Please note the current podcast with weekly land investing round table discussions with our Land Geek coaches and clients can be found at The Art of Passive Income Podcast It's true...nothing stays the same in business and that means it's time to say goodbye. You get to witness the evolution of a podcast! The Dawn of The Land Geek Era brought The Land Geek Podcast. The Passive Income Obsession Grew with The Best Passive Income Model Podcast.  And now, the Brand New Mutation is here with The Art of Passive Income Podcast! Listen in one last time as Mark remembers all the great guests he's hosted and says good-bye as he's moving on to the next big thing.   TIP OF THE WEEK: Check out the new Art of Passive Income Podcast. If you subscribe, rate, and review The Art of Passive Income and send a screenshot to support@thelandgeek.com you’ll not only have a chance to win an Investor’s Toolkit, but we’re going to send you some free goodies right away.       

Uh-oh, this isn’t Mark…today we’re mixing things up a bit. Every task I’ve helped Mark with he’s always told me to make it my own—he has always given me creative room to breathe. So while Mark was busy with other things this week, I thought I’d sneak on here and share with you some of my favorite highlights from Land Geek students. Why should you care about my favorite student stories? If you haven’t guessed yet, it’s me, Danielle Dyball…if you don’t know who I am well I’m always working hard behind the scenes here on the Land Geek team. My official title is Chief Geek Administrator, and while I help with everything from support to planning Bootcamps, one of my favorite things about working with Mark is the community. Getting to know the students is always encouraging…whether it’s helping you troubleshoot technical issues or listening as you share your story with us, I absolutely love the Land Geek Community. And we know how much you all love hearing from The Land Geek students too, so I’ve handpicked some of my favorite stories from star pupils. Chris Clark kicks off this episode. Chris is now a Land Geek coach—hear how he got started with land investing using Mark’s system and why he prefers land over house flips any day. Next is John & Becky Burnett, our first couple team. While John always sees the big picture, Becky has the ability to narrow down that vision to accomplish all those little tasks required to reach the ultimate goal. Becky is John’s perfect partner in marriage, married for 32 years, and in business—and while they may not remember how they found Mark they do know his methods are solid as they’ve created a successful business together.   Sometimes it gets a bit confusing when we’re on-boarding new coaching students because not only do we have Chris Clark as a coach, but Chris Pritchard has also recently joined the coaching team. Chris Pritchard found The Land Geek while looking for his next side hustle…listen in as Chris shares with us how land investing has been his greatest side hustle. Last but not least…when talking about Land Geek students we just can’t get away without talking about Scott Todd. Scott has definitely reached celebrity status in the community and I’ve even been told a few times that some of our lady Land Geeks out there have a major crush on Scott. In this episode, Mark & Scott talk about building your list. And if you just can’t get enough of Mark and Scott be sure to check out their new podcast, The Art of Passive Income! If you subscribe, rate, and review The Art of Passive Income and send a screenshot to support@thelandgeek.com you’ll not only have a chance to win an Investor’s Toolkit, but we’re going to send you some free goodies right away.  If you haven’t registered yet for the Vegas Bootcamp go do so now, Bootcamp is two weeks away and we are down to our last two seats. Go to thelandgeek.com/bootcamp for details! Well, the show wouldn’t be complete without a tip of the week, my tip is to go join the free community at thelandgeek.com—ask questions, share your story.

Are you ready to discover the best passive income models out there? Mark and Scott are sure it's land, but once your land business is 90% automated maybe you'd like to create another stream of income? As technology, automation, and robotics change the world and business, those with solo economic dependency are in trouble. Listen in as The Best Passive Income Model meets Mixergy? Maybe not that intense, but we have great things in store for you... Today, Mark and Scott talk shop, get geeky, and weigh in on what technology has in store for the future as they introduce their new podcast which launches next week!   TIP OF THE WEEK: Scott: Checkout Pipedrive, a CRM that helped Scott followup on a lead and make a deal this week. Mark: Sorry Android people, YouTube Director is for Apple users, but helps small businesses create ads for YouTube. Want your questions answered? Summit your question at wiselike.com/mark-podolsky Your question may just end up on the next FAQ episode!   We are ready for Vegas, Baby—you've got to get to Bootcamp! Isn't it time to meet the community and take your training to the next level? Learn more and register here: thelandgeek.com/bootcamp   The Official Land Geek Motivation & Wealth Creation Group on Facebook has over 300 members. Join for free today! Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.

We haven't had a bigger guest than today...we're thrilled to announce—bing bong bing, ding ding dong—Mark Podolsky!   Listen in as Mark interviews The Land Geek himself as he goes through his mailbag answering some of those questions we hear all the time.   It's time to get your newbie questions answered... How much money do you need to get started? Can I really do a dual deal with no money? Where are the best places to invest? Can an international investor be successful with The Land Geek's model? Want your questions answered? Summit your question at wiselike.com/mark-podolsky Your question may just end up on the next FAQ episode!   We are ready for Vegas, Baby—you've got to get to Bootcamp! Isn't it time to meet the community and take your training to the next level? Learn more and register here: thelandgeek.com/bootcamp   The Official Land Geek Motivation & Wealth Creation Group on Facebook has over 300 members. Join for free today! TIP OF THE WEEK:   Read Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be by Marshall Goldsmith, plus more! Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.

In today’s episode of the Best Passive Income Model, Mark talks with Mark Asquith—host of Excellence Expected, the number one small business podcast out of the UK. Excellence Expected is a way to share actual advice and inspirational initiatives borne out of the trials and tests he was faced with when he started and ran his businesses. Mark is also the co-founder of an online podcasting platform, PodcastWebsites, which he runs with John Lee Dumas from Entrepreneur on Fire. Mark delves into how he broke through the noise in the market and created his own noise to get traction and drive sign ups. Three important factors are: Run test experiments. Build an avatar or profile of your ideal customer. Get out there, boots on the ground and talk to people! If you talk to 10 people and ask them to talk to 10 people, you will grow and surpass expectations. Listen in for all the details! TIP OF THE WEEK Mark Podolsky: Read Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Method to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Create a Mass of Raving Fans...and Take Any Business to the Next Level by Ryan Lavesque.  Also, learn more about Mark Asquith at Excellence Expected.com Mark Asquith: Read The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Robert Fitzgerald—a book that will walk you through how to question people, how to talk to people in an unassuming manner, how to extract the right type of information from people so that you get the details that you need and your secret. Also, read Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money by Patt Flynn. This book will teach you how to talk to your customers for research as well. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.

In this episode of The Best Passive Income podcast, Mark talks with Jefferson Lilly—ParkStreetPartners.com. Jefferson is a self-made millionaire and mobile home park investment expert, educator, and industry consultant who has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg Magazine, and on the Real Money television show.  Jefferson provides affordable housing to help people become homeowners. He tells us why he chose mobile home parks and how it's structured so that you don’t have to put much time or money into it, making it a true passive income!   We also discuss:   The parts of the business that suck Managing the parks Using outside capital  Want to know more about this lucrative scale-able extension of the land niche? Listen in as we delve into mobile home investing!  TIP OF THE WEEK Mark: Go to IFTTT.com to automate searches. Also, learn more about Jefferson Lilly at ParkStreetPartners.com. Jeff: Go to SearchTempest.com—a website that goes out and prowls through both Craigslist and eBay where you can type key words and find them. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.  

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark talks to a fellow tax delinquent land investor, Jack Bosch—JackBosch.com. Jack, who is an immigrant from Germany, came to the US in 1997 with two suitcases, student debt, and zero knowledge on buying and selling real estate. Three years later he fell into land investing and has developed a system that has made him millions from 3,800 deals! He has also written an Amazon #1 seller with his wife, Michelle—Forever Cash: Break the Earn-Spend Cycle, Take Charge of your Life, Build Everlasting Wealth. Jack shares his story with us and delves into:  Working with his wife Why there isn't a big pool of land investors His best deal What he thinks the future holds for land investors Plus, did being an immigrant give him an advantage? Listen in for for his answer and as we dig deep into the land niche! Tip of the Week Mark: Go to MyOpenPath.com if you’re interested in tax delinquent investing. If you’re interested in going even deeper and going into land investing, Jack Bosch has a one stop shop for it for a few bucks for month. You can get mini courses and test-drive everything. He has 10 modules on house flipping and a 16- module tax lien course. Get forever cash! Jack: For house investors, go to the CommunityBuyingGroup.com, they pooled power for multiple buyers and they get discounts from outlets such as Office Depot. You might be able to join for free. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.  

In today’s Best Passive Income Model podcast, Mark talks with Heath Binder—head of investor relations for RealtyMogul.com. Heath is a crowd  funding expert and in just two years, he has helped raise over $180,000,000! Heath shares his journey from real estate to private wealth management, and finally to real estate crowdfunding. Listen in as we talk about: The definition of an accredited investor The benefits on an online platform like Realty Mogul Why choose a crowdfunding platform over your family and friends network Capital raising tips One of the most important tips, which is applicable no matter what type of business you're in, you want to have a real sense of transparency. You need to establish trust with the people who are gonna give you their business. Also, Heath doesn't view investors who pepper him with due diligence questions as an impediment but rather as a learning process for his junior guys.  That can also be said for land investing, whether you're a newbie or seasoned investor—we all may prefer easy, problem free due diligence, but the learning comes from the ones that make you work! Don't look at it as a hindrance, but an opportunity for growth. There is a lot of great information about real estate crowdfunding in this episode. Plus, commendable business practices for building a creditable business! Listen in now for all the details! TIP OF THE WEEK Mark: I recommend learning more about RealtyMogul. It’s not a bad place to park your money with ROI averaging at about 9%. Heath: I recommend Happiest Baby on the Block by a doctor named Harvey Karp. I also recommend checking out FiveThirtyEight.com for the latest news on the elections. Finally, go check out TechnologyInvestor.com. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.

In today’s episode, Mark Podolsky, the Land Geek, talks to Leslie Samuel, former university professor and creator of becomeablogger.com and interactive biology blogs. His passion for education has led him on a mission to change the world one blog at a time. With a simple message of creating content, inspiring others, he is changing the world while building a solid online business. When he started to do research for his biology blogs, he saw that the other biology blogs were boring and made him yawn. He remembers getting his start with 400 people until he was able to build his community to 15,000 to 20,000 people a month. In the last month alone, he was able to get 95,000 to that blog and he hasn’t even touched his blog for years! His blog gave him the chance to teach what he wanted to teach and it eventually landed him a job as a professor. To build his blog, he says he used a combination of a number of different things. He put his videos on YouTube, the number two search engine in the world and leveraged that platform. He also said he was specific with the way he came up with titles for his videos. He says when people need information, they search and once they find content, if it’s good content, they’ll subscribe and start looking for other videos. Eventually, YouTube is going to see that and start recommending your videos as you’re searching. He also did “Strategic Outreach” where he approached other sites and bloggers in the same niche and formed alliances with them. This created a ripple effect for him. Essentially, blogging is about creating good content, putting it out there, making sure it’s written from a unique angle, and getting the right people exposed to it. When asked what good content was, Leslie says it depends on your target audience and having an understanding of who you want to reach. It is content that helps a specific person accomplish a specific goal or overcome a specific struggle but does it in a way that resonates with that person. When identifying your target audience, Leslie suggests that you have to know exactly who you are trying to reach. The narrower that niche is, the better and it is because if you know exactly who your audience is down to a tee and you create content that’s just for them, when the person finds you, they will know that the content you are creating is just for them. Make a list of questions that your target audience may have and start answering those questions by creating your blog post, which may consist of content, videos, or podcasts. Help your target audience accomplish their goals. Knowing and understanding the language they speak is also important. Leslie also makes sure he has written content. He even has someone transcribe his video so that he could have written content that Google will send a ton of traffic for because it’s indexing the written content. Choosing the medium that resonates with your audience is important. Monetizing your blog can take the form of affiliate marketing. This entails signing up with a company that has a product or service for sale, featuring the product or service on your website, and getting commissions from those sales. Then eventually, you can start creating your own products such as a course or an ebook. Getting a person’s email address is difficult but Leslie says that once you have their email address, you can start nurturing that relationship with them. In that relationship, once people get to know you, trust you, and see you as an authority in whatever niche you’re in, they’re more likely to buy from you. Building an email list is one of the most important things to do when building an online business. Email marketing is not dead, according to Leslie. He still thinks it’s one of the most effective way to drive sales. He says it’s more effective than social media and just about any other that we see out there. This, combined with webinars, are Leslie’s way of promoting his blog. Webinars with a good email follow-up sequence make sales go through the roof. On getting exposure and traffic, being in all the social media networks may not be the solution. He suggests that you pick one and master it. Choosing one social media network and focusing on it is effective and that is how you can make an impact in the noisy world we live in. When asked if Mark had the Best Passive Income Model, Leslie said it was the Best Passive Income Model for Mark. TIP OF THE WEEK Leslie: Read No Excuses by Brian Tracy. It doesn’t just go through the psychology and all that stuff but it also gives you actionable steps you can take. For me, the book was a game changer. Mark: Learn more about Leslie and go to becomeablogger.com where he’s creating a ton of value. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.

