5 Ways to Get More Money NOW!

0:00 Dude, did you see that thing on Facebook with that cop in Las Vegas who was shooting through his windshield at the main suspect? No. Oh my god, it's so sick. What happened? So, like, he's trying to pull these guys over and they shoot at him from the back of their car. They have a stolen car. So, dude, he's chasing them and then he pulls out his Glock and he starts shooting through his own windshield at these guys. Damn. And then, dude, he gets next to him and he's like, blah, blah, blah, blah.

0:34 Like, he unloads an entire clip into this guy's car. The car, like, slows down and then it, like, hits the side of this, like, elementary school. He reloads and then just gets out of his car and just unloads into this car, like, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack. Yeah. And I guess he kills the driver, but the passenger or something like that gets away. Dude, it's so sick. Like, just Google police shoot through windshield in Chase or Las Vegas police pursuit. It's super sick. That's insane, dude.

1:06 Damn. I'll put it up on Silence's Consent with Aaron, the news site we're working with. Yeah, bro. It's super sick. And do you have any guns? You're in D.C. I do not. Not yet. But yeah. Oh, I got my concealed carry, man. Oh, thank God, dude. Fuck yeah. Oh, okay. You're on that level. All right. I am, yeah. That's awesome. Because sometimes I tell people, yeah, man, I got my concealed carry, and they're like, why would you do that? Yeah. And it's just mentality, so yeah.

1:36 Why the fuck not? Like, yeah. Yeah, I don't use it very often, to be honest. But, you know, if I'm in a CD area, I have my Glock in my car. Yeah, that's good. And I conceal it. Do you know what appendix carry is? It's kind of like in the front. Yeah, yeah. Like, 1 p.m. almost, like kind of right next to your cock. Okay, yeah. Yeah. So, my friends all conceal carry, and like, they're all about it. So, when I saw him shooting through the windshield, I watch a lot of tactical videos, and when I saw him shooting through the windshield, I was like, damn, that actually works.

2:07 I thought police cars had bulletproof glass on them, but. Yeah. I feel like it would shatter the whole window, too, wouldn't it? No, like, you'll see in the video, it just makes holes. That's awesome. And I don't think it was effective fire from that, but once he got up next to him, dude, he's just fucking unloading it, like, six feet away, and I was like, damn, this guy is fucking legit. Damn, that's pretty fucking awesome. Anyway. I'm definitely going to check that out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll send you the link.

2:34 All right, man, when you're ready to get started. All right, just give me a cue. Go. Welcome to the Unapologetic Man Podcast. The only podcast that's all about self-improvement, confidence, success, money, women, and being a fucking man without making any apologies for it. I'm your host, John Anthony. And I'm Mark Singh. And today, we're going to be talking about, basically, in a nutshell, how to make money. The title of this video, correct me if I'm wrong, Mark, but it's going to be five ways to make more money now.

3:05 And we're going to be dividing it into different subsections, which we'll discuss today. And those are going to be mindset, the underlying principles to making money, strategies to making money, the skill sets to making money, and how to start a business from scratch. This is going to be a multi-part series, but today, we're just going to kind of touch upon each topic and give you guys a little taste of everything. So with that in mind, do you want to just dive right into mindset, Mark? Yeah.

3:32 So with mindset, which is actually the most important thing when trying to attract more money into your life. And when it comes to money, there's two fundamental emotions that most people are run by. And those are fear and greed. So the first thing is to ask yourself is, how do you feel about money? Are you one of those people that says money doesn't grow on trees, or I can't afford that, or do you have negative feelings about money? Like when I say the word money, how does it make you feel right now?

4:02 Ideally, you'd want to feel good about money. But a lot of people, especially those people that don't have it, feel bad about it. And we don't want to delve too much into the law of attraction, but basically, the way it works is like attracts like. And when you resonate with something, when you love something, when you feel good about something, it gets attracted into your life. So the most important thing, just starting out, is just your mindset about money. Like how does it make you feel?

4:33 First, you'll identify that. And then what you do is you want to get into a situation where you're in a towards mindset, towards money. So a lot of people will be like, I want to get a job and I want to make money to avoid being poor, to avoid having to be out on the streets, to avoid having to be in a bad situation. But those people that are good with money always have a towards mindset. The reason I want money is because I want to experience good things.

5:04 I want this. I want that. When you're in an away from mentality, and this is true with women as well, when you're like, I don't want to be lonely, I don't want to get rejected, I don't want to get laughed at, you're going to be far less effective than when you're in a towards mentality, which is like, I want to be the man, I want to be the pimp. And when it comes to money, it's like, I want to go on vacations, I want to like have that challenge and conquer it.

5:27 I want to start this business so that I can change people's lives. So initially, as we get started into this, really focus on your mindset and feel where you're at with your mindset surrounding money. And also try to get into a towards mentality where you're going after money to accomplish something good rather than going after money to avoid something bad. Yeah, that's really key. So there's a few points you made there that I really want to touch on. And the first is your emotions, right? So I'm a very naturally just logical person.

6:02 So, you know, for a long time, I was just like, oh, emotions, like those are stupid. Why do I need those? Like, I just think about things logically and, you know, just think logically. But emotions in a lot of ways are actually, I think, more intelligent than analytical thought could ever be. I mean, emotions are basically the guiding force of your life, whether you realize it or not. Like, if you're constantly afraid of something, which, you know, includes money, because you're afraid of the responsibilities that come with it.

6:33 Or, you know, if you whenever you think of money, you think of you have emotions of, you know, fear and anxiety, because whenever you think of money, you're thinking, oh, you know, will I be able to pay this month's rent? Will I be able to afford my kids tuition? Whatever it is, if you're constantly experiencing negative emotions regarding money, then you're not going to get far. And like you said, I think that that playing to win mindset is super, super fucking key, because, like, you know, it's the difference between playing to win and playing to not lose, right?

7:07 When you play to not lose, your reticular activation system, your RAS, which is basically the part of your brain that chooses what to focus in on, and it kind of filters out information that you think is irrelevant. Your RAS is going to focus on everything that could go wrong, right? So, you know, when you walk up to a girl, or when you start a business, or when you, you know, do something that you're afraid to do, if you're playing to not lose, you're going to be focusing on, okay, this could go wrong, that could go wrong, right?

7:36 And it's going to, you know, give you these emotions of fear, and it's going to hinder you, instead of playing to win, where it's like, okay, these are all the things that could go really fucking well. So, you're going to have these emotions of ambition and confidence, and, you know, in a lot of ways, it's like a self-fulfilling prophecy, right? It's like, whatever you believe is going to happen, in a lot of ways, it is going to happen. And this is super paradoxical, too, because, like, a lot of guys get caught up.

8:00 Like, I can just hear, like, you know, people thinking in the background, like, as they're listening to this, and, you know, this is something I would have thought, too, when I first heard this, like, 10 years ago, is I would have thought, oh, that's dumb. I mean, like, shouldn't you know about the things that could go wrong? And the answer is yes, but you shouldn't obsess about them, and they shouldn't be your primary concern. Right. And with that, too, it's like, let's say you're going to make a financial decision.

8:22 Well, many people make their financial decisions based on emotions, like greed and fear. Those are the two, like, you actually taught me this, John, is that greed and fear are what run the markets, right? It's like when people get greedy, they start buying, and when they get fearful, they start selling, and that's what makes it go up and down. But a lot of the times when you're making a financial decision, you want to try to separate out and actually become more logical and try to get away from those emotions as much as possible.

8:52 Because like we see with women, and I always go back to women because that's my specialty. And like we see with women, when you are run by your emotions, you see how much the emotions fuck you over. You're like, don't call her, bro. Like Mark Singh says, don't call her, so I'm not going to call her. I'm not going to call her. But what if she's waiting for me to call? But what if this? What if that? I just have to call her. And then you call her, and you just get blown out.

