What’s up Y’All, back with another Wealth Hack Wednesday!

I was recording a few videos and wanted to share something really quick.

So what is Wealth hack Wednesday today? We will be talking about a conversation I had with a buddy of mine. He is super successful, a tech CEO making mega millions with his company.

Instead of going on vacation, he did a staycation. With all that money why? Well because sometimes it is good to just stay home. He unplugged from all social media, etc. during this time. But one thing that he did was to setup an autoresponder with GMail to handle his incoming email.

What makes this a big deal was what he had in his email.

He said ‘any email that you sent to me over the next 7-8 days will be automatically deleted.’

So if you are watching my channel, most likely you have some interest in building wealth. You want to become wealthy.

One of the most common ways you hear for building and growing wealth is the stock market. A lot of people are nervous about the stock market right now. We are at near record highs and a lot of people are predicting that another economic collapse is just around the corner.

We also have another housing bubble that could pop at any time.

It can be hard to pick the right stocks. It is reported that the average lifespan of a stock is 7 years. If it is here today, it could be gone within 7 years. It is also reported that the top 4% of all companies account for all of the wealth creation in the market.

If you want to make money in the market you have a 4% chance of picking a stock that will make you money.

So if you want to grow your money and you want to avoid the stock market, how can you do it?

What’s going on YouTube….I am getting ready to pick up a buddy of mine and we are going to meet up with another buddy.

I have so much stuff packed for 2-½ days LOL….so do you ever wonder what other entrepreneurs do when they get together? Today is a fun day because I am here with 4 of my buddies, we are all entrepreneurs, We have some jet skis, some knee boards, all of the fun things. So you are going to see what it looks like when guys get together and have a good time on a houseboat, are you ready?

What’s up everybody? I’m back with another Wealth Hack Wednesday!

So when you think of wealthy people, I mean the people that have amassed massive amounts of wealth, it’s not a surprise when I say they do things a little different.

They march to a different drum than you and I do.

There comes a point in your life where you have to be an adult, you have to be a grown up.

There is no more sleeping in, there is no more skipping, there is no more staying out late on Wednesday night just because you want to.

So you’ve probably been told before that you have to become an expert before you can market yourself. Before you can build a platform. Before you can sell a product. What if I told you that is not true?

If you don’t believe me, I have an example from someone that is not an expert and has built a 6- almost 7-figure business. You are getting ready to meet a friend of mine, Joseph Michael Nicoletti, he is known as the Scrivener Coach.

Be sure to check out his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2LSQ5MDdOZu0xMSkFc1xNw

Check out his YouTube channel here:

I’ve known him for quite some time. I’ve meet his wife and his family. We are in a mastermind group together where we get to meet up often.

The one thing about him that really blew me away - he has several products geared towards writing. Joe’s not a writer. He’s never written or published a book.

Today Joe is going to share more about his story and how he made $10,000 in ONE HOUR

Yes - we were just having this conversation in the car about things that hold you back in business, and things that have held me back. The one thing that comes up all the time is feeling like an imposter.

I was experimenting with a lot of things and I came across Scrivener, which is a tool for writers. Here I am a C grade student in English, have never written a book, but I had a thought. Could I create a course around Scrivener?

I had fears because I’ve never written a book. The thing is no one asked how many books I had written. What it comes down to is that people just want to know that you know a little more than them.

Once we realize this, it takes so much pressure off our shoulders as creators or teachers. You don’t have to be the foremost expert, you just have to know a little more.

So, Joe when you came up with this idea, you still had a 9-5 job right? How did you find out about Scrivener and how did you decide that you wanted to create a course?

I started a number of different blogs. So I started using Scrivener to organize all my blog content. It’s like when you buy a car and then you start seeing it everywhere. It was like that with Scrivener. I was using it, and I started seeing people writing articles about it. I noticed Michael Hyatt was using it and the comments he was getting from people were “I wished I knew how to use Scrivener, I wished I could learn it, etc.

I noticed most of the content out there wasn’t solving a crunchy problem. Think about ‘What’s painful for people that you think you can solve?” I saw this with Scrivener, there was a need for people to learn how to use it.

Did you create the entire course before you sold it?

I made a little bit, then I reached out to folks one-on-one. I used their feedback to complete the course.

So, how much is Scrivener? How much was your course, and how much is your course now?

The Scrivener program is priced at around $40-$45, it is priced very affordably. So, at first I was afraid to charge any amount of money for my course. I put a price of $37 on my course but I created a 100% coupon and offered for free in exchange for feedback. The feedback was great..

I got rid of the coupon and started charging $37. Then I added more and more value to the course. Today we have several packages you can buy, the highest being $297. We launched 4-5 years ago and now have over 25,000 students with pages of testimonials about how it has become a game changer for them.

So what was the moment where you felt like, I have something here?

It was like the moment when the course sales brought in more than I made in my corporate day job over six months. I did a webinar where I shared some information about Scrivener. I then offered that if my audience wanted to learn more they could pick up my course. Within an hour of the webinar we made over $10,000.

