Reasons Why Bigger Deals Can Be Less Favorable To Take On In Our Niche

On this week’s round table episode, the Land Geeks discuss the reasons why they purchase smaller land deals on a wide scale as opposed to bigger land deals.

Joining Mark this week are:

• Scott Bossman
• Erik Peterson
• Teria Harris
• Tate Litchfield
• Scott Todd

Listen in as they go around the table and discuss all the factors to consider when purchasing bigger land deals as opposed to smaller ones. They also share some of their experiences with reselling properties they have acquired at a high cost and why they will continue to buy smaller and easier properties to sell.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Teria: My tip is the website I found and it has several pictures on land as well, it’s called unsplash.com. They’re free, you can download them.

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On this week’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott welcome Wealth Advisor and the President of Mindful Money, Jonathan DeYoe to the show.

Jonathan DeYoe is a Licensed Insurance Agent, Certified Private Wealth Advisor, and the President of Mindful Money. He is the author of the Amazon Bestseller Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend.

Before establishing his own company, Jonathan worked for a number of Wall Street giants. Some of these include Morgan Stanley, UBS PaineWebber, and Salomon Smith Barney. He founded DeYoe Wealth Management in 2001 out of the need to offer independent financial advice and unparalleled customer service in a warm, welcoming, client-centered environment. For over 20 years, he has been successfully helping people to gain a sense of order in their financial life.

Jonathan writes about Financial Literacy and Behavioral Wealth Management for news outlets like BusinessInsider.com and MindBodyGreen.com. Today, Jonathan and his team manage close to $250,000,000 for nearly 235 families and non-profits in the Bay Area and beyond.

Listen in as they discuss:

• Behavioral wealth management
• Overcoming biases in behavioral wealth management
• Mindfulness as a tool to overcome biases
• Fundamental principles to learn from Jonathan’s book

And, more!

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: My tip of the week is the best, it’ll really change your life, just go to mindful money and get Jonathan DeYoe’s book Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend.

Scott: Check out this book, Everybody Writes by Anne Handley.

Jonathan: My whole life changed when I started doing a couple of different things, and one book that helped me get through this is Steven Pressfield’s The War Art, which is a fantastic book for people who are struggling to finish a creative project or start a creative project. It really talks about THAT struggle, and what’s inside our brain that makes struggle happen and how do we overcome THAT struggle.

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In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income — Best of Round Table compilation theme, we are focusing on the mindset.

For this week’s episode we are focusing on mentally minding the inevitable dips and the right mindset to have when venturing into something new.

Joining Mark are:

• Mike Zaino
• Tate Litchfield
• Mimi Schmidt
• Erik Peterson
• Scott Todd
• Scott Bossman

Listen in as they go around the table and discuss:

• What they have done when they are faced with inevitable dips.
• Effective ways to manage and overcome inevitable dips in your life and business.
• The mindset to have when taking on new ventures in your life and business.
• The importance of having the right mindset in your business.

And, more!

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On this week’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott welcome wealth manager and speaker Ryan Sterling to the show.

Ryan Sterling is a successful wealth manager and the founder of Future You Wealth. He is a sought-after holistic wealth coach, speaker, and published author of “You’re Making Other People Rich”.  Ryan has a BA in economics from Carleton College, an MBA with a specialization in investment management from Vanderbilt University, and is a CFA Charterholder. 

Before starting Future You Wealth, Ryan has over 15 years of experience helping individuals and families achieve their financial goals in addition to teaching financial literacy courses in underserved communities. Over the past few years, he has been featured in Business Insider, CNN Money, and HuffPost, discussing his knowledge of building wealth.

As a financial advisor, Ryan challenges and inspires people to get real about their life. He achieves this by guiding them to make the necessary changes and creating their own definition of wealth. His mission is to use his own life reinvention to fuel simple yet effective lessons to help anyone live a life of true abundance and wellness.

Listen in as they discuss:

• Ryan’s journey to becoming a successful wealth coach.
• The process of bringing peace to yourself.
• Breaking out of the cycle of consumption.
• The friction point of acquiring depreciating assets versus appreciating assets.
• What happens when we over-consume depreciating assets.
• Turning scarcity into abundance through gratitude.

Lastly, Ryan gives our listeners advice on how to live an intentional life. Tune in!

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: My tip of the week is start to be more intentional, more mindful with your life on how you’re consuming your financial goals, growth mindset, and read the book You’re Making Other People Rich by Ryan Sterling. It is available. And check out Ryan Sterling’s website, futureyouwealth.com.

Scott: Check out webapp.wisestamp.com, go create a cool signature on your emails for free.

Ryan: My tip is a book that has really been transformational in terms of my life, in terms of really thinking about lifestyle design as a part of my financial plans, it’s not about the money but about the life that the money is allowing me to live. The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss is really helping you think about work and lifestyle design in concert with one another.

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In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income — Best of Round Table compilation theme, we are focusing on the importance of building a team to scale your land business.

As business owners, we are only as successful as our team. With that being said, we are compiling two of our best episodes that focus on the importance of building a successful team for our land investing business.

Joining Mark are:

• Scott Bossman
• Erik Peterson
• Mimi Schmidt
• Tate Litchfield
• Scott Todd
• Teria Harris
• Mike Zaino

Listen in as they discuss:

• The right approach to training your VAs.
• The effectiveness of training documents for VAs.
• Where to go to outsource virtual assistants.
• How are VAs paid to post on Facebook, Craigslist, and other marketing platforms?

And more!

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In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income — Best of Round Table edition, we are having a best of compilation theme that focuses on marketing.

