To the speaking industry and the clients he serves, Marcedes M. Fuller is regarded as an authentic speaker and innovative communicator known for his intelligence, image, and the inspirational impact he leaves on every audience. Marcedes is emerging nationally as a leading motivational speaker, success coach, author, and trusted consultant.
Dynamic, empowered, and motivated are just a few words used to describe inspirational speaker and “America’s Imagepreneur,” Marcedes M. Fuller. Fuller travels nationally to inspire businesses, academic institutions, and individuals to move to their desired plateaus of success. Through his consulting firm, Imagepreneurs Public Image Relations, Marcedes works to help companies and individuals prosper in areas such as image and brand development, leadership development, spiritual empowerment, executive speech delivery, and coaching by providing innovative speaking, training, branding, writing, and consulting solutions.
Fuller speaks to audiences on taking control of their image, the power of a brand, diversity relations, risk taking, entrepreneurship, educational leadership, success, and career and life transition. Marcedes seeks to create and inspire a culture interested in shaping the world! The attitude and pride he displays in his work is contagious, and will leave you inspired to move forward and not turn back!
“America’s Imagepreneur” is a recognized, accomplished, and award-winning speaker and educator who is dedicated to serving the masses. Marcedes is the author of While You Were Out From “Work” a powerful life application and transformation guide geared to help you maximize your off time to prosper like never before. Marcedes has been featured on television, radio, and in print as a media personality and commentator. Fuller is one to keep your eyes and ears on!
In addition to his duties with Imagepreneurs Public Image Relations, he is a community servant and an avid humanitarian. Fuller is a mentor and belongs to a number of community organizations and professional associations. Marcedes is a native of San Antonio, Texas the home of the Alamo.
Robert Elder founded Millionaire Possibilities Real Estate Investment Association. He has over 35 years’ experience as a landlord and has owned houses, duplexes, apartment complexes, hotel, office buildings and industrial buildings.
Starting from scratch he has built a present portfolio of over 400 properties, and he has experience as a Real Estate Coach and Legal Consultant. Robert personally works with experienced investors committed to outrageous success.
Robert holds degrees in Finance, Economics, Math, along with an MBA in Accounting and a Juris Doctorate. He is a licensed attorney in Oklahoma and a member of the bar since 1996.
Matt Lamont started off in real estate in 2001 as a loan officer and was a top producer and sales trainer throughout his career in the mortgage industry.
Matt now handles public relations and leads the Strategic Partnership department of the real estate data company Benutech Inc.
Benutech is best known for their award-winning software Rebogateway, which identifies homeowners who have a life event that would cause them to sell their home in the immediate future.
Brian Meara, CEO and Founder of The Investor Entourage, got his start in real estate as an agent in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania back in 2007. He did this out of financial necessity, fresh off a divorce, as he found himself a single father of three, three year-olds…yes, triplet boys!
Two years later, after having worked with many investors on short sale flips, he decided to change hats and “become” the investor on the deals where he was previously the Realtor. In a very short amount of time he has launched himself to the very TOP of the industry. He has closed and worked with thousands of deals that span the entire nation and is one of the nation’s top real estate investors and educators in his niche. He is still active himself and consistently closing deals of various natures and sizes.
Interestingly enough, he never sees the houses that he buys, nor does he meet the sellers, he never talks to the banks, AND he lives in the mountains of Northern Italy one month every quarter or 25% of the year…..a completely “virtual” operation!!!
A few other things from his “interesting” background:
Dan Barrett helps real estate investors get more leads and deals online.
Dan is Head Nerd at AdWords Nerds, the world’s largest Google Partner agency working only with real estate investors. He’s managed over a million dollars a year in client ad spend, found hundreds of real estate deals for his clients, and been behind extensive experimentation and original research into lead generation for REI.
Dan and his team have worked with investors and companies like Joe McCall, Alex Joungblood, Tom Krol, 1-800-Fair-Offer, Investor Carrot, Investor Fuse, and more. Their unique “Lead Stacking” process helps investors automate 90% of their lead acquisition process, so they can get more leads in the door while working less.”
Jamel Gibbs is a successful real estate investor, marketer, serial entrepreneur, speaker, author, and mentor.