9:14 Like, you blow yourself out because you act like a little bitch, and you act on your emotions. And so a lot of the times when making a financial decision, it's best to try to separate your emotions. And one good way to do that is to make a pros and a cons list. And you make a very logical list, which shows, okay, this will be a pragmatic decision because of this, this, and this. And if you act on the emotion of greed, or if you act on the emotion of fear, that's a lot of times when people get screwed over.

9:43 And it's funny because with money, you'll see people make decisions where it's like they just keep losing their money over and over again. Like, fuck, no matter what I do, I always buy at the wrong time. I always sell at the wrong time. And I'm just, I'm just losing money. And it's a lot of times because of those emotions. So like anything else, I think discipline is one of the most important things that a person can have. I think it's one of the most important virtues, having discipline to eat right, to go work out, to, to know how to deal with women and especially money.

10:14 I mean, if you can't afford it, money is very black and white. Either you have the money to afford that or you don't. But a lot of people won't even look like, people don't even look in their bank accounts. Like one of the money, one of the money gurus that I follow says to look in your bank accounts and your finances every single day. Even if it's hard for you to look at, like even if you're kind of in a shitty financial situation, the more you look at it and the more you accept what's happening, the more you can make logical decisions.

10:43 Because it's like, I'm looking at it every day. So the fear isn't, it's like reducing every time I look at it. Okay, now I can like pay off my bills. Now I can set up a payment system. I can invest in assets rather than liabilities and I can act logically to advance, you know, my money situation without fear and greed guiding my decisions. Yeah. And that's, uh, that's really key. Cause like, I mean, you know, like you said, uh, fear and greed are what drive the markets.

11:11 Right. So I, um, I've been trading Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and the stock market and, and futures and everything for the past like five or six years. And, um, this is, uh, something that we're going to see a lot of because I don't know if you guys knew this or if you knew this mark, but recently Bitcoin just went up like 10% in a day. Um, and, and, uh, you know, for the people that know how to read the markets, like we could see this coming because Bitcoin was struggling at this key support level for like a long time, I think like a week or two weeks or something.

11:40 And, um, then basically what we see is everyone saw that the support level was going to hold. It wasn't going to go any lower and immediately just billions of dollars rushed into crypto, which is that, that greed aspect, right? People are like, Oh shit, it's, it's finally going to go up now. Right. And that's not necessarily a bad thing because I think it actually is going to go up. But, um, you know, it's, I mean, I've, I've lost $30,000 in a, I think like a week was, was like the most I ever lost in the market because I know, because I didn't have my fear and my greed in check.

12:13 Uh, Warren Buffett says, be greedy when others are fearful. And fearful when others are greedy. And, um, so on this, on this topic, uh, as a side note, I'm launching a cryptocurrency trading course where you guys can actually follow me. I'll tell you exactly what I'm buying and selling. I'm going to go over everything. Um, I'm launching it July 24th. So it's this next Tuesday. And, um, I go over this in that course, you know, it's fear and greed that drive the markets, fear and greed.

12:38 It's, you know, people like, for example, in December of 2017, when Bitcoin was at an all time high, uh, you know, the news started just shilling cryptocurrencies and they were saying, Oh, Bitcoin, you know, it's going to hit a thousand dollars, $10,000, a hundred thousand dollars next. And, you know, all this dumb money that we like to call it just rushed in and, uh, you know, became greedy basically. And then, you know, when it topped out at 20 K everyone became fearful and just dumped and, um, you see, this is why 99% of people lose money in the stock market, lose money in crypto, lose money in life.

13:09 It's just because they let their emotions guide their decision-making process. Right. So didn't you, you were telling me over text, you did a pretty good trade recently. What was that? Yeah. Yeah. So, um, a couple of days ago, I, um, I kind of like, I, I fell out of trading for a while just cause I was like focused on their stuff, but you know, I decided to get back into it and just kind of look at the markets, uh, about a week ago. And, um, I identified a really good trade that I saw.

13:36 And, um, it's, so it's, it's this actual, it's this, it's meme basically it's called Dogecoin. It was a cryptocurrency that was started as a joke, but it has a very predictable pattern. And, um, I basically saw that it was perfectly lined up to, uh, to make some good money over like the next, you know, uh, week to two weeks. And so I bought some of it, uh, I think two days ago and it's up like 50% so far. Hey dude, um, thank you so much for texting me and letting me know you were buying that.

14:04 Really appreciate you, brother. Oh, of course dude. Yeah. No, I mean sarcastic, you douche. You didn't fucking tell me. Oh shit. I didn't. No. I thought I, I thought I actually, maybe I sent you, I must, I must've, uh, told you afterwards. But, um, you told me afterwards, you're like, bro, I just made like, like 600 bucks in 30 minutes. I was like, ah, Hey, thanks for keeping me posted, brother. I'm sorry, man. I'll text you next time. I'm going to give you a free copy of the course, of course, and, uh, get all the notifications in the course.

14:31 But, um, yeah, I mean, do I get to be in the executive suite where I look over your shoulder and, uh, see you do everything? Absolutely. You're going to get, uh, part of the, the millionaires, the mindset group and everything. And, um, just, you know, uh, the million, millionaires executive suite, I think is what we decided to call it and just, uh, get notifications when I, you know, when I buy and sell exactly when I buy and sell it. Um, so for anyone wondering, by the way, let me, let me actually pull this up.

14:55 I can look at it right now. Um, so I bought Dogecoin at, I think, uh, it's like 40 Satoshis, which is 0.000040 of a Bitcoin and, um, in that time since I bought that, so I bought it two, two days ago in the time since I bought that it's gone up, uh, in and of itself, it hit 0.55 point, you know, 55 Satoshis today. I think it's going to continue going up, but, um, Bitcoin went up as well. Uh, so it's sort of like an exponential effect because the, the value of Dogecoin went up, uh, in terms of its value, uh, relative to Bitcoin and the value of Bitcoin went up in terms of its relative value to the USD.

15:35 So I ended up making like 50%. I think it's like 45, 50% so far. Nice. But, um, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's, um, you know, and like, as I was just, I was like at the gym today, I was reading through the news and it was just like, I was, you know, looking at, uh, like all these different news websites that we're talking about, cryptocurrency and Bitcoin. And it's like, it's either fear or greed, right? So I can pull it up now. I can pull it up literally right now.

15:57 And, um, one of them right now is like, uh, let me see, uh, DJ King crypto banker predicts Bitcoin will hit 60 K by the end of the year. Right. So it's like greed, greed based. Um, uh, Warren Buffett calls Bitcoin, uh, rat poison squared, or sorry, Charlie Munger, who's like Bitcoin's, uh, or, uh, Warren Buffett's, um, advisor or whatever, his, his co-founder of Berkshire Hathaway. Bitcoin, not a real currency risky for unsophisticated investors. Uh, John McAfee predicts Bitcoin will hit 1 million by 2020. Like it's, it's all fear and greed based, right?

16:32 The news. Yeah. And, um, you know, it's just funny how when you adapt that mindset, you kind of see like how everyone thinks and it allows you to make rational decisions based off of how everyone else's is thinking with fear and greed. Um, Warren Buffett said that the stock market is a device that transfers money from the pockets of people who were impatient to the pockets of people that are patient. Yeah. Right. And that's just something that I like so wholeheartedly believe because I mean, as I, you know, made 50% over the past two days from a cryptocurrency, I'm, I'm basically laughing at everyone who like sold, you know, cause they're like, Oh, it's so low now.

17:10 You know, Bitcoin is it, I think it's like 7,300 right now. They're like, Oh, you know, it's, it's so low. I'm going to sell. Yeah. And then, you know, in a month it's going to be up even more. And, um, so now is the time to get in more. Cause I'm already in, I've got like 3,500 in just a little bit. Um, but now is the time to buy more, right? Cause it's down. Definitely. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's what I always do is, um, it's, it's, uh, difficult to pinpoint the exact location of when it's, when it's going to bottom out.

