I thought about it over the last couple of days and realized that there are really only 3 ways to get money for real estate deals, especially when you're first starting out as a real estate investor.
Here they are:
1) Find an investor-partner who can fund your deal including the down payment as well as any rehab (if necessary or required).
2) Flip property for cash using "wet funds" to get the 100% cash needed to initially pay for (before reselling) the property.
3) Being a highly-paid bird-dog to earn a "referral fee" between 1% and 5% of the final purchase price of the deal after closing.
What's really awesome is that in my latest Bird-Dog Bonanza System for 2016, I cover ALL 3 of these methods in getting money which you can use as income or use to fund your own passive income real estate deals.
For those of you who started with my bird-dog teachings years ago, I can tell you that A LOT has changed in recent years. Since inventory is hard to find and you have to scour a little deeper to find deals, you have to understand what has changed and how to make a fortune in TODAY'S day and age with bird-dogging, otherwise you won't make a dime.
I have some students who are super successful bird dogs. In fact, they wouldn't do anything else including investing in real estate themselves (which is a mistake). Instead they just profit from deal after deal and have a solid income ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 and sometimes more per year in pure profits. (One of my students made roughly $800,000 in 2015 as a bird-dog! That's more than what many of my students are making as passive income real estate investors!!
Yes, if you want to enter the world of real estate investing but you need to start slow, you need to gain access to the funds for your own deals, you want the experience and confidence of investor without being one yet, and you want to learn the ropes of the business without any risk then bird-dogging is where you need to start.
My most recent deal was one that was sent over to my investor partners that just closed escrow late last month. It was for an apartment building in Texas with a final purchase price of $4,300,000. My student who was bird-dogging the deal got a 2.5% bird-dogging fee for it. And he told me later that it took him less than 5 days to put the entire deal together. Total payout for this student was $107,500 for his bird-dog referral fee.
I have so many students asking me where to get started in business, especially with investing. Yes, it's getting tough to compete in our current real estate market. Inventory is tight. You're competing with the biggest and most financially secure investors who can plop down 25% cash (or more) on a deal to make sure they get it. They can pay top dollar. They can over-bid. These are all things you can't (and shouldn't) do as a new investor.
But there is an opportunity that you should be aware of. It's called being a bird-dog or a property scout. And there are a couple of ways that this works that can give you huge profits in the process:
Option #1: Getting a "referral fee" between 1% and 5% for finding a deal that they wouldn't have otherwise found on their own. To legally do this without a brokerage license (which you don't need) is that you are given a 1099 having provided a "consultant service" to your investor for finding this property deal. Yes, this is 100% legal. And yes, this is done ALL THE TIME!
Option #2: Flipping the property to an investor after purchasing it with "wet" funds. You can get money for a deal. Yes, 100% cash. And you don't need good (or any) credit and you don't need any money to use what we call "wet funding" in this business. These funds are for flipping. But this type of deal is done differently. You preliminary "sell" the deal to an investor first before buying the property. You'll buy the property for a price and flip it to your investor for a higher dollar amount in what we call an A-to-B-to-C deal.
And then there's MY favorite option in all of this: finding investors to fund MY deals that I want to either flip or buy and hold (for up to 5 years). I love finding new investors to want to do deals with me. This gives me the option of getting a much higher percentage of a flip or buy-and-hold deal (as low as 25% and as high as 75%).
I've just released my 2016 version of the Bird-Dog Bonanza System that outlines all of the massive changes that have occurred with bird-dogging. You'll discover how to do all 3 things listed above in today's real estate market and beyond!
What I love about recommending bird-dogging for new students is that it allows you to get involved in real estate investing without the risk, without cash, and without credit. It allows you to get your "feet wet" in the business of real estate without actually investing. And it allows you to learn the ropes of the business by giving you confidence so that when it's time to do your own profitable real estate deals, not only will you have the money to do these deals but you'll also have the know-how and confidence.
For those of you who have been on the fence about real estate investing and have been wanting to get involved but didn't feel that you were "adequate" enough to enter into this business, you can enter in as a bird-dog and make a huge amount of money doing this!
Oh, and one more thing. You can choose between finding your own investors (which is very easy to do and is clearly outlined in the course materials) OR use our investors to bird dog deals to. It's your choice. This way you don't have to worry about finding investors because we already have the investors!
Finding good help these days is becoming the impossible Holy Grail feat.
Not but 30 minutes ago I fired someone for -- get this level of stupidity -- for filing for Unemployment Benefits WHILE she was working here. Yes, you read that correctly. She filed for unemployment with EDD after she got the job here, trying to double-dip the system or something.
