How Much Time Does Startup Really Take

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Jack Butala:                   Jack Butala for Land Academy, welcome to our Cash Flow From The Land show. In this episode, Jill and I discuss starting a new company and how much time it takes, and some of the associated resources we think are needed. Jill I love this topic, and heck, while LandStay, our regular old land selling operation is what, 17 years plus years old. Land Academy is still very much in the startup stage so I think this is a timely topic and as usual, I think we're pretty qualified to discuss it.

Hey before we do though, let's take a question from a caller.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Steven from Washington called in and asked, "I've only ever used county tax roles as data to send out mailers. Why is Data To Doorstep any better than the actual county assessor data?"

Jack Butala:                   What's Data to Doorstep?

Jill DeWit:                            What is Data to Doorstep?

Jack Butala:                   I'm asking you.

Jill DeWit:                            I know what Data to Doorstep is. Data to Doorstep is our brand new data and mailer bundled program. We have two levels, we have a membership level for our Land Academy members and then we have a Rogue Pro level because we have a number of professionals out there like real estate agents and things that they just need the data and the mailer part. So they have a Rogue Pro ...

Jack Butala:                   We are a licensed provider of First American Titles data. The same data they use to write title policies. We are not a list reseller, which everybody else is.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Jack Butala:                   We're going to actually have a podcast-

Jill DeWit:                            That's a good point.

Jack Butala:                   -on that whole topic. Data to Doorstep is a product that Jill and I launched. Developed and launched. Both of us personally launched it, based on requests we were getting from our Land Academy members.

Jill DeWit:                            Mm-hmm (affirmative)-

Jack Butala:                   You log into a database- The same one that First American Title uses. It's online, and you choose the records that you want based on a bunch of instructional videos that I produce and that are just I guess basically out there on the internet. Not just mine, but any of them.

Jill DeWit:                            Mm-hmm (affirmative)-

Jack Butala:                   You choose a data set and then you print it out. Print out offers and wait for them to come back in the mail and buy some properties super under value.

Jill DeWit:                            Mm-hmm (affirmative)-

Jack Butala:                   That's my two cents.

Jill DeWit:                            Interesting.

Jack Butala:                   That's my description of the silliness that we just created.

Jill DeWit:                            Well the question was, why is it different by the way? How is it better? Well, because the format. I mean, that's a- That's a whole other podcast but with Data to Doorstep you do this in a couple hours on a Sunday. You can sit, pull the data, merge it into a spreadsheet ... you know, upload it to a printer.

Jack Butala:                   Yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            Monday they can be printing it out and putting your letters and your offers in the mail. That's the beauty of it, versus the old way.

Jack Butala:                   What's the old way?

Jill DeWit:                            If I'm lucky..