17:37 But I mean, in the grand scheme of things now is a good time to buy, you know, we might see a dip and a retest of the 7,000 level. And, um, of course I'm going to go more into this in my, you know, in my course and I'm going to put up, uh, crypto updates on YouTube eventually. But, um, you know, now is a good time to buy. If you have a little bit of money, just put it into crypto right now. You know, the, the big ones, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, uh, Bitcoin cash, and just hold it for, you know, a year, two years.

18:03 And you'll be sitting very, very well. Nice. Nice. We weren't, uh, really planning to get that deep into it, but, um, that's exciting news, man, especially, especially now. And it's down, everybody's like, oh, it's, it's going down, it's down. But, um, you were showing me the charts the other day and I was like, man, based on the, based on all the principles and like the, the, the, um, you know, the patterns that it takes, it almost seems like it's going to kind of start going up again soon.

18:30 So I'm going to go ahead and invest a little bit more now since it's down and, uh, follow the principles, man, and not get into my emotions. Definitely. Yeah. And that kind of brings us to the second point, which is the, the principles of making money, basically the principles of wealth. And, um, I guess, you know, one of them for me has been, um, always buy things that you feel like they're an investment, right? And that doesn't have to be like a stock or a cryptocurrency, but like we were talking before, it's like, you know, Mark pays a whole bunch of money, uh, consulting different experts and getting coaching and, and, you know, different, uh, like experts in their fields and getting wisdom from them.

19:07 And, um, like that's an investment in yourself. And I do the same, you know, I'm always buying books and, and reading new things and watching new videos and going to seminars and learning. And, um, you know, you should always ask yourself, like, is this thing that I'm buying, is it an investment in myself or is it just a, you know, a shiny item? Um, and it's not that there's anything wrong with shiny items, so to speak. I mean, you know, I want to have a fucking Lamborghini one day, but you know, in order to get to that point, you have to invest in yourself, invest in your education, buy courses, buy books, you know, just read and learn.

19:41 Yeah, absolutely. So there, there's two, there's two types of investments. One is an asset and an asset is what basically makes you money while you sleep. It's where you're having your money work for you rather than against you. And then there's a liability and liability is basically something you buy and it loses half its value, you know, like a car when you drive it off the lot. So a lot of the times the toys we have, they're liabilities and assets are things like, um, investing in a home that goes up and that goes up in value where you have renters in it.

20:14 Um, getting yourself into a situation where you're getting royalties, where you're getting paid, um, investing in the stock market, including Bitcoin, where you're, where your money is actually making you money. So it's like, imagine you have a dollar bill and he's like a little worker and like, you could either kill him or you can send them into the workforce to make you more money. So you want to stack the assets. Yeah. So he's going in there and he's, he's making you more. And by the way, um, something I think about when we're going to talk about strategies, but money attracts money.

20:46 So what I do is I actually have money all around my house. I have right here on my desk, I have stacks of hundred dollar bills wrapped with like wrapped with rubber bands, kind of like a gangster, just like sitting over there on my desk. Cause like money likes its friends. It wants to hang out with his friends. And like, I have a drawer of money in my kitchen. It's like every time I open it, there's just money in there. And, um, a little trick you can do is get like 99, 100 or $1 bills and then put a hundred dollar bill on top of it and wrap it with, um, wrap it with a rubber band and have that sitting on your desk.

21:18 It looks like there's this fat stack of hundreds and that's, that's one strategy to attract more money to yourself. But like John was saying, you want to invest in assets and what's the single best asset you can invest in, John? Yourself. Yourself. That's absolutely right. Because think about it, like, think about yourself as like a machine, right? Or like a lot of, a lot of people like video games. I'm personally not that into them, but like a video game, right? So like you get your soldier and then you can like slap a, slap a vest on him and then you can have night vision goggles and then you can upgrade his Glock 17, like the one that was shooting through the police window during, during that car chase today.

21:56 And like, you can upgrade that dude and like, he becomes more and more badass and then you can slay more guys and, and, and get all the chicks. Well, what's the difference between that and you? When you invest in yourself, you're investing in a long-term asset that can always make you money, that can always get you girls, that can always get you exactly what you want because you're putting money into it and that the government can't tax it. In fact, when you invest in yourself, you can use that as a tax write-off, which is what I do.

22:25 I invest in coaches and every single coaching dollar I spend comes out of my taxes and it's what I don't have to pay the government because it's a business investment. So invest in yourself, especially if you're making, I always say if you're making $250,000 or less, people say, well, what should I invest in? Good things are like Bitcoin, the stock market, but also, and most importantly is yourself because you're basically building that warrior, right? You're getting him the tactical vest, you're getting him the tactical dog and like the sick boots and the, the cry precision multi-cam pants and like you're getting him ready for war so that when the opportunities do come, you've been studying, you've been reading books, you've been working with mentors, you've been putting all this into yourself so that when the opportunity does come, when that hot girl does walk across the street and she crosses the corner and you're like, holy shit, that's the hottest girl I've seen in six months.

23:17 You're going to have the skill set to be able to approach her, open her up, get her attracted to you and walk away with her phone number. You're going to be able to see a monetary situation where you've been studying, you've been studying financial books, you've been studying courses, you've been doing all that where you see an opportunity and you can walk into that opportunity and walk away from it by, with making more money. And while we're on the subject, I wanted to quickly, quickly tell you about how I do one on one coaching for seduction.

23:45 Just go ahead and click the link below if you want to check out my sales page. I won't go too far into it, but I will say this, when you invest in yourself, when you actually put that money into you and you work with a one on one coach, which is what I do every single week, I work with a coach one on one, your results will absolutely skyrocket far beyond any course you can take, any like weekend workshop you can go to. When you're talking with me directly, we are going to absolutely destroy your sticking points and get you to the results you want in the quickest way possible.

24:19 Because again, we are making that machine run smoothly, seamlessly, and we're going to like, you know, super track you to your goals in the quickest way possible. So that's my little rant on assets. Do you have anything you want to add to that, John? Absolutely. I mean, I like what you said, because, um, you know, that's the power of having a mentor. It's like all of the, it's like what you'll find in life. What I found in life is that you'll make, you'll generally follow this pattern.

24:44 And the way this pattern goes is you'll make a lot of like little tiny improvements in your life in different areas. And then you'll find a mentor through either a book or through a person like with your coaching or, uh, you know, through a seminar, like something of that nature. And then your results will explode. And then, you know, you'll make little incremental results every now and then, and then you'll find, you know, another piece of wisdom from maybe another mentor from maybe the same mentor and your results will explode.

25:13 And just like looking back at my life, it's always been the people, the mentors that have caused rapid explosions in my results. And that's something that like really can't be understated. I mean, or I'm sorry, that's something that can't be overstated is that you need mentors. Like you need people that have been there because nothing is going to change you and your life faster than someone who knows exactly what to do and can tailor their advice specifically to you. The way I like to look at it is like, let's say you're a little, you're a little fire, right?

25:46 You're like a little tiny fire burning and you're trying to get bigger. And then I go ahead and put you next to a raging fire. What's going to happen to your fire when you're, when you're next to this raging fire, when you surround yourself with people who already have what you want. And by the way, going back to the financial thing, when you surround yourself with millionaires, which I consciously try to do, when you talk to people who have financial success, hang around with them, man, take them to lunch, you know, and just pick their brain.

26:14 When you get around those people, it's amazing what it does for your life. Like when you're around dudes who pull chicks, you're going to get laid. When you're around dudes who pull money, you're going to just start automatically making more money. And it always, it even comes down to your home. Like the type of people you live around, the type of people you hang around. Like I'd be willing to pay way more rent to be in an affluent area than I would to save a couple bucks and be in a shitty area simply because of the mentality of the people around me.