Of course, she didn't know that all employers are INSTANTLY NOTIFIED of such filings since, after all, it has to come out of my banked unemployment funds that I've paid into over the years. So, as soon as I received the notice, I couldn't believe the freaking audacity of this bitch to do something so brazen. And yes, it does fall into the category of embezzlement. She's taking a paycheck from me and, at the same time, taking an unemployment paycheck that ultimately comes from me as well is considered THEFT as far as I'm concerned.
As many associates of mine have asked over the years..."Where do you find these people?"
My short answer: Who the f*** knows?!
So, long story short, she's gone now. This is when I realized something quite interesting that you MUST take note of if you're going to be successful doing anything in life: one small shift in energy, even that of another person entering your life, will start to screw up everything for you. Yes, that's right. Other people who don't contribute positively to your vision while dragging others in your posse down do to their negative attitudes will start to sink your entire ship. And it happens pretty fast too. You have to pay VERY CLOSE ATTENTION to these types of energy, time and money vampires in your life otherwise, before you know it, you wake up and you find yourself in bankruptcy court.
Of course, it didn't get to that point with me because I saw what I was happening and quickly nipped the problem in the bud. But this is why fairly successful people quickly find themselves in an off-balance situation or circumstances. We call this a "reversal of fortune" for some. A "bad apple" comes along -- whether it's in their personal or business life -- and, like an aggressive cancer, destroys all the good around it.
Here's my advice: DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN!!
Now, here's the hard part, folks. The hard part sometimes is identifying this destructive individual. Sometimes you just don't know who it is or how it's creating this havoc in your life on other levels. The other difficult part is sometimes you have to let go of someone who seemingly is "stuck" as a permanent part of your life. Now, if it's family, you can always distance yourself from the cancer. Same with everyone else. However, the difficulty comes in when you feel like you need these people (or they need you...or both) and how to untie yourself from them. That's the ridiculously hard part to conquer.
Let me give you some examples of people I've had to disconnect from because they were throwing the balance of my personal and business life:
1) My dad: Every single time I've let him into my company as an employee, he's taken full advantage and began embezzling from me. With that side, his energy levels are so "needy" that he also starts to affect the overall business with his negative belief systems. So, each time when letting him go, I was able to "lighten" the energy and all business procedures and profits would resume back to normal, almost instantly.
2) My brother: Need I say more? He's a walking disaster and I'm really glad there's a lot of physical space between us. The good news is that he's actually realizing that he's been a deadbeat this whole time and he finally got a job. This would be the first job for... who the hell knows how long it's been?! It's just say that it's been longer than a decade since I last remember him working somewhere. He starts this new job on Monday. (I'm proud of him. This is where HIS energy will start to change and his life will only get better from here on out.)
3) My (former) step-son: This 20-year-old kid moved in with me last December. Come to think of it, within days of his arrival, everything started going to hell in a hand-basket. is yet another dependent man (who keeps calling himself a "man" but isn't yet) and part of my lesson in this is to stop being a doormat and to stop "raising" grown men. His lesson will be that he'll have to learn how to survive as an adult because he's getting kicked out in August of this year.
4) The college girl from earlier this year: I had this college chick stay with me (from Michigan) for what was supposed to be 6 weeks. Right when she moved in (on February 29th), she told me she changed the plans and was going to stay through the summer and into the fall. For anyone who knows me, you DON'T change MY plans...EVER!! So, we instantly got off on the wrong foot and I (patiently) waited for her to finish her "Semester in L.A." program (for her B.A. degree) then told her to pack her sh** and get the f*** out. Her leaving alleviated a lot of the "downer" energy that seemed to swirl around her rather uniquely demonic and weirdo personality. (She reminded me of a witch in disguise.)
5) And a SLEW of people who got fired in the past 12 months: Just like this last firing, there have been many others. People sometimes show great charm while lying through their teeth about their job qualifications. Then they turn into a completely different person the second they start. I simply don't have the energy to deal with it anymore.
And I won't put up with it.
You shouldn't either.
Life is getting more and more challenging. You don't need any single individual "rocking the boat" of your life. They can do great damage and rather quickly if you don't throw them overboard as soon as you notice that they're not good for you and that they're causing stress/strain in your life. Out they go. Otherwise YOU will sink with the ship you you don't give them the boot.
The other day I was explaining to my young daughter that things in her generation are vastly different than when I was her age. I explained that "back in the day" we didn't need TSA at airports. In fact, there wasn't much for security and you could basically just walk on a plane...with anything. People didn't ram planes into buildings or blow people up in airports. Things were...different then.
But she said, "But it's good that we have all this security and protection now, right?"
