Epic Real Estate Investing - 5 "Realistic" Methods of Producing Passive Income | 653

Episode Date: May 15, 2019

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And I've got a really good show for you today as well. But before we start, I wanted to ask you a really quick question. I was just thinking, and I'm curious, are you breaking the bank right now on your time and your money, spending more and more on marketing, trying to buy discounted real estate? Because real estate investing trends, the trends have really gotten out of control lately. It's time to go back to the best. basics. To buy discounted real estate, you only have to focus on three things, just three things. One, contacting leads, two, setting appointments, and three, making offers. And if you want to crank it up, setting up a really good automated lead machine, that's the way to do it. Do that and you're good

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And typically I record at night when it's a little quieter, but not so the case. We've got the leafblower guy outside. We've got helicopters going over, semis and buses and all that stuff. So try to ignore that. And let's get into the subject. Today's subject. Five realistic methods of creating wealth through passive income. I put the emphasis on realistic.

There's a lot of stuff out there. There's a lot of trash out there. There's a lot of theory out there. And so I wanted to share with you five realistic methods that I'm implementing in my do-over. You see, generating passive income has become a primary focus of mine over these last few years. And I constantly have my eyes open for new methods and systems for producing it. And I test a lot of them. And I implement what works and I throw out the rest.

So first of all, what is passive income? Now, there are several definitions you can find online. but for the sake of today's podcast, passive income will be defined as an income received on a regular basis with little effort required to maintain it. However, do not misinterpret our definition of little effort required to maintain it

with little effort required to produce it. You see, producing significant income, whether it's passive or active, it takes work. Passive income is not a get-rich quick idea. Quite the contrary, actually. I mean, you'll certainly get rich quicker than anything else that I found out there, but it's not get rich quick. You know, we all have to earn a living in some way, but we have the choice of how we're going to earn it. We each have that choice.

And we can be an employee or a self-employed person and exchange time for dollars, or we can create systems through businesses and investments to produce the dollars for us. Now, the former doesn't really appeal to me, really doesn't appeal to me whatsoever. the concept of no work, no pay is it's probably the biggest killer of financial independence. In fact, I saw a bumper stick like that years back and it said the job is the biggest killer of financial independence. Now, there's certainly some exceptions to the rule. However, as they say, the exceptions only prove the rule. Now, the latter, creating systems through businesses and investments to produce our living force, that's much more appealing to me, at least. You know your situation better than I do, but that makes sense to me. So let me ask you this. Let me put it this

way. Do you want to continue working 50, 70, 80, 100 hours a week for the rest of your life or maybe the next 40 to 50 years until you're able to retire? Or do you want to work 50, 70, 80, 100 hours a week for the next few years and never have to work again? Now, to me, that's the real difference. As I'm illustrating here, it's going to be hard work one way or the other. But the difference, the significant difference is for how long do you want to do that hard work? I just want to make that clear to you. It's going to take work. I don't want to be lumped in with all of the crap online declaring you can earn $20,000 a week your first week and you don't even have to get out of bed to do it. I mean, that's not what we're talking about here. Now, there are two ways to get to this point where you don't have to work. Now, let me clarify that also. There's nothing wrong with work, and I'll probably continue to work for the rest of my life.

But where I'm going is to get to a place where I don't have to work. I get up in the morning because I want to instead of having to. So there are two ways to get to this point where you don't have to work. You can focus on either increasing your passive income or you can focus on reducing your expenses. Now the fastest path to financial independence where you get that time freedom and money freedom, the fastest path is to do both. Increase your passive income and decrease your expenses. You see as soon as your monthly passive income surpasses your monthly expenses,

you're essentially done. You have enough money coming in every single month, whether you go to work or not, that pays your expenses. You are done at that point, or at least you have the option to be done. And anytime you find an activity that does both, it deserves your attention and effort. The first realistic method of creating passive income does both. It increases your passive income and it decreases your expenses. And it happens to be my primary focus. It's what I get up and do every day.

