On New Year’s Day, 6 years ago, I was having breakfast with my husband when I made a New Year’s resolution to find something else to do with my life. I only had 2 criteria. I was searching for something I loved doing that would create massive amounts of money. I had no idea what it would be. All I knew was that I was sick and tired of doing the same thing I’d been doing. It was time for a change.

I found I could turn my passion for the workings of the human mind into an information empire. I would write a book on how you could change your life by just changing one thing. The only problem was, I didn’t know anything about writing or about how you get a book published. I’d never created a product or even thought about creating anything. In fact, I had always believed I wasn’t creative at all!

So I went on a 2 year expensive, time consuming odyssey to learn what I needed to “make it.” And still I was left with big gaping holes.

In the end I realized the gurus I had gone to for these pieces of the puzzle, knew all the steps that were necessary. They had taken those steps to create their financial empire. And every once in a while, in a private conversation, they would mention little tips and strategies they’ve used to get where they are…But those secrets were never revealed in public.

I kept asking myself…“If all these really successful, wealthy people know the whole system necessary to do what they’ve done, why aren’t any of them teaching it?”
Well, I’m not the kind of person to give up until I get the answers I’m looking for. I realized my mentors weren’t trying to hide the secrets. They knew what to do, but they couldn’t dissect it to create a teachable system.

Don’t get me wrong. I learned a tremendous amount of information from the products I bought, the seminars I attended and the mentoring and protégé programs I joined (in fact, I spent well over $100,000 in just the first 2 years!), and I would spend every dime again because the investment I made in my future was well worth it.
Now, 4 years later, I’m a highly successful entrepreneur, speaker and author, and I’m living the life of my dreams. I found something I love to do and I’m making a fabulous living doing it. Remember when I said I didn’t feel creative at all when I first started out? Well, since then, I’ve created so many products I can’t even list them all here!

You see, I just got tired of always looking for the next person to give me the information I needed to move ahead. Do you ever feel that way? I wanted to be able to see the whole big picture. I knew I was ready for more detailed, focused information and I bet you are, too.

For years, I searched high and low for practical success strategies. Particularly for today’s success-minded woman, and there simply wasn’t anything out there. Nothing. That’s why I created the Women’s Business Empowerment Summit.

There’s something that Dan Sullivan taught me, which is his way of looking at tools that you use every day. Think of it as three drawers. Since we’re not visually able to draw a picture, picture a three-drawer, little cabinet. The top drawer is labeled “tool belt,” and the middle drawer is labeled “tool box,” and the third drawer, the bottom drawer, is labeled “tool shed.”

So, every day, people are using tools in their business. It could be cell phones. A carpet cleaner could be using equipment. A doctor could be using scalpels and things like that. Dentists could be using a drill. Poodle groomers could be using whatever you groom poodles with. I’ve never done that. I’ve cleaned carpets, but I’ve never groomed a poodle.

Nonetheless, whatever the deal is, whatever somebody’s glop is, they use tools. The point is if you’re going to use a tool every day, like a computer, you should probably have the best tool you can get your hands on. If you’re going to use a cell phone every day and you have a cell phone that keeps dropping calls or the battery wears out after 10 minutes, go get another cell phone.

What amazes me in business is things that people focus on, that they actually think are important. So, your software, your database, your follow-up system, that doesn’t need to be in your tool shed. It’s not something you use every six months. You use it every day. So tool belt are tools you use every day, day-in and day-out. Toolboxes are things that you use frequently, and the tool shed are things that are special need.

There are not just actual physical tools; there are psychological tools. I create marketing tools for people. I have sales letters, I have social proof, and merging it together with what you guys know creates a perfect system. You need to really think about that even if you’re going to do the best job in your business, no matter what you sell, whether it is products, services or whatever, and you’re going to use marketing, if you don’t have any clients, it doesn’t matter how good of a manager you are. You’ve got nothing to manage.

From my standpoint, marketing is the most critical thing in the world. Marketing is what brings the catch in.

How many business people out there have gone home to their husbands or wives, screaming in frustration about, “These darned customers! They’re not doing things the way we like!”

You know how hard you’ve worked, as an entrepreneur, to deliver your service, to learn your skill, to learn your trade. It’s especially frustrating when you have really, really good products or services and you just don’t know how to get other people to give you money for them.

I’m glad that people are lousy at it, because it allows me to make a good living helping people with it. That’s how I got into marketing. I was in the same boat.

You guys know my story. I started out as a dead-broke carpet cleaner, living off credit cards. I thought, “Well, if I was just a better carpet cleaner, then people would beat a path to my door.” Of course, that’s all a myth.

Then, I learned marketing. Even haphazardly having good marketing, I built a very substantial business doing it. Just through the process of better automating what it is I do, made it all the better.

I want to mention an analogy that I like, and I’d like you guys to speak to it because I think it’s so critical that people don’t just hear you say, “Follow up,” and think, “Okay, we follow up.”