26:43 I would pay much more because I know I'm smart enough to know that that investment is going to multiply itself simply because of my surroundings, your surroundings and the people you surround yourself with is extremely important. Absolutely. I mean, that's how you learn, right? Is through osmosis, you know, like that's, that's the way that people learn, uh, the most naturally. I mean, when you're a kid, how do you learn to speak your language? You know, do you sit down and read a fucking book and like conjugate verbs?

27:13 No, you're just like, you're around people that speak your language and you just pick it up. I'm like, that's how people learn naturally. And so if you can surround yourself either, you know, the best is in person. The best is if you can actually live with someone, have a roommate that is, you know, just 100% killing it in life. Cause you'll pick it up fast. The second best is if you can get access to someone through like a coaching program or through like online mentorship through the phone or like, you know, in-person sessions.

27:38 And then the third best would be like books, right? But I mean, if you can like surround yourself with those influences, you'll learn so much faster than anything else could possibly, uh, teach you. Yeah. By the way, on this subject, um, the book that I would like to suggest to you guys is a rich dad, poor dad. Have you, have you read that John? Yeah. Yeah. It's a good book. Yeah. It's a really good book. So I think that's good to, to kind of get you started on this track.

28:01 Uh, rich dad, poor dad, anything by Robert Kiyosaki. And also if you want to jump on YouTube, I suggest, I suggest Dan lock L O K is his last name. His YouTube videos are legit. Like seriously, I, you watch his stuff too, right? John? Yeah. Yeah. Um, so rich dad, poor dad is great too, because, um, it kind of lays down like the underlying mindset behind. So the idea is, is basically this guy, Robert Kiyosaki had two dads. One was like a stepfather. One was his actual dad and his actual dad was, uh, really poor and his, his stepfather was like really rich.

28:34 And so he just got to observe the differences in their mindsets and their, their kind of approach to life and some money. Uh, and he, he chronicles this in that book. And, uh, Dan lock is really good because he like lays down the mindset of thinking bigger than you are currently thinking and how you should always like go to like the, the big pond, right? It's better to be a small fish in a big pond than it is to be a big fish in a small pond.

28:56 And, uh, Dan lock's whole thing is like high ticket sales, right? It's like the ultimate abundance, like focused on the top 1% of people. Yeah. I love like, uh, listen to his playlist. I think it's called boss in the Bentley, man. He gives, he gives a million dollar advice in that, in that playlist alone. Like I just listened to it over and over and over again. I was like, fuck, man, this guy has given away some amazing stuff. So, uh, check out those two resources for sure.

29:21 So, uh, you ready to jump into three strategies? Yeah, let's do it. All right. So what I wanted to talk about is, um, you know, the way life works is really interesting. If you're short of something, what should you do? You should give it first and then it'll come back to you in buckets. So if you want to smile, give a smile. If you want to laugh, give a laugh. If you want to compliment, give a compliment. You can give love. And if you want money, I know you're going to hate this.

29:49 Give money. When you give it away, it actually comes back to you. Now you're thinking, well, dude, how much do I have to give? I don't have a lot. That's why I'm listening to this podcast. I want more. So what I do is, um, from my businesses, I'll take my net profit and I'll take 10% and I'll, I'll put that in my savings. So that goes into the savings, whether it's the stack of a hundred dollar bills in my drawer, in my kitchen or on my desk, whatever.

30:14 I'll keep that for myself. And hopefully I'll invest it into assets. The stock market, um, right now I'm looking to buy, buy a house. I can get renters into, uh, Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, et cetera. And then what you want to do, which is probably maybe 3% of your money, depending on how much you make and how much you feel you can give away, just give it away. Give it to a bum on the street, donate it to a charity, give it to a friend, uh, give your friend gifts.

30:40 You know what I mean? Like actually my mentor that I'm totally like, I really, really like, like this guy. Um, I'm giving John one of my sessions and John's like, man, thank you so much for that. And little does he know it's for a selfish reason. No, I'm just kidding. Um, yeah, you know, when you, when you give away, when you're, when you're really, when you're really, um, gracious with your money, it's amazing. Just more opportunities will come back to you because that's how the universe works, right?

31:07 Like we talked about like attracts, like I'm going to give to you. It's going to come back. It's circular. Think about energy. It's a circular thing. It goes out, comes back in, goes out, comes back in. If you stop it and you're a miser and you hoard it and you're like, no, I don't want to give that to you. Like, fuck off. It's, it's just going to find ways to like, just not come into your life. Money is a circular energy. So you give it away and it comes back and it's, it's circular in that way.

31:32 Yeah, it really is. And it's funny because like, it sounds like a lot of hippie dippy, like just kind of like woo woo bullshit, but it's like actually legit because what you do is when you, when you hoard money and you know, say that you go out and you have a nice dinner, you know, it's worth $150 and you only tip them like a dollar or something, which does happen. I was a waiter for a while when I was a kid. Um, what you do is you basically train your subconscious to think that there's a scarcity of money, right?

32:00 And then that leads to you taking less risks and turning into basically protection mode rather than acquisition mode, right? It's like that playing to win versus playing to not lose. When you constantly undersolve people and, uh, you know, try to take more of your cut than you earn and, and you just like, don't give anything away. You're training your subconscious to play, to not lose rather than to play to win. You know, you're training your yourself to believe that there's a shortage of money. You're a fear-based, you know, you're going to have more negative emotions surrounding money and, uh, it's just not going to work out for you.

32:33 But when you, you know, give, uh, and you obviously, you know, again, like you have to be smart about it. You know, don't just like give your life savings to some fucking random person. But like, you know, if you're smart about it, like it's a really, really great thing to do. Um, one thing that I always do is like when I eat out, I'm super generous with my tips because I know that, you know, when I give that waiter or that waitress, like a 25, 30% tip, I'm training myself like, okay, like there's no shortage of money.

32:57 Like, what are you worrying about? Like there's, there's enough money for everyone. There's enough resources. Like you're good, man. You're good. You know? Yeah. And also, um, I wanted to talk about scarcity versus abundance. So going back to mindset a little bit, like, do you have a scarcity mindset or an abundance mindset? Do you think that there's enough money? I forget what the stat is, but there's a retarded amount of money in this world. And if you think about it right now, you're probably listening to this in your car or at your house.

33:27 Look around you right now. Everything that's surrounding you is money. The desk, your car, the window, the house you're in, the roads, it all took money to create it. So money is literally around you at all times. And if you want to take it another, another step further, you can even say that you are money because money is what keeps you alive. It's what feeds you. You know, it's what, it's what keeps you warm at night when it's raining. Money is literally in you and throughout you.

33:59 And the fact that you don't have it is all about your mindset because you don't, you're not connected with it, but it's like oxygen. Do you, do you pine after oxygen and say, Oh, I don't have enough. Or do you like try to hoard oxygen? No, it just, it's abundant. So it's like, you don't have this like outcome dependence on it. You don't have this like neediness for it. It just is there. You take it in when you want it. You let it go when you don't need it and you can get as much of it as you want.

34:25 And when you start to shift, because it's, it's all about mindset. It's all about how you think about things. And the same is true with women. When you shift from, uh, this neediness to this is fucking abundant. It's everywhere. It's like in my cells. It's, it's literally on my body in the form of clothing. And it's like, it's all around me. Everybody has it. Why can't I get it whenever I want? When you have that, it'll, it's weird. Like it rearranges itself to start coming into your life in buckets.

34:55 Yeah, absolutely. It's, it's really crazy how that works. I mean, you know, um, one of the things that I do right now is I listen to a hypnosis videos like when I sleep. Um, and I, I talk about this in the mindset mastery ebook that I give away for free with seven strategies when you buy it. And, um, you know, there's this one that I really, really like. And, um, when I first started listening to it, it sounds so crazy. Like it's hard to believe even saying this, but when I first started listening to it a while back, um, I'd been listening to it, I think for like eight days or like, like a little over a week.