He is the owner of Mill Street Properties LLC, a successful real estate investing firm. He is also the owner of the REI Education Academy LLC, which is a successful real estate investment education firm and publishing company that teaches their clients how to build successful real estate investing businesses.
Jamel Gibbs is the author of the Best Selling Flip for Profits Manifesto as well as the creator of several home study training and membership programs that include the Real Estate REPO Riches System, The Wholesale Cash Generator System, The Flip Vault Inner Circle Club, The REI Xtreme Access Club, The Instant Wholesaler Training Program, The Property Umbrella Blueprint Training Program, and The How to Flip for Profits Double Video Series.
More recently, Jamel Gibbs has adapted his training for investors in today’s market with products like the 30K Pay Days System, and other unreleased products that are coming soon.
Jamel coaches and consults people all across the country in an effort to help them achieve true financial freedom through real estate investing.
He has helped thousands of students become real estate investors and he can also help you too. His coaching program takes you by the hand and walks you step-by-step through the process.
Harry Paul aka Harry the Fish Guy is an internationally sought-after speaker and author who is helping businesses and organizations create a culture of excellence and increase employee engagement. Harry believes people can to start to do positive things instantly–as in overnight! He delivers presentations clients describe as informative, content-rich, funny, dynamic, entertaining, memorable and that make a difference. Harry helps organizations reach their goals and increase productivity by engaging and energizing employees to give and do their best. He shows everyone how to enjoy what they are doing by getting excited about coming to work and working hard. Harry has shared information with and motivated audiences from India to Asheville, Bahrain to Raleigh, and New York to Singapore.
Harry is the co-author of seven business books including “FISH! A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results.” “FISH!” is one of the best-selling business books of all time with well over five million copies sold and is translated into thirty-five languages. His books have been on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Business Week, Amazon.com, and The Wall Street Journal. His latest book is “Who Kidnapped Excellence? What’s Stopping Us From Giving and Being Our Best.”
Harry served as a senior vice president for The Ken Blanchard Companies, where he personally managed the speaking career of Dr. Kenneth Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager. There he gained first-hand knowledge in running all aspects of management training and consulting businesses including expertise in sales, distribution, product development and international operations.
Harry has shared his expertise and knowledge with companies and associations both large and small including some of the most respected organizations in the world including Pfizer, McDonald’s, Arthritis Foundation, KPMG, Cigna Insurance, Conagra, Kimberly-Clark, Party City, and Raytheon to mention just a few.
Joy Gendusa is an entrepreneur, business owner, author, established speaker and philanthropist. She is the Founder and CEO of PostcardMania, a rapidly expanding marketing company specializing in lead generation for small to large-sized businesses. With only a phone, a computer and postcard marketing, Joy grew PostcardMania from a startup into an industry leader generating more than $49 million in annual revenue and employing more than 200 people in the Tampa Bay, FL area.
As a business leader, Joy has been awarded the Tampa Bay CEO of the Year, Entrepreneur BusinessWoman of the Year in Tampa Bay, and twice been an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. Her company, PostcardMania, has been named to the Inc. 500 and the Inc. 5000 lists and has helped over 73,000 small businesses with their marketing.
You can request free postcard samples from Joy’s company, PostcardMania, or connect with Joy by emailing Joy.Gendusa@PostcardMania.com.
Anson Young is the owner and Deal-getter-guy-in-Chief of Anson Property Group based in Denver, Colorado, which specializes in distressed property purchases. As a full-time real estate investor and agent for the last ten years, he has completed over 100 wholesale deals and 75 flips with some great partners and friends. He enjoys the process of making horrible houses look nice again and of course helping homeowners who are in need. Barely graduating high school and then quickly eschewing corporate life as a Network Administrator, Anson turned to real estate and never looked back. Anson Property Group is committed to changing communities, helping homeowners and building long term wealth. When not working, Anson can be found exploring the wilds of Colorado by hiking the Rocky Mountains with his family, reading favorite books to his son and attending loud rock concerts.