Marketing is one of the most important and essential elements in our niche. It can make or break our land business. Therefore we are compiling two of our best episodes that are centered around marketing in the land investing business.

Joining Mark are:

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

Listen in as the Land Geeks revisit the topics that discuss:

• The number of ads that are required or needed to market a property.
• What’s considered to be a good ad? 
• What are the Land Geeks’ top three marketing platforms?
• Significant marketing mistakes they’ve seen in the land industry among their clients and coaching students.
• Effective marketing strategies to create growth for your land business.

And, more!

Marketing is an investment. It has to be consistent and irresistible.

Mark Podolsky

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On this week’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott welcome personal finance blogger, Marc Andre to the show.

Marc Andre is a personal financial Blogger.  He is the founder and owner of VitalDollar.com where he writes about many ways to make and manage money online. He has been an internet marketer and blogger for over ten years. Prior to that, he worked for a few years as an auditor and in other finance fields. 

Today, Marc has been helping others to improve their financial situation. He does this by offering several venues on his blog that teaches how to manage your existing income while making more money. 

Listen in as they discuss:

• Marc’s journey to where he’s at now.
• How he manages his blogging models.
• How to create an audience for your business.
• The timeline to create an audience.
• The process for creating a financial blog.

Lastly, Marc gives advice on how to increase traffic to your website. Tune in to hear more!

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: My tip of the week is learn more about Marc Andre, go to vitaldollar.com.

Scott: Check out close.com/sales-motivation, enter your email address in there and you’re going to get daily sales motivation and maybe it makes a difference for you.

Marc: My tip is based on Online Business, focus on networking, and really get to know people in your niche or industry. The resource that I use every day for that is Slack, I’m in a couple of slack groups with other people, other marketers. There are so many different ways that you can improve your business by focusing on networking and getting connected.

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On this week’s roundtable episode, the Land Geeks showcase their first roundtable podcast from Bootcamp.

Joining Mark for this episode are:

• Scott Bossman
• Erik Peterson
• Teria Harris
• Tate Litchfield

And, our Bootcamp attendees.

Listen in as the Land Geeks go around the table and answer all the questions asked by some of our attendees at the Land Geek Bootcamp that was held in January 2021.

TIP OF THE WEEK

For this week’s tip of the week, we are sharing the biggest takeaways from the Land Geek Bootcamp held in January.

Matthew Landoli: Tax Expander, great software that creates keywords, shortcuts for integrating well with a computer and phone. Will save you thousands of keystrokes and will only cost you $30 a year.

Matt Huber: Constantly mail and adjust

Peter Peterson: Mailer in Facebook

Charles & Molly Jones: ABC Always Be Closing

Isaac Carrier: Sell your land today

Nicole Tate: This is a real business

Peter Peterson: Sell the land!

Daniel Harris: The best way to make money on the internet is by the phone

Rachel Marshall: Mark sales process, keep selling to the buyer, and then convert them into a sales assistant.

Nick: Best takeaway so far, keep mailing, the money is there for the deals.

Tom: I have to listen to Flight School

Matthew Iandoli: ABCDE, always be closing the envelopes

Ross: I love all the tips about Facebook Ads

Ziff: Communication is the key

Steve and Virginia Carlin: There’s a pig for every barn

Jim Adkins: Put the systems in place. Work on the business, not in the business

Dan Schoeph: If you’re marketing everybody, then you’re marketing no one.

Rob: Mailing is Key

Dan Schoeph: Always be closing the envelopes

Mark: tips on scaling the business

Matthew: Marketing automating skills and investing in yourself.

Nick: Listen to October Rage on Spotify

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On this week’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott welcome Real Estate Investor, CEO, and Writer, Jill DeWit from The Land Academy to the show.

Jill DeWit is a business owner, real estate investor, CEO, mom, and writer. She was exposed to the real estate industry at a young age by her father who was also a real estate investor. Jill always knew she wanted to enter the real estate industry because it was a lucrative opportunity.

Since 1999, Jill and her team have been building a real estate company, now known as the BuWit Family of Companies. In the last 6 years, she and her partner, Steven Butala have completed thousands of land deals and transactions. Today, she continues to inspire professionals to make changes to their lives by taking chances and pushing themselves and their business to new heights. 

Listen in as they discuss:

• Jill’s land investing journey.
• Understanding the land investing business.
• Selling houses versus selling lands.
• Buying, marketing, and flipping land deals.
• The process to do due diligence for houses.
• The approach to managing a big team.

And, more!

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: My tip of the week is, every pinpoint in the land investing business, I think can be solved at landacademy.com. If you go to their site and check out their tools, you got countywise.com, Deal Funding, deedperfect.com, House Academy, neighborscoop.com offers2owners.com, parcelfact.com they got consulting. So every pinpoint can be solved, go to landacademy.com.

Scott: Check out swipepages.com, it’s a pretty cool alternative to LeadPages and when you build a landing page quickly just further proof, you don’t need a website for your land business. You can just use a landing page like this. It’s super simple.

Jill: Check out neighborscoop.com. You just put the state, county; it’s a one-stop way to do the origins when looking at the property. It’s a tool that we actually created.

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On this week’s round table episode, the Land Geeks discuss building trust with their buyers and sellers.

Joining Mark this week are:

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

Listen in as they go around the table and discuss the approach they have taken to establish trust with their buyers and sellers. They also share advice and tips you can use in your business to gain trust with your buyers and sellers.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mike: “There are millions in pennies.” In this business, you can make a lot of money in little deals.

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