How to Stay Organized (LA 935)

Transcript:

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 southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about how to stay organized. It's as simple as that. It's something so simple. You can say, "Oh, man. Well, you really need to be organized." What? And it's so hard.

Jill DeWit:                            Isn't that funny?

Steven Butala:                   The last live event that we did, there's a woman sitting up front. It was ... I don't know. She was a retired ... Something complicated. And very like, I don't know, something like some kind of a mechanical engineer or something. It was pretty intense.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. The VP. The Toyota VP.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah, that's-

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah, yeah. Finance.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah and I-

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   And so she was heckling me and I'm glad she did. She'd like, "Well, you know you say this. Stay organized. Oh, you've got to stay organized to get your first deal done." And she's like-

Jill DeWit:                            It's like, "That's nice. I don't know how to do that."

Steven Butala:                   "That's great, Steve. That's great. Thanks. I paid to sit here and look at you and you tell me-

Jill DeWit:                            And you tell me to-

Steven Butala:                   ... stay organized."

Jill DeWit:                            ... stay organized.

Steven Butala:                   That's great.

Jill DeWit:                            Have a nice day. Thanks for coming.

Steven Butala:                   So that's what we're going to talk about today and all week, actually, is organization/motivation/don't let life get in your way-

Jill DeWit:                            Yep.

Steven Butala:                   ... of accomplishing whatever you want. This doesn't have to be about real estate.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   It can be anything.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Tanner Hendricks asks, "Hello, everyone. I wanted to hear some advice on what the first three steps are I should focus on as I try to educate myself on all aspects of this business. I'm starting from scratch. I want to feel as though I'm making progress, so should I be setting things up like a website, LLC, PO Box, in the meantime? Any budget/business plans? It will probably be a month or two before I pull the trigger on the full membership, so any advice on what to do in the meantime is greatly appreciated. Thanks." Oh, and sorry.

Steven Butala:                   I'll do it. Joe Schmidt responds, because Land Investors is a community, so people ask questions and people, other members in our community, and it's all free, respond. Some of the more senior, or long time members, try to help out the newer people. And so Joe Schmidt responds, "Here's what I did to prep ..." In quotes. "I set up an LLC, I opened a separate bank account in my LLC's name and funded it with 10 grand. Set up a virtual PO Box, email account, Google Voice number for intake after the mail goes out and of course, I bought the course and sent the mail. You can worry about your website, business cards, logo, etc. after your first mailer. Son, everything hinges on sending them out."

Jill DeWit:                            That's true.