And I replied, "Well, no. It isn't. I'd rather be back in a time when we DIDN'T need these things because back then the world wasn't so violent. I'd rather do without the protection because we don't need it rather than having the protection because everyone wants to kill us."
I don't think she understood. Because unfortunately the world she exists in REQUIRES this protection. It REQUIRES a military. It REQUIRES going to great lengths for safety. And she's already used to it yet she's not even 8 years old.
Those of us who got a short (or longer) introduction from birth into a world that was much more innocent...we know what it was like to NOT have to have all of these "layers" needed to protect us. So, these times are particularly sad for us because we remember what that was like and we can compare it to how things are now. And it's only getting worse and will continue to do so until our life expires on this planet.
With that said, may today be the day that we honor those who signed up to take on this difficult job of protecting us from those who don't have our best interests at heart, against those who live and die to harm us. And gave up their lives in the process. For if it wasn't for these men and women, we wouldn't be able to enjoy our relatively safe, secure, and awesome lives that we have now.
There's always reason that someone would invite me out to lunch. And by now you'd think I'd know better, right?
So, earlier this week my attorney asked me to lunch to "catch up" and "chat" about this or that. But, in reality, there was a completely different reason he wanted to "chat" with me. Sure, it started out with small talk. It always does. But very quickly he started picking my brain on Internet marketing and what I thought about an online business opportunity he's been working on for the past 6 months.
You see, a little more than a week ago crowd funding for real estate to allow non-accredited investors to invest just opened up. (I didn't know this but he informed me that this is what has happened.) So, this opens up the playing field for those who have website portals to raise money even faster for real estate deals including buy-and-hold, flips, you name it. Real estate funding and raising capital via these websites has become much easier due to the lightening of SEC regulations because now any "Average Joe" can put up funding for posted real estate deals instead of it being restricted to accredited investors only.
So, my attorney was talking about wanting to compete in this space...having a website portal to be the liaison between money investors and real estate investors, if that makes sense. After he was explaining the layer upon layer upon layer of legal registration and implementation requirements not to mention the ever-changing laws, I started getting a headache and finally told him, "I wouldn't do it if I were you."
"Why not?" he asked.
"Well, having locked horns with the government several times, let me 'school' you on how working with a closely-linked highly-regulating government agency works. And if they want to sink their teeth into you, they will. You'll have no legal recourse except to fight it out in court until you want to jump off a bridge...because their only legal strategy is to wear you down over multiple years in court since many of them really have no legal bearing in which to sue you. When you get big and if they don't like what you're doing, even if you're doing it legally, they'll find something to get you on. Any company with a portal of hundreds of millions of dollars going through it is always going to be on the immediate radar of the SEC."
I hated to be the one to suck all of his enthusiasm out of him within one fell swoop but...he needed to hear the reality of the situation. I continued...
"Making money is too easy selling run-of-the-mill products. Why legally and financially risk everything when you don't have to?"
He explained that he wanted to build something "big" and create a legacy and yada, yada, yada...all ego-driven nonsense. Who cares? He has a young son who just turned 4 and his wife is 2 months pregnant with Baby #2. At some point you have to hang up risky ego-driven goals and find something more suitable for a more balanced risk/reward ratio calculation in your life, if you know what I mean. After all, when you're lying on your death bed, nobody ever wishes they made more money or wasted more time at the office hustling up a legacy to get on the cover of Fortune Magazine. Everyone, undoubtedly, wishes they spent more time watching their kids grow up.
By the time everything was said and done, I had him on track in putting together his own money funnel for lawyers, selling high-priced marketing courses to other attorneys wanting to start a private practice which he seemed really excited about. (Hey, I'm not just a dream-killer. I come up with BETTER options instead!) All within 90 minutes.
Yes, I'm pretty good at what I do otherwise I wouldn't have one of the brightest attorneys I've ever met asking ME for advice on what his next profitable business move should be.
I'm very good at talking with someone who has a solid business idea, breaking it down, analyzing all of the pieces, and then spitting out the best prognosis imaginable, turning a mediocre plan into an exceptionally profitable business empire.
Now it's YOUR turn to get my advice.
I just got the edited videos from my 2 1/2 day event in Vegas where I fleshed out the most profitable blueprints for making tons of money with your own money funnel business. I even worked on 2 "case studies" live in our "mastermind" seminar group for the first time ever. And yes, it was just as powerful as you could probably imagine as I took 2 mediocre ideas and fleshed them both out to million-dollar proportions within only mere minutes. By watching this part of the videos, you will easily be able to gain the skill set needed in doing this for your own brilliant entrepreneurial ideas because it's pretty easy once you understand the mechanics behind doing it.