35:27 And the next morning I ended up getting, uh, like a brunch type deal with my friend's dad. And it turns out, or my friend's stepdad technically. And it turns out that his stepdad was a millionaire and I convinced him into giving me $20,000 to invest. Um, and like, I don't know if that is just coincidence, but like, I can't help but wonder, you know, did, did those events kind of come about from the hypnosis video changing my underlying, uh, my underlying mindset, you know, because I mean, I, I don't know if he would have given me that 20,000 to invest and I give him, you know, he pays me a percentage to invest it.

36:05 But at that time that was like the most that I'd ever seen in my bank account in a, you know, a day. Like he just gave me $20,000 and, um, I really do think there is something to training your subconscious to think differently. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So important. I would think that's, uh, mindset is probably the most important thing. And then, you know, underlying principles, strategies, and the next one, number four is skillset. Did you want to start off with that? Or do you want me to jump into it?

36:33 Yeah. I mean, um, I think we should probably talk about more strategies if you, if you're cool with that. Cause like we didn't really touch upon, uh, you know, like different, like getting gigs or like different tangible things you can do. Do you want to mention some of those? Unacceptable. Nope. We will not talk about those. No, I'm just kidding. Can't. Gotta, gotta charge it for him. Go ahead. Um, so, um, like one of the things that, uh, that I did when I was starting out, uh, is I just like wrote for different companies online.

36:57 I mean, so many companies and bloggers and websites will pay you, you know, I think when I started out, it was like 15 bucks an article. Now I can get like, you know, over a hundred bucks, 200 bucks an article for different websites for specialized knowledge. But, you know, just go out there and just like, look at different websites that have a bunch of articles and news websites. Just, you know, like click around, you know, email their editing team and ask them if they accept, uh, submissions, you know, do they pay?

37:20 I mean, like, it's crazy. Like there's so much money on the internet to be had in just writing. Like you don't even have to be good. You can literally just, you know, write something about some bullshit topic that maybe only a hundred fucking people in the world want to hear about. But, you know, if they'll pay you for it and you know about it, then that's great. So that was one thing that really helped me was just like writing for other people online. If you want to, if you want to be a writer online, you can go to warriorforum.com.

37:47 It's a good way, it's a good way to, uh, advertise your services. And, uh, yeah, that's, that's one good thing or, or Elance. I mean, there's so many, there's so many different ways to make money online. It's like we could do 20 podcasts in a row about that. And we're going to touch on that on the fifth one, how to start a business. But, um, you know, blackhatworld.com is a good place too, to offer your services. And, uh, yeah, if you want to be a writer specifically.

38:13 Yeah. So, I mean, just briefly, like, you know, there's also graphic design. Uh, Fiverr is a really great website. Fiverr, Upwork, uh, Fiverr is actually how I kind of got started in, um, like internet business. So like way back before I ever made any money online, I was just looking around. I was like, how the fuck, like, what is this internet money thing? Like, how do people do this? And I found some girl on Fiverr who was, uh, quote unquote, selling spells. And she was charging like $15 to like remove a curse, like some bullshit like that from someone.

38:41 So I was like, I was like, there's no way. Like, what the fuck? And so I clicked on her account and she had like 50,000 reviews or something like, yeah. And I was like, what the fuck? Like, that means she's making like a six figure income selling spells on fucking Fiverr. Was she hot? I bet she was hot. She was hot. So that was probably, that's all what it was. It was probably, it was probably some dude too, who just put up a picture of a hot girl's profile picture.

39:05 But, um, so from there, I kind of, I was like, okay, like maybe there's something to this. And, uh, so I made an account and I just did the same thing. And that's what modeling is, right? Is you find people that have success and you just do what they do. I ended up, that's how I got my, my start online, dude. I started selling spells and, um, some people would pay fucking like $50, $100 per spell. I had like a fucking value funnel. I would start them off with like, you know, like a $5 curse removal or blessing.

39:30 And then like, like lead them up the value funnel. Um, and eventually I, I quit cause I was like, this is dumb. Like I actually want to fucking contribute, contribute value to people's lives. This is stupid. But, um, but it was just like, you know, that's, that's how I got started. Like you just got to look around and just see how people are making money and just fucking do what they're doing. You know, it's, it's really simple. Dude, my first business online was a press release business.

39:51 And, uh, I came up with this awesome concept. It just like came to me in the shower and I was making like, uh, three to four grand a week working two hours a day. So I was making like the first time, the first time I'd ever make money online. And this was before, this was before I understood that you have to have fricking discipline when you're making money. What's interesting is they found is that, um, so something like 95% of the population is poor and then 5% is rich or maybe 1%.

40:20 I forget what the stats are, but what's interesting is that if you give a hundred people a million dollars, the same percentage of people who are poor and wider society, let's just call it 95% will lose all that money within a year. Yeah. And, and those people who are rich in, uh, the 1% or the 5% of those 100 will keep the money or double it or triple it or turning it into a million dollars. But it's interesting because again, it's a lot of people think like, man, if I could just get a million dollars, all my problems would be solved.

40:51 I'd be rich. Everything would be fine. But if you're poor right now, uh, because your mindset is a poor mindset, you're going to probably lose all that money in the same amount of time anyway. So, so again, it's really important first to get the mindset right. And then the money will follow. It's kind of like not the other way around. First, you have to get the state. And it's the same thing with women. First, you have to get the state. Then the girls will come. You don't get the state because of the girls.

41:16 You get the, you get the state and then you get the girls. And this is the exact same thing with money. Absolutely. I really liked that. Like that's, um, cause that, that is a very tangible thing that you can observe. You know, I think it's like 90% of people who win the lottery, the Powerball, which is like in Virginia, it's like 500 million or something huge like that. Like 90% of people that win the lottery are poor or, you know, basically broke a year later. Yeah. And so like that, you really like that can't, you can't just, just blow over that.

41:46 Like, I remember I heard that a bunch of times when I was young, you know, 16, 17 and trying to like look into like entrepreneurship and stuff. And I was just like, okay, cool. But that's not me. Like you, you really have to fucking think about that because like $500 million is a lot of fucking money. Like, where does that go? How did they lose that in a year? And again, what it comes down to is they just don't have the underlying mindset. So what happens is they basically have a fear-based mindset.

42:11 They're playing to not lose, not playing to win. They're, uh, you know, focused on shiny objects. They don't have money management skills down. They don't know how to build a business or they don't have high income skills and then they get $500 million and then they just like fucking have the same mindset. So it just like, just like it's funneled out of their bank account into, you know, I think like, uh, just, you know, like what, who's his name? MC Hammer. He like had a similar situation.

42:37 And Mike Tyson. I was just about to say Mike Tyson. Lost everything. Damn. Yeah. I mean, it's, they just don't get, it's a poor person's mindset. Like money won't solve that. The money is a result of the rich person's mindset. Exactly. So, so I'm going to go back to my situation. So I'm like, I'm killing it. Right. And I just moved to Colorado and, um, I'm originally from California. So like, I wanted to get into the woods and like learn to hunt and fly fish and do all these cool things.

43:01 Dude, I blew all my money. How do you make 12 grand a month with a like $1,200 rent and blow everything? It's easy. Move to Colorado. Move to Colorado. Like mountain bikes, fly fishing, guns, fucking hunting equipment, like camping equipment. Let's go backpacking. Oh dude, I bought a new car. I bought a motorcycle. I bought a street bike. I bought a dirt bike. Like I went off and then dude, Google made a change. They did their penguin update. Oh. Devastated my business. Completely gone. Overnight. And I was like, fuck dude, I didn't save any money.

