Quick note before we dive in: My team at Somewhere.com has helped 250+ companies hire remote talent for up to 80% less than local equivalents in the past 30 days. Sales, marketing, finance, operations, accountants, engineers, designers, executive assistants and more. Want $500 off your next hire? Reply to this email and I'll hook you up. -- The two skills that virtually guarantee success are: PATIENCE and DELAYED GRATIFICATION The richest people I know all worked hard on something boring for...
10 days ago • 5 min read
If you want to be rich, you need to obsess over leverage. Most people think success comes from working more hours. That is bullshit. There is a clearly a finite limit to how much one person can work in any given day or week. You can only work so many hours. You can only take so many sales calls. You can only answer so many emails. But the people who build large businesses don't focus on working harder. They focus on building more leverage. Leverage = anything that allows you to multiply your...
24 days ago • 6 min read
The deals I'm seeing in self storage haven't been this good in years. If you are an accredited investor and want to invest with my company Bolt Storage, fill this out. -- I have a secret for you: Babies turn men into hungry, driven, money making machines! When you have a kid, you get better at managing your time, making decisions, getting up and busting ass and being insanely efficient. Having a kid makes you focused on long term planning and going after the right opportunities. And you...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
What you believe becomes the operating system for your life. Here's 21 principles that have helped me tremendously in my career: Sales is the most important skill in the world. Being able to sell yourself and your ideas is how you win. Hiring isn’t about finding good people. It’s about becoming a person good people want to work for and building a business that can thrive without unicorns. Wealth isn’t about extracting value from others. It’s about adding 10x as much value as you want to...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Two notes before we dive in: 1: I'm hosting a free workshop on May 19th on how to make your company more profitable. Register here. 2: The self storage market is opening up and we have a few great deals under contract. If you're an accredited investor and you'd like to talk about investing with me - click here. -- I have a controversial opinion: Most entrepreneurs don’t end up owning a company. They end up owning a job. They run around doing everything. They are servicing customers, putting...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Why do so many people do things they hate for such a large portion of their lives? I don't understand it and I never will. In a world where we can earn enough money to put a roof over our heads fairly easily, we have high performing people who are insanely competent banging their heads against walls every day. They have plenty of money in the bank and they have been financially secure for years, but they continue to grind away. Complaining about their schedule and their life for years. I...
2 months ago • 7 min read
I talk a lot about doing the important but not urgent work that it takes to be a successful business owner. I'm talking about the type of work that separates the people who run and scale enduring companies from those that fail or simply create themselves a job that they can’t escape from. As an entrepreneur it’s easy to get caught up focusing on money and profits and what you can buy with your money and profits. After all, money is tangible. We can see it in our accounts. We can spend it. We...
3 months ago • 8 min read
Unfortunately way too many people think about entrepreneurship through a new idea lens. This makes them delusional. If no one has succeeded before or if your business doesn’t exist yet, it is because nobody has been able to win the game and make money doing what you want to be doing. And if nobody has won, why would you want to play that game? It's time for you to think differently! These are my three vectors for evaluating any opportunity. Competition, profitability, and my odds of success....
3 months ago • 5 min read
Before we jump in: Tax season is here. If you buy real estate and haven't done a cost seg yet, there is still time. 5 minutes of work could save you a ton of $$$ on your taxes. Click here to see how much you can save. -- A few years ago, I had the chance to interview Jay Schuminsky at the ReConvene conference which is hosted by my close friend Moses Kagan. Both of these gentlemen are complete badasses in real estate. But today's email focuses on Jay. Jay’s life changed about 17 years ago when...
4 months ago • 5 min read