In today’s episode, Mark Podolsky, the Land Geek, talks to Sam Dogen who has been writing on personal finance for 7 years. He has an MBA for UC Berkeley, rated a 5.0 as a tennis player, a 16 handicapper in gold, and speaks three languages pretty well. He has lived in different countries and visited roughly 40 countries as of March 2015. He has been seen in The Wall Street Journal, The L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, Bloomberg, Kiplinger, and now, is a guest on the Best Passive Income Model Podcast. Sam worked in equities from 1999 to 2012, servicing institutional fund managers that they invest in. These were mostly mutual funds and some hedge funds. He also helped take private companies and placed institutional investors in public companies when they go IPO. The kind of stress Sam had to deal with working for the industry was getting to work at 5 AM in New York and 6 AM in San Francisco just to keep his finger on the pulse in relation to what was going on in the markets. There was never a dull moment. Working in the industry was fun for the first 9 years until 2008 to 2009 when it was no longer doing so well because of the housing market collapse. There was also a lack of correlation between performance and he had to subsidize the less well-performing peers. Then, the dot.com bubble burst in 2000. He particularly didn’t enjoy being considered Public Enemy No. 1 by people who didn’t pay their mortgages as was his experience working in the industry at that time. He started financialsamurai.com in 2009 to help allay fears and worries of people who experienced the crunch. Eventually, he also wrote a book called, “How to Engineer Your Layoff: Negotiate Your Severance and Be Free.” The book advises people never to quit but get laid off. Getting laid off gets you a severance package and the mandatory Warn Act Pay, a requirement by states and by larger companies to provide one or three months worth of pay that allow people to transition during a mass lay off. It is different from a severance pay. Benefits to be derived from getting laid off is being able to get a better recommendation from your peers, unemployment benefits which is currently at 26 weeks maximum per state, COBRA, and other things that will help you transition into the next phase of your life. Getting laid off if you are a star performer is a little different. You will need to build building blocks to get the severance negotiation by having a good relationship with your direct boss and the HR Manager at your office. Start the conversation, research online, and perhaps you can volunteer yourself to save someone else. This saves your manager from having to deal with laying other people off. Dealing with a bad manager is difficult as well. Sam’s book, “How to Engineer Your Layoff: Negotiate Your Severance and Be Free” empowers the employee. We have way more power than we realize. However, he mentions that putting stuff out on the internet will not make you a desirable candidate to other companies who may want to hire you and it doesn’t help the company either. If you have someone who has been trained to replace you, you can have a seamless transition. It’s about communicating with the people around you. Sam speaks from experience. He was able to get a severance package that has allowed him to take care of his living expenses until 2017. Hearing from people who write Sam to tell him their lives are so much better now has been the best experience for him. When asked about his definition of happiness, Sam equates this with progress. His philosophy is that when your relationships at home are progressing, you are happy. The difference between the rich and the poor, according to Sam, is not that great. Another concept Sam has come up with is Stealth Wealth. It is a way you think about money and think about how you want to be perceived by society in general. Having lived in different countries where there’s so much poverty has helped give Sam a different perspective. While others brag about their material possessions, there are people who are suffering. Being stealthy about what you own is better because you need to focus on purpose rather than your material worth. As a writer, Sam killed time and searched for stories by joining Über and becoming a driver. He met many random people and noticed the dichotomy between the wealthy and the others in San Francisco. Hearing their stories and reading their emails and comments on his LinkedIn account makes him happy. Sam and Mark both agree that in this day and age, everybody should try to leverage the internet in some way and try to make a lifestyle they want. His comment on Mark’s Best Passive Income Model is that he has a great passive income model and the key is if it’s working for him, he should continue doing it. There’s a plethora of ways to make money online but he says that Mark’s business model sounds good to him. TIP OF THE WEEK: Sam: Save an amount that hurts you a little bit. If it doesn’t hurt, you’re not saving enough. Everything starts with a fundamental aggressive savings model for you to be free and build those passive income streams. To better guide parents on how to raise financially savvy children, I advise against having them read my articles on “How To Convince Your Parents To Buy You Everything You Want,” and “No Wonder Why Millennials Don’t Give A Damn About Money.” Children should read “Spoiled or Clueless? Try to Work Minimum Wage Jobs.” Mark: Go to financialsamurai.com and read the most commented posts on the sidebar, “How Much Money Do The Top Income Earners Make?” “Creating Powerful Friends,” “How Much Should People Have Saved in their 401ks at Different Ages?” and “The 1/10th Rule For Car Buying Everyone Must Follow.” Also read , “Scraping By On $500,000 a Year: Why It’s So Hard For High Income Earners To Escape The Rat Race.” Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.

In today’s episode, Mark Podolsky, the Land Geek talks to Jim Palmer, a marketing, business builder, and in-demand coach. Jim is the founder of the the Dream Business Academy, Dream Business Coaching, and Mastermind Program. He is also the host of Dream Business TV watched by thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses. He hosts Stick Like Glue Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim’s own unique brand of smart marketing and business building strategies. He is internationally known as the Newsletter Guru and creator of No Hassle Newsletters and No Hassle Social Media. Jim’s 30 years of practical business experience and his kind of staying power is anchored on powerful customer relationships. As an old school thinker, he believes that getting up every day, delivering value, and focusing on service first will give you a longer lasting and profitable business. Jim set out to be a Vice President by the time he was 40. He achieved it but when he turned 41, his position was eliminated and he was unemployed. At that time, he had four teenagers to support and mortgages and bills to pay. He suffered through 15 months of unemployment and was even diagnosed with cancer. This brought him clarity and he started his first business because he was at a low point in his life and the only place to go from there was up. His first year of business was revenue free but it eventually caught hold and took off, becoming a 6-figure business. After 5 years, he started all over again. He created No Hassle Newsletters. 7 years ago, he started his own coaching business. Mark mentioned speaking to The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur author, Mike Michalowicz. He has written other books, including the Pumpkin Plan and Profit First. When an entrepreneur starts a business, there’s a lot of time but no money. However, when the business gets bigger, there is money but no time. Only about 5% of entrepreneurs are able to get systems and processes into place, allowing them to be free. Jim’s wife jolted him back to reality when she asked him when they were going to go on vacation – something they were unable to do during the lean years. The reality of time freedom hit him. Then, he hired his first virtual assistant. Jim brought up an interesting concept, “When I,” which is about moving your goal past when you should be investing in the future and the future company you want to have. The fastest way to get there is by getting a coach or working with somebody with experience. Another point Jim brought up is automating his business and documenting everything to a point where if something happens to him, his wife could effectively take over. Mark has done the same thing. Putting systems and procedures in place will allow you the flexibility of either continuing your business or selling it to a new owner who can then take over two days later and continue to run it. That’s a big part of getting top dollar for your business. For Mark, it’s in a Dropbox folder named, “In Case of Death.” Jim’s journey to becoming a prolific marketer and author of six books started with his first book. From this experience, he has learned that you don’t need to be perfect. A lot of people suffer from perfectionism, which prevent them from doing things they can be doing. Jim’s advice is to decide you want to be judged on the value of the information and content you’re providing. Being his authentic self has been liberating for him. Just be a prolific curator of the content. The content draws people to you. You just have to remember that people consume content in a number of different ways. Adam Grant’s book, the “Originals,” talks about people like Mozart and Bach who create original work. They kept creating work and as they did this they created masterpieces! Getting stuck because of perfectionism is something you can avoid. Good is good enough and you can always go back and iterate your past work. Mark calls it, “embracing the suck!” What’s important is that you have to be your authentic self because it’s liberating. Putting yourself out there will attract the right kind of people and repel people you’re not meant to do business with. You also need to be immune to criticism. You will not have a shortage of people who are going to tell you that you should be doing things differently. Jim mentions a hater who commented about his video where he also featured his dog. The hater said when Jim looked at his dog, he was disrespecting the audience. One way to deal with it is like water off a duck’s back. Grant Cordone’s take on this is if you’re not getting haters, you’re not working hard enough. Even if you only have 30% of your audience that’s going to love you, you can already make a nice living off them. One of the main things you need to do to be successful in business is to cure a pain and solve a problem. Starting with his No Hassle Newsletter, several other businesses came from that. The ideas usually came from customers who wanted more help. Jim says you shouldn’t overthink. That’s what gets you stuck. He doesn’t celebrate initial transactions but rather, he celebrates lifetime customers. It’s your job to find out all the other ways you can help them enrich their lives. In dealing with haters, Jim asks his assistant about the background of that particular hater and if no business has been generated out of that hater, he just hits the unsubscribe button. He will not put up with being disrespected. When asked if Mark had the Best Passive Income Model, Jim says he’s got one heck of a killer model. More importantly, Jim pointed out Mark’s clarity, enthusiasm, and passion for the business. He also pointed out vital things you need to succeed in business such as the processes and systems that are in place and that Mark knows his numbers. Since buying and selling raw land is not something the big companies are interested in, Mark is essentially flying under the radar too! Jim also applauded Mark’s abundance mentality. “Sharks swim in dense packs where there’s ample food supply,” a successful person once told Jim. Mark says that there’s always room for innovation similar to Cirque de Soleil’s model. They took the zoo, combined it with theater, and created a completely new market segment. TIP OF THE WEEK Jim: If you want to make a boatload of money, stop answering your phone. You will earn significantly more income for who you are than what you do. It’s about your positioning in the marketplace. As a coach, it doesn’t help him to answer his phone like an operator. If people jump through hoops to be able to talk to him, he has already positioned himself because it now becomes a big deal to speak with him. You also want to have someone in your business, who will hold your feet to the fire so you can get things done and that is how you grow. Mark: Get Jim’s free ebook, “Decide: The Ultimate Success Trigger” for free. You only have to pay $6.95 for shipping and handling for a 200-page book that will teach you how to finely tune your mindset and start the business you’ve always imagined. You can get it from DecideForSuccess.com. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, listen in as Mark Podolsky, the Land Geek, chats with former student, Chris Pritchard, a Land Geek student and coach extraordinaire. Chris tells Mark about how he was a software engineer by trade and trying out new businesses but having the tendency to over analyze things. When he heard Mark for the first time ever on a podcast, he instantly knew he was interested. He wanted something that was simple, where you do the work and keep doing the system. He says he’s doing what he’s told and it has worked out for him. When asked what ‘worked out’ meant, Chris said that he’s sitting on a monthly revenue of about $1,400. He has $75,000 on the contract values. Last month, he did $27,000 in cash deals within ten months of starting the business. The most difficult part of the business was when he was just starting. He said there was a lot to absorb. He had to watch all the videos and there’s all this new information and he was scared to call the counties to ask for a list. He ended up sending them emails instead. That was the first action he took. He also said there’s a learning curve and a lot of new things to figure out, some of them intimidating. Mark mentions that he kept his Toolkit actionable and that he gave what he thought was enough information but not too much. The big 3 modules; Deal Flow, Due Diligence, and Marketing, the other information is just a bonus. When Chris got the Toolkit, it took him a couple of weeks to get his first list. It took some time to absorb the information and take action. In terms of deal flow, acquiring properties and anything about land, Chris says that he learned a lot. He especially learned a lot from watching the Craigslist videos because it was a deep dive into how to construct your ads and be successful. Initially, Chris started with Craigslist, and then Land Watch and Land and Farm. Currently, he’s experimenting with different marketing. With the money he’s making, he can now spend more on marketing. Talking about a big deal he’s had, Chris sold a property on terms and he used the down payment to buy the land. It was within the period of time when he was doing due diligence so he went ahead and got the property. This deal defaulted but he was able to sell it for cash last month. Chris talks about the mix you want and how you can market your properties. Are you marketing towards a payment situation or are you marketing towards a cash flip? On the advice he would give a newbie, Chris says that he made a conscious decision not to do Mail Chimp and setting up CRMs in the beginning. He says to focus more on getting offers out and mailing these letters every week. He had to be consistent with that. When offers came in, he stuck to due diligence and got them listed. He focused on the M&Ms – mailing and marketing. It wasn’t until six months down the road that he started working on a website. When asked if the program met his expectations, Chris responded that there were a lot of eye-opening moments such as when he got a 6.5 acre, $17,000 property for $2,500. Another client of Mark's got a call from Jeff Akstin saying that he sold a property he bought for $15,000 for $150,000 on terms. He’s getting his money back in 8 months and then he’ll be getting $600 a month for the next twenty years. Some newbies, according to Mark, make the mistake of stopping the deal flow. But it’s a numbers game. You always have to keep up with it, even if you run out of money. The value is always in that deal. Chris’ wife was skeptical about this online course, at first. When Chris first told her about this, she said, “oh, you found another shyster, huh?” When she saw that he started making his deals, she then kept bugging him to get that sale or do that video. This was her mantra for the first few months. After seeing the income from the deals Chris worked out, she has been more flexible. Although her preferences are steel appliances and granite counter tops, she’s not as interested in raw land. The raw land market was then compared with house flipping. Chris and Mark agree that the raw land business is not crowded at all. Chris did ‘bump’ into someone from the Land Geek community who had a property near his. He then told him that the views from the property were amazing. He even gave him a Google Earth screen shot that showed it at a different angle and showed what the views might be like. In the Land Geek community, everyone’s willing to share information. After seeing some success even if there are other ads in the same area, they tend to be less competitive. It’s a massive market with relatively few players in it. Keeping the information to themselves would be lonely. Mark thinks that it’s better as a community and as a whole, sharing, getting better, and having an abundance mentality versus a scarcity mentality. So far, Chris has seen an ROI of about 700-900%. For his cash deals, he has gotten about 350% using other people’s money. The county makes it easy to get that. Using the county’s tax bill helps and works out on both ends. Another client of Mark’s was a hedge fund manager who thought that making 100% was ludicrous. But in two weeks, he flipped three deals and made 100%. Mark asked Chris about being skeptical about the income the Best Passive Income Model could generate. Chris said that Mark’s being a guest on the Jerry Robinson podcast gave him the credibility. Before he was featured as a guest, they even asked Mark for his social security number so they could do a criminal background check. As a new member of the Land Coaching Team, Chris is going to give back and pay it forward. He thinks it will make him a better investor because it’ll force him to see things in a different way. Chris is looking forward to being part of a system and have quality control and making sure that everyone is doing a good job and it’s consistent. Plugging in, helping those in the community, and leveling up is something Chris is looking forward to. At the moment, Chris is working on the business about 20 hours a week but is working on reducing that. TIP OF THE WEEK: Chris: Trello, a nice website. It’s free and set up like a Kanban system from the Japanese. You can put lists, you can do your Deal Flow and have cards for each property, add notes, images, videos, and whatever content you’re acquiring through your Deal Flow process. You can add them on the cards, drag and drop them and it’s really great for a team to get in there and take care of everything. Trello makes sure that the T’s are crossed and the I’s are dotted. For the newbie listeners, do not get discouraged if you have a bad mailing from a county. Don’t think it’s something you’re doing wrong. If you throw out 20-50 letters and you don’t get a response, switch it out a little bit. Do a few different counties and experiment. Try something different in that county or you could try a different county. Mark: Try the iPhone app called Digit. Save money without thinking about it and it automates saving a little bit here and there. It is an effortless way to save money without thinking about it. Also check out LandsOfAdventure.com and Marks’ newly updated website, FrontierPropertiesUSA.com. Go to TheLandGeek.com and download for free the Passive Income Blueprint. Get the e-book How to Avoid the Three Fatal Land Buying Mistakes and get this always informative and engaging podcast delivered each week to your email inbox. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.  

