EP 269 – Social Media Survey: The Numbers Tell Your Story

NCS 269 | Social Media Survey

If you have been in the note closing industry, you know that it is a number’s game. In the last 30 days, how many individual posts have you done on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest? How many videos have you published in YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook? All the numbers that you get from these questions will immediately tell you how well are you doing with your business. Long-term success is built with daily increments that … Read More

EP 268 – Note Camp Recap

NCS 268 | Note Camp

Note Camp Provides education for people about the note closing industry. It also helps a lot with planning how we can help investors for the next six months. We want to see attendees doing more marketing, not just during the event, but going forward for their own businesses. Note Camp teaches note closers to step out of their comfort zone and share their strengths and weaknesses, how they find their deals and how many can … Read More

EP 267 – Do You Send Emails To Your Database?

NCS 267 | Send Emails To Your Database

Even with social media dictating the pace of how people are messaging each other these days, people still read their emails because it is still the best way to communicate to people from a business standpoint. Your database is your number one tool for marketing if you’re a real estate investor or entrepreneur and sending out emails consistently to your database is the key to success of closing deals and winning. You don’t have to … Read More

EP 266 – Using The Marketing Tools of Starbucks Coffee

NCS 266 | Starbucks Coffee

Starbucks Coffee has 8,000 branches all over the world, making it an interesting case study for marketing. Having nine people run their social media generates $22M of company revenue for 300,000 plus employees and they are using the same Instagram and Facebook app that you use to attain this huge amount of marketing. It doesn’t matter if you are a solopreneur or a startup investor, you are going to start the same way they did, … Read More

EP 264 – Leveraging Events To Grow

NCS 264 | Leveraging Events To Grow

When you go to an event, the best thing you can do is learn as many tips as you can from the speakers as well as from your fellow investors that are in attendance. There’s always something you can learn whether it’s a small meet up or big event, people are there to share ideas, knowledge and experiences, and you need to become a sponge that absorbs it all as much as you can. Levering … Read More

EP 263 – Finding Balance Between Your Job And Your Passion

NCS 263 | Finding Balance

A lot of people love their jobs, while others not so much. Whether you do or you don’t, having income from different sources starts to add up. Whether it’s for boosting your retirement or it’s directly correlated to your current job. Finding balance between your job and your passion is always a challenge, more so if your side job is closing notes. To separate your job and passion, the best thing you can do is … Read More

EP NNA 9 – Ten Basic Blunders of Note and Real Estate Investors

NNA 9 | Ten Basic Blunders

There are a lot of very basic blunders that unfortunately most people just don’t know and nobody’s ever sat down and told them how to avoid these things. Most people that come into real estate don’t have the marketing and business background. Scott Carson talks about the ten basic blunders that we see people make, especially in their first year or two, in real estate. These are things he believes every serious note investor need … Read More

EP 262 – The Hoosier Hot Shot Note Investor Gene Chandler

NCS 262 | Hot Shot Note Investor

Gene has done a great job of putting together a solid note business plan that has allowed him to focus on his notes business and step away from his full time job. From a hot shot driver, he turned into a hot shot note investor and has successfully turned his note investing his hobby into his full-time income. Gene’s focus is on vacant and non-vacant single family homes, following a business model of waiting a … Read More

EP 261 – The Royal Touch with Scott Smith

It is rare to see an attorney with multiple licenses, especially if he has ones that are very difficult to be bar certified for. This is why Scott Smith, Owner of Royal Legal Solutions, is considered to have the royal touch in real estate investing. He has been a lawyer and a real estate investor for over a decade which helped develop and sharpen his strategies to protect assets from lawsuits using his experiences in … Read More

EP 260 – Playing Hookie To Meet Tom Hopkins

NCS 260 | Playing Hookie

If you had the chance to meet your idol, but you had to play hookie at work to be able to do so, will you do it? In every business, you need to take risks because you never know if playing hookie now and would get you to be painted as a hero later. Most of the time, you will be both hero and hookie, especially if you’re going to do it to meet Tom … Read More

EP 258 – The Road Less Traveled: Embrace The Suck, Fail Forward And Get On Top

NCS 258 | The Road Less Traveled

For a note investors who’s on top, it’s always good to look back on the path you’ve taken ten years ago and realize that it was the road less traveled. You got off from college with a degree that got you the job, you married your college sweetheart, bought a car, and then unexpectedly things turn south. The path may be unclear but you never stopped walking because from these failures will come the success … Read More

EP NNA 8 – Simple And Effective Ways Of Sourcing Note Sources

NCS NNA 8 | Sourcing Note Sources

Finding a deal is always a big step for any note investor. There is also the temptation of buying from hedge funds because that means there’s less work to do. Reaching out to private sellers is a good move, too, but their assets are always the leftovers of other investors and can be overpriced at times. The secret to sourcing note sources is through public records where most information is free. This way, you find … Read More