Mark Evans DM shares ways to make money during unemployment: resell items from Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace, freelance on Fiverr and Upwork, create digital content to sell, or flip small items for profit. He covers mindset, discipline, and marketing basics in a live Q&A.
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So, as you guys know, recently 6.6 million people have went in and filed for unemployment. And that's a lot of people. And I sit here and think, in my world, you know, I've created this bubble. I'm in a bubble. And I've done that on purpose, by the way, not because of Exactly, Jeremy. I've done this on purpose over my life is. By the way, we all live in a bubble, right? So I don't want to play like this is small time or big time or anything. It just is what it is. And from outside looking in, I'm trying to wonder like, you know, we're hiring people in our companies, we're growing, we're expanding, we're pushing, we're prodding, we're driving, we're pivoting, we're developing. And a lot of people that have relied on their jobs, their companies to take care of them because they have great core values and they promised the world to you, and then all of a sudden, a little bit of, you know, situation happens, and then, boom, they're gone. So I wanted to do something. I've been thinking about this for a couple, couple minutes and a couple minutes, couple days and thinking about how to provide value to you guys because I appreciate all you guys here. And just from my perspective of what I would do, I was talking to my buddy today, Matt, and he said, mark, if you had to create $1,000, what would you do? And without hesitation, I know what I would do. It's very easy. The biggest thing before I share that with you is I want to share some stuff with you. I was talking with my buddy Jeremy today, and during this coronavirus situation, it's ultra real, clearly. And what we have to understand is you're going to either during this situation, you're either going to develop a new skill, which I hope you do, you're going to create a new side hustle, which everyone should probably have going on, and you better come out with some more knowledge. Like, I know a lot of people are talking about binge watching and this and that. I'm here. What's up, Jason and Melissa. What's up, guys? I personally would be binge watching YouTube about how to trade stock. I'd be binge watching how to develop an Amazon store. I'd be binge watching how to sell furniture. I'd be binge watching how to create code. I'd be binge watching on how to become a better, a better accountant. I'd binge watch. Like, there's so many ways to make money. It's insane. And I know, like, I see the opportunity, so I'm not trying to play it small and, but to slow it down, I want to share. We have to in here, we have to change who we are. So I think a lot of people are going to be like, well, dude, I have 14 degrees. I can't do this. That Mark's about to tell me. Well, that's the problem in itself. You have to do this. You have to realize that you need to redevelop, you need to pivot, you need to go back to square one, if you will, or do whatever you need to do, square two, square ten. To really understand what it takes to be successful. See, a lot of people see me as an entrepreneur, like, oh, he's got everything figured out. I don't have much figured out at all. The truth is, the further I get down the path and, and the more companies I have, the more people I've worked with, the more I realize I don't know anything. And I'm not saying that to be silly. I just genuinely don't know much. But me knowing that I believe is my advantage. I don't try to act like I know everything. I don't try to act like I know much of anything. And I have great people around me. I've worked really hard on human capital, right? Great people, consistently touching them, talking to them, consulting them and having them consult me and vice versa and being there for them for support. And I just want you to take a minute to think about this because you have to change. It's not like, wake up, follow this mold. You have to redevelop, you have to pivot, you have to become someone that you've been meant to become. And by the way, I'm kind of scattered here because I'm thinking about a lot of stuff. But if you don't come out with a new skill, if you don't come out with a side hustle and you don't come out with more knowledge, the truth is you do not lack time. You don't lack time, you lack discipline. Discipline. And the only person you can blame for that is go in the mirror and look at yourself. It's you. Discipline, right? You're lacking discipline. Many people are lazy, they're complacent. But what's going on with the coronavirus is people are becoming more self aware. And that's a pretty amazing thing as entrepreneurs. From my experience, most entrepreneurs that are trying to be forward thinking are ultra aware. We know our flaws. It Sometimes sucks. It keeps us up at night. It wakes us up early. It makes us not sleep well. And it drives people nuts. It drives me nuts. And I am the guy because I know my flaws and I'm very conscious of it. And I'm trying to always work on it. I want to be a better dad. I want to be a better husband. I want to be a better brother. I want to be a better son. I want to be a better leader. I want to be a better. I want to be better at everything. Every day. Every day. So let me share with you what I would do, without a doubt, like, boom. What would Mark Evans do to make $1,000 or way more money like today? Well, number one, what I would do is I'd go immediately to my closet. I'd go to my garage. I'd go in my attic. I'd go in my basement and pull out all the junk that you don't use. The stuff you've been talking about wearing, the stuff. I'm talking about those nice clothes, those nice shoes, those nice watches, Anything, Anything of value that you have. And I know some people are like, well, Mark, you don't understand, man. I