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, listen in as Mark Podolsky chats with digital marketer, Eric Siu. Eric Siu is the CEO of the digital marketing agency called Single Grain and has worked with Fortune 500 Companies such as Sales Force, Yahoo, and Intuit. He is also the founder of the podcast, Growth Everywhere. In this episode, Mark and Eric talk about how he got started. Eric graduated from college and was doing data entry at a cubicle somewhere when a friend suggested he try out digital marketing. Instead of rotting away doing the same job every single day, Eric decided to go for it. From there, Eric got an internship and never looked back. Eric worked with his mentor, Neil Patel, as the Vice President of Marketing online, an educational marketing company called Treehouse when Neil asked him to help his cousin out and run the company. Eric eventually took over the company two years ago, paying $2 out of his pocket from the company profit. He then brought it to where it is today. When asked about digital marketing, Eric said that it never ends. Social media has blown it up to a point where everything can be measured. It is important to have the ability to look at the numbers to see whether they’re working or not. 95% of the people start with something that you can draw conclusions from and this is a good start. Eric started Growth Everywhere because he saw that there were no marketing podcasts out there. It also allowed him to talk to founders and pay it forward. It was a chance to put people together. It has grown by itself and Eric humbly says it gets nice comments. He has since started a training course behind the podcast. He believes that it is a complement to Single Grain and it’s also free branding for them. For entrepreneurs, those doing a side hustle, want to increase their passive income, or are new to marketing, Eric advises the listeners to choose a path. Choose something and stick with that. Get good at it. Neil Patel at QuickSprout.com did just that. He came out with content every week for years. It’s about going an inch wide and a mile deep. Eric advises having a budget of about $20,000 to $40,000 to get a funnel working. However, not a lot of people who are starting out have this kind of budget. He suggests that everyone can learn content marketing. He says it’s free to learn and be the expert. You can also eventually learn to articulate your message into words. When you do it consistently, you’ll get better at it, it will start compounding over time, and it’ll eventually get noticed. Building an audience is the hardest thing to do, according to Eric. If we’re not collecting email addresses or creating one-to-one relationships with our prospects, the platforms own us. Perry Marshall says that the goal of each email is to entice your customers to open the next email. As a marketer, your job is to bring people to the point of sale. It’s all a game. Every single marketing tweak you make can add to or decrease your bottom line. To be a great marketer, you need a growth mindset. Keep pounding away at it. When you’re starting out, you have to learn a couple of times a day. If you say it’s too hard for you, you shouldn’t be in business. On hiring a copywriter if you have a low budget, Eric suggests going through a Facebook Group called Cult of Copy. Siphon off as much information as you can. Educate yourself first. As a rule of thumb, ask yourself if your content is interesting to you. Is it something that makes you proud to share it with people? That would be a good parameter, according to Eric. To know who to trust and who not to trust, you can take in as much information as you can but it’s on you to determine signal from the noise. Look at consistency. How do you feel after listening to a podcast? Do you feel like you’re being dumped into a marketing funnel? 99% of the time, your gut will tell you when you’re getting the value or the runaround. Check out Frank Kern, Seth Godin, Eric Siu, Ryan Lee, Ryan Deiss, and Neil Patel. They all show up everyday. They are prolific and you get a sense that they really care. You get a sense that they love what they’re doing and that they just want to give. When writing email, differentiate yourself with others by writing as if you’re writing to your mom. Have a long-term view of it. Build a relationship over time, as suggested by Gary Vaynerchuck. You can’t keep throwing right hooks because people will start to hate you. A good ratio agreed upon by Mark and Eric is 4 to 1 or 5 to 1 in terms of sending content before the promotion. The basic idea is to send 4 or 5 good pieces of content before you do the promotion. On Keyword Searches, Eric suggests that it’s something you don’t need to pay attention to. The more important question to ask whether or not you’re adding value to the world. It is important to practice your writing every day. It’s like going to the gym and exercising. It helps you get better at it. Eventually, you start seeing the fruits of your labor. Eric set a goal of writing 500 words per day and inputting this into a spreadsheet that tracks the number of words he’s written in a year. When you get into the habit of doing that, you are able to automate the process. Keep going. When asked about newbie mistakes that make him cringe, Eric talked about giving up too early. In terms of content, it takes about 12 to 24 months for things to compound and for you to see the machine giving your returns. You just have to play the long game. In the beginning you’re gonna suck. You just have to embrace it. You have to suck first to get good. However, when you no longer feel passionate about your work, maybe it is time to let go. 36 months is a perfect time to let go. As Seth Gold says, when you fail, you’re done. Move on to the next thing. The strategy that’s working right now for digital marketing is Gmail Advertising. He says that it was something Google wasn’t consistent in implementing it. Not a lot of people are hitting it. Now is a good time to get in before it becomes saturated. Eric also talks about playing a bigger game. He says he already has something that’s giving him a good cash flow. The next step is to figure out what he can do next to make him happy or how he can make an impact on the world. This is a game people optimize and play until their lives end. When asked about Marks Best Passive Income Model, Eric said it sounds sexy. He also says that he can’t say much about it but at a high level, it’s interesting and he can’t really put fault in it. TIP OF THE WEEK: Eric: Long form content with 2,000 words or so are important to have out there. There are over 2 Million blog posts produced every single day. 300 to 500 word articles are not enough. Visit www.growtheverywhere.com and read “21 EPIC 10x Content Marketing Examples We Can All Learn From.” Read those and learn why they’re good. Use a dashboard tool called Cyfe that helps you monitor your business data from one place and would cost $20 a month. It’s a steal and you can make as many dashboards as you want. Ahrefs allows Eric to see how many links he’s acquiring for SEO services. However, it’s fairly expensive. Mark: Subscribe to Growth Everywhere Podcast and check out www.growtheverywhere.com. There are tons of resources on that website. My favorite tool out there is the Bad Hire Calculator. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.

Listen in as Mark Podolsky, the Land Geek, talks to Erlend Bakke, MrOutsource.com, about working with Virtual Assistants from the Philippines. Mark talks about how he has gotten hooked on working with the well-trained MrOutsource.com team. Mark talks about his six-week experience working with the MrOutsource.com team. When Mark first dipped his toe into working with MrOutsource, he was a bit skeptical at first. He had some experience with other companies and they all left him wanting. Mark highlighted the fact that working with the team, he has gotten daily reports from the team with updates, questions, and clarifications. He has been happy with the communication between himself and the team, which made working with the team such a great experience. Mark’s experience, working with the MrOutsource.com team has been wonderful for him. It has become a one-stop shop for his podcast. Right after he records each episode, the podcast is sent to the team, who would literally do everything with it. Erlend stressed that one year of doing podcasts has made this his team’s core competence, making Mark a perfect fit. This has saved Mark some time and money. This also allowed Mark to focus on higher income—generating strategies. Working with Filipino Virtual Assistants, Erlend has had to emphasize during training that they shouldn’t just say yes and be submissive. Another important report required of all the Virtual Assistants is their daily update, which includes What I Did Today, Challenges Encountered, and Questions I have for you. Among the parts of the report, Erlend recommends focusing on the third question, which require immediate attention. One of the simpler tools Erlend recommends everyone to use is the email. When asked about the prices, Erlend responded that connecting a Virtual Assistant with a client would cost $497. Then you get three candidates to choose from. The benefit of going throughMrOutsource.com is that the VA has a contract with the Filipino company, which means that if the VAs do something illegal, they can be sued in the Philippines. In addition, each applicant is also required to go through their seven-day training. You pay a 30% rate on top of whatever other rate, but you are secure knowing that you’re working with trained and reliable VAs. Mark asked Erlend whether MrOutsource.com is going to eventually increase their prices now that he’s hooked and how Erlend would maintain the quality of work when more and more clients avail of their services. Erlend responded that he intends to charge new clients more but keep prices the same for old clients. Perhaps if he were to consider an increase, he would increase his prices by the standard 4% per annum, depending on the inflation rate. Erlend emphasized that keeping his current clients happy will lead to a whole positive ecosystem of positive referrals. Taking care of the customers he already has will continue to be a priority for MrOutsource.com. Erlend mentioned learning his business philosophy from Keith Cunningham’s course called the 4-Day MBA where he learned quite a few things. One of them was learning to take care of his clients before he’ll consider raising the prices or going out to get more customers. When working with VAs, Erlend says it’s incredibly important to be passionate because people are attracted to passionate people. You need to be excited about what you accomplish as a tem, especially when it comes to delegation and outsourcing. Those are the kinds of leaders people are attracted to. Being like Richard Branson, Erlend says that you need a vision, know how to joke around but also be serious. Outsourcing has allowed Erlend to do things that he enjoys. Since he is able to do the things he enjoys, he is able to be energetic and passionate at work. That way, he is able to attract people who are equally as passionate. These people he is attracting want to be part of his vision and his dream. He likens this to having weight on an entrepreneur’s shoes but with the VAs, with their help, they can run together rather than walk slowly. To have fun and success in business, Erlend says if you have a passionate team that care about the same stuff, you will be successful. It shouldn’t be all about money. Erlend also warns against greedy business partners. These are people you shouldn’t be working with. The same goes for outsourcing. Employees who are driven by money and are opportunists will only play for the money. They’re not adding to any value but rather just focused on getting a paycheck. A book by Adam Grant called Give and Take was read both by Mark and Erlend. It says that we all go through phases of matching, taking, and giving. We want to be more on the dominant side of giving because ultimately, you’ll get more. The more you give, the more you get. You don’t want to be a giver all the time. There are people you want to be matching with. If you give me an apple, I’ll give you an apple. Mark says Erlend has done a phenomenal job hiring and training these givers and has somehow been able to crack the code of giving this kind of service. Tips of the Week: Register for the live webinar with Erlend and myself next Wednesday April 6th at 12:30PM and learn how to generate $20k a month thanks to outsourcing: Registration URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4289649331852387073Webinar ID: 108-432-995   Erlend: I was reading about getting up in the morning and suggests that as soon as you get out of bed, you stand tall, confident, with your shoulders back and your head held high. Then, you reach up your arms a little bit upwards, like a 45- degree angle, and you welcome the day. After that, you make your bed. After that, you’re done with your first task of the day. That would make you feel really good. Also, as soon as your alarm goes off, you start counting down from 10 inside your head. Then you get up before it goes to zero. Mark: Go to MrOutsource.com, schedule that 30 minute consult, and find out if it’s a good fit for you and what you’re doing. Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast so I can continue to get the quality of guests on the podcast. If you send us a screenshot you’re your review, you get the $97 Passive Income Launch Kit for free. Send that to support@theLandGeek.com. Go to theLandGeek.com and download the Passive Income Blueprint and get this informative and engaging podcast delivered each week to your email mailbox. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.    

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with reluctant entrepreneur, Dan Lok. Listen in as Mark and Dan talk about his journey from a penniless immigrant to a multi-millionaire who owns 21 companies, tinkers around on Facebook making $150,000 a month in income, having a mentor who gave him the million dollar year of his life, online marketing, writing books and being the guy behind the guy. Dan Lok talks about how he was an immigrant who didn’t speak a word of English and going to North America at the age of 14. By the time he was 17, his father’s business went bankrupt and he had to grow up and be a man. His journey from rags to riches began because he had no choice. He needed to take care of his mother. Dan’s journey to success had many more failures than successes. He attributes part of it to the timing. He came into the business during its heyday. As a result, he got invited to speak in many different conferences and was making a ton of money as a speaker and information marketer. He took all that money and invested in businesses outside of information marketing. Today, Dan has 21 companies, which he either owns or has a stake in. These companies include real estate education, software, and financial planning. When asked how he had the time to mentor people, he said that every deal is different. Usually, the mentoring happens at the initial starting phase of the business. He either puts in his time, money, or expertise, depending on what his partners need. His philosophy is instead of having 100% of a big pie, he would rather have 25% to 75% of many small pies. For Dan, freedom is having the luxury not to do something you don’t want to. It’s being able to walk away from any deal. It is about being in control of your time. Currently, he runs his companies from his home because he chooses to. When asked what kind of advice he would give a 25 year old, he said (1) try to be the best version of yourself and (2) don’t go out there and start your own business. He introduced the concept of the wealth triangle that’s made up of high-income skills, scalable business, and high returning investment. He suggests you focus first on the high-income skills. That will ensure there is a steady cash flow coming in. It also allows you to start a business from a place of strength. The worst place you can be in is when you’re desperate. Dan has invested money in real estate all over the world. He likes Hong Kong because it’s not rent controlled and you can double your rent if the market can sustain it. He also has investments in Taiwan. He prefers investing in commercial properties. As long as you buy in the right location, he says it’s a passive commercial business. On Mark’s business model, Dan says that you’ve got to know your stuff. What’s best for Mark may not be best for others and vice versa. What’s more important is that you find your niche. It’s not what you do but it’s how you do it that matters. TIP OF THE WEEK: Dan : Watch “How to Generate Massive Passive Income” on YouTube, and get a copy of my book, F.U. Money from Amazon. Mark: Learn more about Dan Lok and his books at Danlok.com. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.

