I hope you had a refreshing holiday yesterday.

I’m recovering from the 12th annual Turkey Bowl, a hilarious 14-man Thanksgiving flag football debacle that only lasts about 45 minutes.

(… which is apparently the upper threshold of endurance for the average 28 to 35 year-old former athlete’s body)

My blog posts have been few & far between lately and there’s one reason for that …

I just spent 14 days very much “in the business” coordinating the BIGGEST online event/fundraiser the real estate investing industry has ever seen.

Colin Egbert (of RealEstateInvestor.com) and I were able to pull together 26 of the biggest real estate experts in the United States to help raise $25,000 for St. Jude Children’s Hospital ..

.. AND to hook up two lucky investors with a chance to walk away with $65,000 in life-changing real estate tools & resources.

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Posted on Friday, 28th November 2008 in Real Estate | Comments (0)

Download my 60-minute “REI Marketer of the Month” interview with Michael Kimble of “Group M Marketing” …

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By the way, Kimble is a marketing machine.

He’s one of the most esteemed direct response geniuses in the country, and he recently ran an experiment.  He wanted to see if he could take his marketing mastery - which he’s proven over the last 15 years in other industries - into real estate wholesaling.

The result: Just LAST MONDAY he flipped 4 properties in 2 hours & 36 minutes after sending ONE email to his buyers list.

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Posted on Tuesday, 25th November 2008 in Marketing, Real Estate | Comments (0)

I had the opportunity to speak at Dan Stojadinovic’s “Internet Marketing and Joint Ventures Bootcamp” in San Diego today.

I like the way Dan runs his seminars.  Very laid back, informal, & participatory.

It makes for a phenomenal learning experience for attendees.

I believe I was able to add a lot of value to the lives & businesses of the awesome 80-person crowd of primarily full-time real estate investors.

My approach was simply to tell the story of the last year of my business… exactly how we’ve been able to form the relationships & create the revenue that we’ve done, then to take live questions.

Here are some key points from my 1-hour talk…

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Posted on Friday, 14th November 2008 in Business, Marketing, Real Estate | Comments (7)

This video has been around for a while, but I just came across it again.

It’s a little overly dramatic for my tastes, but give it a chance. It started really hitting home for me around minute 2.

Sidenote: The mention of “Santa Clause” is unnecessary. I have no problem with the big guy.

Many who have the entrepreneurial flame inside them do everything they can to escape the prison of 9-to-5 only to find themselves an even tougher prison of 9-to-9 (or longer).

It can quickly seem like we’re treading water deeper & deeper below the surface where freedom of time & money await.

The popular cliche is that “time is money.”

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Posted on Thursday, 6th November 2008 in Business, Faith, Life | Comments (2)