don't have much stuff of value. Okay, well, that's a lie, number one. And number two, cool. Let's say you don't. Well, there's a thing called Craigslist. You guys may have heard of it. There's a section on Craigslist. I'm gonna go to it. I got my computer here. I'm gonna go to it while I'm talking to you and just see craigslist.com. yes, Craigslist, it's free. I'm gonna go to. I'm in South Florida and I'm going to go to. Where's the thing here? It's. There's some barter business, trucks, blah, blah, blah. There's a section called free. It's right under Farm and Garden. Free executive desk, $0, iron fence, free refrigerator, free coffee table. I mean, listen, folks, it's endless. It's endless. It's free. There's no more excuse. It's free. Well, Mark, if it's such a good deal, if it's free, why would anybody else want it? Well, it's because they're looking for convenience. Go there, pick it up, polish it up, pick it up, clean it up, take some nice new pics and sell it on the same exact platform. Go back to Craigslist, put it on there. Go to Facebook Marketplace, Put it on there. You have that lawnmower you have that snow blower that you didn't have to use this year. Maybe like, you have stuff value. And I'm just talking about, like, really ultra realistic. And like, anybody can do this elliptical exercise machine free. It was just posted free. Guess what? Everyone is working out at home now. You can't go to the gym, so it's like weights, bands, jump ropes, and we'll talk about information marketing as well in a second. But like, all this stuff. Bikes, Pier 1 dresser free. It's nice. I would buy this if I had a use for it. But there's people. Sometimes when we get in this moment where everything's collapsing around us, we don't pick our head up and look around. Most people say, put your head down and dig in. Well, dude, it's okay to dig in, but let's keep your head up. Pay attention. Hey, Mark, I need a new dresser. Great. What are you looking for? Blah, blah, blah, blah. Great. What's your budget? Blah, blah, blah, blah. Great. Let me see what I can do. Go find them the dresser, get it for free, and sell to them for 100 bucks. Boom. Just made 100 bucks. Now, when I said I can share with you how to generate $1,000 or more, I didn't say you don't have to work. You have to do stuff that you might not be accustomed to, like getting your ass out of bed, doing something, getting in your car and driving to a house, picking up from a stranger a product or, you know, like a dresser or something. Be valuable. Pull weeds, go clean up their garage. If you're a great organizer, push it. Promote on your Facebook, promote on Instagram, promote anywhere saying, I'll come to your house. I know people are weird about people coming to your house now, but, like, they'll still let you come to their house. I see it everywhere around where I live. There's still landscapers, house cleaners, and everybody else running around. Go to their house and organize their closets. Or my brain doesn't think in organizational. So we have people that organize the closet, organize the pantry, organize the garage, clean out the garage, redo the floor in the garage, paint the house interior, exterior. It doesn't take a rocket science to go out and do the work, but you have to do the work, right? So let's talk about that. A lot of you folks here have a lot of very valuable skill sets. You've just happened to be in the corporate environment that you just kind of fell in there and just did your work and got your check and kept your head down. And did your like just repeated the process. Now you got to be creative, meaning you have to promote. Go to fiverr.com. go to upwork.com. tell them what you're great at. Hey, I'm great at accounting. My accounting background is X, Y and Z. I could do this for you. And that. This is how much my hourly fee is. There's people like me and multiple companies I own. We've been to Upwork, we hire people from Upwork and Fiverr almost every day to do projects. Maybe you're a designer, maybe you're great at video, maybe you're great at social media. Start asking yourself, what assets do you have? I know my buddy Christian's watching. He's a personal trainer. Well, guess what? Personal trainers are screwed right now. Why? Very simple. Personal trainers can't be personal and train you 101 and that kind of world. And again in their brain. It's really hard, guys. By the way, when you're a bump and grind guy, face to face, it's very hard to step back and say, oh my God, I need to meet the person. I need to do this to charge 100 bucks an hour or whatever it is. Well, do you? Because right now you don't. Peloton does it. Peloton's no personal training and they're not meeting people one on one. Think about this. One to many. So, and I'm using Christian as an example because he's an awesome guy. Create videos that literally show people. Find your jaunt. Like pick out who your avatar is, avatar. You know, hey, it's a 40 year old male. Like you don't want to be giving the same workout session to a 40 year male. 40 year old male that's just trying to be in decent shape as opposed to the 21 year, 21 year old athlete. Right? They're different activities and maybe it's improving their golf swing, maybe it's flexibility, maybe it's yoga, maybe it's meditation. Now's the time to be creating these videos and creating a massive portfolio of videos that you can actually sell forever. Right? How many ways? And by the way, it's not about content creation. It's about content documentation. Let me say it again. You don't have to create content. Go out in your garage and do jumping jacks, do push ups. Show people what you do. Show a picture of your workout of the day, your wad session, 50 pushups, 40 pull, whatever it is. But what people are looking for is connection. And do it from afar. Right now they got the mirror, right, that mirror thing. And I mean, I could go, it's on and on and on. So maybe you're great at doing funnels. Maybe you're