Ron Legrand is from humble beginnings, a former auto-mechanic who couldn’t even make ends meet working overtime. He’ll never forget telling his wife, again and again, they couldn’t afford a new washing machine when their old one broke. Today, they live in a 7,000 square foot home in Florida. He’s bought and sold over 3,000 homes and commercial properties all over America (using the same System he’ll give you) and he has thousands of people he’s helped and is helping to achieve their grandest goals. He’d like to share his story with you…
He’s been buying “quick-turning” for cash and keeping as investment houses as an independent investor and entrepreneur for 35 years. You can’t do that by random. You can’t do it “hit or miss” or you’d be broke, and he’s not; he’s quite rich. That’s because he has an actual SYSTEM for this that anybody can follow. And just about all business success and wealth is based on SYSTEMS. McDonald’s has a System for efficiently serving food. Southwest Airlines has a System for efficiently transporting passengers. “Old” wealth, like the Ford family’s, came from the Systems of assembly-line manufacturing and franchised dealerships. “New” wealth, like the Walton’s family’s, came from the Wal-Mart Systems for regional warehousing and distribution and controlling costs. In your job or business, you undoubtedly have Systems.
Ron has a System for efficiently locating, accurately analyzing, and intelligently purchasing certain very specific types of real estate, in some cases, to quickly resell one of several ways for immediate cash profits; in other cases, to hold onto, without landlord headaches. His System can be your System – without the years of trial-and-error and expense that went into perfecting it…
In 1982, Ron was married, working as a car mechanic, with no money in the bank, an embarrassingly small paycheck, constantly telling his wife and kids “no” and feeling terrible about it. He was 35 years old, bankrupt, married for 17 years, with 4 kids and clueless about what he wanted to do with his life – although he was pretty sure he didn’t want to fix cars in the hot Florida sun. Sometimes, even a good business providing a good income still feels like a bad job.
Ron talked with a lot of doctors, lawyers, contractors, restaurant owners, insurance sales agents, mortgage brokers who are doing just fine purely in income when they first meet him, but still feeling miserable about how hard they’re working or how they’re tied down and trapped. by their businesses. He liberates them now like he was once liberated. He saw an ad that said, “Come learn how to buy real estate with no money and no credit.”
He didn’t believe it but went anyway. Within the next 3 weeks, he made $3,000 on a small real estate deal and was no longer an auto mechanic. In a few short years, Ron purchased over 400 houses but had as many headaches as he did dollars. That’s when he completely redesigned his approach to real estate and went about being an ‘investor’ differently and went about being a ‘quick-turn entrepreneur’ for immediate cash profits, too.
People started coming to Ron for advice, word got around, and almost of its own making, he wound up in the business of showing others how to do what he does – and what he does IS unique. It is a unique combination of marketing to attract deals, immediate cash profits, avoiding ordinary landlord problems, and rapidly accumulating wealth, a goodly portion of it tax-free. If that sounds complicated, it isn’t. Once you know the steps, it’ll be just as easy and natural for you to do as what you do now to make a living. By the way, you’ll be joining a 50 -Billion Dollar Industry that’s more than 200 years old. It’s not what we’re doing anything totally new here. Instead, he’s built a System for you on a rock-solid foundation.
So, today, Ron and his wife of 52 years, Beverly live in a beautiful home and 10 acres in Jacksonville, Florida. He indulges in my favorite hobby, fishing, with three or four trips a year, including his favorite, into the Alaskan wilderness. He does a lot of speaking – in fact, he addresses audiences of 200 to 20,000. He frequently finds himself on programs with people like Dr. Phil, former U.S. Presidents, famous authors like Robert Kiyosaki, ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad,’ even Donald Trump. He usually travels in his private jet – no “take off your belt and shoes” airport security lines for Ron! He doesn’t tell you ANY of that to brag, but to make two very important points for your benefit: one, if a dumb car mechanic can do this, why shouldn’t you? You definitely have more education and resources than Ron did when he started. And you have all his experience, buying some 400 houses “dumb ways,” 2,600+ the smart way; buying over $300-million of commercial property; 35 years; all compressed and condensed into a step-by-step System that he never had. Two, although he’s paid every week to speak, conduct seminars, and author books and courses, that’s NOT where the majority of his wealth came from or comes from. He does what he tells you to do. he still buys and “quick-turn” three to six ‘ordinary’ houses almost every month just to keep his hand in, with an average profit of over $60,000 a month.