43:37 Like I got all these cool toys, but I don't have any money. And that's when I really learned, you know, the valuable lesson that if you have that poor man's mentality where you just spend all your money on liabilities and liabilities, fly fishing rod, like guns, like all this junk and not put it into assets, I should have been investing that money. 12 grand a month is, is great, man. Like you can make a lot of residual income from that if you do it intelligently. When, what year was this?

44:03 If you don't mind me asking. Oh, it was like, maybe like eight years ago, 20. Oh shit. Yeah. Yeah. So if you put, if you put 10 grand into Bitcoin at that point, you would have had over a billion dollars right now. Dude, fuck you. Fuck you. Eh, no, I wouldn't because I would be rich, right? And I'd just blow it all. Cause I'd be in the poor mentality. I'd have a, I'd be a poor guy sleeping on a yacht. Yeah. I mean, that was the same with me, man.

44:32 I, um, when I was writing. I was writing clickbait for a while and, um, you know, it got to the point where I was making, like, I was working like an hour or two hours a day and I was making like six, seven, eight grand a month. There were some days where I made over a thousand dollars a day. And, um, you know, it's just so funny how like, I'm, I'm like really into a health and fitness and biohacking, but like, I can take that too far sometimes.

44:52 So, you know, like I got a, an eight grand paycheck and I was paying like $500 a month on rent. Like I was still in college and, um, I was like, Oh, like shit. Like, what can I buy now? Like, let's look at the best shit to improve my human performance. So I got like some, like, I spent like, dude, I spent a thousand dollars on silk sheets that like I, I didn't even fucking need, but I was like, Oh, it'd be cool to have some silk sheets.

45:12 Like that's fucking cool. Or, you know, I spent, uh, I spent like a thousand bucks on a new bed that I didn't need. Like, you know, a bunch of money on fucking supplements, like just like random shit. Like, it's amazing how, when you still have that mindset of like that, that poor person's mindset where it's like, Oh, I got money. I need to spend it now. Like you're always going to find more things to buy. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I mean, dude, Mike Tyson, like, Oh, how much did he get per fight over a hundred and something million?

45:37 Like, dude, how do you, how do you blow all that money? It's easy, man. Go buy a Bugatti, a couple of yachts, a couple of mansions, blah, dude, all gone. Then you need to have the, the nice underwear and the nice shoes and Oh, you got to have, you can't live in a mansion and have fucking like, you know, just like Hanes underwear. Like, yeah, you need Gucci flip flops. You need everything. It's just, it's fucking gone. Yeah, dude. So, um, again, it's all, it's all about your mindset.

46:00 It's all about your mentality. And, uh, that segues, can we go now into number four skillset? Yes. Absolutely. Let's slap me back into number three. Nah, let's, let's bitch slap ourselves in the future. All right. So anyway, um, like we've been talking about, you know, money, money is a skillset and it's funny to me because I talked to a lot of people who are like, yeah, man, I just, one day, you know, I'm going to make it. Or one day my business is going to take off.

46:23 And like, they're not doing anything to study. They're not doing anything to improve. And it's like, if you want to become better at basketball, you're, you're on the court like all day taking shots. If you want to get better with women, you're opening girls and practicing how to speak to them. If you want to get better with money, you're studying, you're learning about finances. Now I know, dude, for me, especially like when I hear the word finances, it like makes me turn pale. I don't like to read about taxes.

46:50 I don't like to, to learn about finances, but I mean, I want to be rich. I want more money. And because I have been forcing myself, I've been disciplining myself to learn about this stuff. My financial situation has been getting a lot better and it's, it's actually pretty good right now. So what I'm saying is most people spend 90%, excuse me, 90% of people spend their money on things like electronics and toys. 10% of people spend money on books. Now think about that. What, what percent of the population is poor or middle class?

47:23 90%, 10% is affluent or wealthy. That's kind of an interesting little comparison there that they say, the cliche goes, the more you learn, the more you earn. So it's all about studying, it's all about understanding and there are loopholes. There's tax loopholes, there's investing loopholes. I mean, John, like your success with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency is ridiculous. Like I was reading your sales page. I was like, holy shit, this guy has like the magic touch. No, he doesn't. He just fucking studied it. He studied his ass off. Like I've talked to, you can tell him, I mean, but it's like, you went crazy studying and learning and getting better at and practicing because it's a skillset.

48:02 And now it's like, you're making, what is it? Over six grand a month, passive income, like at least six grand a month. Easy. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's like, it's funny. Cause like, you know, all my friends are like hitting me up now. Cause like they see my Snapchat stories of like, you know, I'll be like, ha ha, I'll take a screenshot and put on Snapchat and be like, ha ha, lol. I just made like $5,000 today or something. They're like, like, what the fuck? Like, how'd you do this?

48:23 And I was like, bitch, like when I was 18 and you were at parties, I was like watching some boring course on technical analysis by TD Ameritrade. Like it goes back. Like it's, it's, you know, this, this, these results now, like, it seems like they came out of nowhere, right? It seems like, you know, they just appeared overnight, but it's like success is that slow and steady grinding where you just like read a little bit every day, study a little bit every day, you know, like I've spent so much fucking money on courses and on seminars and on books, just reading about the stock market and cryptocurrencies and learning how they work.

48:56 And, and even to this day, I'll spend an hour, at least a day, just reading about different articles, you know, uh, to get a sense of the general public sentiment on crypto. So I can get it, you know, again, so I can get a, like a hold of those emotions. Like, is the public feeling fear or greed? Cause that's going to impact my investment strategy. Like I'm always learning, you know, it's just, you have to always fucking learn. And, um, you know, not to mention I've lost and gained so much money and that's the most expensive thing is, you know, you learn when you make mistakes with crypto, you lose money.

49:25 Um, so, you know, it's like, you just have to learn. And if you can learn from others, uh, who have success and so you don't have to lose your own money and you can just skip that process and just learn from others that have success and just do what they do, then that's the best thing. Cause then you save time. Cause you don't have to read all the bullshit, study all the bullshit and you save money. Cause you don't have to make those mistakes yourself. Now in your crypto course, which by the way, just to remind you, you're going to give that to me for free.

49:52 Um, I get to basically, I get to basically just do what you do, right? So if you make a trade, you're going to post it somehow or how's that work? Yeah. Yeah. So, so basically I, um, I actually thought of charging extra for that, like it at first when we were, you know, I was, I was thinking about how to launch the course, but I decided to just give it away for free. So basically it's a, it's multiple parts. There's the course itself, which is a nine modules.

50:14 It goes over like all the technical analysis and the, the foundations of crypto and what you need to know about it and trading and mining. And then, um, the real bonus and the real cream of the crop and the real thing that's going to get people's success in my opinion is the, uh, the suite that we're creating where basically I'm going to give you login information and you can check it, you know, and get updates whenever you want. And basically the way it's going to work is it's going to be a group of like-minded people who all brainstorm ideas and, you know, talk in this chat group.

50:44 And every single time I make a trade. So every, any time that I buy anything, whether it's a stupid coin, like doge coin that made me 50% in two days, whether it's, you know, something like Ethereum, or if I'm doing a short on Z cash, whatever it is, I'm going to notify you the second that I do that. So you can do the exact same thing. And then I'm going to notify you when I get out. So you can also do the exact same thing. Sweet, man.

51:07 I mean, um, you know, there's something to say about learning and working hard and doing all this, but, uh, if you could just follow somebody else who's doing it, like you said, duplicate their system. Um, I kind of think that's the better way. Cause it's, it's working smart rather than working hard. So exactly. And the great thing too, is like, they'll like, not only will you make money by following my trades, but you'll learn too, because not only am I just going to say like, yeah, I bought this.

51:31 I'm going to say why I bought it. Like, I'm going to do the analysis. It's just like, you're going to make money and learn at the same time. So it's like, how could you get any better than that? You know? Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's excellent. And one other point I wanted to say with this is that, um, there, there's a lot of value in listening to people. You know, a lot of people go into interactions with others and all they want to do is talk and hear the sound of their own voice.