What's awesome about this event is that I take my students on a ride from the very beginning (pretending as if you're starting with no knowledge at all) and quickly ramping up through my most advanced million-dollar distribution strategies that can help you quickly build up a multi-million-dollar money funnel profit center.
And I did this all in 2 1/2 days.
You'll be able to see everything and get every single ounce of information including all of the seminar materials (delivered on CD-ROM) plus a powerful $397 bonus for the first 21 students who take me up on this offer. AND you'll even get clones of my hottest money funnels including a BRAND NEW ONE that I just developed a few days ago! This is all included as my special fast-acting bonus set.
P.S. You can keep making excuses for why you don't have the financial life you've always talked about...or you can get educated and start implementing a specific step-by-step blueprint to start raking in the money you deserve. It's your choice.
Yesterday I donated all of my suits to a transitional house for women coming out of battered/abusive relationships. I donated every suit...except for one. The last one I wore in Vegas when I did my last seminar event was the lucky keeper. I decided to keep it...for old time's sake. Or in case I need it for court. Or a funeral. Or just to let it collect dust. For now anyway.
During my Vegas event, I had a hard time getting through. I was kind of under the weather and I realized then and there that I don't want to give up any more time with my daughter doing these events out of state. So, that's it. I just completed my last seminar event. And I'm across between freaking out and being thoroughly elated. The final emotion hasn't landed yet. I'll keep you posted when it finally does.
But I went out with a bang. That's for sure. This Vegas Money Funnel Event was truly amazing. Much better than the event in March, hands down. Maybe it's because I perfected it. Or maybe because I added a whole new element for the "advanced" Money Funnel Strategies, never before revealed to anyone until this event. In fact, one specific strategy was so exclusive that I actually kept it from someone who had been hounding me for this one ground-breaking strategy on mass market distribution...for TWO MONTHS since I discovered it. I made him wait until the second day of the event when I revealed it...and he sat there listening intently, jaw agape when I finally revealed it. Yes, it was THAT powerful. So powerful that you could hear a pin drop in the room when I was slowly divulging the details of this mind-blowing strategy.
And I just got the videos delivered to my office yesterday afternoon. They're being duplicated now and will be ready for our first shipments by Thursday of this week.
I warn you though. This stuff is for serious die-hards who are fullycommitted to understanding and implementing the Money Funnel Strategies, starting from the most basic elements all the way through large-scale multi-million-dollar secrets that I've never told my students about before this event. This is NOT for tire-kickers, people who merely talk about success but never get around to doing it (until "someday" comes), or people who don't want to roll up their sleeves to get their new business going. No, this is definitely not for that crowd. It's only for those of you who are ready for the utmost powerful strategies that will bowl you over like nothing else will. Guaranteed.
I want you to check out my short audio seminar and then scroll down to the very bottom where you'll watch some of my testimonials from this amazing event. CLICK HERE or visit http://www.monicamain.com/vegas_2016_videos right now!
I know for me, the older I get the more I think of death and dying. I know. It's not exactly a cheery subject. But there's a reason it's on my mind, especially today: Mother's Day. It's because it's been almost 11 years since my mother passed away. And I realize that it's because of her absence in my life that is the core of my constant "missing-ness" I feel in my heart.
My mom died at 52 of brain cancer. (This picture was taken 18 months before her death at my wedding reception.) Just today I was thinking about how I'll feel in 10 years from now when I turn 52...and I'm already wondering if this will be a "hell year" for me (in 2026) because I'll wonder if I'll actually "cross the line" and exceed my mom's lifespan. Or not. I know...crazy thinking, isn't it? Except that I'm pretty sure most everything thinks this way, especially if your parent or loved one died young. You have to wonder when you get to the age they died...how things will turn out for you. Except I'm different because I plan "in advance" a lot. In this case, this advance planning is 10 years premature.
For those of you who still have your mother, give her lots of hugs and kisses. And for those of you who are mothers, just know that you are blessed with the most important role in the world. You make the world go around.
Well, it's official. It's down to Donald Trump running on the Republican side. I'm not going to say anything else. Just thought I'd inform you...in case you didn't know.
Now, to be clear, I love the United States. I'm an American and, like most Americans, I believe in my country. I've made a lot of money here. And I love the opportunity that is afforded to those of us who want to get off our asses to work and to take advantage of these opportunities.