After graduating with an engineering degree and then an MBA from Ohio State, Paul entered the management development track at Ford Motor Company in Detroit. After five years, he departed to start a staffing company with a partner. They sold it to a publicly traded firm five years later. Along the way, Paul was Finalist for Ernst & Young’s Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years straight (1996 & 1997).
Paul later entered the real estate sector, where he flipped over 50 homes and 25 high-end waterfront lots, appeared on HGTV’s House Hunters, rehabbed and managed rental properties, built a number of new homes, developed a subdivision, and started two successful online real estate marketing firms. He also built a number of other companies and made quite a few medium- and high-risk investments along the way.
Three successful developments, including assisting with development of a Hyatt hotel and a very successful multifamily project, led him into the commercial multifamily arena. Paul is married with 4 children and lives in Central Virginia.
Larry Higgins is a real estate investor based out of Houston, TX. After graduating from Texas A&M University in 2003, he began his career in construction project management which he thoroughly enjoyed until 2013, when for the first time in his life, he found himself in a job from which he got no sense of satisfaction and decided he needed to make a change. That’s when he decided it was time to quit and jump into real estate full time although he had zero experience in it and had never even done a deal.
Fortunately, during this transition, Larry stumbled across Mitch Stephen whose mentorship helped him hit the ground running.
Like so many other investors have experienced, before he knew it, Larry had a huge stack of returned mail from his mail campaigns and he knew he needed to do something with it. After getting in touch with several skip trace services he realized how expensive it can be to skip trace so he decided to learn how to become his own skip tracer. Two deals later and he fully realized how crucial it is to be able to skip trace returned mail.
But it wasn’t just the returned mail that got Larry’s attention. As he worked his business, he couldn’t help but notice that some letters weren’t returned for weeks, months, or even years (yes years) after they were initially mailed.
He also witnessed first-hand how in most cases where his mail was received and he happened to get an appointment, it had a lot to do with luck in what he calls the yellow letter lottery. This is where the seller has received a stack of mail from other investors and the seller decides to pick just two or three people to call and get offers. No matter how great you think your mailing list is, if you’re in a larger market, the odds are there’s at least a dozen if not dozens of other investors mailing the same people.
So with a keen understanding that he was losing valuable time and leaving too much to chance with mailing, he knew he needed to create a system that allowed him to skip trace high volumes of people or lists and then call or text them. In another stroke of luck, Larry had just started partnering with Will Denker, an established and successful investor in Houston. With their combined knowledge and experience and the great team Will already had assembled, they were able to create the system they envisioned.
Now that they have created this system they no longer do mail campaigns and they rely strictly on skip tracing lists of potentially motivated sellers and contacting them via phone calls or text messages and it’s transformed their business. The ability to skip trace high volumes of people in a cost-effective manner has not only given them the ability to find and call or text the potential sellers, but it allows them to scan the lists and identify great deals that are flying under every other investor’s radar. The bottom line result is that they are more successful at getting deals and the deals are much more profitable. After first implementing their system their average assignment fee grew from $10,000 to $22,000 and then after becoming much more targeted they doubled it again to their current average assignment fee of $44,000.
Because they now have their strategy defined and much more targeted, Larry and Will recently decided to create skipgenie.com to begin sharing their high-volume skip trace system with other investors in various markets around the country, and helping them develop and tailor a system around their specific goals.
Mike Bundrant is the founder of iNLP Center. He is an NLP Master Practitioner, IANLP Fellow Trainer and retired psychotherapist (NM).
Mike became a certified NLP practitioner in 1993 by taking a 27-day NLP certification course from Western States Training in Salt Lake City, UT. Tim Hallbom and Suzi Smith were co-trainers then. He was certified by Michael Grinder after three days of watching him razzle dazzle the room, and he’ll never forget that.
He jumped right on master track at that point by going to Santa Fe, NM and taking a 21-day intensive from NLP Santa Fe’s Jake Eagle and Nelson Zink. What a meaningful experience! In fact, it was so worthwhile that he packed up and moved to New Mexico and joined the NLP Santa Fe training team to learn how to be a trainer.
