world to bring you some inspiring tips for breaking into it, too!

Some things we cover:

• Getting started with next to no money
• Realizing that land is everywhere, and it’s all for sale
• Lease options and how they can help jump-start your career

Whitney isn’t afraid of the game that the real estate investing industry is, and neither should you be. When it comes down to the basics, anyone can do it so long as you’re willing to put in the work.

You don’t need $100,000 to get started. I started with $2,700 and made it!

Besides, who wants to work 40 hours a week just to make ends meet? Not Whitney!

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: Learn more about Whitney by going to her website at WhitneyNicely.com.

Scott: Read the book, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz.

Whitney: For setting up automation, check out ifttt.com.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

---

In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income—Round Table edition, Mark is joined by:

• Scott Bossman
• Tate Litchfield
• Erik Peterson
• Aaron Williams
• Mimi Schmidt
• Scott Todd

We get into a great topic this week and that is the debate over Landmodo ads—Is it better to put more information in your ads to save time in the long run, answering questions from leads that may not go anywhere. Or, do you give less information to create that air of mystery and to open up a line of communication?

The gang all give their feedback on which they believe is the better way to go and we come up with the definitive answer!

Plus, we compare Landmodo.com to the other land websites… apples to oranges.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mimi: Build your marketing strategy around the holidays with this Excel Spreadsheet by Leadpages.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

---

This week on The Art of Passive Income, we’re joined by the Hipster Investor herself, Ali Boone.

Ali was an Aerospace Engineer who began her real estate investment career to get out of the corporate world. She discovered the Turnkey model of investment and was able to build an amazing business out of it. She joins us today to offer her insight and break down the myths and stigma attached to Turnkey investing.

Some things we cover:

• • Being Hands-Off doesn’t mean being uninvolved

• • How to choose the right property
  • How to avoid bad advice

Ali also dives into the advantages Turnkey has for people who are just looking to get into real estate versus people who have done it for years, and why it might be the right fit for anyone. We also find out just important the right property management company can be, and how it can make or break your new residential land.

[bctt tweet=”Don’t take advice from people you wouldn’t trade shoes with.” username=”TheLandGeek”]

Let this hipster show you how it’s done!

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark:  Learn more about Ali Boone at  HipsterInvestments.com.

Scott: Check out the iOS and Android App Hushed for an affordable alternative to running multiple phone lines. With Hushed, you can have all the business lines you need right in your pocket.

Ali: “Don’t take advice from people you wouldn’t trade shoes with,” which is to say that if someone isn’t in the field you want to pursue, maybe reconsider any advice they give you.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

---

In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income—Round Table edition, Mark is joined by:

• Mike Zaino
• Erik Peterson
• Tate Litchfield
• Scott Todd

Scott shares his excitement as we head into his most favorite time of the year, for land investing—people are in the money spending mode, wallets are open and it’s a good time to be a land investor!

Then, Tate brings up a good topic that came up during this week’s Office Hours and that is the deal of the week and how much you should mark your properties down.

Join the gang as they delve into these questions:

• Do you give deep discounts?
• Do you go by a percentage?
• Do you just offer low downs?
• Or, are receiving these advanced notice deals in your inbox a great deal in itself?

The guys all dig deep into their own tactics and share their best-kept secrets with us.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mike: Listening to uninformed people is worst than having no answers at all. -Ray Dalio  

If you’re thinking about doing this business, get the real facts, talk to one of the experts.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

---

In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income—Round Table edition, Mark is joined by:

• Mimi Schmidt
• Tate Litchfield
• Scott Bossman
• Erik Peterson
• Aaron Williams
• Scott Todd

Scott Bossman brings up an interesting and challenging situation that he faced last week. One that raises Mark’s blood pressure and leaves him feeling anx-gry and the whole gang riled up!

He had an intake deal in progress with a gentleman that he connected with on a personal level. The seller told Scott that he had owned this property for over 30 years and Scott’s offer was the first one he had ever received. They agreed on a price and everything was good to go until another investor sent an offer right before the deal was done and the amount was double Scott’s offer.

Should Scott hold the seller to the original agreement since he had already put in all of the work, or just offer more money since he already had a buyer in place?

And, what about the other investor who is also a community member, should Scott reach out to them to let them know that their offer is too high for the area?

Everybody weighs in on how they would proceed.

Then, Scott Todd tells us about a little scarcity experiment he performed in an area rich with land investors. He ran the analytics on APN numbers and the number of times they were mailed to and the results may shock you!

Listen in to find out what that number was and to hear the outcome of Scott B’s. situation.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mimi: Check out WhitePages.com—a less expensive alternative to Intelius.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

---

In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott talk with Brett Snodgrass—a full-time wholesale real estate investor and the CEO of SimpleWholesaling.com.

Brett tells us that he’s always had a heart for entrepreneurship, even as a young child counting quarters in his piggy bank to see how much money he had.

As a young adult, he studied business in college but was not interested in climbing the corporate ladder, so he left after a year and then went on to get a bachelor’s degree in teaching. After four months of teaching, he knew it wasn’t for him either so he decided to follow his heart and read everything he could on entrepreneurship. After reading, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, he knew real estate was where he wanted to be.

His dad introduced him to a land developer that was on The Land Geek podcast, and that’s when his real estate journey began.

Join us as Brett walks us through the details of his first deal and how it ultimately led him to Simple Wholesaling. A lot like land investing, except with a house on the property, Brett uses the direct mailing method and looks for motivated sellers who are:

• Delinquent on taxes
• Have code enforcement violations
• Absentee or out of state owners
• Probate inheritances

Also, find out the type of properties Brett looks for, his top 3 lead generation sources, plus so much more!

Listen in now as we delve into the details of wholesale real estate investing, the simple way.

Resources mentioned:

• Postal Impact
• SuccessorData.com

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: Learn more about Brett and wholesaling at SimpleWholesaling.com.

Scott:  Read the book, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero, to help you stop doubting your greatness and help you start living an awesome life.

Brett:  Check out CloudHQ.net. It’s an extension of Gmail that allows you to create a video and embed it into your email.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

---

In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income—Round Table edition, Mark is joined by:

• Scott Bossman
• Erik Peterson
• Tate Litchfield
• Aaron Williams
• Mike Zaino
• Scott Todd

In this post, Orlando Bootcamp edition, the gang goes over their biggest takeaways. But not all were good and that leads the guys into a deep discussion about time value and why it makes better sense to follow the recipe. By following the recipe, you make fewer mistakes, cook more efficiently, and it’s done and on the table quicker leaving you ready to rinse and repeat—i.e. scale your business faster!

Listen in as the guys dive deep into following the tried and true recipe and why some choose to do all the labor themselves instead of outsourcing those time-consuming tasks. Is it a labor of love, or fear?

Fear is the major component for a lot of people in moving forward—they’re not confident in themselves, they’re not confident in the business. -Scott B.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mike: Don’t worry about what you have to do, celebrate what you get to do.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

---