Jack Thursday - More Deals Less Work (LA 1492)

Transcript:

Steven J Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:

Hello.

Steven J Butala:

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

Jill K DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome Scottsdale, Arizona

Steven J Butala:

Today, Jill and I talk about how it's Jack Thursday, and more deals and less work is my current goal in life.

Jill K DeWit:

Yes.

Steven J 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. If you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:

I'd like to back up for just a moment.

Jill K DeWit:

Shouldn't that be everybody's goal?

Steven J Butala:

You know-

Jill K DeWit:

It's not just your personal goal. It happens to be mine, too.

Steven J Butala:

I know. It's Jack Thursday, so it's kind of about me. Jill Friday is tomorrow.

Jill K DeWit:

Oh, excuse me. Oh, it's about you. Sorry. Oops.

Steven J Butala:

Well, I'll give you an example where this should not be your goal. If you haven't done your first deal yet, this doesn't apply to you. You just need to get past that first deal. In fact, Joe Long said, get 10 deals under your belt, see if you really want to do this. But if this is now your career and you're full-time, this would absolutely be your goal.

Jill K DeWit:

Mm-hmm (affirmative). Totally.

Jill K DeWit:

Okay, Miguel wrote, I failed my first mailer.

Jill K DeWit:

He thinks he failed his first mailer. Let's see here.

Jill K DeWit:

I had co ... Oh

Steven J Butala:

I love to throw Jill for a loop on these questions because she doesn't read them before.

Jill K DeWit:

No, I have no idea. This is cold, in case you can't tell. In case you did not know, this is totally unrehearsed.

Steven J Butala:

In fact, this is the most that Jill and I talk to each other the entire week.

Jill K DeWit:

This is true. Only on Thursdays.

Jill K DeWit:

I had calls sent to my Google voice number voicemail, and I missed most of the calls. Won't happen again. I have PATLive now. No deals, no acceptance on any offers, but a few angry owners left messages. I offered 20% of the assessed land value per the data tree column just to get the mail out. Any tips from a pro are appreciated.

Jill K DeWit:

Well, [inaudible 00:02:04] without giving Miguel ... Miguel kind of knows.

Steven J Butala:

No, I do.

Jill K DeWit:

We've got a couple of things he already figured out. You want to-

Steven J Butala:

Here's the good news. Here's good news, Miguel, this failure is one step closer to success. If I added up all my failures, oh my gosh.

Jill K DeWit:

Sorry, I wasn't laughing at you. I was just giggling.

Steven J Butala:

One of my really long time friends for decades came to me and said, "Look, I've got this great business idea. I'm not sure where to start and I could really use your advice." And I said, "I'm happy to help you, but I will tell you, no one can turn a dollar into 50 cents like me." I said, of all the companies Jill and I have ever started and all the stuff I've ever done, the ones that we have right now are the ones that were leftover because they succeeded.

Jill K DeWit:

They made the cut.

Steven J Butala:

And they're the most recent. All the failures and all of that, we don't have a show about failing at companies. We have the Land Academy Show.

Steven J Butala:

Don't get discouraged. That's the good news. I will tell you, this questioning and the few points in here, I have to really seriously request, and please take this to heart, this is for everybody, you got to go through the steps, the Land Academy steps. You've got to go through the program. You have to participate in our Thursday calls. That's how you get the most up-to-date information on the tools that we use. You have to use the Discord, and you put this in Discord which is awesome.