That journey began in 1994. In 1995, Mike had the opportunity to develop our NLP training presence in Toyko, Japan. He does believe he was the first American to conduct a full-fledged NLP practitioner certification in Japan (at least he feels good when he tells himself that). Since then, Mike has designed and taught several NLP courses every year as a master trainer, and has been fortunate enough to teach twice annually in Tokyo, sponsored by the great Kazuhiko Umemoto of Team Medicine and supported by the world’s best translator, Nobuko Kobayashi. The programs he teaches in Japan were recently certified by IANLP.
He co-wrote a book that was published in Japan in 2007. He calls it Holistic NLP. It represents his unique approach to the field. He provides the digital version of it to my online students free of charge.
Mike decided to take the NLP courses and certification program he developed over the years online, developing the iNLP Center. His disappointment at how NLP is advertised and perceived has driven him to create an honest curriculum that doesn’t hype NLP or pretend it is “easy” and will give you magical powers. It’s a wonderful set of skills that is sure to enhance your life. Is that enough for you?
Because of NLP, Mike’s been fortunate enough in life to do exactly what he wants. He couldn’t ask for anything more. What takes up most of his time is his family. He lives in Murrieta, CA with his wife, Hope, and their children.
What is NLP? Listen in and find out!
Kathy Fettke is CEO and Founder of Real Wealth Network based in Walnut Creek, CA, an organization dedicated to helping members get the most current and cutting edge education and information they need to succeed as real estate investors. Kathy is a licensed Realtor, former mortgage broker, and an active real estate investor She was selected as one of America’s “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” by Goldman Sachs at the 1st annual and now 2nd Annual Builders and Innovators Summit.
Kathy Fettke is an active real estate investor, licensed Realtor, certified coach, and former mortgage broker. She specializes in helping people build multi-million dollar real estate portfolios through through creative finance and planning. With a passion for researching and sharing the most important facts on real estate and economics, Kathy received her BA in Broadcast Communications from San Francisco State University and worked in the newsrooms of CNN, FOX, CTV, and ABC-7.
She’s past-president of American Women in Radio & Television. Kathy became a certified personal coach through the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California. In 2001, she took the coaching process to television and produced a cable show called “DREAM” which followed the process of 6 people going after their dreams over 90 days. Kathy noticed a theme on her Dream coaching show: most people didn’t have time for their dreams when they are spending all their time at work to make money to pay the bills. Her show sponsor was a real estate expert and the segments they produced changed her life. After interviewing dozens of real estate millionaires, Kathy discovered their best strategies for creating passive income streams. She and her husband bought numerous investment properties and since then learned the highs and lows of investing that can only come from hands-on experience.
Dr. Taylor Hartman, author of The Color Code, and a very successful clinical therapist with two Ph.D.’s after his name will tell you that his greatest achievement in life is not those Ph.D.’s. His greatest achievement is helping “the one” – the individual learning to see themselves clearly for the first time, and suddenly lit up with the possibilities before them.
There is power in knowledge – especially when that knowledge helps unlock the potential of success for you, and everyone around you!
Imagine what your life could be if you understood how to positively motivate yourself, your family, your co-workers – even your boss – and in the process build rock-solid relationships of trust! It would be so fun to get up in the morning and start the day.
Taylor Hartman International’s single purpose is to educate people from all walks of life about themselves and how they can most effectively enhance their personal and professional relationships.
Dr. Hartman is a dynamic speaker with a message that has immediate and powerful application in business and personal life. His keynote address will energize your group and prepare the way for further training through workshops and coaching by his trained consultants.
Dr. Hartman has appeared on numerous television programs including the TODAY Show, The Gayle King Show and The View with Barbara Walters. He has also been a guest on hundreds of syndicated radio shows and local TV spotlights and has penned many magazine articles.
Internationally recognized for his pithy candor and spirited presentations, Dr. Hartman gets to the heart of what matters quickly. During his eight years as a professor at the University of California at Long Beach, he was awarded the outstanding lecturer of the year.
Dr. Hartman’s first book, The Color Code (now titled The People Code), published by Simon and Schuster, is an international bestseller and has been translated into nine languages.