But...I have some "issues" and "grave concerns" about our current and future economy. Here's why:
1) Years ago, Obama had thrown out some rhetoric about bringing "manufacturing back into America." Trump has claimed the same thing in recent months. While it's a nice theory, it's just not possible, especially with rising minimum wage, health insurance requirements for companies of a certain size (by amount of employees on staff), competing with the ultra-cheap labor in Asia, and the ever-growing amounts of lawsuits against American companies for a variety of reasons including from employees or consumers, making it very difficult (and next to impossible) to grow a large company here in the USA. If you think this theory of making anything can be a reality, try opening the doors of your manufacturing plant and see what happens. This is the part NOBODY will tell you which is a cold, hard reality of having a business here, ESPECIALLY if you want to make something in the "manufacturing" space: getting and keeping insurance. This is not something your Paycheck Charlie knows anything about and it's certainly not any politician will clue you in about because...well, they simply don't know about this "little" manufacturing in the USA obstacle. You see, recently I went into a new company launch mode where I was sitting on the fence about whether I'd actually manufacture my product or not. Turns out that when you actually want to make something in this country, especially something that is on the "consumable" level, your insurance goes through the roof...IF you can even find someone to insure you at all! Yes, this is one of these "hidden secrets" behind trying to kick-start your American manufacturing company. If you're "lucky," someone will insure you, starting off with a policy that will run you about $2,000 to $3,000 a month for coverage. As you grow into a mid-sized manufacturing company, you're looking at $20,000+ per month in insurance. And this is WHEN you can finally find someone who won't laugh you out of their insurance office. "You want a policy for what? Making something? Hahahahahahhahahahahah!!" (This has actually happened to me several times so, in no way am I exaggerating!)
2) Things are getting tight in China. They've been quickly sliding into an economic black hole for the past couple of years and it's only a matter of time before we feel the economic "quake" on our side of the map. Some economists are calling this the "second bubble." I don't think it's quite as dooms-worthy as some might guess it'll be but it does help to stay alert and on guard. For me, I can actually see opportunity in this. Since I use China for printing and packaging, I'm finding that they are starting to feel the squeeze in their economic crisis so when I make it clear on what I'm willing to pay for a project, I will get my price. They know how easy it is to go to another vendor since they are a dime a dozen. And they'll take any job just to keep some type of cash flow coming in. However, they haven't experienced their all-out crash yet and it's only a matter of time. Since much of our borrowing and loans was with Asia, namely China, it only makes you wonder where we're going to get loans now since they're not going to be in the market to lend for awhile. And, as you know, our country relies heavily on credit.
I was just watching Clinton talk about jobs and schools and a bunch of other crap that nobody can realistically promise and follow through with. All these politicians...they're the exact same, just in different skin and clothes. They promise things to get elected and don't follow through. This is why I tell my students over and over and over again...you can't wait for some politician to make your dreams come true, otherwise you'll be getting old and gray (and will die) before someone else (other than yourself) is going to look out for your well-being. YOU must look out for yourself and your family. An elected official will never care about you or do anything for your family.
So...the next question needs to be, what have you been doing for yourself and your financial future lately? Or are you a fool, waiting around for our next president to come in and whip out a magic wand to make your life perfect for the first time ever?
Stop dreaming and start focusing, damn it! Otherwise nothing in your life is ever going to change. Hoping and praying without any action on your part will get you exactly this: NOTHING. So, let's talk about what you need to be doing if you really want to whip your ass into gear and start getting what you want in life.
If this "second bubble" bursts, banks will tighten back up on personal credit lending, loans, and unsecured credit again. What they DIDN'T draw back on was commercial and business credit, even during our worst recent economic year (of 2008). In preparation for this, you really need to get your business/corporate credit rolling if you want money to start a business or invest in real estate...or both. Not only will you be able to gain much more in unsecured credit than if you were applying as an individual but the banks won't stop lending this type of cash to businesses, even if the going gets tough again with our economy.
In order to get the maximum amount of money possible for your unsecured business credit, you need to get that personal credit mid-FICO at or above 720. If it's not there, getting this unsecured business credit just won't happen the way you want it to. Yes, you'll be able to get some credit here and there but it won't be hundreds of thousands of dollars. You'll be able to get about $10,000 here and $25,000 there. But that'll be it...UNTIL you get that mid-FICO at or above that 720 mark.
For any of you who are NOT at that 720 mid-FICO score, CLICK HERE. I have the ultimate solution for you. (This will blow your mind!)
I guess I brought uo a touchy subject about the USPS the other day because I got quite a few emails about who I should appropriately blame for what. What these well-meaning emailers don't understand is that I, a commercial consumer who spends a lot of money with the USPS, is being treated like dog sh** with severely delayed (or non-arriving mail) no matter who's fault it is (and I got a lot of "it's-the-government's-fault" emails), I drastically suffer as the consumer spending, on average, $10,000 a week and upwards of $50,000 a month with the USPS on mass mailings and Priority shipments. So, regardless of who's "fault" it is, some of you completely missed the point. So, sorry that you didn't "get it" and maybe you should re-read that email again.