great at Facebook marketing. Maybe you're great at. Well, it's endless. It truly is. When you open your eyes to what you like, what Possibly my problem and the guys I'm rolling with and gals, our problem is we have too much opportunity. Too much opportunity, right? So the reason is, is because we see opportunity. What we focus on is what we see. A lot of people right now are focusing on struggle. The struggle is not real to me. Because there's so much opportunity. My son is sitting here saying he wants to start a fruit stand. Literally today. He's like, daddy, let's build a fruit stand and sell fruit. I'm like, right now it's probably not a good time to sell fruit, but what else do you have to offer? He can make more money selling toilet paper than fruit right now, right? He can make more money learning about investing instead of saving. I could teach him a different skill set, but again, you have to get in the car, you have to do new work, you have to reprogram or deprogram. And you got to realize it's not about having the best of the best. It's about serving a needle, serving a niche. If you're great at working out, Christian, shoot these videos, man. Day one, do 28 Day. I know. My buddy Dustin has a thing called 28 Day Shred, an amazing PDF. He sells that. What if you had videos now adds more value. What if you had daily accountability calls now it adds more value. What is your value? Don't be thinking one on one either. Initially. That's how you start thinking. But start thinking one to many. I'm talking to you guys right now. There's hundreds of people, Facebook, Instagram, back and forth right now, live. And then when we push done upload now, it could be seen by thousands of more people. I talk one hour or 30 minutes or however long we need to, and it gets duplicated over and over and over. I don't need to create. I simply need to document. Right? I'm not trying to sit back and oh my God, I need to create something that they've never heard before. Dude, it's 2020. I've not invented anything. The only thing I've done is gained attention through marketing, shared my journey, and then open it up to you guys. Some people want more. Some people could care less. Delete and move on. Guess who? The ones I'M focusing on the ones that want more. I don't care. I can't do anything about the people that don't want to help themselves. Only they can. So again, go on here. You can get cars, you can clean up houses, you can clean like. There's a lot of investors. I'm in the investment space. A lot of investors right now need home inspectors to go out and take pictures, do virtual tours. Take your video camera or however video, I guess, like this now, video camera, upload it into Dropbox, send it to them wherever they're at. And now, boom, you just made 75 bucks or 125 bucks. I know, because that's what we pay. Understand that you have an amazing opportunity right now to expand your world bigger than you ever even knew existed. By sheer force. You're being told that you can't go to work. You've probably even been laid off possibly. But again, what we focus on grows. I'm focused on opportunity. It's everywhere. It's absolutely everywhere in all times. Right now, it's not in the food and Bev business necessarily. A buddy of mine that lives down the street owns a pretty big company in the beer industry. He's like, Mark, our beer sales at the stores are out the roof and online, but our keg sales are way down, clearly, because kegs are sold in the restaurants, in the bars. So again, it's about pivoting, paying attention, dialing in your numbers. And if you're a great number cruncher or a good engineer style mindset, you could add value to guys like me that don't worry about numbers like that. We're very conscious of buy for a dollar, sell for $1.50 in. I'm in. Let's go. Maybe there's a trailing loss, maybe there's a bigger profit margin, opportunity maybe. How quickly am I recovering my cash? Start learning about investing at a different level. So I guess the biggest thing too is right now. Pay attention. Have you been saving or investing? See, I don't believe in saving. I know it sounds crazy. I don't believe in saving money. I believe investing in money. If I had a thousand dollars right now, I'm investing in myself because I can see Matt, I can see bigger return. I could buy. I could buy Amazon, spend a thousand dollars. I might make 2,000, maybe 100% return. People would cut their left arm for that right now. But If I invest $1,000 in myself and I'm willing, able and going to do the work, I can create millions of dollars, millions more Importantly, I can change my life, I can change my trajectory, I can change my family tree. I can help my kids understand how this is possible. I could share with people how it's done. I know this is real because I've done it and I still do it. I'm constantly investing in myself, but unfortunately, the way we've been built as mules, go to school, get a good grades, sit down, shut up. If you got to take a piss, raise your hand. If I say no, you got to piss your pants and get embarrassed. Do you understand? They're training you to go to work. They're training you to be a mule in the system. The system just got broken. See, interestingly enough, I'm against the system. I don't believe in it. I, I see clearly what they do. I hated school. I barely graduated high school, never went to college. And there's a lot of smart people out there with massive degrees right now that don't have a job. A lot of smart people out here have massive degrees that have a lot of debt that they don't know how they're going to pay. And don't think the government's bailing you out. The me economy, me, I have to take care of me and only me. If I can't take care of me, everything else I care about does not get taken care of either. So it's not about being selfish. It's about being aware and being real with yourself. We have to work, we have to unite. We have to get together and understand. Maybe you're amazing