His work quickly became recognized for its simplicity and accuracy in understanding the unique complexities of human behaviors. His second book, Color Your Future (The Character Code), enriches and deepens the revolutionary theory initially expressed in The Color Code.
In addition to his seminar work, Dr. Hartman currently maintains a private practice for individuals seeking to improve the quality of their relationships and their personal mental health.
Steve is a passionate force within his agency. He has a deep understanding of the home and building industry and brings valuable insights on current trends and how they relate to consumers, architects, distributors, builders, remodelers, designers, and manufacturers. Steve’s past presentations and white papers include an exploration of Small Spaces, Social Media and Search as it relates to ROI… and consumer trends in relation to specific demographic groups.
He is president of the National Remodeling Foundation and the immediate past president of the National Kitchen & Bath Association’s Center for Kitchen and Bath Education and Research. He can talk about real estate, housing trends, the state of the housing economy, he can give a recap of IBS and K/BIS 2017.
Joy Gendusa is an entrepreneur, business owner, author, established speaker and philanthropist. She is the Founder and CEO of PostcardMania, a rapidly expanding marketing company specializing in lead generation for small to large-sized businesses. With only a phone, a computer and postcard marketing, Joy grew PostcardMania from a startup into an industry leader generating more than $49 million in annual revenue and employing more than 200 people in the Tampa Bay, FL area.
As a business leader, Joy has been awarded the Tampa Bay CEO of the Year, Entrepreneur BusinessWoman of the Year in Tampa Bay, and twice been an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. Her company, PostcardMania, has been named to the Inc. 500 and the Inc. 5000 lists and has helped over 73,000 small businesses with their marketing.
You can request free postcard samples from Joy’s company, PostcardMania, or connect with Joy by emailing Joy.Gendusa@PostcardMania.com.
Peter Vekselmann is one of those people to whom doing the usual and customary thing runs contrary to the way he’s wired. Instead of going the traditional and culturally accepted route of getting a job after college and working his way up the corporate ladder, Peter chose the uncertainty of the entrepreneurial lifestyle, founding multiple successful businesses before ultimately settling on real estate investing. After building one of the largest and most successful real estate investing companies in the southeastern United States, he continued adding affiliated businesses to his arsenal and realized one day that he was pioneering an entirely new and successful business model: providing clients with one source for all their needs.
Peter began getting franchise requests from people who wanted to learn how to achieve the results he had without the trial and error of developing and implementing an untested business plan and making mistakes along the way. When one of his staffers suggested he make himself available to a student to teach his system in a one-on-one learning environment, Peter accepted and did that very successfully for a period of time. In the beginning, it was a markedly unstructured learning environment. Numerous students took advantage of his unorthodox coaching clinics. As he continued teaching students, Peter’s teaching methods got increasingly better and the number of requests for personal coaching grew. His real estate company and his holdings continued to grow.
Torn between a desire to continue investing in real estate and to coach investing students’ eager to tap into his knowledge so they could build businesses of their own, Peter once again found himself at a crossroads. It became clear that while he loved real estate investing, his true calling was in teaching others how to succeed in the rough and tumble world of real estate investing. Peter developed a unique curriculum that takes the needs of his students into consideration. Years later, he’s convinced that it’s working. Instead of a three day interaction with a student that barely scratches the surface of what he wants and needs to teach, Peter now gives his students a one year immersion into real estate investing – 12 months of practical hands-on learning. He’s able to teach everything he has learned about real estate investing and how to make money.
Whether the market is up, down, or somewhere in between, Peter loves teaching his students how to become self-assured, confident, and successful investors able to achieve their goals and surpass the expectations of what they hope to accomplish by investing in real estate. This is what he will do for you, using a Develop, Teach, and Do proven method. He looks forward to playing a part in your success.
Since 1980, Eddie Speed has dedicated his professional life to the Note buying industry, seller financing, and non-performing notes. He’s introduced innovative ideas and strategies that have positively impacted the way the industry operates today. Fifteen years ago, Eddie founded NoteSchool, which is a highly recognized training company, specialized in the teaching of buying performing and nonperforming discounted mortgage notes. He is also a principal of Colonial Capital Management LLC, which is a private equity fund that acquires discounted real estate secured notes.