And that's real estate investing. Now, there are many different strategies to create income in. real estate, and that income can be broken down into two categories, massive income, which would come to you typically by wholesaling or fixing and flipping a property, shorter-term strategies. And then there's passive income, which would come to you typically by buying and holding. Now, you can buy and hold property, or you can buy and hold notes. Another word for notes would be mortgages. You can become the bank.

That's another form of buying and holding. Now, buying and holding sounds pretty straightforward. You buy and you hold. You buy a property, place a tenant in the property, they pay their rent to every month. You take that rent and pay the expenses on the property. And if you did it right, there's something left over for you at the end of the month. And we call that cash flow or passive income. Now, it is that straightforward.

However, if you've ever owned a property, you know that there's plenty that can go wrong. And for some reason, it typically does for the newbies. And then unfortunately, real estate gets a bad rap. As many horror stories as you've heard, you know, they're probably all. true. But there's horror stories with any type of investment. There's horror stories with any type of business. But the reason I like real estate investing so much is probably the one investment strategy, the one passive income stream where you have the most control, where you're able to influence and manage your income. And that all comes just through education. There's a lot of people out there that

I actually talk to every day. They think they know what they need to know about real estate investing. But the thing is, is they never get out there and actually do it. And to know and not do is the same is to not know. So I would really recommend before you take on any sort of endeavor in real estate is that you get at least a basic foundation of education. You know, the next step might be actually to find a mentor, someone that has done it. Preferably somebody that is doing it right now. And preferably someone that is doing it at the level that you want to do it. You know, real estate is one of those.

industries or one of those fields where you can find a self-proclaimed expert on every single corner. And they've all got their ideas and methods. And, you know, it only takes a small amount of conversation to find out that most of those people don't even own any real estate. Or they did a transaction 20 years ago and they've classified themselves as an expert. So be careful out there. There are a lot of places where you can get some information about real estate, some good, some not so good. I was fortunate enough to stumble across. an opportunity, or I should say an educational program and a system that actually had a lot of resources and contacts built in, where it actually enabled me to, you know, take that education

from the classroom and go out and put it to work in the real world. I'm in this program with a lot of like-minded people, thousands of them across the country, and I've heard some horror stories out there. There's a lot of really, really expensive programs. There's a couple people I know that have spent over $100,000 on their education, and by the time it was all over, they hadn't even conducted one real estate transaction. So be careful. Now, I was fortunate enough to find this program. It was my first time out,

so I don't have those bad experiences with educational programs. But I was able to find a program that, you know, was a fraction of that, not even close to that much money. And I'm a full-time real estate investor now, and I got here reasonably fast. I mean, it didn't take me a whole lot of time to get up and running it and start producing some really good results. So if you want to check that out, you can.

It's the investorintroduction.com. Go to the investor introduction.com. And you can register for a free introduction in your area. But you can check that out there. Like I said, do your homework, do your research. There are a lot of options out there. But this is what I chose. It works for me.

The investor introduction.com. All right. Realistic method of producing passive income number two. Write a book. You know, everybody has a story to tell. Everybody deserves to tell it. and that's just what I believe. I came out of the music business thinking everybody had an idea for at least one hit song.

That's why we have so many one hit wonders. They had that one idea. They acted on the idea. And voila, they had their hit. And I actually believe the same thing with the book. Everybody has a unique story. And I believe everybody deserves to tell it.

There's someone out there that's going to benefit. There's someone out there that will be entertained by it. There's someone out there that's going to learn from it. And, you know, that can be a form of passive. income is by writing a book and selling it. And becoming a form of passive income is probably easier today than it has ever been with the advancement of the internet, the advancement of printing services, the advancement of do-it-yourself publishers. It took me a really long time to write my book because I was unaware of this industry, this do-it-yourself industry. And I was under

the impression that I had to write this book, then I had to save a bunch of money to go get a bunch of copies pressed. And then I was going to have to peddle him on the street corner because I didn't think I was going to get a publishing deal who's going to give me a publishing deal. No one's ever heard of me. Why should anybody read my story? I mean, this is all the stuff I had going around in my head, and it's absolutely untrue. And it's untrue for you as well, if you're thinking the same thing. But I stumbled across this whole industry.