Listen in as Mark and Damion talk about living on the beach, Damion’s journey to building an 8 Figure real estate empire, taking risks, making mistakes, putting systems in, and investing in QRPs. In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model, Mark chats with Damion Lupo, owner of an 8 figure real estate empire, multiple black belter, a renaissance man of life. Damion left home at 17, made his mistakes along the way, but made it by the time he was in his 20’s. Damion mentions that when he left home at 17, he was moving fast, not listening to the rule, making his own rules, and just going for it. He did something unorthodox and brought what he learned from the experience of having his first big mess and stumbling around and learned what he didn’t know. Now, he has more than 30 businesses and companies. When asked about Damion Lupo’s Tony Stark-ish lifestyle, Damion says that when he moved to the beach in California, he started getting up between 4 to 5 in the morning and doing whatever it is he was going to do including conquer the world and create stuff. The journey to having 30 companies started in the late 1990s, when Damion owned an insurance agency at the age of 20. His friend, who later abandoned him, brought the deal to him. On December 30, 1999, he went to the closing and paid with his Visa Card. He remodeled that house and learned about electrical work by electrocuting himself. He says he also learned about roofing by falling off the roof. He then ended up buying 80 houses in the next 18 months. On building a system, Damion says that it’s important to set up a system because you can’t do everything yourself. As you manage more houses, things will get exponentially more complicated. However, you need to have a balance. You should be setting systems up from the get-go but not to the detriment of people getting started so they don’t get stuck. Mark mentions the Ready, Fire, Aim Approach where you take massive action, stretch yourself to the point of breaking, and make the adjustments later. Damion believes that making mistakes allow you to succeed. Go ahead and throw mud, move fast, learn, and expand because you don’t want to go to death’s door safely. He thinks that if you’re going to think big you’re going to trip and fall. The question is how fast you get up. When you think big, you don’t bring the past with you. You have a blank slate in your thinking. Damion and Mark also discuss the Qualified Retirement Plan (QRP) as a way to use tax deferred money. Damion describes it as a big trust document. Basically, you can take the money and buy things like real estate and precious metals. Compared to an IRA, which has a lot of restrictions, the QRP is a much better alternative because you can put 10 times more money into a QRP than a Self-Directed IRA. At the same time, you can defer over $50,000 a year. The best part is being able to buy real estate, notes, and precious metals with your money. The best part of it is that you don’t have to deal with a third party and constantly having to pay fees. You just pay an upfront fee of $2,500 to set it up. Using a firm may be good because they can tell you which transactions are allowed. There’s a chapter in Damion’s QRP book that lists all these things. QRP’s have a downside. Since you have direct control of the money, you might do some dumb stuff like self-deal or engage in a disqualified transaction. You have to be competent and responsible. If you’re irresponsible, don’t do it. According to Damion, the coolest thing about the QRP is when it’s inherited. You can create a subaccount for a parent and hire them as an employee. If the parent/grandparent dies and leaves the asset to you, you can tap into that asset, grow it, and spend it no matter what age you are. The QRP however, might go away. Congress has been discussing the possibility of abolishing it right now. This is something you need to do before it does because these will be grandfathered in. When asked about Mark’s Best Passive Income Model, Damion says that it’s an awesome model, which he would have preferred to do when he started in the real estate business. However, he was moving so fast and didn’t think of another option. TIP OF THE WEEK: Damion: I want to give people a shortcut. My third book, Reinvented Life talks about the process of building my life back up. It’s an intimate encounter and story that is told on those pages that will help remove the pain and suffering of melting down. Mark: Go to TheQRP.org and download Damion’s free book and set up your Qualified Retirement Plan (QRP) and start building your empire, tax-deferred and tax free. Avoid fees and get all these benefits. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.  

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model, Mark chats with Jordan Harbinger, the co-founder of the Art of Charm podcasts, which hit $2,000,000 a month with 440+ podcasts. Jordan Harbinger’s Art of Charm has been featured in magazines such as Men’s Health, Detail, and Cosmopolitan. It has also been featured by NBC. Listen in as Mark interviews Jordan on the Art of Charm: how he got started how he found his niche in the market, introversion and extroversion, acquiring social skills, and leveraging the power of social dynamics in applied psychology. Jordan simplifies the tools we need to succeed in life through his Art of Charm program. Jordan mentions it’s about unlearning years of negative thoughts and putting them under intellectual or rational scrutiny. Focusing on social skills rather than personality, Jordan has been able to successfully change peoples lives using a formula that has worked for most of his 800+ clients. Jordan shares how he and his partner got his start through meeting successful people and belonging to their inner circles. He says it’s all about who you know. Go-getters will tend to see this as a learning opportunity and a way to get ahead. He tells of a dramatic success story of how a client went from being overweight and lacking in confidence to the smart and successful executive he is now at Facebook. When asked about how long this program takes, Jordan mentions that there’s 6 months of preparation, a week of residency, and years of follow-ups. TIP OF THE WEEK: Jordan: Download iCal, that comes with the Mac OSx, BusyCal or similar programs and put reminders in 15-minute blocks. This will allow you to put reminders for yourself and will put focus on the things you need to pay attention to in all areas of your life. Mark: Go to the Art of Charm or listen to their podcast. Thank you for listening to the Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me to invite guests who share their knowledge that you can use to grow your business.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model, Mark chats with Erlend Bakke, owner of 3sixty, 3sixtyfactory, and Mr. Outsource. Erlend, a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and #1 international bestselling author, has been in the business for about 8 years and made his money doing product photography and outsourcing it in Norway. He has also been successful with his 3sixtyfactory, which creates product communications to clients worldwide. Mr. Outsource, an offshoot of these companies, has also contributed to his success by giving him a steady income stream from providing entrepreneurs with passionate virtual assistants. Erlend has written a #1 bestselling book called Never Work Again. Listen in as Mark and Erlend talk about: Managing your business, travelling, working smarter Knowing how to handle and motivate employees, morning routines, and; Avoiding the trap of being a business prisoner. Unlike most of his colleagues in the US and worldwide, Erlend focuses on honing down on tasks he should be doing and spending time on work that motivates him.  On finding the right Virtual Assistants to help him with his business, Erlend’s philosophy is to know what drives them, aligning with what they want to achieve, and being emotionally involved with them. Erlend also suggests we ask VAs three important questions: what kind of experiences do you want to have, how do you want to grow as a person and how you want to contribute, to find out if they are a perfect fit in your business. Tip of the Week: Erlend: Two must-have books: Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Letters from Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. For productivity tools, use Simple Mind to plot key influencers in your industry. Mark: Get to know more about Erlend and hiring your virtual assistants here: www.MrOutsource.com   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model, Mark chats with Todd Tresidder, founder of financialmentor.com. Tresidder has been a serial entrepreneur since childhood and made his money from the use of his expertise in statistics and risk management systems in managing hedge funds. Bringing technology to the investing space has allowed him to retire at the age of 35.Listen in as Mark and Todd discuss: how Todd helps change people’s lives, the different ways to look at and apply the wealth building equation in life how you can apply Todd’s model into your wealth plan, his quantitative approach to investing, what to look out for when investing in real estate, the different ways of skinning the wealth building cat, and ultimately enjoy and live life. Todd shares his knowledge without the technobabble and giving realistic advise on investing that will help you attain financial freedom, allow you to transform your life, and gain personal fulfillment. He also shares the lessons that he learned, the sacrifices he had to make, and his journey to having a passion business that he is doing today.Todd also shares his take on real estate and the advantages of investing in it, the false truth of “buying the dip,” about forecasting, and its lack of redeeming value. His advice about being in the real estate business is that you have to know what you’re doing and you have to understand market truths. When asked about how to get financial freedom, he says you just have to take your lumps and do it...live your life. Pay for something that will only put more money in your pocket than it costs you.When asked if Mark has the best passive income model, Todd gives very interesting points to ponder such as the percentage of offers that get accepted, if there is a smooth business model that doesn’t take up too much time, cost structure knowledge, and knowledge of margins.   Tip of the Week :    Todd: Learn more about the Financial Mentor here: http://financialmentor.com/. Get the Retirement Calculator that we've discussed here: http://financialmentor.com/calculator/best-retirement-calculator Also, book we discussed is here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0093CPJ9S/ Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with David Ralph from JoinUpDots.com. Take massive action and connect the dots as you listen in as Mark and David discuss success, passion, and living the dream! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   David: StayFocusd a chrome app to increase your productivity by limiting the amount of time that you can spend on time-wasting websites and Vocaroo.   Mark: Learn more about David Ralph and Join Up Dots Podcast and PodcastersMastery.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Chad Carson the Renaissance Man; passionate student of real estate, business, money, and life. Listen in as Mark and Chad discuss about real estate, systems, and year-long sabbaticals...designing the life you want! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Chad: Read Your Money or Your Life.   Mark: Learn more about Chad Carson and his zen way of investing in real estate at CoachCarson.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Danny Johnson, house flipping expert. Listen in as Mark and Danny discuss house flipping and land investing...will Mark be persuaded to flip houses? Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Danny: www.Trello.com. Trello is an online sort of application thing for productivity and it’s sort of… it’s almost like to-do lists on steroids.   Mark: Learn more about Danny Johnson and go to www.FlippingJunkie.com, and check out Danny’s podcast, The Flipping Junkie podcast.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Joanne Musa aka Tax Lien Lady from TaxLienLady.com. Listen in as Mark and Joanne talk about Tax Lien Investing...the ins and outs, the secrets, and find out the BEST place to invest! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Joanne: Check out my FREE video series here!   Mark: Get Joanne's book, Tax Lien Investing Secrets and learn more about Joanne at TaxLienLady.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Clint Coons from AndersonAdvisors.com Listen in as Mark and Clint talk about asset protection and tax planning specifically for real estate investors. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Clint: Check out my blog that's specifically geared toward real estate investors from a tax or asset protection point of view and it's not a selling thing. It's just straight up information and strategies that you can utilize in your investing to make sure that you're setting it up properly.   Mark: Go to AndersonAdvisors.com the one stop shop for your legal business and tax needs. 

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Mike Michalowicz—MikeMichalowicz.com and the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan, and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. By his 35th birthday, Mike had founded and sold two multimillion-dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula of success, he became an angel investor and then proceeded to lose his entire fortune. But, he didn’t let that keep him down. He started over again and this time he was driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies among other innovative strategies. Mike is now running his THIRD million dollar venture. Fear is a great motivator to get you up at 4:00 in the morning and work until 4:00 the next morning. Listen in as Mike talks about his beginnings and why it’s so important not to let your ego get in your way. The guys also delve into: Building systems Achieving repeatability for success Recognizing opportunities for growth Plus, we dig deep into Mike’s three books and he tells us how they relate to business, and find out how The Pumpkin Plan influenced and strengthened Mark’s marriage! Money is an amplifier of habits; good or bad. Unless you know what you're doing, money just allows you to do the wrong things faster and better. All of this and so much more on today's exciting episode of,  The Best Passive Income Model podcast! TIP OF THE WEEK Mark: Learn more about Mike at MikeMichalowicz.com. Mike: Todoist the best platform to create, track, and prioritize tasks efficiently.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Scott Todd. Mark and Scott are ON FIRE! Are you Team Mark or Team Scott? This is the year to go BIG. They are 10xing everything! Friendly competition at its best...Mark and Scott chat raw land, their new podcast (The Art of Passive Income), and fierce competition—be sure to follow Mark on Twitter @TheLandGeek and Scott @BSTodd. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Scott: Mac users, sometimes you need Windows but who wants a PC? The solution is a Lenovo Stick, and then be sure to load it with TeamViewer.   Mark: Cinder.com is a great alternative to quickly get a single page website up, plus it's free. Visit Scott at LandModo.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with THE Grant Cardone of GrantCardoneTV.com. Listen in as Mark and Grant talk about real estate, goals, and so much more. You don't want to miss this! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Grant: Go to CardoneUniversity.com/landgeek, the best selling entrepreneurial university on planet earth!   Mark: Don't forget to go to CardoneUniversity.com/landgeek!

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Land Geek Coach Scott Todd from LandModo.com. Listen in as Mark and Scott talk about HUGE goals and making LOTS of deals in 2016! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Scott: Check out the app, Audrey.   Mark: Take back control of the time you have with the app, UseProud.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Land Geek Coach Scott Todd from LandModo.com. Listen in as Mark and Scott talk about the 3 attributes you need to be successful heading into 2016. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Scott: I'd recommend a logo site logodust it talks about how to keep your energy up avoiding the energy vampires and thinking big because every journey begins with a desire to go somewhere and do something and then having the vision to help you see the road ahead, even if the road is not there.   Mark: I'm going to dominate Facebook ads using adespresso.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Matt Remuzzi from CapForge.com Listen in as Mark and Matt talk about accounting and bookkeeping in any business. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Matt: Fiverr a real handy place to go and get quick little tasks done. I've had people on their help me out with quick website fixes, do some flyer designs, postcard designs, do a little bit of our content creation, do some SEO help, even some voice work I got for my podcasting podcast and podcast cover art.   Mark: Go to CapForge.com, learn more about Matt and the services.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Land Geek Coach Scott Todd from LandModo.com. Listen in as Mark and Scott talk about land investing marketing ideas. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Scott: I'd recommend a book called The Energy Bus, it talks about how to keep your energy up avoiding the energy vampires and thinking big because every journey begins with a desire to go somewhere and do something and then having the vision to help you see the road ahead, even if the road is not there.   Mark: MixMax and Inbox by Gmail are my tip of the week because I find that email is so disruptive that I can't actually work.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with David Campbell from HassleFreeCashflowInvesting.com. Listen in as Mark and David talk about real estate investing strategies. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   David:  I've got a couple resources on my website at HasslefreeCashflowInvesting.com for free you can download a very expensive white paper called Hassle free Cashflow Lending that's on my website at HasslefreeCashflowInvesting.com. I've also got three awesome webinars each of them are an hour long specifically Nuts and bolts of private lending, with the Tax investing strategies for private lenders and How you use self-directed IRA to be a private lender and all those are free videos on my site at HasslefreeCashflowInvesting.com.   Mark: Learn more about David Campbell at HasslefreeCashflowInvesting.com

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Ralph Sherman from ShermanLawOffices.com. Listen in as Mark and Ralph talk about raising capital which is very important in the land investment business.  Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Ralph: Go to small business and the SEC and you will have a basic understanding of what the SEC is looking for from small business owners in terms of what they have to do to raise money when they do a private offering and when they do a public offering. The other thing is to read The Power of Habit. Mark: Go to ShermanLawOffices.com, learn more about how Ralph can help you get papered correctly to start going out in the world and start raising money from outside investors.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Jeff Akstin, Mike Zaino, and Scott Todd about The Land Geek Bootcamp. The next Bootcamp is a month away and we're gearing up for the best Bootcamp yet--they just keep getting better and better. If you're ready for the next level of intensive training, signup here: https://bootcamp.thelandgeek.com/live-training Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.  

