The Art of Passive Income

With Black Friday behind us, the burning question is, what were your open rates? Tune into this week’s Round Table discussion as Team Land Geek reveals the details of their campaigns, including open rates, click throughs, sales, and techniques! Joining Mark this week are: Erik Peterson Mimi Schmidt Mike Zaino Scott Bossman Tate Litchfield Scott Todd With percentages all over the board, Mimi came o...

"We don’t believe that it's a customer's job to know what he or she wants. CEOs must engage with in customer diplomacy to truly understand their customers and address their latent needs." Join us on today’s show as we talk with the Founder of the  Avenue Group , Jeremy Greenberg, about customer diplomacy and why it’s important to build a deep relationship with our customers that transcends the tra...

This is nacho typical Round Table episode—First, some serious gratitude, then some serious fun!  Having the time and money to live their best lives, Mark asks the guys to dig deep to get to a more personal and intimate level to find out what they are most grateful for, that this business provides them. Joining Mark are:  Mike Zaino Scott Bossman Tate Litchfield Scott Todd Here is a little sneak pe...

Our guest today, Cliff Hayden, is a real estate investor and the founder of ShowMeTheRental.com —an online software tool that automates the most difficult part of property management: finding and screening qualified leads. In the late 90’s, Cliff was tired of being a puppet on a string for the corporation he worked for. Intrigued by real estate, he wanted to pursue it but wanted to make sure it wa...

Over the next few episodes of The Land Geek Round Table, we are going to take a deep dive into scaling your land business. The objective is to take you from working IN the business to working ON the business, on your schedule! Joining Mark this week are: Tate Litchfield Mike Zaino Mimi Schmidt Scott Todd Listen in as the team talks about what life in the business looked like when they were first s...

We talk with The Land Duo , Tyler & Jen Kelly about their land investing journey in this week’s episode of The Art of Passive Income! Tyler & Jen are Land Geek clients who have taken their business to the next level and today they are going to give us an inside look on how they went from one deal to over eighty in under a year! Timeline of Succession End of 2017—Heard about the concept and started...

Is there a dollar amount too small to do a deal? Let’s say you bought a property for $300 and turned around and sold it for $600, is that even worth your time? What if the profit is as low as $150… or even $100? But, what if you can do that week after week and these lower priced properties can bring in a steady $200 a week? That’s over $800 a month to redeploy back into your business, pay bills, o...

Are you looking for a side hustle that will generate cash flow? Or, maybe you want to build a business on the side that can lead you to eventual freedom? Our guest may be able to help you with that. Nick Loper from SideHustleNation.com joins us to talk about side hustling your way to freedom so you can escape the rat race!  Nick is an entrepreneur that’s involved in a variety of projects but his m...

What are some of the mental blocks that stop people from moving to the next level in their land business? Listen in as Mark and a small intimate team dig deep into those common mental blocks that are holding people back in this business. Joining Mark are: Scott Bossman Tate Litchfield Scott Todd While there could be a number of reasons that stop people from progressing in their land business, the...

Get ready to amp your content marketing with today’s guest, Daniel Daines-Hutt— AmpMyContent.com . Daniel is a self-confessed marketing nerd who has a background in direct response advertising, but it’s his content marketing that he is known for. Daniel had the top 10 content of all time on Inbound.org and the top content of 2017 on GrowthHackers. He also had a viral post generate $3 million in cl...

During the most recent Bootcamp, a question came up that the team wanted to address in this week’s Round Table discussion and that was, is it bad etiquette to ask another investor which county they work in ? Joining Mark this week to Round Table that question are: Scott Bossman Mimi Schmidt Mike Zaino Scott Todd But first, just coming from the latest Bootcamp in Scottsdale, Team Land Geek shares t...

Tamar Mar, founder of The Marota Group —a company that focuses on the acquisition of underperforming multifamily and commercial properties, joins us today to give tips and advice on breaking into the competitive niche of multifamily syndication.  But first, a little more about Tamar... She has been investing in real estate since she was 19, purchasing her first townhouse when she was a sophomore i...