on the phone, maybe you're amazing on like putting data points together. You don't have to charge $10,000 to help someone get on the phone and help someone. In my company, my team's on the phone all day long, talking, texting, calling, email, whatever. They're connecting all the time. If you're sitting. And you could do this, by the way, anywhere in the world, anywhere. So get to the free section. There's couches, there's cars, there's boats. There's a 8 inch powered subwoofer, speakers for free. There's a lot of furniture. A lot of furniture. There's reptiles. There's free firewood. Come and get it, please. There's get this boat out of my yard. I don't want anymore. There's a free, huge solid wood wall unit. There's sunglasses, there's seating, there's headboards, there's pool tables, there's pianos, there's tires, there's crates, there's wood pallets, maybe you're an artist. Maybe you're an artist. Go get the pallets. People love that distressed look. Go to Etsy. See what people are buying. Guys, this is not hard for me. You gotta understand, for 23 years, my whole life actually, I've been looking at opportunities of how to generate money. I'm not saying. And by the way, my opportunity is not like, how do I get a job? How do I have the best resume under the moon? Well, you guys clearly realize that is bullshit. Now, what we know as our norm is different. It's a different time forever. I'm excited. We're in the front side of history in the making. You're either going to be a victim or a victor. It's a choice. It truly is a choice. If you choose the wrong path, it's going to be bad, it's going to be sad. It's a choice. Yes, you might have to go bed letter. Yes, you have to get up earlier. Yes, you're going to have to get uncomfortable. Yes, you're going to do stuff you don't want to do. Get over it. See, the market's been making a lot of people lazy and complacent and ignorant. You understand? The way you control people is through fear and ignorance. What's interesting to me is a lot of the people that are ignorant and fearful are the people that have the most degrees. See, as an entrepreneur, I don't need someone to say, God, good job, Mark. The way I say good job to myself, every moment is up here. First. Secondly, with results. I look at results. I'm not. I don't need someone to pat me on the back and tell me, good job. A good job to me is knowing I got up and I pushed forward and I became a better person today than I was yesterday. That's all I need. I don't need 17 degrees on the wall. I don't need an A report card with three stickers. That's the mule. That's how we've been trained. The magician looks at it differently. How to create eyeballs, how to do something. Once again, it's a craft. You got to work on it. And then you share it to the audience, one to many. And then people come pouring in. Think of it like anybody, the music you listen to, they start off with music, but they don't make that much money in music. Like, they do all of their other stuff. Their product lines, their perfume lines, their clothing lines, their Visa video thing, commercials. They do like, they make millions of dollars. Not in their niche. And when you Get a job. You think that's the only thing you do and that's all you stand for. You're so much better than that. You're so much more than that. This is understanding your value to yourself and others. You got to learn how to price yourself. And the way you do that is what is it worth to the individual you're talking to? If I have the cure to coronavirus in my hand and you have coronavirus and you're about to go away, what is that worth to you? It's worth whatever you have access to. It doesn't matter if it's one line or 37 pages. Just give me the cure. See, a lot of the mule thinks it has to be big, long, hard, you know, grueling. You know so much more than that. That's what they want you to believe. You know like when you're sitting at work and you're like, okay, it's two o', clock, I can't check out until 4:30. I'll check Instagram. Okay, I'll check Facebook. I wonder what my friends up to. Like, dude, those are, those are old days. That's like pre corona now. You have 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Not five, not six. Not like Sunday's God's day. It's God's day. If you put in six days of real work, you got to put in real work. You got to expand, you got to grow, you got to become a better you. Do you really believe you having your job has served you to where you want to go? It might suffice. I'm saying serve. This is a time to reflect on yourself. To know that, hey, I'm bigger, I'm better than where I was at. This isn't a time to complain. This isn't a time to moan and groan. The problem with these pity parties that a lot of people are having. No one brings gifts to a pity party. How many people's brought a gift to you because the only thing they're doing is like, dude, you think your situation's bad? Check my situation out. They're trying to one up your shitty situation. Better than that. Focus on feed the brain. Wake up at 4:35 o' clock for half, first half hour. Boom. Audio books, positive information, something positive. Feeding your brain. Boom. You're going to be great today. Things are going moving forward, you know, understand your mindset, understand your heart, understand your drive, understand marketing. Like feed your brain and then boom. Do your coffee, do your meditation, kiss your kids, whatever you got to do. But you got to start with, you see, most people are sitting in there. They jump in their car like zombies the mules. And they push the talk radio. Oh, the world's coming to an end. Oh, my God. Did you see what happened with Steve? Oh, my God. There's a crash over on 95. This is going on. They're all dying. Everyone's dying. I talked to a guy yesterday, he's like, dude, 2 million people are going to die, okay? I don't know what that has to do with me. I didn't do it. I can't control it. I can control me. I'm not fear mongering. I'm