How much money did you make in real estate this year?
You must do it NOW. You must get the money in NOW. You must get the leads flowing in NOW. You must put the houses under contract NOW.
Not later. Not tomorrow. Not eventually. Now.
You think you have all the time in the world. Well, Preston Ely here to tell you, sorry, you don’t. Today is the day. Now is the time. It must happen NOW.
Get this through your head – unless you see money coming into your hands, nothing is happening. Let that disturb you. Allow that thought to cause you unrest.
You MUST get busy. Life is waiting for YOU to beat it up and take its lunch money. Sissies get nothing. Fighters get everything.
Are you ready?
Well, this lesson should help.
Network Your Way to Millions
Let’s cut to the chase…
The goal is a few hundred leads per month. You want billboards, commercials and mass mailers going out in the tens of thousands.
There is only one small problem…
You currently have $327 a month available for marketing.
What do you do?
You have champagne taste and a malt liquor budget.
Simply put, you must start where you are and work your way up. And where you are is BROKE, by the way. Let that both embarrass you and motivate you at the same time.
Don’t like it?
I think you kinda do. If you really didn’t like it, you’d change it. But it’s comfortable to you, and you’re scared of anything else. You don’t want the responsibility.
Isn’t that true?
How does that make you feel?
You need to become a networking machine. You need to start networking so consistently and constantly that you literally hand out 95 business cards to imaginary people in your dreams at night.
Doesn’t sound fun, does it? Well how much fun is being broke? Which one is less funner to you? (Yep, I made up a word.)
The answer to that question will determine whether or not you get off your lazy bum and DO something about your life.
You gotta get in the mix, man. Mix it up. Stir it up. Put it in the oven and bake it till a cash cake appears out of nowhere.
Then eat it.
Eating the cash cake is so fun, let me tell you. Oh how glorious when cash cakes just come to you every day. What a life.
But You Gotta Pay Your Dues
No dues?
No cake. No cake for you!
Your entire community needs to know that you buy houses and close fast. That you’re the “go to” guy or gal when someone needs their house sold quickly.
How do you plan on accomplishing this?
If you have lots of money, then this is easy. If you don’t, then it takes some work and high levels of creativity.
Are you willing to work? How willing are you to put in some 15-hour days to really get this thing off the ground? Are you all talk by any chance? Or are you one of those rare souls who actually makes something happen in this world?
Who are you REALLY?
Get out there and make some friends. Hand your card out to every single person who comes within a 3-foot radius of you.
I was just having lunch with a friend of mine who has been in the real estate investing game for years. He STILL hands his business card out to people in an effort to get new leads.
As a matter of fact, he just recently did a deal and made over $20,000 – a deal he got from handing his business card out to a stranger at MY office – Starbucks!
Shake It Up
It is more comfortable to do nothing. It feels better to stay home and watch TV.
But does it feel better? How do you feel about yourself? About your life?
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you think your spouse respects you and what you have accomplished in life? How does that feel? Do your kids respect you or pity you? How does that feel?
Are you really safer doing nothing?
Me personally, I would rather die doing something than live doing nothing.
Get out there and mix it up. Shake it. Flip it. Bake a cash cake. Eat it. Smash it in your boss’ face.
Whatever.
Until you have the funds for the big time marketing… network your way to millions.
How Do You Mix It Up?
Share your networking strategies in the comments section below.
Do not be comfortable doing nothing.
Recognize that you can get leads and do deals with a limited budget – by networking.
Give out your business card to anyone and everyone all the frickin’ time all day long.
Preston Ely
is a real estate investor, serial entrepreneur, life coach, musician and philanthropist. CEO of Real Freedom, Inc, one of the most influential internet-based information publishers in the world, owns the largest Anytime Fitness Gym in the United States, is recording a music album with Atlantic Records, sits on the board of Advocates Of Love Orphanage, and has a non-profit charity assisting the poor and oppressed in Cuba with both their physical and spiritual needs.
With over 200,000 subscribers to his email newsletter, he is rapidly fulfilling his mission on earth, which is to glorify God by setting people physically, mentally, financially, and spiritually free through his music and his message of FREEDOM. Preston is 37 years old, lives in Tampa, FL with his wife Ashley, where he spends most of his time reading, writing, and practicing mixed martial arts.