Transcripts:

Steven Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Hello.

Steven Butala:

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

Jill DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:

Today, Jill and I talk about how to develop the skills that you may be missing to have a successful company like Jill talked about. I'm sort of wondering this about you actually.

Jill DeWit:

It's a long process, but I'm going to share all of it today.

Steven Butala:

As we talked about yesterday at the end of the show, Jill and I host an accountability group. And go ahead, Jill, explain the backstory with this.

Jill DeWit:

Yeah, so it's our first ever Land Academy official accountability group held by Steven and I, and it's free and voluntary to anyone that enrolled. It was like November, December, last year kind of thing. And we started in January, kicked off in January. So we had a really good question last night or the other night, which was, "I've heard you guys talk about how having a past life or being a business owner in some form was a good indicator who's going to be successful in this world."

Jill DeWit:

And so we answered that question and then the person said, and I'll give you the quick answer, which was, "You can afford it. Tenacity. You know how to solve problems. You die trying. You're going to kick [inaudible 00:01:31] high water. It's going to be successful." If you've done that, then there's not much you can't do I think, so stuff like that. And then the person said, "All right," and there's a lot of other things. They said, "Okay, well, how do I develop the skills that I'm missing then to be that person?" And that's what we're going to talk about today.

Steven Butala:

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.

Jill DeWit:

By the way, if you are a Land Academy member, don't forget. You can reach us on Discord. So Anthony wrote, "I have been seeing a lot of posts like does anyone know of a good photographer in X, Y, Z County? I was thinking we could add state and county sub farms to the resources forum, so we could share resources by county rather than having to post requests for providers in the general forums. Then, we can share who is good in each county and who we should avoid." And I personally think this is a great idea.

Steven Butala:

That's good, but I have a 180 degrees different opinion. Over the years, Jill and I have created forums and we do have forums in Land Investors, in Discord and a knowledge base that I think we're transferring through different... well it's knowledge based. The software that it's being used on is obsolete, so we're moving into another one. And the heartache that it causes, if you go say in X, Y, Z County, I've got this great person who can close deals. I have a great lawyer, closes deals all over the state. They're based out of this county. It's going to become obsolete fairly quickly, number one. Number two, we're going to get a call from that lawyer that says, "I'm getting all these calls from Land Academy members and they're not asking me the right questions. What they're asking me is, where should I send mail, things that I've never heard of before." And so it's title mind all over again.

Jill DeWit:

I was only talking about photographer.

Steven Butala:

And I think photographers get obsolete too. The best photographers I've ever had, the times that I've gone to use them again, they're gone. I just don't think-

Jill DeWit:

That's fair.

Steven Butala:

It's like saying air table is the best CRM. It's not. It's really good for us. We love it. Jill loves it. It's pretty. She says it all the time. Apparently, that matters to her and that's fine. Whatever it takes to get deals done. I just don't think that sharing this type of information... and this question is appropriate for this topic today.