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Scott Todd from LandModo.com. Listen in as Mark and Scott talk about world domination and total commitment as we end the year and gear up for 2016! This is the time to build a bonfire--it's time to up your mailings! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Scott: If your phone is not ringing off the hook, and your properties are not selling quickly, it's time to up your game. You need to at least triple your ads!   Mark: Learn more about Scott Todd at LandModo.com. Also, read The 10x Rule and get ready for world domination!

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with star student, Chris Pritchard. Listen in as Mark and Chris talk about Disneyland, Bitcoin, and see how Chris made his first deal without spending anything out of pocket! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Chris: Read The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason. This book really put my mind in a certain frame that helped me understand that you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps no matter where you're at, you can make things happen... Really this book is about paying yourself first and being responsible with what you have and building on it over time and that's a lot like how this business works. So a lot of the fundamentals of what I have in my mind are based in that book.   Mark: Learn more about Chris Pritchard at LandsOfAdventure.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Marco Santarelli From NoradaRealEstate.com. Listen in and discover how Marco became an investor and what tips he has for you! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Marco: On our website, NoradaRealEstate.com at the top, there's always a post called the ten rules of successful real estate investing. It's a sticky post so it's always at the top. And within that list is “my rule to be market agnostic.” Go read it!   Mark: Learn more about Marco Santarelli at NoradaRealEstate.com.

Join Mark Podolsky, The Land Geek, and David Barnett from InvestLocalBook.com. A virtual cup of coffee and a business lesson! Want to learn how to flip land? Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Brock Collins from FreedomRealEstateInvesting.com and the Freedom Real Estate Investing Podcast. Listen in and discover Brock's journey as a real estate investor for the past 15 years. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Brock: Whatever your goal is with real estate investing, write it down on paper. I’m presuming you’ve already established your why. And now, you’re going to have a goal. So whatever your goal is, write it down on paper. OK? Next, what I want you to do is I want you to write down actionable daily steps to help you reach that goal. What do you have to do tomorrow to reach one more step close to that goal? And finally, one of the most important thing that has worked great for me over the years is to give yourself a realistic deadline. If you have a goal and there’s no deadline, it’s really hard to meet that goal. OK? But make it realistic. If it’s six months, if it’s three months, is it a year? But every day, take action steps. And the other thing I can say Mark, is look at your goal sheet every day and then keep taking the action steps towards your freedom.   Mark: Learn more about Brock Collins and establishing freedom with real estate in the aptly titled name, FreedomRealEstateInvesting.com as well as Brock’s podcast, Freedom Real Estate Investing.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Jason Hartman from JasonHartman.com. Listen in as Mark chats with The Iron Man of real estate... move over Tony Stark, Jason Hartman is in the house! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Jason: Stop texting, stop typing emails, stop playing phone tag with people. Pick up your smart phone, and go to your app store if you have an iPhone, or the Google store or whatever it's called if you have an Android, one of those lesser phones... sorry, Google, and get an app called Voxer.   Mark: Go learn more about Jason at JasonHartman.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with his star students John & Becky Burnett.   For the first time in The Best Passive Income Model history, we have a couple — married for 32 years, John & Becky are here to share their experience with investing in raw land. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   John: Go and learn TVM, Time Value of Money, and get an HP12 calculator!   Mark: Visit John & Becky's website, LotsOfLand.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Neal Frankle from WealthPilgrim.com. Neal is a fellow geek — a financial planner. Listen in as Mark and Uncle Neal discuss investments and planning and even marriage advice — money, sex, and kids! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Neal: First: Stop! Do not pass go, get yourself a financial planner! Second: Pay yourself first!   Mark: Learn more about Neal at WealthPilgrim.com.

Join Mark Podolsky, The Land Geek, and Matt Bowles from MaverickInvestorGroup.com. Matt created a free guide exclusively for The Land Geek Commmunity! Thank you, Matt! Download your free guide, How to Avoid the 7 Biggest Mistakes Real Estate Investors are Making in the 2015 Boom Cycle. Want to learn how to flip land? Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with THE Brandon Turner from BiggerPockets.com. Brandon is an active real estate investor and the VP of Growth and Communications at BiggerPockets.com. He's been actively involved in real estate since he was 21 and is totally and fully in love with the whole business. Listen in and discover how sexy Brandon Turner thinks flipping raw land is! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Brandon: The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone, The One Thing by Gary Keller, and The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod.   Mark: Learn more about Brandon at BiggerPockets.com/ubg and check out his book, The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down!

Join Mark Podolsky, The Land Geek, and Seth Williams from retipster.com as they discuss how to sell properties that haven't been moving quickly. Want to learn how to flip land? Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Deacon Hayes from WellKeptWallet.com. Deacon is a financial expert, a speaker, and a podcaster. You’ve probably seen his stuff on Yahoo Finance, US News and World Report, CNN Money, and his story is really interesting.   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Deacon: Read The Millionaire Mind by Thomas Stanley.   Mark: Learn more about Deacon at WellKeptWallet.com and be sure to check out his podcast!

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Lolita Sheriow, author of Take Action: 21 Steps on How To Take Action and Get Results in Real Estate. Lolita Sheriow, Lo, is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, motivator, and mentor. Listen in and learn and be inspired by one of THE best real estate investors out there. So grab your cup of coffee and get ready for some gospel music! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Lo: Read The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone and The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss.   Mark: Learn more about Lo Sheriow at TakeActionLo.com. She shares with you the seven secrets to wholesaling profits.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with David Barnett, author of Invest Local. David Barnett has an amazing business model... he's a broker of commercial debt solutions for small and medium sized enterprises and has arranged financing for over 100 small and medium sized companies. Working with entrepreneurs to build their companies, David's business model may have Mark's beat. Listen in to find out if Mark has finally met his match! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   David: Go sign-up for the free newsletter at HPnotes.com.   Mark: Learn more about David Barnett and check out his website InvestLocalBook.com and you can find his book here!

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with his star student, Chris Clark. We know how much you LOVE listening to The Land Geek's students' success stories! Chris Clark is a full-time pilot turned land investor from San Diego, California. Listen in and learn about Chris's journey and see how he created a successful land investing business. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Chris: Read, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. And if nothing else, this book just gets you really motivated and gets you thinking outside the box. Also, check out Terapeak.com, and don't forget to stand on the shoulders of giants   Mark: Learn more about Chris Clark and check out his website LandKarma.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with David Schneider from NinjaOutreach.com. David Schneider is THE marketing expert that will help you take your business to next level. Having run several extremely successful businesses, David has tapped into marketing for the average Joe, and is the co-founder of Ninja Outreach. Listen in to discover if David's passive income model has Mark's beat! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   David: Go check out GrowthHackers.com!   Mark: Learn more about NinjaOutreach.com and get a 14-day free trial!

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Jason Treu of BeExtraordinary.tv and author of Social Wealth. Jason Treu is a top business coach, speaker, author, and social engineering expert — whatever that is! Jason teaches that people and relationships are your true wealth, listen in to discover how that can help you in your land investing business. And learn why in business, and in life, you have to get authentic...you have to get vulnerable. Vulnerability it not weakness — it's strength! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Jason: First, make yourself a commitment that in the next week you're going to go out and meet some new people. Second, go read Brene Brown. My favorite three books from Brene are The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, and Rising Strong.   Mark: Learn more about Jason Treu at BeExtraordinary.tv and read his book, Social Wealth so you can improve your relationships, your business, your life.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Lior Zoref, author of Mindhsaring: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything. Lior is an author, crowdsourcing researcher, consultant and international speaker, as well as a TED speaker! Joining us all the way from Israel, Lior explains how everyone can utilize crowdsharing to improve not only your own life, but the world. Having the wisdom of the crowd allows us to dig in deep and accomplish so much more than we could alone. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Lior: Be inspired to go after your dreams! Watch Randy Pausch's Last Lecture on YouTube and then read his book, The Last Lecture.   Mark: Learn more about Lior Zoref at MindSharing.info and read his book, Mindsharing: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything.    

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Joe McCall from RealEstateInvestingMastery.com. Joe McCall is THE wholesaling machine! Listen in as Joe and Mark discuss Joe's success in wholesaling and see how Joe is thinking about investing in raw land. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Joe: Podio - it allows you to create and work the way you want to, it can be anything you want it to be... helping you automate everything!   Mark: Learn more about Joe McCall and listen to his podcast RealEstateInvestingMastery.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Steven Rabago, CEO of ZimpleMoney.com. This one tool has revolutionized the land business. Mark LOVES ZimpleMoney.com and it is the secret weapon to managing those notes on your land investments in order to truly generate a PASSIVE income. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Steven: #1 Just do it! Don't stop, don't think about it too much. Take an action and get it started! #2 One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson   Mark: Learn more about ZimpleMoney.com, and don't forget to mention that The Land Geek sent you when you sign up to get an exclusive discount!

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Bigger Pocket's Royalty, Ben Leybovich from justaskbenwhy.com. A violinist by trade, Ben was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and knew he had to find a new way to earn a living. Ben turned to real estate to ensure his financial future and he's on a mission to help others do the same. The irony, Ben Leybovich doesn't even like real estate! He's just a smart guy who recognizes the power of real estate. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Ben: The book that started it all for me, How I Turned $1,000 into a Million in Real Estate in My Spare Time by William Nickerson.   Mark: Learn more about Ben Leybovich at justaskbenwhy.com 

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with one of Daniil Kleyman from rehabvaluator.com. Daniil has an amazing story as an Russian Immigrant and a former New York bond trader.  He quickly figured out that after 2008 he didn't want a job any more.   Daniil started investing as a wholesaler and then began buying and rehabbing foreclosures for income producing passive income. He discusses his strategy in detail and how he had to adapt as the market shifted. Plus, we argue the merits of being an outsider and having to struggle as an immigrant in the United States.   Listen as I grill Daniil how he was able to make the transition from wearing a 3 piece suit to driving a pick up truck and working 16 hours a day learn how to rehab homes...    There are so many life and business lesson in this podcast with the remarkable Daniil Kleyman!  Listen in to learn more.   Reminder:  The Vegas Bootcamp is approaching October 9-11.  Here are the details:   You must have gone through all of the Investor's Toolkit self-training modules at least once. There's plenty of time to complete the Investor's Toolkit self training before October, so you can start now and be ready for Bootcamp intensive training. For the rest of July, we'll have a special promotion on the Toolkit, so you can get up to speed fast. Click here to get a 33% discount on the Investor's Toolkit 2. You'll need the Land Geek Bootcamp tickets that came with your Investor's Toolkit (If you don't have the actual physical tickets, no problem. We have records of the digital ones.) Here are the details you'll need to book your travel arrangements: 3. The hotel / convention center is the Las Vegas Marriott (325 Convention Center Drive | Las Vegas, NV 89109) Click here to book your room at our discounted group rate 4. Check-in for Bootcamp will begin at 8:30 AM on October 9th, and training will go from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. October 10th will be 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and Oct 11th will be from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Once your travel plans are booked, just email support@thelandgeek.com to let us know, and we'll reserve your spot. If you're bringing a guest, please let us know their name as well. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.     Tip of The Week:   Daniil:2 Books so you don't over analyze: The One Thing- Gary Keller The Pumpkin Plan   Mark: Learn more about Daniil Kleyman at rehabvaluator.com   