51:54 But the smartest people actually shut up and listen because you have two ears and one mouth for a reason. The reason is you should listen. And also when you listen to people, you get to learn. And when you're quiet, a lot of people will just keep talking and talking. You get to pick their brain. And it also puts you at the advantage of, if you already know their thoughts, then you can retort to something they said with the advantage because you already know what they're thinking.

52:18 They've laid their cards on the table. So when you're studying, when you get a mentor, really listen and be humble. I mean, even when I meet, you know, a lot of the times I'll meet with students. Like I said, on Thursday nights, I teach seduction. I'll go out with a notepad and I'll pick their brains and I'll listen to what they have to say. Not, not always necessarily about, uh, picking up girls, but I, I work with a lot of rich, you know, wealthy guys who need help with women and, you know, I'll, I'll get investing advice and I'll get advice like that.

52:47 So the ability to humble yourself and to learn from others, like, dude, John is the master of cryptocurrency. Like I can't even touch him with the 10 foot pole when it comes to that. So dude, I shut up and I listened to the guy cause he's making a lot of money right now. And if he's going to let me in on his course where I get to like look over his shoulder and make all this money, fuck yeah, I'm going to do that. Cause I'm intelligent enough to know that there's smarter people and, and the smart person surrounds himself with people who are smarter than he is at those things.

53:16 He's not great at. Thank you, man. I appreciate that. I really appreciate that. Yeah, brother. I mean, you're doing well, man. I respect you because dude, when you get, when you get obsessed with something, I mean, it's the same thing with me. It's all in like all chips in like, um, you know, stay up all night studying it. And, uh, I really respect that about you. So I'm super psyched. It's releasing. What'd you say next? July 24th, July 24th. So next Tuesday. And you only have 30 spots left.

53:43 So because it's, um, because it's like really hands-on and I'm going to be engaging with people and, and, you know, like giving personalized coaching and stuff through the chat group. Um, it's only open to 30 people. Okay. So you'll have to, you'll have to get it quick. Yeah. I'll definitely pull the trigger on that. All right, cool. You ready to go on to number five? We're at, uh, 53 minutes, 54 minutes. I'm, I'm ready. It's a long podcast. Yeah. It felt like it went by in just a few minutes though.

54:07 Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. So how to start a business. Ho, ho. I mean, we're going to have to have, you know, 10 other podcasts like this, but, um, your hosts have had a lot of experience with this, both successes and failures. So we can definitely give you some good tips specifically in my case, how to start a business online. And the same with John, um, I don't really know a lot about starting a brick and mortar business though. I'm sure it's very similar, but, um, a couple of things I just wanted to say in this podcast.

54:35 Again, we're going to get much more in depth in this in the future, but a lot of people will come up with an idea and they'll be like, man, this is the greatest idea ever. People are going to buy this for sure. And their mom tells them it's a great idea. And their best friend tells them a great idea. And their brother says it's great. So they build this entire product. They build this entire website and they do all this stuff without proving what's called a minimum viable concept.

54:59 Now, this is really important. Can you sell it? Do people actually want to buy that? I've thought of a million ideas that were like, holy shit, this is going to be a moneymaker. I have wasted so much time building shit out before actually proving that it'll sell. What you want to do is you want to sell it first before you even build it. You want to market it first before you even have anything to sell. And one of the good ways to do that is we have Facebook, Facebook ads.

55:24 We have Google ads where you can simply put up an ad, make it go to a landing page, see if you can sell the damn thing. You don't even need to have it. I mean, it's a little bit screwed up to sell something you don't have. But if you want to save time and you want to do it the smart way, you have to prove that minimum viable concept. And the only way to do that is to test. And I'm telling you, you can spend thousands on Facebook ads before you have anything that will convert.

55:48 You need to test things, test it, test it. So when you have a business idea, there's two things you can do. Prove the minimum viable concept by doing what I just said. Advertise on Facebook. Bring them to a webinar. Whatever. Get on the phone with them and see if you can sell it. Number two, just try to sell it to anybody. When I come up with a new course or anything like that, like I do coaching, right? I try to sell my coaching first to people who I don't know, totally cold prospects.

56:17 Hey, bro, do you want to come out with me and learn pickup? And I'll try to close them on that. If I know I can close a cold approach, somebody I don't know, then I know I can bring it to the internet, warm them up through giving them what's called a lead magnet. Again, this is kind of too in-depth to get into in this podcast, but basically you warm them up, follow up with emails, drive them to your website, lead them to a sales page, and then they buy your product.

56:43 But first, you have to prove that the damn concept will work. And I hate to say this. A lot of people don't like it, but you have to learn to sell. So if you're going to start your own business, the two most important things you need are the ability to sell your damn product, because that's where the money is. The money is in sales. Whether you sell it in person with words or you sell it with copywriting, which is basically writing a sales page where people buy it.

57:09 And the second thing, what was the first thing? I've kind of lost my train of thought there. The first thing is knowing how to sell. And the second thing is traffic. So you got to know how to get traffic that's actually going to convert. John, the way he got traffic was by writing blogs that blast tons of traffic to his website. And at first, his sales copy was junk. Like I saw it. No offense, brother. I saw it back in the day. Like, holy shit. And what he did is he improved the sales copy.

57:35 So now it sells. So he's got the two fundamentals. He's got traffic and he's got sales. You need, if you want to improve your business acumen, if you want to start a successful business, I hate to say this. A lot of people don't like to hear it. But you need to learn to sell. And learning how to sell isn't that hard. I used to not be able to do it. But now get me on the phone with you. Like, I'll close you on, like, oxygen. Like, you know what I'm saying?

57:59 Like, I feel like I can sell really well because there's basic principles to selling. It's really based on emotion. People don't buy on logic. They buy on emotion and then rationalize it later. It's the same with women. Women act on their emotions and then rationalize it later. So, again, learn how to sell. Learn how to get traffic. Yeah. The importance of that cannot be overstated. I mean, just those two. Like, so marketing and just basically, you know, basically marketing. I mean, they're both kind of parts of marketing.

58:28 Like, that's what's so key is if you can't market your stuff, then you're not going to make it. Like, that's kind of the harsh reality that people don't like to hear. Like, a lot of the time I'll talk to these people, you know, who have these really naive ideas, right? And they're like, it's like, let me do a thought experiment right now to kind of drive this idea home. So, if, you know, if I said I have two products, one is going to give you brain cancer and it's going to make you fat and it's going to make you feel like shit and get you addicted.

58:56 The second product is going to make you feel clean and amazing and it's going to give you energy and mental clarity and focus and you're going to lean down and look great. Which one do you think you would want, right? Most people would say that they want the fucking second, but the first is Coca-Cola and the second is kale juice and Coca-Cola is the number one selling soft drink in the world, right? So, like, what's going on there? Well, it's that they know how to fucking market their products and they don't have these like lofty ideas of like, oh, we're going to sell something that's like really great.

59:27 They're like, no, like we're going to sell what people will buy because that's what it comes down to. It's like, you know, you will lose so much money if you try to sell things that you just like think that people will like, like, you know, like why would you think anything like actually try it? You know, like I'll talk to people because I mean, you know, we're both business owners, Mark and I, and I'll talk to people that like they fucking they'll be like, oh, you know, what you should do is this or what you should do is that or like maybe you should do this.

59:54 And I'm just like, bitch, like, like why would I do anything like it? Just test it and see what it does. Yeah. And if it works, then keep doing it like it's fuck this like bullshit philosophizing. And this is coming from a philosophy major. Like I value thought, but but at some point, like action and testing and seeing the tangible results are what are so key. Yeah, you have to test a lot of times just with an ad, you have to test, you know, up to 10 different variations.