Does the saying, “if a little of something is good, then a lot of something is great'' hold true when it comes to mailing out offer letters? Listen in to this week’s Round Table discussion as Mark and the team tackle the subject of mass mailings . Joining Mark are: Scott Bossman Erik Peterson Mimi Schmidt Mike Zaino Scott Todd When it comes to mailing, are you the hare... anything worth doing is w...

Glenn Geller is super savvy when it comes to tech and innovation, having created some amazing businesses and technology that we all know and use. Today he talks about his newest piece of technology, Symposium . Symposium is a live broadcasting marketplace that essentially gives anyone in the world a pay-per-view style channel that they can make money from anywhere. Mark describes it as a mix of Ev...

With Mark away this week, Scott Todd takes the reins and leads the team into a discussion about their most recent deals. in this week's Round Table. Joining Scott are: Mike Zaino Erik Peterson Tate Litchfield With an equal number of Mac vs. Surface users on the call, listen in as team MacSurf shares all the details surrounding their most recent deals including the returns and terms. In short: Erik...

Once your passive income in land investing exceeds your fixed expenses and you’re able to quit your full-time JOB, what do you do with your spare time? That was a question today’s guest was asking himself.  We welcome one of our own Land Geeker’s to the show—Kyle Knab joins us to talk about what life looks like after quitting his job to work on his land business full-time...and by full-time we mea...

Is it good practice to sell your land at wholesale prices on public platforms such as eBay or Craigslist? It was a question that recently came up in the Motivation & Wealth Creation Group so Mark and the team wanted to address it on today’s Round Table discussion. Joining Mark are: Erik Peterson Mike Zaino Mimi Schmidt Scott Bossman Tate Litchfield Scott Todd Buying low and selling low is a quick...

We talk with Chris Rawley, the CEO of HarvestReturns.com —a new way for farmers, ranchers, and landowners to raise capital without putting their farms at risk by over-leveraging with debt. Chris, who is currently a Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve, has invested in real estate and income-producing agriculture for nearly two decades. He conceived the idea to combine online investing, equity crowdfun...

Wholesaling land can be a very lucrative, if done correctly. In this week’s best of Round Table series, we take a look back at episodes that deal with everything wholesaling, including: Wholesale ethics —The appropriate protocol when it comes to wholesaling. Cheating or good business —The guys analyze both the psychological barriers and business side of wholesaling. The proper way to wholesale —th...

Certified Financial Planner, Kathy Longo joins us today to talk about money and relationships and how having those big conversations about money management with your spouse will lead you to good financial decisions. Kathy is also a chartered advisor in philanthropy and a certified divorce financial analyst. With over 25 years of wealth management experience she is the founder and president of Flou...

What is the one VA position you can not live without in this business?  This model is set-up to run on systems and automation that allow you to free up your time… time to work on the most important parts of the business that make you money and time to spend doing the things you love. The goal is to not create another full-time job for yourself, as Mark & Scott like to advocate. They are passionate...

Mark Dolfini— The Landlord Coach and author of The Time-Wealthy Investor joins us on The Art of Passive Income to talk about how he created true wealth through time-wealth. Mark is a veteran of the US Marines who owns several million dollars in real estate properties and has actively managed over $40 million in real estate since starting in the business about 20 years ago. His philosophy is, True...

We see and hear a lot of misconceptions about the land business, especially when it comes to giving advice to those who are just starting out, but what is some of the worst advice we have seen? Listen in as Mimi Schmidt takes over the helm and leads the team this week into a discussion that will shed some light on some of the worst advice they have seen given. Joining Mimi are: Erik Peterson Mike...

With all the advancements in business technology, does your business have what it takes to survive in today’s high tech world? Business transformation expert, Steven L. Blue joins us today to talk about what businesses need to do in order to survive in this new economy. Steven is in the business of transforming failing and fading companies in the global powerhouses with 40 years of leadership expe...

Typically, there are two prices when it comes to pricing parcels—the discounted cash price and a higher terms price. But, how negotiable is the terms price? Joining Mark in this week’s discussion are: Mimi Schmidt Erik Peterson Tate Litchfield Erik shares a recent situation where a buyer came to him and wanted to pay the cash price on terms. This person is also an investor who has worked with othe...