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with one of his star students, Tate Litchfield. Tate has a degree in international relations from BYU-Idaho and spent time working in China before coming back home to Henderson, NV. When he came home, he decided it was time to find something more profitable and began a search for better career options.   A family friend referred Tate to Mark and the rest is history. Tate bought 60 properties in his first 2 months! He shared the story of his BEST DEAL, which was in a town called Pahrump, NV. He contacted the owner of the property, who purchased it many years ago and never intented to use it. Tate was able to purchase the land for $250 (the original purchase price was $35,000). AND he sold it within 24 hours for $8000! Tate was instantly hooked!   Tate is now one of my star students and coaches!  Listen in to learn more.   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of The Week: Tate: One of the most underutilized resources in the industry, Craigslist.  It's FREE, easy, and you can list as many properties as you want. Mark: SynapsePay.com - only 25 cents per transaction!  You can't go wrong with this.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Ari Meisel - best-selling author of "Less Doing, More Living" and founder of LessDoing.com. Ari launched his speaking career with a TEDx talk in 2008 and has since worked with thousands of executives in all industries, showing them how to reclaim their time so they can live more. He teaches others how to optimize, automate, and outsource everything in life, including your health.   Ari shares how he went from working up to 18 hours a day in construction to being incapacitated by a chronic illness. As he grew sicker and weaker, he realized he needed to make changes in his life so he could do more than just survive - he could thrive. That's how LessDoing.com came to be. He's transformed his life into a 2-day workweek by implementing the strategies he teaches others.   Listen in so you can hear more about Ari's inspiring story!   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of The Week: Ari: Tip 1: Check out Followup.cc Tip 2: Read the Book, "Emergency" by Neil Strauss Tip 3: Check out WPCurve - unlimited WordPress support and small jobs for $79 a month. Mark: Learn more about Ari at LessDoing.com BONUS Giveaway from Ari: Go to LessDoingCall.com to book a FREE 30-minute call with one of Ari's trained coaches.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Engelo Rumora - AKA "The Real Estate Dingo". Engelo is the founder of Ohio Cash Flow, Rumora Construction, and venture capital firm Venticap. He is a successful property investor with a portfolio valued over $1,000,000. Engelo is also known for buying "Australia's Cheapest House".   After quitting school at the age of 14 to pursue professional soccer, Engelo found himself working in construction labor. He knew there was something bigger and better out there for him, so he dedicated himself to learning as much as he could about business and real estate, starting with reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Engelo has worked tirelessly to build successful businesses and offers consulting services to other investors.   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of The Week: Engelo: Visit BiggerPockets.com to access a wealth of free information from real estate experts. Register for a free account. Mark: Learn more about Engelo at EngeloRumora.com or OhioCashFlow.com

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with the legend - the hardest working man in podcasting - John Lee Dumas, founder of Entrepreneur on Fire. You already know who he is and this is an episode you don't want to miss. John is the host of the HUGELY successful podcast Entrepreneur on Fire with 1 million unique listens per month! You can also find him at FreePodcastCourse.com and Podcasters Paradise. This guy really is the hardest working man in podcasting.   John talks about why he takes his service to the next level - offering personalized attention to every single person that signs up for his course. As you know, he is hugely successful. John says that's because he's willing to work hard and continue to grow, learn, and reach for more. There's a reason why he has 1 million unique listens per month - John is the real deal and if you have any entrepreneurial leanings at all, you need to be listening to his podcast.   Don't miss this insanely awesome podcast with John, who took time out of his crazy-busy schedule to chat with us.   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of The Week: John: "The Strangest Secret" by Earl Nightingale.  Listen to the audio.  It's all about how success/happiness is a gradual realization of a worthy ideal. Mark: Learn more about John. Subscribe to Entrepreneur on Fire. Visit his new site: FreePodcastCourse.com and learn more about how you can become a great podcaster and build your own community.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Jon Nastor of HackTheEntrepeneur.com. He is a marketing GENIUS and full time entrepeneur who shares his "hacks" with others to simplify and streamline business processes. Basically, he makes life easier for all of us!   Jon has been online full time for about 4 years. He loves making useful products and sharing them. He has a HUGELY successful podcast (Hack the Entrepreneur) that helped his business take off. Listen in so you can learn more about Hack the Entrepeneur. This is a great podcast filled with lots of awesome tips!   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of The Week: Jon: Get the book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert. This is an awesome book and Scott shares lots of insight into the mistakes he's made in his career and how he overcome them. Mark: 2 tips this week: Go to HackTheEntrepeneur.com to learn more about Jon AND opt in to get his marketing tips. Go to VelocityPage.com.  This is a pain-free page building plug-in from WordPress and it is incredible!

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Judy Robinett - author of "How to be a Power Connector: The 5+50+150 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits". Judy is an entrepreneur, speaker and consultant with more than 30 years of experience as a corporate leader. She's truly a relationship expert who shares great tips that can have a huge impact.   Judy shares insight into the concept behind being a Power Connector and how it's all about having the power to make things happen for yourself and others. She shares the value of focusing on the 25-50 quality relationships that can have the biggest impact on your business. This is an episode you don't want to miss!   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of The Week: Judy: Pick up the book "Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts -- Becoming the Person You Want to Be".  This book goes into how our environment limits us and helps us set goals and measure them.  It's a valuable book to have! Mark: Learn more about how to be a Power Connector at JudyRobinett.com. Don't forget to pick up Judy's book "How to be a Power Connector: The 5+50+150 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits"

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Michael Quarles - California broker, active investor since the age of 19, founder of BuySellFixFlip.com, host of the hugely popular podcast Buy Sell Fix Flip, and founder of YellowLetters.com. Michael shares how he got his start with investing and how he uses the strategy of "wholetailing".     Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of The Week: Michael: Read the book The Emyth Revisited by Michael Gerber. Mark: Learn more about Michael at BuySellFixFlip.com. Subscribe to his podcast Buy Sell Fix Flip. Visit YellowLetters.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Matt Bowles - partner at Maverick Investor Group, educator, world traveller, and nationally recognized investment property specialist. Matt has been featured in major national media to share his expertise and is passionate about helping others understand the power of property investment. He has created a life by design, which allows him to travel the world while managing his successful business.   Matt is here to teach you how - no matter where in the world you are - you can buy the best rental income properties in the US and build your own successful business.  Through Maverick Investor Group, Matt and his partners share their insight into "Turn-key real estate investing for smart people."   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of The Week: Matt: Visit the Maverick Investor Group Resources and gain access to high value, substantive educational content from industry experts. Mark: Learn more about Matt at MaverickInvestorGroup.com BONUS TIP: Check out What3Words.com

http://www.thelandgeek.com   In this episode I chat with Frank Rolfe, the 8th largest owner of mobile home parks in the world. Frank discusses how Conrad Hilton inspired him to take chances and propel his business forward - big time. Conrad believed in going on the attack during recessions and depressions and it really paid off for him.   The lesson Frank wants to share is this: When times are tough, don't crumble or hide from it; that's the time you take whatever ammunition you have and go on the attack. Frank wants us all to remember to never give in - there are always opportunities during depressions for those who are brave enough to go for it.   Learn more about Frank by visiting his website CREUniversity.com   Want to learn how to flip land?  Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu Invest in Wholesale land at http://www.frontierpropertiesusa.com

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Kemi Egan - physical therapist turned real estate investor/entrepreneur. Kemi is the co-founder of Freedom Academies, host of Turbo Charge Your Success Podcast, and author of 35-time best seller, "The Power of Real Estate Investing".   Kemi shares her inspiring story of going through many struggles and even homelessness to success. She decided to take a chance in the real estate industry, studied the business, and went for it. It took courage, but she craved the freedom she believed this business could give her. Fast forward to today, Kemi now teaches others how to create that kind of freedom through Freedom Academies.   Learn more about how freedom inspired Kemi to take a chance and how it's behind every decision she makes with her businesses today. This is an inspiring episode you don't want to miss.   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business.   If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of The Week: Kemi: Read "The $100 Startup" - Great examples of courage and bravery, of people who just "went for it" in order to make a change in their lives. Mark: Learn more about Kemi at Freedom Academies or Freedom Property Academy. Don't forget to get her best-selling book "The Power of Real Estate Investing" & subscribe to her podcast Turbo Charge Your Success.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Mike Zaino - a Land Geek student and coach. Mike shares how he went from full time firefighter with over $40k in debt to a land mogul. When Mike realized his job wasn't going to support him and help him pay off his debt, he looked for a different solution. That's how he found The Land Geek's coaching program. The rest - as they say - is history.   Today Mike is a successful entrepreneur and founder of LandPilgrim.com. He taps into his passion for connecting with people to help him close deals and move his business forward. Listen for great insight into Mike's success and how you too can grow your business by applying The Land Geek method.   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   To show my appreciation, I'll enter your name into my monthly Investor's Toolkit giveaway.   Just follow these easy instructions to enter the drawing   Tip of The Week:   Mike: Apply the martial arts principle of Shiho-Dori ("4-Way Catch") to business. It's all about naturally reacting to your opponent by applying the methods you've learned. When applied to business, you naturally react to a person who contacts you - no matter what the reason for contact. This helps Mike convert many of the people who contact him, even if they are initially upset. Mark: Visit Lily.camera and check out this awesome product. It's a drone that follows you. What a great way of filming a piece of raw land!

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Jeff Coga - founder of Real Estate Strategy Lab and host of the Real Estate Strategy Lab Podcast. Jeff is a lead-generation expert who started his career in 2004 with the first purchase of his home at the age of 19. He flipped this house for a profit of over $50k and knew this was his passion.   After many years of trial and error, much studying and reading, Jeff has refined his strategy and shares it with other real estate investors through his Real Estate Strategy Lab.  His goal is to help people like him eliminate the trial and error process by offering valuable insight into leads, closing, conversions, and more.   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast oniTunes.   To show my appreciation, I'll enter your name into my monthly Investor's Toolkit giveaway.   Just follow these easy instructions to enter the drawing   Tip of The Week: Jeff: Listen to the Real Estate Strategy Lab Podcast for lots of free tips.  Visit GetMyBrainfood.com for 2 FREE AUDIO BOOKS to feed your brain. Mark: Learn more about Jeff at RealEstateStrategyLab.com and subscribe to his podcast.

In this episode, Mark chats with Mitch Stephen of 1000Houses.com.  Mitch is a self-taught real estate entrepreneur and has been self-employed since 1996.  In that time, he's purchased over 1000 houses!  Mitch is the author of the highly successful book, "My Life & 1,000 Houses: Failing Forward to Financial Freedom" and the soon to be released book, "My Life & 1,000 Houses - 200 + Ways to Find Bargain Properties".     Mitch specializes in owner financing to individuals left behind by traditional lending institutions and is passionate about giving new life to properties that scar the neighborhood.  His success is inspiring and he offers great tips you can use to get started.  According to Mitch, "It all starts with a deal" and he's here to simplify the process of getting your real estate business off the ground.   Mitch generously offers his new book absolutely FREE to Best Passive Income Model listeners for a very limited time.  See the details in the Tips of the Week below.   Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   To show my appreciation, I'll enter your name into my monthly Investor's Toolkit giveaway.   Just follow these easy instructions to enter the drawing   Tip of The Week: Mitch: Get a FREE download of his new book, "My Life & 1,000 Houses - 200 + Ways to Find Bargain Properties".  This is a MUST READ and Mitch is generously offering it to my listeners for FREE.  Simply go here to download the Kindle version of the book absolutely free.  But hurry, this offer expires May 25, 2015.   Bonus Tip: If it's the only thing you do this year, find someone and learn how to solve the problem of private money. Mark: Learn more about Mitch at 1000Houses.com and don't forget to get the Kindle version of his new book FREE here.

In this episode, Mark chats with Frank Rolfe - 8th largest mobile home park owner in the world and largest private owner of billboards in Dallas/Fort Worth.  Frank is the co-founder of Mobile Home University - the #1 source for mobile home park investment advice. Frank shares insight into billboard investing and why ANYONE can do it.  He discusses the benefits of it being one of the few federally-regulated industries and how that guarantees profit.  Frank also talks about how Conrad Hilton inspired him to pursue his passion and become one of the world's largest mobile home park owners. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. To show my appreciation, I'll enter your name into my monthly Investor's Toolkit giveaway. Just follow these easy instructions to enter the drawing Tip of The Week: Visit MobileHomeUniversity.com to learn more about Frank and gain insight into this booming industry. Check out this episode!

In this episode, Mark chats with Tom Wheelwright - CPA, CEO of Pro Vision Wealth, leading tax & wealth expert, published author of the best-selling book "Tax Free Wealth", Rich Dad Advisor, speaker.  Tom was hand picked by Donald Trump to contribute to his Wealth Builders Program.   Tom is a tax expert with more than 35 years of experience and he's passionate about helping entrepreneurs and investors understand how to put money back in their pockets.  Through his tax expertise, Tom realized that taxes aren't in place to punish investors and entrepreneurs, they actually offer incentives.  It's an understanding of those incentives that can dramatically reduce your taxes so you can keep more of your money. Listen to the full episode to gain insight into Tom's expansive knowledge.  This is an episiode you don't want to miss. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. To show my appreciation, I'll enter your name into my monthly Investor's Toolkit giveaway. Just follow these easy instructions to enter the drawing Tip of The Week: Tom: Check out his book, "Tax Free Wealth".  The whole point of the book is to help people understand how to build massive amounts of wealth by permanently reducing your taxes. Mark: Learn more about Tom.  Visit TaxFreeWealthAdvisor.com and ProVisionWealth.com.

http://www.thelandgeek.com   In this episode I chat with J Massey of CashFlowDiary.com.  J is the host of the Cash Flow Diary podcast, which offers great insight from business leaders.  He also has the Cash Flow Diary Youtube channel, where you can tap into tons of great tips and resources. J shares how he gets into "business mode" for the day.  His morning routine helps him get going for the day and kickstart the day with productivity. With his busy schedule of juggling family life and a flourishing business, J knows he has to get his mind focused on business for the day in order to make the most of his time. Learn more about J by visiting his website CashFlowDiary.com as well as subscribing to his Cash Flow Diary podcast and his Cash Flow Diary Youtube channel. Want to learn how to flip land?  Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu Invest in Wholesale land at http://www.frontierpropertiesusa.com

In this episode, Mark chats with Kerry Lutz, owner and CEO of Financial Survival Network, host of the Financial Survival Network Podcast, and consumer credit/financial expert.  Kerry shares the concept behind FSN: A Nationwide alliance of investment professionals with a collective objective of delivering the timely truth about sound financial investments.  He also discusses how FSN came to be and the role of the financial crash of '08 and '09. Listen in to learn more about Kerry's belief that the crash occurred because of a reckless extension of credit and how we can avoid a crisis like this in the future.  Learn more about his background in law and what drove him to become a consumer credit expert. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. To show my appreciation, I'll enter your name into my monthly Investor's Toolkit giveaway. Just follow these easy instructions to enter the drawing Tip of The Week from Kerry: Visit KeepMyID.org for access to military-grade identity theft protection.  Enter code FSN2 for a discount.  People with good credit scores are the most vulnerable. Tips of the Week from Mark: Visit FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com to learn more about Kerry.  Subscribe to the Financial Survival Network Podcast.

