BTM 69: Who You Need To Become For Entrepreneurial Success with J.Massey
A full-time real estate investor, entrepreneur, popular podcast host, author, speaker, coach and all-around problem solver, J. Massey is well known for providing best-in-class advice and strategies to help new and experienced investors the world over. J.’s platform is simple… He invests his time looking for investment opportunities (a.k.a., problems to solve through real estate transactions), closing deals and teaching others how to find and manage similar opportunities, including getting Deals At Discounts and Raising Private Capital to Investing in Multi-Family Properties, getting leads and negotiating the deal.
By turning his real-world field work into killer training courses, new and seasoned investors alike learn win-win solutions to solve real estate “problems” for buyers, sellers and other investors. J.’s cashflow-creation strategies are embraced on a global scale by people who want to learn better ways to achieve tangible success in real estate investing, and in his words become “bigger, badder, better real estate investors.” J. is currently a landlord, lender, consultant, educator and highly sought mentor. He currently owns hundreds of units of properties and has completed hundreds more real estate transactions across several states.
On today’s episode, we talk to J about his before the millions story and his early days growing up in a military family and living overseas. Being from a military family, J learned how to be adaptable which was key to his later success as an entrepreneur. J shares with us the importance of understanding “simple cash management” practices when starting and growing a business. You’ll learn about the importance of the development and transformation process prior to achieving your goals and dreams for your life. J also shares with us about how he was able to leverage his real estate investments to create more opportunities for other entrepreneurs to achieve financial freedom. Lastly, J give us his advice on how to overcome adversity and the # 1 question everyone must ask themselves when feeling overwhelmed and unfocused.
Key Points From This Episode:
- How J’s adaptability helped him start his journey as an entrepreneur (runway modeling, college years)
- Why “passive income” doesn’t mean uninvolved (it still requires active management)
- Importance of knowing that passive doesn’t guarantee permanent
- Why you need to become a different person to achieve the goals and dreams you have
- Why were you start isn’t always where you stay or end up (The unpredictable entrepreneurship’s journey)
- The story of how J’s podcast and educational company (Cash Flow Diary) got started
- #1 question you can ask yourself when feeling off track (Is what you want big enough to keep you focused?)
- Why you can’t get disconnected from your ability to dream and explore new opportunities
- Understanding what’s at risk and the dangers of getting too comfortable
- The choice between whether to be liked vs. being respected in business and life
- You can’t always look good and learn at the same time (not being afraid to fail fast and often)
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode
J’s Website: http://cashflowdiary.com/
J’s Favorite Books:
The Bible https://amzn.to/2LbaPej
The Science of Getting Rich https://amzn.to/2N16OdZ
Download any 2 audio books for free when you try audible for 30 days.: https://beforethemillions.com/book
J’s Favorite Lifestyle Design App: Cloze The smart mobile app to track customers, clients, prospects and leads without the hassle of CRM. https://www.cloze.com/
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BTM 66: Successfully Unemployed: Lifestyle Design Through Rental Properties with Dustin Heiner
Dustin Heiner is a real estate investor with 24 single family properties and blogger from California. Dustin is the founder and host of Master Passive Income, a Blog and Podcast about investing in real estate rental properties. In 2004, Dustin realized he would never be wealthy working for someone else, so he needed to change something.
He decided to work hard toward quitting his job and being his own boss. After reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad Dustin knew he needed to become an investor. So he started investing in real estate and start earning cash flow in 2006. (Yep, just before the crash in 2009) He took a weekend course from a real estate guru that cost $1,000 and that started him down the path of rental properties. From that $1,000, Dustin has grown his investment income to $8,500 per month. It only took him 8 years to do it. In 2016, Dustin quit his job working for the local government. He will literally NEVER have to work for someone else ever again.
On today’s episode, we talk to Dustin about all things passive income. Dustin shares with us several stories about his childhood growing up with a family who was involved with real estate and building homes. He developed a passion for homes and entrepreneurship. Real estate was the one thing that really worked for Dustin after attempting several other business opportunities.