It's not about fault-assigning because I don't care if it's the fault of the government, the Chinese, a crew of aliens who invaded us from Mars or the damn man on the moon. There's only so long ANY organization can screw over BOTH their employees and their customers before it all comes crashing down on them. Ask Walmart. They'll tell you about how to screw over their employees and distributors...and how it's making them crack at the seams right now. The ONLY thing saving them is that they're NOT screwing their customers (by giving them deals, not having anything to do with the customer service "value" of any sort). That's the ONLY saving face with that company. Otherwise Walmart would already be long gone.
Basic economics, folks. You can't screw all the players in the game of business and continue to get away with it no matter who you are.
But my posting was really about how I arrived on making the decision to utilize alternative, more effective, and cheaper methods of reaching customers using online methods rather than further wasting money on a beyond-broken government-initiated bureaucratic system that is beyond help.
Enough of all that.
What I wanted to tell you in THIS special post:
The other day I let you know that I'd reveal a secret strategy having to do with my upcoming Vegas event...one that didn't hit me until Saturday morning. And yes, I'll be revealing this strategy at the upcoming event.
This is earth-shattering stuff, folks. And I'm about to reveal a small whiff of what I'll be revealing to you in Las Vegas.
Now, one thing I've been going on and on about are the Money Funnel Strategies. This implies selling something to people on the Internet using what I call the Money Funnel, which I believe anyone in ANY kind of business should have. I've been concentrating so much on the consumer-direct side, meaning selling things to people one-by-one online, that I haven't really been talking about the REAL GEM in this upcoming event...the distribution profit side.
I've only done ONE Distribution Profit Event and that was back in September 2013. It was a mind-blowing event where I went into the specifics about how to take a very simple product idea, make it your own product (even if you're not manufacturing it), and put it in stores nationwide (and even worldwide) which is probably my most profitable means of Aggressive Income. This can put you from making a "paltry" $10,000 to $20,000 a month with a simple garage-based Internet business to putting you up there with the Big Boys, making millions of dollars a year, seeing your stores on store shelves nationwide, and eventually selling out to one of those Big Boys for millions and millions of dollars, all within just a few years.
Some of you can't see yourselves doing this well with a business. Some of you do. And it's only those of you who do who I want to attend this upcoming Vegas event. Because for the first time since September 2013, I'm talking about the Distribution Profit System and showing you, for the FIRST TIME EVER, how it works with these simple easy-to-implement Money Funnel Strategies, making distribution easy, cost-effective, and fast to build a huge company from scratch. Let me remind you that, since the Money Funnel Strategies are fairly new, I wasn't able to show my students back in September 2013 how to create a successful Money Funnel Distribution Profit Business because...well, those strategies didn't quite exist yet.
But they do now. And let me tell you WHY this suddenly becomes a game-changer for you.
You see, back in the day (September 2013, in case I haven't mentioned it yet), pulling off a distribution business was a little more intense, costly, and difficult to do because of the multiple levels of elements needed to become successful. I think the most costly element of launching a distribution business isn't so much laying the groundwork but it's gaining market and product exposure to wholesalers and distributors. With this being said, the best way that I knew of at the time was by going to trade shows (expensive) and by mailing direct mail marketing campaigns (ridiculously expensive).
But now that's changed. There are 2 elements that were NOT available back then that are now here, ready to make you rich!
The first element is building and creating a Money Funnel for Distribution Profits. This is, of course, why this event is called a Money Funnel Event...because I'll be covering this at great length, and for the first time ever, how this Money Funnel Strategy can be used for the Distribution Profit Business Model, making it cost-effective and much quicker to set up and start profiting from your business.
But...I got this most inspired thought when I was in the shower this past Saturday. (For some reason, I get my best ideas in the shower in the morning.) It's quite possible the most amazing, mind-blowing distribution strategy ever done in history. (This is what happens when you ask the universe for ideas, by the way. You actually GET the ideas you ask for.) And I'll be presenting this incredible game-changing distribution strategy at the Las Vegas Money Funnel Event. This would be the second element that I'll be presenting...and it's nothing short of amazing. In fact, just to tell you how incredible it is, I gave Ron Espinoza the same "teaser" just gave you and he's been bugging me to spill the beans on what this new distribution strategy is. And I won't even tell Ron until the event, so he'll be watching the presentation for the first time alongside of you guys and gals so that he can put his BeanBoy business on full speed ahead with it. (And for those of you who aren't familiar with Ron's BeanBoy distribution business that has taken off like gangbusters, THANKS to me, of course, you can check out his site at www.BeanBoy.coffee to see what his product is and looks like.)