It's a print-on-demand industry, a self-publishing industry, and you don't have to print up a bunch of books. They have the technology of printing is advanced so far that they can print one book at a time. You can go and sell a book and then order it. so you can actually sell it before you've actually printed it. So that's pretty much no risk business. And then they've got self-publishing houses where they'll do all of the work for you. And I did a bunch of research. I found a lot of great companies, but I did settle on one.

And if you don't know how to get started, like I said, there are countless resources online. But I investigate so many of them. I found a really great service all under one roof. They do pretty much everything. So if you want to check that out, that's writea book.biz. write a book.biz, not dot com, biz. Because you were going to take this book and you were going to create a business out of it.

You're going to create a form of passive income for yourself. Write a book.biz. You can go there and just request a free publishing guide. That's going to get you started right. They have a bunch of great resources and they show you how to, they show you how to prepare your manuscript. They show you how to edit it. They show you how to market it, set it up so it's marketable. Go through publishing terms and leave.

resources and they have all of those resources and then they have all the services actually. So if you don't want to do that stuff, they'll do it for you. They've got a design service. They've got an editing service. They got production warehouse. They got the marketing services, the press releases. They'll do all the internet marketing for you. They'll do email campaigns, online video services.

They'll do radio services. Publicity I just mentioned, expert positioning and advertising, and they'll set up book signings. They'll do the direct marketing. They'll do it all for you. All you really have to do is write and then do the rest for you. They'll even sell it for you and they'll distribute it for you. So, I mean, my book right now is on Amazon.com and it's on borders. It's on Barnes & Noble.

And so it's available at all those places as well as my website. And if you want to go check that out, you can at dooverbook.com. You can go see what I put together and how it's working for me. I sell, you know, maybe two to four copies a day from my website. I think I'm selling them right now for 20 bucks. You know, I sell four of those a day. It's 80 bucks a day. passive income. I'm not going to retire, get rich off that, but it certainly helps pay the bills.

So that's available for you. Go to writea book.biz. Take that's the first step. And if that's something you were wondering about, you know, don't delay like I did. Due to ignorance, it's easier and cheaper than you'd think. Realistic method of producing passive income number three, network marketing. Now, I can already hear some of you snickering or cringing, just at the thought of that. But if you find a good company with a product you believe in, and followed up with some serious sweat equity for a couple of years, you can reap passive income for life off of those efforts. You know, it's been said that if you do inside a network marketing for the next two years what most people won't do, you'll be able to do for the rest of your life

what most people can't do. Now, regardless of what stigma has attached to it, pyramid scheme, multi-level marketing, Ponzi scheme, I mean, there's all types of names that are that are all lumped into one pot, but they're just, they're not. They're all very, very different. First of all, Ponzi scheme is illegal. Pyramid scheme is illegal. So it's not that. Multi-level marketing is just a pay structure. And what most people don't realize is multi-level pay structure. That's corporate America. I mean, you've got the president, you've got the couple vice presidents, you've got the directors, you've got the coordinators, you've got the assistants, you've got the mailroom clerks all the way down. And they all make money off of each, the top levels make money off of the efforts of the people

below them. That's corporate America. It's been around forever. So, try and put your biases aside, your stigma aside. Network marketing, I mean, it's quickly becoming a staple in the business world as more and more respectable businesses of services and products adopt this as their business model. In fact, Donald Trump, you know, if he lost his fortune tomorrow, he's on record as saying he would climb his way back to the top through network marketing. In fact, I even saw an interview with him where he said this and he was in front of an audience, a live audience. Mr. Trump, if you were to lose everything today, how would you get it all back? How would you start over? He said, oh, easy.

Network marketing. And the crowd laughed and they thought it was a joke. And Trump turned to the audience and looked at them very seriously and said, that's why you're sitting out there and I'm sitting up here. But success leaves close. I mean, Trump recommends budding entrepreneurs, give it a go. And not only is it a sound business model, it is an excellent environment to test yourself to see if being a business owner is the right thing for you.

Because it's not easy being a business owner. It's not easy creating passive income. Within network marketing, a system is already in place so you can hit the ground running. The inconveniences that accompanies, say a franchise are opening up a small store of your own. You don't have to manage employees. You don't have to keep track of inventory. All that stuff is absent. It's all taken care of for you.