In this episode, Mark chats with financial and investment expert Jerry Robinson. Jerry is the founder of FTM Daily (Follow the Money Daily), host of the FTM Weekly Podcast, best-selling author of "Bankruptcy of Our Nation: Your Finanical Survival Guide", and leading financial expert. Jerry is so knowledgeable about finance and investing that he has been quoted as an economic authority by such top media outlets as USA Today and Time Magazine. Jerry shares his story of attending college and deciding to go into economics.  He graduated just after 2001 and was deeply impacted by the financial devastation that followed 9/11.  These events inspired him to study what was happening to our nation, which made him realize that we were facing a serious money issue as a country.  Jerry shares his tips on the importance of diversifying your income in order to built stability for the future. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. To show my appreciation, I'll enter your name into my monthly Investor's Toolkit giveaway. Just follow these easy instructions to enter the drawing Tip of The Week from Jerry: Jerry is offering a free tutorial on his website.  This tutorial goes over the 5 Levels of Financial Freedom and is designed to help you better understand your current financial situation in order to improve it. Tips of the Week from Mark: Sign up for Jerry's FTM Insider Membership.  Receive a quarterly investing newsletter along with many other tremendous benefits.      

http://www.thelandgeek.com  In this episode I chat with Sharon Vornholt founder of The Louisville Gals Real Estate Blog and host of Let's Talk Real Estate Investing Podcast.  Mark and Sharon share a virtual cup of coffee while they discuss the main reasons investors fail. Sharon shares her insight into the reasons investors fail.  According to Sharon, marketing is the key.  It's important to maintain multitple marketing strategies AND make marketing a priority.  According to Sharon, investors should schedule marketing time into their week.  She suggests 4-6 hours at a minimum.  Marketing is, after all, the main resource for lead generation and - as Sharon says - if you don't have leads, you don't have a business. Learn more about Sharon by visiting her website The Louisville Gals Real Estate Blog and subscribing to her podcast Let's Talk Real Estate Investing Podcast. Want to learn how to flip land?  Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu Invest in Wholesale land at http://www.frontierpropertiesusa.com

In this episode, Mark chats with real estate and sales guru Karl Krentzel (aka John Ashley).  Karl is the host of the hugely popular podcast The Red Pill Investor Podcast and founder of the incredible resourse 10MinuteSkill.com.  Karl's real estate expertise spans nearly 20 years as a full time investor and realtor.   Listen in as Karl and Mark chat about no-nonsense sales advice that can truly transform your business.  Karl is all about results and he shares some valuable tips and insights to help you get them. His Red Pill Investor Podcast (which is hosted by his alter ego, John Ashley) is about sales skills.  His motto? No matter what you're selling, you need to know what to say in every sales situation you encounter.  The Red Pill is all about a mindshift to help you overcome objections. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. To show my appreciation, I'll enter your name into my monthly Investor's Toolkit giveaway. Just follow these easy instructions to enter the drawing Tip of The Week from Karl: If you generate, you won't have to tolerate. Tips of the Week from Mark: Learn more about Karl at TheRedPillInvestor.com and 10MinuteSkill.com

http://www.thelandgeek.com  In this episode I chat with Antonio Edwards, founder of The Real Estate Rich and Famous.  Antonio is a real estate rockstar.  Achieving this level of success requires serious focus.   During our chat, Antonio shares his morning routine that gets him focused on the tasks of the day.  If you want to learn better focus, you won't want to miss this episode. Learn more about Antonio by visiting his website, The Real Estate Rich and Famous, subsribing to The Real Estate Rich and Famous Podcast, and take advantage of this awesome offer for a free book from Antonio by going here: Free Book. Want to learn how to flip land?  Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu Invest in Wholesale land at http://www.frontierpropertiesusa.com

In this episode, Mark chats with real estate rockstar Antonio "Hitman" Edwards from The Real Estate Rich and Famous.  Antonio has closed over 300 transactions, has a best-selling book on Amazon ("Life of Real Estate Investing"), a top podcast on iTunes (The Real Estate Rich and Famous), is about to launch his new book "Be You, Be Great", and truly is a real estate rockstar.  He shares how he went from barely making ends meet as a truck driver to taking the plunge into entrepreneurship after getting his hands on a copy of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". He shares with Mark how he made all this happen.  Antonio is all about taking massive action.  When he decided to go after his dreams, he went after it full force.  He quit is full time job as a truck driver at 23, pursued his passion for music, failed, and regrouped by finding a mentor in the real estate biz.  The rest, as they say, is history.  Learn more about how Antonio became a rockstar and how you can too! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. To show my appreciation, I'll enter your name into my monthly Investor's Toolkit giveaway. Just follow these easy instructions to enter the drawing Tip of The Week from Antonio: Focus, focus, focus.  Too many people are sidetracked today.  The key to success is to focus your efforts on the task at hand.  Put your phone on silent.  Close those extra tabs on your computer.  Focus your way to success. Tips of the Week from Mark: Go to REIRichandFamous.com/FreeBook to get your FREE copy of "The Real Estate Rich and Famous: Financial Freedom Made Easy"

In this episode, Mark has the honor of chatting with best-selling author, philanthropist, Chartered Global Management Accountant, educator, and international speaker Sharon Lechter.  Sharon is the best-selling author of books like Save Wisely, Spend Happily, Think and Grow Rich for Women, and Think and Grow Rich: Three Feet from Gold.  She is also CEO of Pay Your Family First and host of the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life podcast. Sharon shares a wealth of information about her journey to entrepreneurship and the importance of financial literacy - starting at a young age. She is passionate about teaching young people about finanical literacy in order to prepare them for success in the future.  Sharon shares insight into her journey from a lower middle class home to corporate America to the Talking Book Company with Disney to partnering with Robert Kiyosaki.   This inspiring woman freely shares valuable lessons we can all use to improve our financial health and, therefore, our futures. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. To show my appreciation, I'll enter your name into my monthly Investor's Toolkit giveaway. Just follow these easy instructions to enter the drawing Tip of The Week from Sharon: Check out her new podcast - Your Money, Your Business, Your Life - for access to the leading experts in the industry. Tips of the Week from Mark: Learn more about Sharon by visiting SharonLechter.com and subscribe to her podcast by visiting SharonLechterPodcast.com

http://www.thelandgeek.com  In this episode I chat with Nick Loper, founder of SideHustleNation.com.  He is the go to guy for help with your side hustle - and that's anything you do outside of your "regular job" to make a buck.  Nick shares a tip on how you can get started with a side hustle that makes you money.   According to Nick, the fastest way to get started is to sell a skill or solve a problem for another business.  There are tons of ideas out there - things like SEO, blog management, podcast editing, etc.  The list goes on.  For more ideas, check out SideHustleNation.com/ideas Want to learn how to flip land?  Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu Invest in Wholesale land at http://www.frontierpropertiesusa.com

http://www.thelandgeek.com  In this episode I time saving tips with Jeff Steinmann, founder of HowToQuitWorking.com and host of The How To Quit Working podcast. Jeff is all about efficiency and hosts a daily 5-minute podcast to help you make the most of your time and gain valuable knowledge each day.   Today, he offers a tip we all can use: Forget about failure.  Get excited about failure.  Each failure gets you one step closer to your goal, so celebrate each one! Want to learn how to flip land?  Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu Invest in Wholesale land at http://www.frontierpropertiesusa.com

In this episode, Mark chats with founder of FinancialFreedomMap.com and host of The Financial Freedom Map podcast, Louis Naude.  After spending 20 years in corporate life in his native South Africa, working for corporations like Coca Cola, Louis realized he needed to stop trading his time for money and create finanical freedom for himself and his family.  He was able to retire early through his financial freedom map.  Louis teaches others his 6 Elements of financial freedom and strives to help his 2 sons retire by the time they are 30.  His financial freedom map empowers others to stop trading time for money in order to create the freedom they desire. Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast.  Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. To show my appreciation, I'll enter your name into my monthly Investor's Toolkit giveaway. Just follow these easy instructions to enter the drawing Tip of The Week from Louis: Study the Six Elements of the Financial Freedom Map Tips of the Week from Mark: Learn more about Louis by visiting his website FinancialFreedomMap.com and subscribing to his podcast The Financial Freedom Map

http://www.thelandgeek.com  In this episode I discuss investment tips with Keith Weinhold, host of one of the top investment podcasts in the US, Get Rich Education.  Keith talks about making other people's money work for YOU and offers valuable insight into how YOU can get started. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast on iTunes here-- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-passive-income-model/id962468381  Want to learn how to flip land?  Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu Invest in Wholesale land at http://www.frontierpropertiesusa.com

In this episode, Mark chats with founder of TeachMeMike.com, Mike Gazzola.  Mike is the host of the popular podcast Real Estate Investing that Works! and is a successful real estate investor.   Mike was a 9-5er and took a leap of faith by purchasing his first property on eBay. After doubling his investment in less than a week, he was hooked.  Mike's business took off and he's now a leading expert in the field with hundreds of successful deals under his belt.   He operates a cash only business and collects rental income on many properties.  Mike's successful business venture has become an empire and he shares his knowledge with others through TeachMeMike.com.  Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tip of The Week from Mike: Visit AuctionsInternational.com and check out upcoming auctions in Niagara County, NY.  In last year's auction, many lots went for as little as $50.  It's a great way to get started in the business!  Tips of the Week from Mark: Learn more about Mike by visiting his website, TeachMeMike.com.  And don't forget to subscribe to his awesome podcast, Real Estate Investing that Works!

In this episode, Mark chats with CEO of Keller Williams and founder of TheRealEstateTrainer.com.  He is a national real estate trainer, speaker, and coach that consults with the top real estate agents in the country.  Brian got his start in the business through his father's company.  He attended law school and got involved with running large brokerages. Brian got his start with Keller Williams in central CA and eventually moved into a leadership role. Through this role, he found his passion for training and coaching agents.  Learn more about The Real Estate Trainer and get valuable tips from this expert. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tip of the Week from Brian: The most valuable thing agents can do right now is get everyone you know together in one place.  Get all contact information in one place and create a client database.  Start contacting these people systematically over time. Tip of the Week from Mark: Learn more about Brian by visiting TheRealEstateTrainer.com

http://www.thelandgeek.com  In this episode I discuss some productivity tips with real estate entrepreneur J. Massey from CashFlowDiary.com.  J. shares his secret of staying in contact with his virtual team - Voxer. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast on iTunes here-- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-passive-income-model/id962468381  Want to learn how to flip land?  Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu Invest in Wholesale land at http://www.frontierpropertiesusa.com

In this episode, Mark chats with one of his star students, Scott Todd.  Scott recently attended the Land Geek Bootcamp, where he gained valuable insight into the business. After spending 20 years in corporate America and being a VP of a Fortune 300 company, Scott decided to follow his passion and found his niche in real estate.  After discovering Mark's podcast in October 2014, Scott decided to take action and started seeing results within 2 weeks! Find out more about how Scott's business skyrocketed and how you too can create a thriving business by following Mark's blueprint. Listen to Scott's inspiring story and you'll be ready to follow in his footsteps. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tip of The Week from Scott: Check out this book: The Self-Directed IRA Handbook: An Authoritative Guide for Self Directed Retirement Plan Investors and Their Advisors by Mat Sorensen Tips of the Week from Mark: Learn more about Scott by visiting his website, LandModo.com

In this episode, Mark chats with SideHustleNation.com founder Nick Loper.  Nick shares how he transformed his side hustle business into a flourishing empire.  His popular podcast, The Side Hustle Show, includes tips and tricks from successful entrepreneurs.  Find out how Nick can help you create financial freedom through a side hustle business that can truly transform your life. Even when Nick had a "regular" corporate job, he was interested in using his free time more productively.  He started with a comparison shopping site for footwear and his ideas grew from there.  The goal was to create high margin businesses to allow him to find financial freedom.  Learn more about Nick's story and how you can apply it to your ventures. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tip of The Week from Nick: Take a cold shower.  After getting this tip from a guest on his podcast over a year ago, Nick took the challenge head on and has been taking cold showers for an entire year.  He urges you to try it because he believes it changes your mindset for the day and helps you get your day started more quickly.  Tips of the Week from Mark: Learn more about Nick by visiting SideHustleNation.com!  And don't forget to subscribe to his podcast.

In this episode, real estate investment expert Matt Theriault, founder of EpicRealEstate.com and host of Epic Real Estate Investing Podcast, shares his story of creating an EPIC real estate investment business.  A 5th generation California native and Desert Storm veteran, Matt built a real estate empire after losing it all in his former business.  Learn how he went from 7 figures to bankrupt and then landed back on top after shifting his focus to real estate. Listen to Matt's truly epic story and discover how you too can generate passive income through real estate.  Find out about his success in the music business and subsequent demise due to the age of digital downloads. In spite of the huge setbacks, Matt pressed on and found a new (and better) way to generate income through real estate.  He shares his expert insight on his popular Epic Real Estate Investing podcast Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tip of The Week from Matt: Every lead that you generate, make it your intent to hold it.  You don't have to hold everything, but make that your intent. Tips of the Week from Mark: Learn more about Matt and subscribe to his podcast: EpicRealEstate.com

http://www.thelandgeek.com In todays Coffee Talk segment, J Massey from cashflowdiary.com and I discuss his latest blog post about the 31 must have apps to use for your business.  Subscribe to the free weekly podcast on iTunes here-- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-passive-income-model/id962468381  Want to learn how to flip land?  Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu Invest in Wholesale land at http://www.frontierpropertiesusa.com

In this episode, real estate investment expert Keith Weinhold, founder of Get Rich Education and host of the top-ranked investment podcast Get Rich Education, gives you insight into how you can make money follow you.  After learning at a very young age to always strive for more and never live a small life, Keith created an investment empire.  Now he shares his secrets on his weekly podcast to teach people how to gain wealth through real estate investing.   In his weekly top-ranked podcast, Get Rich Education, Keith gives listeners insight into the market and how they too can create wealth through investing.  His philosphies of asset protection, abundance, velocity, and inflation hedging make it possible for anyone to generate wealth through smart investments.   Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tip of The Week from Keith: Sit down with your mortgage/loan officer to find out what is possible for you.  Get a loan and start gaining control over other people's money.  Make money follow you. Tips of the Week from Mark: Subscribe to the Get Rich Education podcast!