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If you have questions, call us at 661-295-5050.
See you at the top!
Your mentor,
Monica Main
P.S. If you haven't checked out my video guy -- Jesse J.'s -- money funnel online that he built that's already successful, check it out by CLICKING HERE. It took him 2 days to set it all up and now he's making money. It's really that easy, folks. Set up a site (using one of my clones that I'll be providing to you at the event) and start making some cash.
Normally I don't wish bad on any organization but there is one particular company that DESERVES my spit and venom for right now.
It's the United States Postal Service. That's right. The USPS. F*** them. They suck...and they're only getting worse as time goes on.
Where is this coming from? From 20+ years in working directly with them with my direct mail marketing campaigns AND by using them consistently in just about every avenue in my business that requires something to be mailed and shipped. Yet there's been this subtle shift that's been taking place which seemed to have jolted into a full-blown 8.4 earthquake since the postal rate increase a couple of weeks ago.
Just the other day I walked into the post office. It was just after 8:30am. The phone was ringing off the hook. The only lonely employee standing behind the counter refused to answer it. I listened to that damned phone while I was filling out a label for a package for a returned product. By the time I got up to the counter, I was about ready to start beating my head up against the wall to give me a diversion over the loud phone ringing, all the while wondering how the hell ANYONE could just stand there are refuse to answer the phone when it's on its 35th ring. (I was on the verge of jumping the counter and answering it myself...but the phone stopped ringing. The caller probably just dropped dead...having died of old age waiting for someone to answer.)
I asked the lady behind the counter for 45 rolls of stamps. She looked at me sideways like I was crazy. "I don't have 45 rolls of stamps. Come back at 10 when Christine is here." She was rude and disrespectful, which I've come used to when dealing with USPS employees. It seems that the more money you want to spend with their organization, the more abuse they feel like dishing out. Oh, but if you're the little old lady buying your one book of stamps a year, you'll get the MOST respect from a USPS employee. But...a commercial client like me who writes checks to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars a month for mailings? I routinely get treated like dog sh** by the USPS. And I'm sick of it.
Just the other day, after FINALLY getting my stamps being a bum-like "drifter" wasting time hopping from one post office to another until I collected my 4,500 stamps, I brought them back for a mailing to the ladies at the office. They got the majority of my special mailing done but everyone wanted to leave. It was Friday. I said, "Go home. I'll take the mail." That would be a decision I'd instantly start to regret.
At this point, I knew taking the mail to any USPS counter, I'd AGAIN be treated like a criminal sack of crap for bringing in such a large amount of mail to ANY USPS location because, God forbid, now they actually have to PROCESS the mail and lift those heavy bins off the counter. (Oh, no! WORK!) So, instead of electing to deal with being treated this way, I took the mail to my local distribution center and spent an extra 30 minutes stuffing the mail slots full of mail. Yes, that's right. I drove 15 minutes out of my way and spent all this time stuffing mail bins just to purposely AVOID dealing with any USPS employee who I knew would treat me like crap for, again, spending so much money with them and actually expecting them to do a little work for their paycheck. As I was stuffing the bins, I told myself that my direct mail marketing days were coming to a fast end. In fact, I decided that after my next set of mailings (slated between now and the first week of May), I'll be done with utilizing this as a method for marketing. Sad...but true. Well, actually, NOT sad. Sad for them, not sad for me.
Just as I was having this personal internal conversation about myself in this part pissed-off, part zenned-out state of stuffing these mail bins, this older guy in a large truck came driving through to mail a single bill in an envelope. He made a comment about my large mailing and offered me 2 organic oranges from his farm. Then...strangely enough, started asking me questions about what's going on with the USPS...as if I worked there or something. But I knew. And even more strange, I was able to actually furnish him with answers to all of his questions. He mentioned that he owned an organic farm and that he ships his fruit nationwide. The problem is that he'll mail his packages to his customers on the bases of the 2-day "guaranteed" Priority mail promise and yet NONE of his fruit has been getting to his customers on time. It's been going bad in transit and he's losing his ass in his business now because of customer refunds due to this. I told him to start using FedEx, as that would be his best bet (since UPS blows) and that it's too bad DHL doesn't do nationwide shipping anymore (international only now) because they were the best option.
I also told this gentleman that this all started back in January, when I was told by my mail processing lady at the distribution center that I needed to ADD 2 days on all my pre-sorted first-class mail, making it 5 days now. And that my standard mailings would be going from 10 to 14 days...to now 21 days to be received by anyone. What the freak! The more money I spend, the more I get punished as a commercial mailer. She shrugged her shoulders, gave me the "can't-do-anything-about-it" speech, and we left it at that.