If you want to connect with Joe you can find him here:

@Scrivenercoach on Twitter

It’s Saturday morning and my two oldest boys are trying out for their baseball team. It is July, but they are getting ready for fall ball in August. ⚾

Hey Y’All, what’s going on?

I am here in Puerto Rico, I am meeting with my business partners and with a new business partner!

I recorded the beginning of this video on a different camera that I left at the beach yesterday. So you will not be getting all that recap now.

I’ll share more about this later, but I wanted to give you a little intro about what is going on.

I’m in the car now with my business partner Jason Patterson, on the way to our meeting with a new business partner. Jason and I met online through Jeff Root (Rooftin.com), then he came to my house, we shook hands and the deal was done. That was back in 2015. We are also with Danny Walker and Giles Canter on our way to meet with a new partner.

It was great to be able to meet up with our new partner and introduce myself and my journey to get to this point.

We just wrapped up our meeting, we had a lot of good conversation and finished up some paperwork. Now we are heading back to the hotel.

What’s up Y’All, Welcome to another Wealth Hack Wednesday!

If you haven’t noticed, I am not at home, I am in Puerto Rico. If you are wondering why, you can watch another video, which I will link in my show notes. I am here because I with a business partner and meeting with another future business partner.

That is what I want to talk about today, how do you hack your wealth? How do you grow your wealth? If you have a business, if you are an entrepreneur, if you are looking for exponential growth - one of the easiest ways is to form a partnership.

Partnerships can be amazing!

They can also bite you.

Let me give you an idea of what a good partnership looks like and what a bad partnership looks like.

Partnerships can be so valuable when it comes to growing a business. When it comes to your business, your niche, and your expertise, you only know so much. You only know what you know. With a partner, a strategic partner, they can bring on expertise and experience that you don’t have. Finding the right strategic partner can grow your business exponentially. This is what I found in my online business partner.

This is a guy that knew things about SEO and monetization that I didn’t know. Another thing he brought to the table was the ability to manage team members. When it comes to management, well, that is not my thing. It doesn’t freak me out, it is just boring to me. I want to be the idea guy That is what excites me!

Having a partner allows me to work in the space that I love and that I dominate. There are a few things that define a good partnership. First let me tell you about a bad partnership.

I had my financial planning practice and I was going to start my own independent insurance brokerage firm. A guy that I knew had insurance expertise and knowledge of running his own independent brokerage. So I decided to join forces with him. Let’s just say it didn’t quite work out the way I wanted.

With any new business or partnership, there is a certain process that I go through to check criteria. One of the things I considered was ‘Is this going to waste my time and distract me from other potential business opportunities? That was a point that I lingered on for the longest time. I think deep down I knew that this would be a time drain. Even worse, I trusted the guy and knew he was hungry for success. After a year, he just disappeared. He didn’t return my calls, ignored my messages, etc. Now, if it was a substantial amount of money I would have went after him, but I felt taking it further would be more of a loss. I just wrote it off and moved on. That is an example of a bad partnership.

The partnership with my online business was phenomenal! The way that it is structured allows both of us to operate in our spaces where we can flourish. It allows me to be the visionary while he builds the management team and focuses on the SEO and monetization. It has led us where we are today. It has allowed us to form another strategic partnership. But first we asked ourselves: Can we continue running the business the way that we want without any outside distraction? With this new partnership, that is exactly what we are able to do.

With the failed partnership that didn’t work out, that was the one criteria that I knew was going to be a distraction.

We have done our due diligence. At the end of the day, we can continue running the business the way that we want without any distraction. We can continue our lifestyles the way they are now. Being able to spend time with our families and not have to put in a lot of additional hours. With this partnership we can continue our lives the way we have been, but it also allows us to open some doors that we didn’t have access to before. We can get that by joining forces with this strategic partner.

I am 100% confident that we will be able to do that with this partnership.

Before you enter into a partnership, think about some of these things. Think of it like a marriage. Be careful. A partnership is no different than a marriage. Who you partner with is no different that who you are sharing your bed with. If you sign on the dotted line too soon, you have to figure out a way to get out of it, similar to a divorce. It can end badly and you don’t want that.

I hope you enjoyed this Wealth Hack Wednesday, stay tuned for next week's hack!

What’s going on Y’All?

One of the things about me is that I have been a workout fanatic for a long time. This goes back pre-deployment to Iraq, even pre-military. Basically, when I was in college I started working out. When I was in high school I was a twig, I was 16 and 140 lbs. I don’t know how I played football in High School without getting pummeled.

The motivation behind working out was my father having a heart attack at the age of 67. I don’t remember ever seeing my father in great shape.

When we came to Nashville, we were in a rental that was smaller than we were used to and there was an adjustment period with us and the kids. I found myself just not working out the way I needed to. I gained weight (which wasn’t a bad thing) but I saw my fitness decrease rapidly. You probably saw this in the Murph video when I talked about it taking me longer than ever to complete the workout.