In this episode, real estate investment expert Joe Fairless (JoeFairless.com) shares his story of success in the highly competitive world of real estate investing.  After spending years as an advertising and marketing expert in NYC, Joe took his part-time hobby of investing in single-family homes and turned it into his full-time passion of investing in apartments.  He made the natural transition from single family homes and created a real estate empire worth millions.  Learn more about how he closed on a 168-unit apartment community and raised over $1 million from private investors. In his podcast, The Best Real Estate Investment Advice Ever, Joe shares valuable tips that have made him the go-to guy for anyone trying to break into the market.  If you're looking for a way to make your mark in real estate investing, this is the guy to listen to. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tip of The Week from Joe: 3-2-1 Challenge: This challenge is discussed in detail in Joe's podcast episode 138.  Here's how this 1-week challenge works - each day: Reach out to 3 people you know to see how you can add value to their lives. Reach out to 2 people you don't know to see how you can add value. Write down 1 thing you learned that day. Tips of the Week from Mark: Visit JoeFairless.com

In this episode, Wayne Sanford (aka The Credit Guy), shares a wealth of information that can transform your financial future.  As one of the country's leading credit experts, Wayne helps you understand how you can improve your credit without dealing with some of the questionable "credit fix" companies out there.  With 10 years of credit expertise under his belt, Wayne has built a solid reputaiton as one of the good guys in the business - with accreditations and affiliations from universities and even the state of Texas.  There's no doubt that we can all learn from The Credit Guy. When he started his business, Wayne's goal was to overcome the negative reputation of the credit industry by offering valuable services that truly work to overturn a negative credit history.  He's currently an instructor for the state of Texas - teaching a course as part of the real estate licensing requirements for the state.   Wayne gives you tips that can help you transform your credit - no matter where you start. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tip of The Week from Wayne: The Real World of Credit by Wayne Sanford PBS: The Secret History of Credit Cards Tip of the Week from Mark: WayneTheCreditGuy.com

In this episode, Justin Colby, president and co-founder of TheScienceofFlipping.com, Omni Investment Group, and Phoenix Wealth Builders, shares his compelling story of persistence that led him to success in the market.  He discusses his best-selling Amazon book "The Science of Flipping" and offers tips to help you excel even when the odds are stacked against you.  Gain valuable insight from an industry leader to get the edge and sail to the top of the market. As a leading investment expert, Justin gained success because he refused to give up.  Before he and his partner succeeded, they lost everything - their homes, their cars - everything. But, they refused to give up on the goal of succeeding and building the future they envisioned.  After 9 months, they closed their first deal and the rest - as they say - is history.  With a lot of determination and hard work, they've built 3 successful businesses and an investment empire they can be proud of. Justin offers tips on how you can get your start in the business and find your way to success - if you're willing to work hard. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tip of The Week from Justin: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy by Jon Gordon Tip of the Week from Mark: Learn More about Justin and get his FREE e-book download!  TheScienceofFlipping.com

In this episode, Jim Lewis from JTLPromotions.com shares his insight into marketing and sales to help your business stand out.  Learn from a leading expert how you can get organic search results to drive traffic to your site. As a leading marketing expert, Jim has gained success in land investment and development through creative marketing strategies that work.  Once a devoted Craigslist marketer, Jim has redefined his strategy to reflect today's market trends in order to gain the valuable organic search results that generate leads. Find out how video marketing has transformed Jim's business and use his tips to help your own business grow. Jim offers tips on how you can utilize video marketing for your business in order to stand out from the crowd and get the attention you need.  Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tip of The Week from Jim: Jing Tip of the Week from Mark: Learn More about Jim!  Visit his website JTLPromotions.com

In this episode, Joanne Musa (aka The Tax Lien Lady) from TaxLienLady.com shares her tips on leaving the uncertainty of the stock market for the safety of tax lien investing. As one of the country's foremost experts on tax lien investing, Joanne shares valuable insight into the simplicity of tax lien investing as a viable source of passive income.  She chose this opportunity because she wanted a way to invest for her retirement that offered more security that the stock market.  Joanne also likes that there's no negotiating in tax lien investing. Joanne offers her tips on taking the plunge into tax lien investing and helps you understand how you too can turn your passion for land investing into income. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week from Joanne: GrantStreet.com RealAuction.com Tax Lien Investing Secrets: How You Can Get Double Digit Returns On Your Money Without The Risk of the Stock Market by Joanne Musa Tips of The Week from Mark: TaxLienLady.com - Resources HelloBond.com

In this episode, Jeff Akstin from TameeLand.com tells his story how he went from a full time firefighter to a successful entrepreneur in just a few years. Jeff discusses how he started his business with flipping homes and rental properties.  He realized he could create passive income by flipping raw land, and the rest is history.  He chose this business because of the many headaches that come with flipping homes, versus the passive income model he's found.   With consistency and focus, Jeff says, you can create substantial income.  Learn more in this fascinating interview with a top investor and entrepreneur. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: 7MinuteWorkout.US TheSecretWeapon.org 

In todays Coffee Talk segment, Phil and I discuss the power of the Book Rich Dad Poor Dad in getting people motivated to start investing in real estate.  Subscribe to the free weekly podcast on iTunes here-- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-passive-income-model/id962468381  Want to learn how to flip land?  Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu Invest in Wholesale land at http://www.frontierpropertiesusa.com

In this episode, Tracey Gritz from theefficientoffice.com helps me get more organized and transition from being an organizational mess to being more productive.  Tracey discusses that being more productive is not about getting more done.  She walks me through priorities, values and your why to make sure your day is deliberate and purposeful so you are living by your design and not someone elses...  Great quote, "If you don't do the urgent it kills your today, but if you don't do the important it kills your future."  This interview will help you work purposefully and by design.  Full disclosure:  This podcast was recorded January 2nd.  I've hired Tracey and I'm no longer an "organizational mess"... I'll have Tracey back on to discuss my progress! The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: theefficientoffice.com A Happy Pocket Full of Money: Infinite Wealth and Abundance in the Here and Now Habit List Commit  Unrollme           

http://www.thelandgeek.com  In this episode I discuss the importance of time management with Phil Turturici of blackbeardland.com  The key is to test your market first with an option offer. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast on iTunes here-- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-passive-income-model/id962468381  Want to learn how to flip land?  Get The Passive Income Launch Kit today for $7.00 ($97 Value) at http://bit.ly/1E6KIOu Invest in Wholesale land at http://www.frontierpropertiesusa.com

In this episode, Mike Simmons from juststartrealestate.com tells his story how he went from a guy that couldn't pull the trigger in real estate to a full time real estate investor for the past 7 years.  Mike discusses how he broke through the fear and just started and bought training from a local real estate expert.  Mike discusses what he really got out of the high priced bootcamp. It wasn't necessarily the information...  This is a motivational podcast full of actionable tips to help you take massive action. The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: juststartrealestate.com Network with other real estate investors!                

In this episode, Mike Hambright from flipnerd.com  tells his story how he went from a Fortune 200 job to a high flying startup and then became a real estate entrepreneur.  Mike discusses how he's flipped hundreds of homes and has 40 rentals.  His mindset was to treat his real estate investing as a business from day one where he was fully committed.  Mike discusses how he's building an Angies List like platform for Real Estate investors which is going to disrupt the industry and help investors in every facet of their business as a one stop shop.  This is a fascinating interview from one of the smartest investors and businessmen in real estate!    The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: Flipnerd.com                

In this episode, Justin Williams from houseflippinghq.com discusses how he created systems to allow himself to passively flip over 100 houses per year leveraging the systems he created.  Justin tells his story how he went from literally broke to his "aha" moment which helpd him get laser focused on creating his 7 figure land flipping empire.  We discuss the state of real estate education and how he's different.  If this podcast doesn't motivate you you don't have a heartbeat! The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: houseflippinghq.com Mini Course of House Flipping              

In this episode, Carey Buck from atmbusinessblueprint.com discusses how she makes an amazing passive income by investing ATM machines.  Carey started as a real estate investor and transitioned over to ATM investing to avoid tenants, toilets and trash.   I ask all the questions about the ATM business that you were afraid to ask. We learn about filling up the ATM, the risks and how Carey makes money in this niche. She discusess some of the headaches involved in the business and the size of the market.  Don't miss this podcast and start exploring the ATM business as another passive income stream.  The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: By T. Harv Eker Secrets of the Millionaire MindSecrets of the Millionaire Mind atmbusinessblueprint.com              

In this episode, Paula Pant super blogger from affordanything.com discusses how she became financially free and what it takes to get there and the choice she makes.  Paula quit the 9-5 grind and started traveling around the world as if she was retired.  Everyone told her they'd love to do that, but thought they couldn't afford to do what Paula did. Here's how Paula did it! Paula believes in aligning your spending with your values and discusses in detail how she does this.  She talks about her real estate investments and how she got out of the do it yourself syndrome! The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: affordanything.com save 1% Where to Save Money               

In this episode, Frank Rolfe, the owner of the 10th largest owner of mobile home parks, from mobilehomeuniversity.com gives everyone an unedited view of how to become successful.  His nuggets of wisdom are absolutely enlightening.   Frank discusses how to find the perfect job or business for yourself and I challenge him about the finding your passion model...  We discuss the disadvantages of "looking" successful and the faulty psychology of success.  If you ever wanted to hear REAL practical advice about success don't miss this podcast.  The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: mobilehomeuniversity.com Benjamin Franklin Quote, "Diligence is the mother of good luck." bestplaces.net              

In this episode, author of When Buyers Say No, Tom Hopkins from tomhopkins.com discusses how his Dad's negativity fueled his success.  Tom is a living legend and gives us insight into true happiness and what he defines as finding your true passion. We discuss the difference between introverts and extroverts in sales.   The bottom line, we can all improve our businesses and relationships by understanding the art of persuasion! The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st.  Seats are limited! Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week:   www.tomhopkins.com           

In this episode, Phil Turturici from Blackbeardland.com gives everyone an unedited view of what it's really like to go from being a total newbie in the land business to investing in the toolkit and then entering the mentoring program.   Phil's journey wasn't smooth sailing and hear directly what it's really like in the coaching program, gold mastermind program and how he got over the hump from total frustration to successs.   For anyone really serious about this business, you have to listen to this podcast! The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: Blackbeardland.com Land Mapping Services - 25% discount for landgeek members! canva.com          

In this episode, Donna Serdula from linkedin-makeover.com discusses how she went from corporate america to having more LinkedIn follower than the entire population of Rhode Island!   We discuss her strategies to brand yourself online and Linkedin to market your self and ultimately sell your land more easily.  This was recorded when we were still The Land Geek Podcast so she doesn't get to be put on the spot about our business model.  The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: Headline Generator  ope.nr        

In this episode, J Massey from cashflowdiary.com discusses how he went from squatting in a foreclosed home and how he trained himself to turn chaos to cashflow.  J discusses how he changed his mindset to get to the next level in his life and business.  We argue about the best passive income model and J has some interesting arguments about what he thinks of my model.  The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: Cashflowdiary.com Business Brilliant - Chapter 8.  Voxer App Duet - 2nd Display Cloudconvert.com        

In this episode, Sharon Vornholt from LouisvilleGalsRealEstateBlog discusses how she went from owning a home inspection company to professional real esate investor and blogger extraordinaire.  Sharon and I discuss the importance of joining a REIA group and how to face your fear in taking the leap to real estate investing.   Sharon's story is inspirational and motivating.  If you miss this podcast you will probably develop serious migraines.   The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: Sharon Vornholt- "Always Be Marketing" Her favorite books: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results The Compound Effect Learn more at LouisvilleGalsRealEstateBlog

In this episode, Jeff Steinmann from howtoquitworking.com discusses how to quit working and finding your passion. He discusses how to get out of the 9 to 5 trap to find out what your true passion really may be.  Jeff defines what a life style fanatic is and how to make sure you don't make the mistake of becoming a solo-preneur and creating another job for yourself.  This podcast will help you expand your view about business, creating value, passion and taking action.  The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook  Buy Land Wholesale  Tips of The Week: Jeff Steinmann- Make 3 new contacts everyday.   HowToQuitWorking.com IOS App Free Legal Agreements-- Shake

Start here and learn about my mission to change the world one passive income land flip at a time!   In this introduction episode, Mark Podolsky AKA The Land Geek from  thelandgeek.com discusses how he went from working a miserable job in investing banking to becoming financially free as a full time land investor.  Mark discusses the podcasts focus and how it his guests insights and wisdom can help you improve your life via creating passive income and tips to improve your existing business.  The Land Geek bootcamp will be here before you know it!  Reserve your seat now for February 27th-March 1st. Click HERE to learn more and get your tickets. Please leave us a comment on iTunes and let us know how we’re doing. (Show me your review and I'll email you out for FREE the Passive Income Launch Kit! $97 value) Here is how to leave an iTunes Review Special Podcast listener promotion! Learn the 5 Steps to Successful Land Flipping for massive profits. Please rate us on The Land Geek Podcast and share the podcast on Facebook