In 2016, Eddie received the special recognition of being honored as the first inductee into the SBRE Hall of Fame along with the Think Realty Award of Distinction for Alternative – Asset Investor of the Year. Thus far, in 2017, Eddie has been awarded Mentor of the Year from the Note Investor Summit.
Ace bought his first business when he was nineteen. It was an online stock market simulator called CoolWallStreet. After selling it and seeing the benefits in buying a business over starting one, he caught the business buying bug. Since then he has bought and sold over thirty businesses and has helped his clients all over the world buy over one hundred businesses.
Rescuing small businesses is all the rage on television, whether it’s Jon Taffer with Bar Rescue or Tabitha Coffey’s Salon Takeover. Despite the fact that none of them do it, these TV shows are fueling interest in a new trend. Move over Real Estate Flippers, Ace Chapman is building a nationwide group of business flippers.
Ace bought his first business at 19 with some savings from a summer job and caught the business buying bug. He leveraged $3,000 he saved working the summer before college into buying a business for $70,000. Over the last 16 years, he has bought 40 businesses. Everything ranging from a Mortgage Company to a Clothing Retailer.
And right now he is seeing an explosion in the market for businesses under $2,000,000. “There are millions of Baby Boomer business owners who will bring their business to market in the next decade so they can retire. During the recession, many baby boomers wanted to sell their company but decided to hold off until better economic times.”
At the same time, many entrepreneurs are realizing the risks associated with starting from scratch are too high and are deciding to buy an existing profitable business instead.
Business sales saw a spike in 2013. While we saw a 68% increase in 2013 according to BizBuySell.com, business brokers expect 2014 to be even bigger. And while private equity firms are well positioned to take advantage of this increase in inventory, very few are paying attention to what Ace calls the MicroPrivate Equity Market.
Ace began working with first-time business buyers of business buyers and helping them find, do due diligence, and finance small business acquisitions. “I have had a lot of people who find me and ask to invest in my deals. I’d rather show you what I am doing than take your money and have to split my returns.”
Joshua Paschall is a 27-year-old entrepreneur who is originally from Bronx, NY and is currently residing in Atlanta, Ga. He flipped his first property for a $3,000 assignment fee in September of 2013 while living in an extended stay motel (practically homeless) and going through the roughest time of his life to date. Since then he’s gone on to doing over 100 deals, purchased a home for himself and his family cash (no more homeless) and has become financially FREE. Now he’s all about growing as a person mentally, spiritually, and financially. Also, he feels it’s his mission to help others who are going through what he went through just like his mentors have helped him.
Allison Shreeve’s business specializes in global lead and traffic generation for entrepreneurs, network marketers, product launches, startups, small, medium and large businesses. Her background comes from 16 years as a professional and amateur Windsurfer. Having won 4 World titles, a World Speed record and Australia’s Female Sailor of the year, Allison knows how to win and dominate in her industry for over 10 years. What she can bring to your business is not only Social Media strategies and proven lead generation and social media techniques, but a champion mindset for your business, where no matter how your business is going right not, you can always perform better, or if you are already at the top, how to stay there!
Her clients are worldwide including authors, small local businesses, to large corporations, US Presidential Candidates, and some of the world’s Top Marketers, Coaches, and Speaking Professionals. She has been fortunate enough to be invited to speak on some of the globe’s most prestigious Marketing stages. Her students enjoy unparalleled service and support through our unique, private, and personal live consultations.
She enjoys helping her clients and students achieve real financial results using the Internet (specifically, Social Media and Marketing Strategies, Facebook, YouTube, Linkedin, Webinars, Google+, Product creation and development and Twitter).
Her world-wide team of specialists have been helping clients and students globally generate 1000’s of leads each day using specialized strategies that allow Facebook Pages to actually dominate the Facebook and Google Search Engines. She has taught these specialized techniques to students globally at the Global Traffic Seminar, Social Media Business Seminar, through webinars and via one: one coaching. Her business provides 24-hour live support in Russian, Thai, Mandarine, Vietnamese, and English with support staff on 4 continents.
Dan Schwartz is an entrepreneur whose passion is solving problems that help other entrepreneurs find freedom to pursue the life they desire. Everything he does centers around leveraging technology effectively so others can focus on what matters most to them.
