How Much Energy Have You Put Into Your W2 Jobs? (LA 1869)

Transcript:

Steven:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill:

Hello.

Steven:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:

And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from not only where Oprah and Reese Witherspoon grew up but the birthplace of Bluegrass music.

Steven:

I'm sorry, Oprah's from Chicago.

Jill:

But she grew up here.

Steven:

Oh yeah?

Jill:

I'm just telling you what I just read. Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, I think I'm kidding and yeah, all grew up in Nashville, Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift so even though-

Steven:

Today-

Jill:

So that's a fun fact that Jack didn't even know.

Steven:

Yeah, I wonder why I didn't know that.

Jill:

That's okay. That's why you have me.

Steven:

Today, Jill and I talk about how much energy have you put into your W2 jobs, so far in your life?

Jill:

This is scary.

Steven:

This is scary. It's a scary amount.

Jill:

No, I'm glad we're going to talk about this. So would you give the preface again from yesterday that you've mentioned.

Steven:

Jill and I were talking, sitting at a Wendy's restaurant somewhere in southern Ohio, one or two days ago. And there were some very, very energetic, intelligent young people working in Wendy's to try to fix on their own the soda machine. And I started thinking, what if these kids put this kind of energy into owning their own business or getting a college degree, or God forbid, buying and selling land?

Jill:

Yeah. So interesting.

Steven:

It was hard to watch. Jill and I were like, "God, these kids are brilliant."

Jill:

They were really getting into it.

Steven:

And then we started looked at each other and said, "Well, how long did you have a job like that? And how long did you work for somebody else?" And think about how much money you generated and how much energy you put into that to do well in that environment. And we both kind of had a tear in our eye.

Jill:

Yeah.

Steven:

Because it was a lot.

Jill:

And we'll talk more about that because I'm sure a lot of you listening are in that situation.

Steven:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope you know by now, Jill and I own a very specific use commercial printing company to get your offers to owners in the mail. It's called offers2owners.com. If you don't know about it, check it out. Go to the website and you will immediately see why it's so popular and why people use it.

Jill:

Yep. All right. Chase wrote, "I have noticed that two..." Or excuse me, "I've noticed that offers2owners has shown a significant decrease in the amount of mail sent in recent months. Any idea why?" This is interesting. And one of our members responded in here and I've got the response. Steven wrote, "I can't speak for everyone, but in my case, I loaded up on mail a while back and I'm just getting through it. I plan on loading up again as we get towards the end of the year, if I need to write off certain amount to get me under a tax bracket if I needed an expense." That's kind of interesting. But anyway, so it does ebb and flow even with us, our orders don't come in. We do bigger orders like quarterly, don't we? Not necessarily monthly.

Steven:

Oh two oh runs spec, oh two oh falls under my-

Jill:

Side of the sheet.

Steven:

Oh, yeah. My direction not Jill's, so I'll explain it to her while I explain it to you.

Jill:

Oh, thanks. I'm just going to be sit back, let me know. Let me know when I can talk.

Steven:

Enjoy the weather out here at the lake.

Jill:

Yeah, I will.

Steven:

We run specials intentionally at certain times of the year. And people that are successful at this and regularly sending mail know that it's not even. They know that everybody starts out saying, "Well, I'm going to send out 10,000 units of mail a month."

And then what happens is you get too many deals or you have an incredibly successful mailer and mayb...