not talking about all the negative shit. I'm talking about everything positive. I woke up, my kids are healthy. I'm healthy. I took my wife on a home date last. Yesterday at noon. We had Mexican food at the kitchen table. While the kids are upstairs playing control. You shut off the news. The news will not serve you in any way, shape or form, I promise. Don't believe me? Shut the news off. Turn it on. Five years from now, someone's dying, the government is terrible. The world's coming to an end. You know, you can't walk outside or you're gonna get shot because someone that hates you, like it never ends. That's on purpose, by the way. Fear controls. Control you through your actions. You got to get more positive. You might need some confidence. You want confidence? Help. Simple. Set a time to wake up. Wake up. Set a time to work out. Work out. Create a meal plan. Stick to the meal plan. Set your goals. Stick to your goals. Do this daily for the next hundred days. Five hundred days, a thousand. Like every day builds up. It's like compound interest in the accounts. Compound confidence. Every day you get closer. The cool thing about it is it's not about being cocky. It's about being confident. Get closer, get closer. You grow, you develop. And you start learning. Holy cow. Capable of so much more. So you're going to look at this time again. You're going to be a victim or Victor. There's no in between. You can't win if you do nothing. You can't. It's impossible. We got to really dig, think about how to out give the world right now. Take care of yourself and figure out how to out give the world. You can't do it. That's what makes it fun. Be there for people. Do a live video. I don't care if there's one person on there and it's your mom. Show up. Be consistent. You're Gonna wake up three years from now. There'll be 10,000 people in there. Create. Learn how to create an email list where you can communicate people. I can write one email, push send. And it goes to hundreds of thousands of people. I send millions of emails a day out. Millions, tens of millions a day. I don't even do it. I have a team now that does it. But when I started, I started with 1 just like you would. I actually start with 0 and then I start with 1, then 10, then 20. But I stay consistent with my actions because I can control that. Hey, what's up, Mark? Hope all's well. Boom, boom, boom, send, boom. It's called a broadcast message. But whatever the case is, you see people like, hey, I'm getting rid of my house, I'm getting rid of my car, I'm getting rid of my furniture, I'm getting rid of this, I'm getting rid of that. My buddy I was talking to today, Matt, he's like, I want a new John Deere tractor because I'm going to start mowing our own lawns with my kid at home and, you know, teach him lessons. And, you know, these are good lessons. What's wrong with mowing the lawn? It's pretty fun when you're a kid. Get a tan, have fun, relax, listen to some music, whatever. His neighbor said, you can have my mower. A thousand bucks. It's brand new. It's a three thousand dollar mower. He's like, no, I want a John Deere mower. The guy has money. Cool. Go buy the John Deere mower. But still buy that one for a thousand and sell for 1500. Flip it for 1500 bucks. Easily. Just made $500 just by having your ears open. Just by listening and serving a client like people. Do you think it would be hard to sell a mower that's worth three grand for 1500? I know exactly what everyone's thinking immediately, well, why would they sell a $3000 mower for 1500 out for $1000 if it's really worth the $3000? Great question. You know that bike, it's in your garage, if you've never ridden, that you paid $300 for, why would you sell it at a yard sale for 10 bucks? It's easy, it's convenient. It's not being used. It's in the way. You don't want to deal with it. Get it out here now. You have a hot prospect. I just want it gone. Shit. The truth is, you take it for free. I Don't want it in my garage, just taking up spots because I want to buy a brand new Ferrari or whatever. You don't know. See, we think it's about the money only. Well, it's only about the money when you need it. But the truth is, people that just want stuff solved solve my problem. The problem is much bigger than just the money. You got to develop as an individual. Like I said, this is the most amazing time in the world. This has never happened before. When you've been told to stay home and you have access to the Internet, you literally can make money. Maybe you're a therapist. Maybe you know how to help people through times of critical need, that is Suicide situations. Maybe you could just be a phone call away. Maybe someone's struggling with their kids doing drugs or their spouse, or maybe them. And for 125, an hour, or 50, whatever, I don't even know what it costs, but whatever it cost, maybe you could be that person. Maybe you could be that person that could talk to you, hey, what's going on? Save someone's life because you got out of your own way. Maybe your skill set is, hey, I'm a great accountant. Maybe you could show me or other business owners or anybody that has the need for this, hey, let's audit your books. Hey, wow, that person stole money. Or hey, this is running very inefficient. I know it was. You know, I'm a thousand dollars. That's what I charge. Like you're worried about more than me. A thousand bucks, I'm in. And then you audit the books. Maybe you save me as a company today, 20 grand. But what's that? But now we have a better process, now we have better procedures, now we have a better system. That could be a million dollars for, I just gave you $1,000 to save me a million dollars. Maybe you're a high level tax advisor, Teach people how to be better at their taxes. Not to avoid them, but to maximize them. To minimize. Maximize the opportunities and minimize the spend, the outlay. So I saw someone today, you know, like right now, if you own a company, people are giving all this free