Now, there are countless companies to choose from, and some are much better than others. Some are absolutely terrible. So you're going to have to do your homework. How do you choose? Well, based off my experience, and I'm currently active in a couple network marketing companies of good, products and good leadership that I've found. And, you know, it's not my full-time gig, but I certainly refer people to the programs whenever the subject comes up, and it pays me some passive income. So based off my experience, how would I choose? Well, I'd recommend the following before making

any final decision. Number one, pick a product that interests you. And more importantly, one, you would purchase and use yourself. I mean, if you don't believe in the product, your customers won't either, and you will not last. It'll be a tough lesson in futility. Number two, meet as many people within the companies you can. I mean, keep your antenna up for shadiness. The longer I'm in this environment or I'm around other network marketers, I find that it's not necessarily network marketing that's shady. It's not necessarily that multi-level marketing is shady.

It's oftentimes the people that it attracts give it that shady reputation. So meet as many people within the companies you can. Keep your antenna up. Listen for over-embellishments, half-truths, and specifically flat-out lies. I mean, trust your gut on this one. Your first instinct is typically correct and trust your instincts fast.

A good indicator is to listen to the individuals pitching the product. I mean, if you hear something along the lines of our product will make a blind man see, I actually had someone say something very similar to that to me once, or our product will make you rich overnight, or there's no work involved, it's easy,

it practically builds itself. You know, head for the door, look for another company, because that's not accurate. It's tough work, but it's rewarding work if you take it seriously. Now, if the compensation plan, it requires you to recruit a small country for it to work. You know, it's going to be a great practice to attempt such a feat, but the effort is really futile.

I mean, the promise of the residual dream in so many of these companies is really a residual lie, especially if you don't get in on the bottom floor with this type of compensation plan. Now, the sales process in every company, it's the same. Okay, you're going to be required to do the exact same activities. You're going to be required to see the people, tell the story, build for events, follow-up, you're going to have to do those same activities to produce your success. So pick the compensation plan that pays the most. And pick one that pays in multiple ways.

Pick one that's going to pay you some good money today. Pick one that's going to pay you some good residual money, like some monthly passive income. And pick one where there's some incentive down the road to build something really big, like maybe in the form of stock options or a founder's pool or something like that where there's a nice potential prize down at the end of the road as well.

Ideally, you want to pick a company where your success, within that company is not dependent on your ability to sell the product. Now, these are few and far between, but your chances of success are far greater within a dual income opportunity, meaning you can generate income selling the product, but you can also do so by using the product. Now, like I said, there aren't many companies that satisfy all of these criteria. You see doing over in network marketing, it can be frustrating and exhausting. So take your time to make the right choice. Now, fortunately, I was able to find a couple of great companies that do meet all of these criteria. I'm not going to promote them on the podcast.

That's not what this is about. But if you can't find one that suits you, you're free to take a look at the two. I'm still active in and work directly with me. If you want to have a conversation about it, feel free to send me an email with your phone number to Matt at thedooverguide.com. And I'll just give you a quick call, and we can have a quick conversation to determine whether working together in one of my two companies makes sense for you or not.

Or maybe I can give you some advice or guidance about the ones that do interest you. I'm happy to do that. But network marketing, don't counter-examination. out because it was a punchline once at a party and the entire room erupted at the mention of it. I mean, people laugh at the things they don't understand. And if nothing else about network marketing, you'll want to understand that there are very successful and very wealthy people in the industry receiving obnoxiously large amounts of passive income. I take it on. It's working for me. I wouldn't endorse it if it wasn't actually working for me. But it is one of the most challenging

things I've ever done. So keep that in mind. As with all of these methods of passive income, They're all challenging. I had to learn something new in every single one of them. So, a realistic method of producing passive income number four, internet marketing or blogging. Now, this over the past year or so, it's become almost a guilty pleasure of mine, and I'm happy to say it's finally working for me.

I had a slow start, but it's finally working for me. And it could have worked a lot sooner if I had followed my own advice in my book and sought out a mentor before getting started. Now, I found a great company. They're kind of pricey, but compared to the money that I squandered and countless little $49 e-books.