Now the PROMISED 2-day Priority "guaranteed" mail isn't getting there on time...starting only a few weeks ago for many, but I noticed this shift occurring a few months ago. It's now worse than ever. And how the USPS can PROMISE something and NOT deliver (literally) makes me wonder why the FTC isn't finding them a gazillion dollars for false advertising and FRAUD, because essentially that's what that is. Anyone else in the free marketplace selling a product under false pretenses and promises would be fined and possibly jailed depending on the promise. Not the USPS, I guess.
And if I wasn't frustrated enough, I had received a phone call from my step-son who is visiting Michigan for his birthday. I mailed him a birthday card with a gift card inside on MONDAY with the 2-day Priority PROMISE that it would be received by him in 2 days or on Wednesday, which was his birthday. As I was leaving the post office for my after-hours bin-stuffing romp, he thanked me for the card that he just received...on FRIDAY, 5 freaking days AFTER I mailed it with that 2-day USPS Priority GUARANTEE.
Here's the reality: The USPS is in trouble. This is just the tip of the iceberg for the turmoil that's to come with these people. I don't know if they're pissed off about the rate drop or they're just lazy or what the problem is. I've been told that there are cut-backs so there are fewer postal employees. I've been told other excuses as to why things aren't working with them anymore. All pitiful excuses. I just don't understand how a system that's over 200 years old can suddenly not work as efficiently anymore...unless the people working WITHIN the organization aren't working anymore. And I'm sure I'll get a few emails from those of you who work for the USPS with whatever "reason" as to why it is sucking now more than ever, just when I was starting to have some hope that they would pull themselves out of this ditch they dug themselves into. Now they're going backwards...again. Possibly for good this time.
But lately I don't care anymore about the USPS, mail, shipping, and all of it that they stand for. Because nowadays I'm implementing strategies that remove the USPS out of my marketing altogether. They're much more cost-effective, quicker to profit, and much less labor intensive. All upsides, no downsides. Even better, these online campaigns are drastically out-pulling any response I'd ever dream of getting sending out mail to anyone. And this brings me back to that question of: why use direct mail anymore? And my answer? I'm not anymore.
This is all good news for you. For those of you really interested in NOT using offline marketing strategies for your highly profitable money funnel businesses, you don't have to now. I've been able to "crack the code" on keeping your business marketing activities 100% online to make huge profits for your online money funnel! And now it's time for you to get all of these strategies, many of these I've never talked about before because...well, I didn't finally get the overall picture of how all this works in 2016 until VERY RECENTLY. And I'll be sharing these amazing online profit breakthroughs with you in a few weeks!
As you know, my last ever Money Funnel Event for BOTH consumer-direct and distribution profits is coming up in Vegas on May 13th & 14th (with a special Bonus Day on May 15th for Platinum ONLY). And I wanted to remind you that the cost to register is going up after the close of business on Monday. And I don't want you to lose out.
I'm also giving up a special $397 bonus to those of my full-pays who enroll before the Monday at 5pm PDT deadline.
On Monday morning, I'm going to reveal another huge reason as to why you really should register for this event. This is a life-changer, even for me. And I've never shared it with anyone at any event, probably because I just found out about it yesterday!
CLICK HERE to watch some amazing testimonial videos as well as discover more information about what you'll be missing out on if you don't attend the Vegas event.
See you at the top!
Your mentor,
Monica Main
P.S. If you think the global and national economic shifts have settled and now everything's back to being "normal," think again! The economic sands have slowed but have NOT stopped shifting yet. This means things are still changing. Don't get too comfortable. Don't think that everything is okay. There are many more surprising and shocking changes on the horizon. Be prepared and you'll profit. Settle in to comfort and you'll probably end up losing the most when the next big change happens, which is always right around the corner.
P.P.S. In an unrelated thought, RIP Prince. He was a musician of my generation and he will be missed. As life goes on and we lose parts of those who have contributed to part of our own life "thread" in a way, it's almost as if we lose a little piece of our soul in the process when they are gone. When Michael Jackson had passed, being a huge fan as I am, I felt what I thought as being a rather substantial loss inside myself during that time. I feel much the same with Prince's loss. It's amazing how someone you've never met can contribute something meaningful to your life and how their death can affect us. But in all reality, I think it's less about their death and more about us being left without them that generates the most sadness when they die. They get to move on to a much better place. We're left behind to still be...here. And when they leave, it makes it all the more obvious about the reality in where we're left. I believe that's why we are sad when they go. Because it's not our time yet to go with them, to experience something better. But that's just my thought on it. Maybe yours is different. Regardless, I know Prince is already at peace. I just wish the rest of us were.