money. The country figured out how to get trillions of dollars somehow, whatever that means. Now they're printing money with these SBA loans. I saw this lady, she said, hey, I figured it out for my business, and for $500, I'll do it for you. Like I'm thinking, that's a deal. I'll give her 500 bucks, she gets me 10 grand or 50 grand or 75 grand or whatever the number was. I'm trading dollars for dollars for many dollars. It's a great roi. Very smart of her. She's probably getting blown up. It's amazing to me, if you just put in the work and put in. It's just not even about putting in the work. You got to start with the right mindset. You got to look at the opportunities. Maybe you're great at baking. Now's the time to write the cookbook. Maybe you're great. And listen, maybe you're great. Like, you guys understand health and fitness is a big deal. Maybe you need to create, sit at your house and, like, start working on protein bars. How do you make your homemade protein bars? How do you make protein shakes? Like, whatever it is, it's. It literally, I swear to you, the possibilities are endless. Endless. And I just hope you guys take this information like I'm saying, a thousand a week. Do you understand how much. Like, you understand how much money is out here in this world, right? A thousand a week is nothing. All to make. Once this is right, the possibilities are endless. Your biggest problem would be is what do I do next? Because once you open this door, it's literally limitless. It's freeing. But then the journey, you're going to go, and then you're going. You're going to try to do too many things, and then you have to step back again, re, pivot, refigure out where you're going to navigate. It never ends. I'm still learning. I'm never going to stop learning until I'm done, until I'm dead, period. So I just hope you guys understand. Go to Craigslist. Go to the free section. Go to your neighbor's house. Go to your neighbor's house. You see they have all this junk in the garage. Help them clean their garage out free. As long as I can sell the stuff in the garage that you don't want. And we split it 50. 50. It's a deal, right? Maybe you say, hey, I'll clean out the garage, 15 bucks an hour, and then we split everything that you're going to get rid of. Show me what you got. What's that side project that you can go and help them fix their paint their room upstairs that they haven't been in in five years, but they're getting ready to put an office up there now because they have to or want to or need to. 300 bucks. Let's go. Just don't cough on me. We'll be fine. There's so much opportunity if you're in the stock market world or you wanted to learn that, now is the time to learn that. And that's not for everybody. But trust me, there's opportunities there, right? So go to Craigslist, go to the free section, go to your neighbor's house, go get. Get the product, pick it up, clean it up, take some nice pics, then repeat process. You're going to learn marketing. You're going to learn value. Just turn on American pickers. Watch what they do. That's all they do. They're doing exactly what I'm telling you to do. They go to places, they pick products that they think are unique, that the marketplace that they could serve wants. They buy it for 100, they sell for 150. They plus X amount on their money. It takes effort, but. But that's what we have to do. Why would you do anything else? Now is the time. I'm excited. I'm honored to be in this position. A lot of people are here. I'd love to hear what you're doing to make money right now in these times. I'd love to hear if you need help, like, what is your highest unique ability? Where's your biggest value opportunity for business owners, for moms. Like. Like, you know how many moms are struggling with postpartum, right? You know, I mean, moms are trying to figure out how to breastfeed. And this sounds silly, but this is a big thing. I mean, it's like that's how my mind thinks, guys. By the way, it's endless. And it's not about breasts. It's just breastfeeding is a big deal if you're a new mom, right? So it's. It's a lot of things. What's up, ref? It's a lot of things going down, and we need to unite. We need to get together. Listen, if I see you guys posting stuff. What's up, Joe? If I see you guys posting stuff and I have a. I need some help. I'm reaching out. If I can, I will. If I know someone needs your help. Why wouldn't I? I'm planting seeds. I'm planting seeds right now. And then when I connect with you and I connect with them. My boy Matt today and Matt and Terry. I was like, dude, you got to call Terry. Get with Terry asap. You guys could put something together. This is six figures a year easy, just with knowing each other. That's how my mind's always thinking. Connect the dots, connect the dots, connect the dots. I don't even have to be good, you just have to be a good connector. I don't have to be good at any skill except connecting to make a lot of money. Right. That's what affiliates do. They get eyeballs. They have products that serve the community, they offer them, and then they make money for doing it. You have to have eyeballs, though. You have to learn marketing. Marketing by far is probably the best skill that anybody here could learn. You're doing it if you know it or not. But marketing, marketing works. I hope you guys know I'm here for you. Become a problem solver. Absolutely. The bigger the problem, the more money. I'll take some questions if you guys have any questions. I'd love to answer any questions I can here. I got a little bit of time. What's up, Brad? What's up? So bad? Hopefully Italy's going well for you even. Any questions? Maybe here. Marketing is number one. That's it. You're right. It's powerful. But marketing with a plan, like, you have to have a path. I can market, but what am I marketing? Who am I marketing to? You know, so product and avatar, you got to connect the dots with them and you're in business. Oh, and made a big referral fee on 