I should have just went here first and bought the whole enchilada. I mean, not only would I have saved some money, but I was saved a ton of time and spared myself a ton of frustration. I mean, this little company that I found, they literally give you a step-by-step plan to create your own internet business. Again, it's work. These all take work. But this is the one program,

and unfortunately, I didn't stumble across this one first like I did my real estate investing program. But they hold nothing back. They give everything they've got. they're pretty awesome. And I just love things that are step by step. I can follow instructions. And if the instructions are good, I'm going to be successful at it.

And one of my favorite quotes is if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. And an internet business, in my opinion, it gives each and every one of you the greatest shot of living this quote, of making this quote, your reality. And through the internet, for relatively low startup costs, I mean, my education on how to do this has been by far my biggest expense. but starting up a business is extremely inexpensive. Starting up an internet business is extremely inexpensive, maybe $150 on the low side. And even if you wanted to just go crazy and pick up all of the bells and whistles and go first class, I mean, you'd have a tough time spending $1,000.

You can create a very lucrative business, a very strong and lasting stream of passive income for a very minimal investment. Now, everyone wants to take control of their own life, right? And that's what an internet business can give you, is control. I love passive income that you can control. Now, the system I used, and there are countless systems and approaches to this out there, but they all teach, I should say, the scrupulous and honest systems. There's a lot of stuff out there you're going to want to watch out for,

but they all teach relatively the same thing. I mean, you'll see these principles to building an internet business package and presented in countless ways, but at the end, it's all mostly the same stuff. And when I first started to notice real progress was when I signed up for internet business plan, one, two, three.com. Anytime I hear that 123 or that ABC, I'm immediately attracted because I know it's going to be step by step. So when I signed up for Internet Business Plan, 123.com, that's when my business started to take off. And it's still going. I wouldn't say it's skyrocketing, but it is producing passive income for me now.

And what's so cool about them is they show you how to actually design the perfect lifestyle for yourself. Not necessarily the perfect business, but they take your whole life into consideration. and what type of lifestyle do you want, and then they show you how to take your passion, create a business around that, to produce the type of lifestyle you want. So they create the lifestyle, doing exactly what you want,

bringing you the happiness and satisfaction that each and every one of us deserve. So go to Internet Business Plan, 123.com, and they give you a bunch of free stuff there, by the way, to get started. You'll get full access to a 45-minute information-rich audio presentation that gets you started. They give you something called the Lifestyle Design Chart to use that.

to fill out after you listen to the full program. And you use it as a guide to keep you on track with every decision that you make in your business. Now, the simple chart, it helps you achieve the lifestyle you want and it keeps your business running with or without your involvement. That's my favorite part. That's why I love passive income so much is it works with or without you. And they'll also give you a free 30-day no-risk trial membership to their academy. And if you take them up on this offer and dig in and commit some time to it and make the most of your 30-day trial, you're going to make some significant strides during that period.

So much so you're not going to want to give up your membership. It's like the ultimate puppy dog clothes. They give you just so much information. You're not wanting for anymore. And they show you how to produce results really, really quickly. So if running an internet business that you can set it and forget it is of interest to you, go to internet business plan, one, two, three.com. It's the best place to start, at least in my experience.

And even if you don't participate in their program, you're going to get a ton of great free information. Okay. Realistic method of producing passive income number five. We've gone through four already. This is the fifth one. Realistic method of producing passive income number five. Licensing.

Now, to license or grant license means to give permission. You see a license that may be granted by a party, which we call the licensor to another party. We call the licensee as an element of an agreement between those parties. A shorthand definition of a license is essentially an authorization to, use the licensed material. So there are several types of product, services, and information that can be licensed, intellectual property, software, trademarks, and brands, and artwork or character licensing. So if you have an idea or product or service or some exclusive information, you can license it

for others to use which can create passive income for you. Now, this is something rather new for me, so I haven't actually produced any income from it yet. But I have a big interest in it predominantly to support the internet business I'm building. You see, when you run an internet business, you obviously need something to sell, or else you don't really have a business. And you have a few options. You can create a product or service of your own and market that online, or you can represent somebody else's product as an affiliate and earn a commission every time you sell their product, or you can license somebody's product and place your own brand on it. Now, I learned about this a few years ago when I first read the four-hour work week by