I think the biggest value that you guys bring to the table, and I know this from private conversations and from using your software, is that there are so many things that people don’t know, but they don’t know that they don’t know these things.

I can guarantee that if the three of us went to any one of our reader’s businesses right now, no matter what size they are, and we have them who are single-person businesses and we have people who run multi-hundred- million-dollar companies with thousands of employees, who read these interviews. I want to be able to speak to all of them.

This is a great business to begin if you have a love for cooking and like to work your own hours. The great thing about this business is that it’s a cash business,which usually opens for a limited amount of hours each day, mainly providing breakfast and lunch.

Finding a site to trade from is the hardest thing to start off with but there are opportunities out there for everyone sometimes right under your nose. Next make sure that you have a valid food and hygiene certificate; this shows that you have passed a basic test in food preparation and food safety. Without this official document you are not legally allowed to cook and serve food to the public.

Finding a decent trailer or mobile cooking unit is the next task to accomplish, if you are working to a budget this may be tough but there are still some bargains about. Your trailer needs to look clean and presentable, this is very important (and your main selling point) for you to make a good impression on your customers. If your trailer looks dark and dirty people will be put off from even approaching your trailer to try your food. Just as you wouldn’t go out to eat in a dirty looking restaurant your customers don’t want to see a dirty, greasy looking food trailer.

Cleanliness doesn’t stop at your trailer you must ensure that you always look clean and presentable, try to be happy, chatty and approachable this is vital in building up your regular repeat customers.
Lastly before you actually start working in your mobile catering business you have to have the relevant liability insurance to legally trade and sell to the public, this covers you from any legal action that may be taken against you.

Financial independence is the goal. We will explain why real estate investing is perfect for those who have other responsibilities and can only work on investing on a part-time basis. Here you will learn many of the insider tricks,formulas and secrets needed to assure your success.

Even starting in your spare time you will be striving to turn investing into a full time, money making occupation. With the ultimate goal of firing your boss and working only for your own sweet self, that’s called financial independence. Tens-of-thousand have reached financial independence through real estate and so can you if you use that freedom as your motivation. Print the words “Financial Independence” on some file cards and tape them up in places where you will see them every day. “What the mind can conceive, the body can achieve.” Put your subconscious to work helping you achieve your dreams.

IT’S THE PEOPLE

Most don’t realize it, but real estate investing is a people business! You can only successfully buy, sell and lease property if you can skillfully deal with people - sellers, agents, tenants, buyers, contractors, government workers, escrow officers and many others. If you work to understand what motivates these people, the battle for real estate profits will be half won. It’s easy if you just carefully listen to what others have to say. So step Number One is to adopt the right mental attitude. You will always be calm, polite and business-like, but friendly. Will there be stressful situations? Sure! But in almost every case stress and anxiety are self induced. You can avoid that. Just remind yourself that this is “just business”. It’s never a matter of life and death so relax, take time to think through the situation and then do what it takes to solve the problem.

You’ll learn many solutions. It’s true, many new real estate investors fail because they don’t have the right attitude. Now that will never be your problem. Every time you encounter and overcome a problem you gain the best kind of education; learning under fire. You never forget those learning experiences.

IS REAL ESTATE WORTH THE EFFORT?

I’m sorry to say that some folks never even get started, because they don’t think real estate investing is worth the effort?
Think about this…

1. 90 per year. Here’s how the value of that single property would grow during a ten year holding period…

YEAR NEW VALUE
1 $212,000
2 $224,720
3 $238,203
4 $252,495
5 $267,645
6 $283,703
7 $300,726
8 $318,769
9 $337,895
10 $358,169

Wow! At the end of ten years you could sell for a profit of $158,169.
Yes, it is very possible that you could have bought that property for from zero to $1,000 as down payment if you followed
our plan. More about that later.
What would the property’s value be if you owned it for….
15 Years = $479,311
Your profit at that point would be $279,311. The property increased in value by an average of
$18,620.73 per year!
Finally, at the end of 20-years the value of the property would be…
$641,427.
A gain of $441,427. An increase of $32,071.35 yearly on average just for owning the property and letting a renter make the house payments! If you owned just 3 properties for 20-years, you could cash out for over one million, three hundred thousand dollars. With numbers that look like this…
$1.3 million. Isn’t that a pretty sight?
Let’s back up a little. What if you bought and held just SEVEN houses for TEN years? At the end of ten years, at a 6% yearly increase in value, you would be worth…
$1.1 million
Yes, that’s how anyone can get rich and many do! That’s how you can stop worrying about living on social security or if there will be any money left in your company’s pension plan. That’s financial independence! What else have you learned?
Well, I hope you see that you don’t have to be Donald Trump to be successful in real estate. Just buy a couple of homes and go on with your life until you’re ready to cash in.
Every property will not perform exactly as indicated here, but we can teach you how to purchase, finance and manage real estate so that the odds of winning are with you.