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Don't make this mistake if you want to grow
One of the mistakes I’ve made again and again is waiting too long to hire for a critical position. When I first started Storage Squad in 2011, my partner and I did everything. We drove trucks, invoiced customers, answered the phone, leased the warehouses, rented the equipment, answered emails, called every upset[...]
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427: 427: Are you working smart or working hard?
There is a difference. One makes you successful and earns you a lot of money - and one ends in frustration and doesn't produce results. Join Shaan Puri and I for a free CEO bootcamp on April 16th, here: This episode was originally...
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5 things I learned while buying $100 million worth of real estate
Before we dive in, a sponsored post: As you know, we’ve got 18 employees working at our self storage management company who live in the Philippines. We sourced and hired all of them through They do customer service, collections, data entry and even direct customers around our properties to find their units. They[...]
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The story of my mental breakdown on the side of the road in 2013 and how my business almost failed
I added 2,500 new subscribers last week from this post . If you came from it and you're looking for my list of 200+ business ideas, you can find that here . A quick sponsored note before we jump in: Tax season is right around the corner - DO NOT FORGET TO GET COST SEGREGATION STUDIES DONE ON YOUR REAL ESTATE. The[...]
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Ep 77: There's no such thing as pencils down
Nick discusses raising good kids and how hard it can be when striving to earn generational wealth, how to protect the downside in real estate, and how to think about advice you get through the lens of the person giving you the advice Follow my...
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Silent partner in a roofing business?
I live in Seattle. My girlfriend’s brother has a lot of expertise in the roofing industry and wants to start a business with me. Heres the catch - he doesn’t have citizenship so he would need me to form the business, get insurance, run the administrative side of things, and set it all up. I have a full time job[...]
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How to charge customers more money and have them thank you (all the way to the bank)
Is it time to sell your business? I launched a business brokerage . We now have 1,300+ buyers on our distribution list. When we get a listing we'll do a breakdown of the business to my 190,000 newsletter subscribers, and several tweets promoting the listing (I get 50 million impressions a month on Twitter). Want[...]
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How to start a business with very little money
How to start a business with very little money: If you are broke, you need to start by trading your time for money. This means you need to focus on what I call a level 1 business. All level 1 businesses require basically no capital, very low skills, no network, and they all have the ability for you to make[...]
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What we can all learn from Chick-fil-A
Simplicity A small menu done really really well. Three types of sandwiches (fried, spicy fried, and grilled). Nuggets. Fries and shakes. Boom. Thats it. They take most of their orders with the walk up servers and 90% of customers don't even need to look at a menu because after you've visited once you know it by[...]
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