Aside from his entrepreneurial endeavors, Dan also plays and produces music.
Dan’s specialties: Software, B2B SaaS, Real Estate Marketing, Real Estate Lead Generation, Sales / Business Development, Real Estate Investing, Strategic Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Online Marketing; Real Estate Wholesaling; Private Lending, Direct Marketing, Brand Management; WOM Promotion; Music Production; Event Production; REO/Foreclosure and short sale acquisitions, Real Estate coaching.
Peter Kolat has the enviable talent of being an expert Internet marketer on top of being a real estate investor. He’s been consulting for many real estate gurus in the real estate industry. When it comes to real estate investing, he has extensive experience in commercial, residential, and development investing.
As a marketer, Peter Kolat is considered an expert in Internet marketing and social media marketing. His Free Internet Marketing Techniques helped many real estate investors & agents dominate their real estate markets on the internet. No wonder he’s been called the “Polish Pulverizer.”
Polish Peter was born in Poland in what he believes is one of the most beautiful cities called Zakopane. During his early childhood, he lived in a 14’X14′ room which was his bedroom, living room, kitchen, and dining room. The bathroom was a community restroom down the hall. Yes, that was a lot of fun.
Peter immigrated to the United States when he was 14 years old and did not speak any English. One of his earliest English language struggles was: “Am I Polish (nationality) or polish (state of being polished).” Yeah, that was fun as well.
By the way, not sure if you know this but money grows on trees in the US, palm trees are everywhere, beautiful high skyscrapers and people driving sports cars and loving life. (that was Peter’s perception of US before he came here).
And then I ended up in a small town right smack in the middle of Detroit! Imagine his surprise!
Fast forward to where he is today…
Peter lives in a beautiful suburb, about 30 minutes north of Detroit. He owns his own consulting and business growth company that works with high 6 figure and 7 figure businesses in about 16 different industries. A few years ago, Peter was featured in a Fast Company magazine as one of the “Top 100 most influential people on the internet.”
But what keeps him getting up in the morning is the fact that he can help people, that he can have an impact on someone’s life, that he can give them that gift of having that “aha” moment, that moment in their life that sparks something new, that drives them to a new way of living, that gives them that hope, that gives them that new life in their business, their family, their life…
And that’s why he started Immigrant Masters Unite, a podcast for immigrant business owners and entrepreneurs. It all started as interviews, talks with other successful immigrants to share their success stories, their trials, their so-called “insider secrets” to help you, to have an impact on your life!
And as they say, the rest is history…
On a more personal note…
Peter has 3 amazing kids (as of writing this, they are 13, 9 and 8 – a girl and 2 boys) which he loves, adores, and after God, always come first. His other love is the Detroit Red Wings (been a huge fan since he came here in the States in ’91), skiing, hockey, soccer, reading amazing books, working out at the gym and coaching/helping others. He also sits on a board for an amazing nonprofit called CARE of Southeast Michigan and after you listen to his podcast, you’ll know why.
Don Costa is a married father of 3. He has been in the house flipping game since 2003. He almost lost everything in the crash and he rebuilt his business in 2012. His company currently does around 100 homes a year.
Don started flipping houses when he was unemployed. The unemployment check only covered his living expenses and so he had to find a way to find deals, get funding for them and to fix them so that he could sell them and profit.
He got a notice of default list and began going door to door to try to buy houses from the people about to face foreclosure.
To buy and fix up the houses, he worked out a deal with a money partner to joint venture. The money partner would put up the funds. He would find the deals and manage the fix-up and they would split the profits 50/50.
Not all deals are 50/50, we discuss some of the other terms investors use and how those are determined. Basically, the more value you bring to the table for the joint venture, the more you should make out of the deal. If you are finding incredible deals, managing the rehabs and getting them sold, shouldn’t you be asking for a 60/40 split? Heck yes.
Don didn’t have money to make monthly payments to hard money and private money lenders. He didn’t have money to spend on rehabs before getting draws from lenders. He had to joint venture.
He still joint ventures to this day. The reason is that he always wants to do as many deals as he can. Joint venturing allows him to be able to do that.