1:00:21 And it's amazing with ads, especially on Facebook, just how changing the background color can increase your conversions by, you know, X percent. So you need to make ads with a bunch of different background colors and people, people have these lofty ideas like what you said, but that's why nine out of 10 businesses fail is because they fail to, to take in the reality that dude, nobody wants your fucking brilliant idea. I remember a friend of mine in California knew the guy who came out with those gloves for surfing, where when you're paddling, they're like, they basically turn your hands into like duck feet.

1:00:53 Like there's webbing between the fingers. Like we all thought like, holy shit, this is going to explode. And I think he made like, he, he made like a ton of them, right? Cause he's like, it's going to go crazy. And no one bought them, no one bought them. Cause it hurts. I tested them. It like hurts your arm when you're paddling because there's like so much resistance that they make. So it like throws out your elbow joint kind of. Yeah. And I mean, people are right now in America, there are boxes and boxes and boxes in people's garages full of books, uh, you know, chemistry sets and a bunch of other crap that they thought would sell, but didn't.

1:01:29 So you need to prove that minimum viable concept, save your time, save your energy, go fucking cold call a hundred people and try to sell your shit to them before you even like, before you even make it, if a bunch of people buy it, then be like, oh, there's a two week back order and get, get to fucking work making the product because now you found a minimum viable concept, but most of the shit you think of is not going to work. So you need to prove the concept first.

1:01:52 Don't make the mistake that I did. And John did, I dare say of creating this gigantic product and these gigantic ideas that are going to go nowhere. Total waste of time. Yeah, no. Yeah. I mean, um, I, I have a funny story about what you said on, uh, the first thing where you basically said that people can change the color of their Facebook ad background and like boost sales. Right. So, and this just drives home the fact, like how emotionally driven people are, like we're talking about before, right?

1:02:17 Like they don't buy products because like logically it's a good idea. They buy products because they're like, oh shit, like I need that. I have some pain in my life that I need to fix. And, um, so like when I was doing experiments on my, uh, my sales pages for my two products, I found that changing the color of the buy now button from, I think it was like a blue color, changing it to, to, to orange, red, or yellow. Yeah. I think red is the best.

1:02:41 It increased sales by like 57%. Like it's just like one thing. Yeah. I mean, there's, I think it, it probably depends on a few different factors, but like for me, red worked the best. I think also cause red matches the ebook cover cause like the part of it's in red and like, it just like matches it really well, I guess. But I mean, yeah, like red, yellow, and orange, those like alerts, like, like alert action, kind of like emotional colors, those work really well. And that just drives home the fact that like most people are just, you know, emotional and they're just kind of unconsciously clicking around online.

1:03:16 And, um, you know, it's just being able to sell them comes down to like knowing what converts. So do you know, will people buy more based on what they desire or more based on what they want to avoid? Probably what they want to avoid. Cause like we were saying, 90% of people are playing to not lose. Yeah. Yep. You're absolutely right. So, so when you write sales copy, um, it's really good to, to play on that and, and try to, people are more interested in alleviating a pain than getting a desire because pain is, is more of a, I don't know.

1:03:49 Maybe it's more of a, um, present kind of emotion. Yeah. It's immediate. Exactly. But the way to sell, like, um, like I've written sales pages where they made no sense logically. Like you read it, you're like, dude, this makes no sense. They fucking converted like, like wildfire, man, because just go for those emotions, emotions, emotions, emotions. And like, you know, um, if, if you could, if you could get people both trying to avoid something and trying to go towards something in the same sales page and then lead them to the inevitable conclusion, which is your product, um, it converts like wildfire.

1:04:28 So lots of concepts there, copywriting, maybe we'll do a copywriting podcast, um, in the future, but there, there's tons of interesting stuff. And again, it's all emotional with women too, guys, when you're talking to a girl, um, you have to get emotions out of her. If you're doing the old, where do you work? What's your favorite color? You know, all that crap. You're not, you're not going to get, you're not going to get a phone or by the way, a good little technique is you ask a girl, um, Hey, what's your favorite phone or what's your favorite color?

1:04:56 And she's like, well, it's red. You're like wrong. This girl doesn't even know her own favorite color, dude. How unattractive is that? Anyway, good little concept there. So, um, you ready to wrap this up, man? I've just about had it. Yeah. Yeah. I think we covered everything pretty much. Okay. So, um, go ahead and check out my one-on-one coaching page. You can do that by just, uh, clicking the link below. Let's see if I went ahead and implemented the techniques I just spoke about and the sales page that I wrote.

1:05:25 Um, I wrote that sales page in about half an hour. So check it out. See what you think. See if it gets you emotional. See if you just want to, you just have to work with Mark Singh because you're going to plow through sticking points and destroy low self-esteem. And then also I have something called the approach formula. Uh, you can grab that at the approach formula.com. It's, uh, typically 32 bucks, but since you're listening to this podcast and since you've stayed with us for an hour and five minutes, which we do appreciate, you can go ahead and grab that for a mere $10, bro.

1:05:58 That's less than you're going to spend on lunch tomorrow. And it's going to give you the opportunity to see a girl, any girl you're attracted to approach her and get her phone number. I'd say that's worth 10 bucks. If you ask me, so, uh, go ahead and, and just click in the, in the description below. Hopefully John will actually put my links in there this time and, uh, you can click over to that. John, did you want to tell him about your products? Yeah. Yeah. So, um, all Mark's products will be down below.

1:06:24 Uh, you can just click on the links and, um, I have two products soon to be three. First one is seven strategies to develop your masculinity. And that's basically seven strategies that you can use to very, very rapidly transform your life, become more masculine, get rid of, uh, you know, negative emotions, like fear with women and approach anxiety and things like that. Um, the link for that will be down below. And, uh, Mark also wrote the sales page for that. I think you did a great job.

1:06:48 I was reading myself and I was like getting emotional. I was like, Oh, like I need this product. And I was like, I made this product. Did you buy your own product? Cause that's when I know I wrote a good, a good sales page. I did. I bought, I've bought every product that I own. Um, and second there's body of an alpha, which is basically how to build the lean and shredded physique that women absolutely go crazy for. Um, it's ridiculous. So it's actually beach season and I've, I've like gotten women looking at me left and right when I leave the gym and that's very possible for you guys to, I gave Mark the ebook for free and you know, you guys can get it on a discount right now.

1:07:22 It's great ebook. I cover everything from, uh, bodybuilding to health and fitness, everything you need to know to get shredded and just turn heads when you walk down the beach or walk down the street. And then thirdly is Bitcoin millionaire. My epic course on how to trade Bitcoin and become wealthy from trading Bitcoin, become a millionaire by the year 2022, probably sooner. But, um, that one I'll put a link down below. It hasn't launched just yet, but if you want to, you can take a look at the sales page.

1:07:49 And, uh, yeah, with that in mind, I think that's pretty much everything, man. That was, that was a great podcast that got me fired up to, uh, go look at my finances right now and figure out how I can, I can keep stacking my money. And, um, I'm really looking forward to this Bitcoin course, um, adding another revenue stream. That's what I'm always trying to do. I'm always trying to get multiple revenue streams, money coming in from all different directions. So you're not necessarily relying on just one.

1:08:15 Um, if one, you know, falters, you got a bunch of other stuff coming in. So, um, I'm super fired up to get into that program. Can't wait for you to guide us through, um, you know, trades and show us how to make money. Really excited about that, man. So I'll be the first guy in line. Sounds good, man. I'm excited. All right. Well guys, thank you again so much for coming. I mean, dude, especially if you're listening right now and you put in an hour and eight minutes of your precious time, um, please know that we really appreciate that.

1:08:43 And we really appreciate you. We appreciate your support and, um, you're a champion dude, because obviously you want to improve yourself and you're willing to put the time in to, uh, to make that happen. So thanks again. We look forward to podcast number four and, uh, we'll see you guys soon. All right. Take it easy guys.

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