1.5 million. Nice, David. Double D. That's what it's about, right? David's. He's like, if you guys aren't following him, you should follow David. He's here in Florida. He likes nice shirts like I do. Crazy shirts. But again, that's how it works. You're connecting the dots right now. If there's a buyer that needs help and a seller needs help, put them together. If you need money and the money guy just fell apart and I have money, connect the dots. You might be able to make a fee. There's all kinds of stuff you can do. How do you pivot your distressed seller ads in this market? One second here. You buying in Carnival? Yes. I bought some at 1233. I bought some at 769 and everything in between. I'm super excited. But that you should not listen to anything I'm talking about because I don't know anything about the stock market like that. I'm not giving any advice. I'm just kind of playing around with something I like. Really Enjoy what you're putting out, Mark. The podcast is purifier. Thank you, Paul. By the way, guys, I do have a podcast show. It's called the Making of a dm. The Making of a dm. How do you pivot to your distressed seller ads? In this market, I don't. What are you pivoting? They're distressed. It says we buy houses. Why does. Doesn't even make sense the question to you, and I'm trying to be a dick, it just doesn't make sense. The reason the cards work is because they're distressed. And as a buyer, we're looking for distressed situations, distressed sellers. Right. So there's nothing you would pivot with seller ads. The pivot would be your buyers. The pivot would be digging deeper with your past sellers. Connect, reconnecting with your past sellers that were super hyped up. Dude, I could sell this house for a million dollars. Okay, well then why are we talking? Because they can't. But now they've had a quick smack in the face like, oh, I got to sell this thing. Who am I going to call? That's who I'd be going after. I'd be. I would dig deep into my database. You know, I'd start nursing. It's free to do this, by the way. It doesn't cost a dime. Dig deep in the database. Certain them up here. You still selling? Hey, are you still selling? How are you still selling? How are you still saying, hey, we're still buying? You're still selling? Hey, we're still like, I would just hammer them, call them, text them, or whatever you can do legally. Whatever you can do. Connect with them via email and extract deals. Thanks for the shout out. Dm. Yes, sir. David. Always, buddy. Any questions? Become a storyteller. Absolutely. That's what it's about, guys. You know, people want to. That's what I always talk about documenting, by the way. Documenting is storytelling. You're just telling your story in real time. Right. So very powerful. Working on putting some deals together up here in Michigan. Need to get money right now so I can join the DM partner program. My man. Yeah, the DM Alliance. What he's talking about is I have a group called the Diem Alliance. One second here. Just living your best life. Hey, I've been. I've been bringing your bycast real stuff. Thank you very much for your time and knowledge. Thank you. Kelly, what are you focusing the majority of your time on this week, Jennings? Honest, dude, it's not this week. Next week, next month, last month, last week. It's always the same. I'm focusing my time on me and I'm focusing my time on being a leader. I'm focusing my time on growing a company. I'm focusing my time on pushing the ball forward. I don't change My. Like I said, this quarantine stuff. My days haven't changed really much at all. I'm not going to the club to have lunch and eat stuff I probably shouldn't eat. And I'm not going to the gym and hanging out with my trainer. Other than that, my life's the same. We homeschool our child, we have a nanny. My and my wife hang out at the house. And we work and we do stuff we can jump like my life really is. I'm kind of an introvert, I guess, if you will. Not on purpose. Just because I like working. I enjoy providing value. I enjoy growing my knowledge, I enjoy writing, I enjoy reading, I enjoy growing. I feel like I haven't done anything in life. I'm just getting started. One second here. So the DM alliance thing, what that is, is it's a partnership program I have with real estate investors. If you're in the real estate business, we partner with you. We get 20% of your business and we grow it with you. There is a fee to join. It costs $5,000. It's not for everybody, but we have daily accountability, daily KPI management, daily huddles. We teach you from the ground up. We'll teach you it all. We'll teach you how to close. Christian's a machine over there. He's an amazing guy. Has a great talent in helping people get past getting to their goals through actions. And it's amazing. Do you know anybody helps fund subject? Well, subject to deals typically don't get funded. Funded. That's why they're subject to existing financing. And if I was going to fund it, I would probably just wholesale the contract and keep the difference. Wholesale the subject too. Yeah. My life hasn't changed much either. Except the beaches are closed. And that's typically. Exactly. So you're utilizing purchase options as a smart move right now. I'm not big into, you know, getting into the details here. This is too big of a big forum for that. I don't. And not only that, to be honest with you, I'm not in the day to days at all anymore. Buy a property, sell it for more. That's the business I'm in. How you do it, what path you take, these are all technical things that, you know, go figure it out on your own. Hire a coach that. That's what they do, guys, again, just provide great value. Find a deal for 100, sell for 110. It's worth 180. It's not hard to do. This business is so weak that's what? That's why I don't teach. Honestly, I'm not a teacher because my brain doesn't think about all the bullshit people create all these challenges in front. Well, what about this? Who gives a f. Go