Within 6 years of investing, Dustin had all of his income replaced by his income producing properties and could quit his day job. You’ll learn the importance of hiring a mentor to help you along the investing journey to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes. Lastly, Dustin shares with us his suggestions for first-time investors who would like to get started with little to no money down on a rental properties.
Key Points From This Episode:
- The story on how Dustin started his entrepreneurial path as a teen delivering newspapers
- Lessons learned from Dustin’s retail business that he applied directly to his real estate investing business
- Importance of hiring and finding the right people when investing in rental properties
- How Dustin utilizes online resources (monthly payments, maintenance requests, property management, etc.) to manage the real estate business from around the world
- Why hiring the right mentor can help you avoid critical mistakes and teach you ways to save time and money while working towards financial freedom
- What separates the people who find success with a mentor when investing vs. those who do not
- The 3 key traits you need to take advantage of real estate opportunities
- How getting rid of the “business” helped Dustin focused on the things that are important and took his real estate business to the next level
- Why sticking to one main objective until you master it or its running itself is key to success
- What Dustin’s lifestyle design looks like today (family time, working on his podcast, traveling, and more)
- The concept of “buying with no money down” and lessons learned from not having the right property manager when starting to buy rental properties
- Suggestions for first-time investors (using a FHA loan, buying a duplex or single family home)
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode
Dustin’s Website: http://www.masterpassiveincome.com/
Dustin’s Podcast: http://www.masterpassiveincome.com/podcast/
Dustin’s Favorite Book: Richest Man In Babylon
Dustin’s Favorite Lifestyle Design App:
Evernote is the app that keeps your notes organized. Memos are synced so they’re accessible anywhere, and searchable so you always find what you need. https://evernote.com/
Google Docs brings your documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs. https://www.google.com/docs/about/
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BTM 23: Conversions, Remarketing and Disruptive Advertising with Chris Dayley
On this episode we welcome Chris Dayley, a highly successful entrepreneur in the digital marketing space. Chris is the founder of Dayley Conversion, an A/B testing guru, CRO speaker, and User Experience proponent. He started his own company with the ultimate goal of achieving lifestyle design.
Chris eventually got the opportunity to merge his company with Disruptive Advertising, a digital marketing company whose mission is to improve lives through results based relationships. The company specializes in three key areas; PPC management, site testing and optimization, and analytics.
Chris envisions a world where every business tests their ideas, where touching a computer screen doesn’t leave a fingerprint, and where lightsabers are real. He is always pushing the boundaries of A/B testing and disrupting the website design space. His story is truly amazing, so stayed tuned as Chris teaches us about conversions, where to get your website traffic from and how to capitalize on leads.
Key Points From This Episode
- When Chris first knew that it was time to start his own company.
- The importance of setting specific goals and giving your all to an opportunity.
- Understanding the idea of A/B testing and conversion rate optimization.
- Challenges Chris faced when he first started his business.
- Developing the skills to transition towards growing your business.
- How Chris used mediation to process every challenge in his life.
- Knowing when to hire people to support the growth of your business.
- Focusing on creating processes and systems to successfully delivery consistent quality.
- Successfully navigating a merger and making a significant impact.
- What Disruptive Advertising offers and Chris’ role within the company.
- Understanding the value of capitalizing on conversion rate optimization strategies.
- Using Facebook marketing to build awareness around your product.
- Taking advantage of retargeting and create conversions for your business.
- Understanding what a conversion means for different companies.
- The benefit of testing to determine the most effective marketing message.
- The best strategy for split-testing; what works best for your business.
- Retargeting and remarketing from a PPC standpoint; Facebook and Google.
Tweetables:
[spp-tweet tweet=”“To me, a good lifestyle is not just making good money, but being able to enjoy my life.” — @Chrisdayley“]
[spp-tweet tweet=”“If you don’t already have that entrepreneurial drive and spirit on your own, it’s hard to develop that.” — @Chrisdayley“]
[spp-tweet tweet=”“When people get confused and distracted, they don’t convert.” — @Chrisdayley“]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
– Before The Millions Facebook
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