Timothy Ferris. Now, licensing, it's been around forever, but I really did just learn about it a few years ago with regard to how I can implement it in my business to create passive income. It seemed like something that was up there available only to the bigger business people, but it's actually readily available to even the small business owners like myself. So as I peruse the internet for good real estate investing and personal development products that I could sell on my two websites, and I looked for stuff that I could license, you know, I found most of them, let's just say, they either needed help in the quality department or they were seriously lacking in the integrity department. And as many as there are to choose from seemingly indicates that there's a demand for these types of products.

But they all just stink. And I wasn't comfortable putting my name behind them. At least that was my experience. So I've decided to create a few of my own. I'm creating a real estate investing product and I'm creating a personal development product. but rather than sell them exclusively on my own website, I'm going to do what's called white label them and allow other internet businesses to license them from me

so they can put their own labels on them. And that's from where the additional passive income comes. I will make passive income by selling those products on my own websites, but I'll create an additional income stream by allowing other internet businesses, other websites, to put their own label on my products and market them as their own. Now, I've never done this before, and I wasn't sure where to get started.

I only knew about it in theory. So I did the logical thing that we all seemed to do when looking for answers. I went to Google and started my search. After reading and researching several possibilities, I decided on one and purchased their product. I think it was $149 or something. But so far, it's really, really good. Personally, I like step-by-step instructions. And I'm following along, and everything seems to be coming together so far.

So for now, I give this my endorsement. It's licensing, 123.com. Licensing, 123.com. You can see a theme of what attracts me. If you put an ABC or a one, two, three behind it, I'm all in. So if you have an idea for a small how-to book, a little widget, piece of software, a special character, you doodle on napkins and scratch pieces of paper, whatever it may be, go to licensing123.com and you can read a bit more, and perhaps this is something that you'll want to do for passive income.

Now, this particular site, it's heavily focused on licensing, coaches and speakers, but the concept is sound and it's going to work for any idea you have that you think is licenseable. Now, their sales pitch and their landing page, it's pretty salesy, I'll give you that warning. But don't let that get in your way. The product seems credible. But their sales pitch is so that they've got a step-by-step proven road-tested program that shows you exactly how to start licensing your own workshops, speeches, publications, and training materials. And my experience thus far, it's been really, really good. So this is what really attracted me. For the price, they give you a ton of information stuff. I mean, you're going to learn

clear, simple, step-by-step instructions what a licensing program is. And I certainly needed to know that and what it can do to build your business. How to tell if your program can be licensed successfully when it's the right time to license your work and when it's the wrong time. That seems just as important. How to license if you don't have a workshop or program set up already. How to find your own niche in the licensing marketplace. How to title your training program so it attracts the perfect trainees and plenty of them. Everything to include to make your training program complete. What else they give you?

Personal Rolodex filled with their favorite road tested resources like printers, designers, CD and DVD duping houses and the perfect fulfillment in shipping vendors, which types of licenses to use, pricing and payment models that work, and those that don't, the ABCs of packaging, processing orders, and fulfillment and shipping. I mean, just totally setting this up as an automated business. setting up as another stream of passive income for yourself. They literally give you all the nuts and bolts of exactly how to create your own licensing program in a way that no one really has ever done before.

At least that's my interpretation of it. So go to licensing123.com. Licensing 1,2,3.com. All righty, those are the five realistic methods of producing passive income that I'm implementing in my do-over. Now, I know there are others out there, but I can't speak on them as I've never used them. only speak on what I know and what my experiences are. So I referred you today to what's working for me.

Maybe they'll work for you. Maybe they won't. So do your own research. But if you're anything like me and you just want to get started, you know, I'm pretty confident in putting my name behind the resources I mentioned today. If you didn't get to write them down, I have them all conveniently listed in the show notes at the doover guy.com. This is podcast episode number 11. Just click on podcasts in the right-hand column of the homepage.

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