close the deal, dude. I don't care how I close it. Just get it closed. You know what I mean? So, Bob, hold on one second. There we go. My son's here trying to clean the table, so I really don't care. On the path, like, so many people get caught up on that. As opposed like, listen to the buyer, listen to the seller and put the deal together. How it comes together, I have no clue what is the best path or wrong. I have no clue. You got to listen, though. You got to figure it out, you know what's up. Sean, Same work from home before now working with buyers and sellers with a great view. Jim, I see the view of your working out over there. The baby. What are some of the key KPIs to track? Josh, no one has. No one can answer that question with that question. Why? Because it's different for every single person, every single business. And more importantly for you, what do you want to see? What numbers, 5 to 7 numbers, tell you if it's on track or off track? You might. You might be a hardcore anal about a piece that I don't care about, or vice versa. So find the KPI. Here's the answer and this is it. Josh, I'm not picking on you. Focus on what works for you. Stop asking me, stop asking other people. Figure it out on your own. Because whatever I tell you is not going to be right. Because I look at things differently. Not only that, I'm here, you might be here, or you might be here, and I might be here, so you might be. Dude, like, that's bullshit. That's not the right answer. Then why would you ask? The truth is no one knows the answer. Only you. Figure it out. Five to seven KPIs. Figure out what the KPIs. Because I can tell you to do this one. But if you don't have the proper data, feeding the KPI, that KPI is BS already, it's out the window. You know what I mean? So you guys got like. I think we live in a world where people are looking for permission to do something or waiting for permission to figure out how to gross. I don't know how long you've been in business. I don't know. I don't know anything about you. Right? So it's hard. If you guys want More out of life. Ask better questions to yourself. Not to me, but to yourself. First and foremost, I've been. What are you focusing on? Do you need Excel reports? I definitely don't need Excel reports. Thank you. Ken Abdullah. What's up? Hit it up. I know. Thanks, man. What? That's what I need here again, guys. Baby dm, you want to come here and say hi? Come over here. You got a haircut. Oh, hey, you want to show them your new haircut? You gotta show everyone your new haircut. Watch your hands. Look at Baby DM's new haircut. You like it? Yeah. Yeah. What are you going to do today? What are you building today? What are we building today? A what? A fruit stand. Alright, cool. Love them. Thank you, Terry. Any other questions, guys? If not, I'm gonna bounce off and get some work done. I got up, guys. By the way, I have a new book coming out called Magician Verse Mule. I don't know when it's coming out yet. My buddy Mike Fallett helped me create this book. He's actually done most of it. I just kind of print brought some the content and he's. He did the wizardy behind the scenes and put it together. So that will be coming out shortly. If you guys could support that, it'd be amazing. What's up, Michael? What's up, Tom? So if you guys. When you see that book come out, I'm guessing it's coming out in the next two weeks right now. I think it's a very big read. It's easy read, but it's very real. I mean, again, it's more real now than ever to realize that we've been created as mules. We've been created. You've had a reality check about this. This is ultra real. And now we have to do something about it. Now that we know it's real, you cannot leave it alone. It's real. You can't leave it alone. So we have to navigate the process. So again, please share below what your high level number one unique ability is, what you get paid and what you love to do. And let's see where the opportunities lie. Like I said, maybe it's doing a dot. You know, that'd be cool if you could do documentaries. There might be a huge value for that. Maybe you're great at preserving family history. Maybe you're great at doing picture restoration. I know my boy Brunke's wolves in art. You know, he's got a cool piece in Cleveland. I was like, yo, I'll buy that. I want That I want that piece like I want to support and more importantly, like, I like that. So he's going to charge. I don't know how much he's charging, but I'm taking it. So all these things are happening. Like, guys, if you have something people want, it's valuable. You know what I mean? Can't wait to get the book. Thank you, Mark. Thank you guys. So guys, I'm gonna bounce off here and gals, I appreciate you guys being here, thinking about you guys. If you need anything, let me know. Thank you, Nick. Thank you guys. I appreciate you guys. Stay focused, stay in the game, stay safe and keep providing value. It's time, let me know. Keep me posted. The challenge is this. In the next 24 hours, I would love for someone to message me and tell me what you've created out of thin air. Tell me what you've created out of thin air from our conversation here at this moment, where you're at, what your mindset shift was and what you created in dollars. I'd love to hear it. It would be absolutely amazing to hear you guys accomplish this thousand dollar goal. Every single person listening to my voice can create a thousand dollars in the next seven days without a shadow of a doubt if you do the work. And I'm excited for that. So please keep me posted. Guys and gals, I appreciate you guys here. Have an amazing day. Stay safe. If I can do anything for you, let me know. Happy Kevin's deal. I'm here to help and teach him what I know and how I did it to discover freedom. There ain't no question mark Kevin. When he stepping the doubt, he's closing deals. Time to tell him what the DM stand for. I'm a deal maker. A deal maker. But I'm not just a deal maker, I'm a dream maker.
