The Best Passive Income Model Podcast

Please note the current podcast with weekly land investing round table discussions with our Land Geek coaches and clients can be found at The Art of Passive Income Podcast It's true...nothing stays the same in business and that means it's time to say goodbye. You get to witness the evolution of a podcast! The Dawn of The Land Geek Era brought The Land Geek Podcast. The Passive Income Obsession Grew with The Best Passive Income Model Podcast.  And now, the Brand New Mutation is here with The Art of Passive Income Podcast! Listen in one last time as Mark remembers all the great guests he's hosted and says good-bye as he's moving on to the next big thing.   TIP OF THE WEEK: Check out the new Art of Passive Income Podcast. If you subscribe, rate, and review The Art of Passive Income and send a screenshot to support@thelandgeek.com you’ll not only have a chance to win an Investor’s Toolkit, but we’re going to send you some free goodies right away.       

Uh-oh, this isn’t Mark…today we’re mixing things up a bit. Every task I’ve helped Mark with he’s always told me to make it my own—he has always given me creative room to breathe. So while Mark was busy with other things this week, I thought I’d sneak on here and share with you some of my favorite highlights from Land Geek students. Why should you care about my favorite student stories? If you haven’t guessed yet, it’s me, Danielle Dyball…if you don’t know who I am well I’m always working hard behind the scenes here on the Land Geek team. My official title is Chief Geek Administrator, and while I help with everything from support to planning Bootcamps, one of my favorite things about working with Mark is the community. Getting to know the students is always encouraging…whether it’s helping you troubleshoot technical issues or listening as you share your story with us, I absolutely love the Land Geek Community. And we know how much you all love hearing from The Land Geek students too, so I’ve handpicked some of

Are you ready to discover the best passive income models out there? Mark and Scott are sure it's land, but once your land business is 90% automated maybe you'd like to create another stream of income? As technology, automation, and robotics change the world and business, those with solo economic dependency are in trouble. Listen in as The Best Passive Income Model meets Mixergy? Maybe not that intense, but we have great things in store for you... Today, Mark and Scott talk shop, get geeky, and weigh in on what technology has in store for the future as they introduce their new podcast which launches next week!   TIP OF THE WEEK: Scott: Checkout Pipedrive, a CRM that helped Scott followup on a lead and make a deal this week. Mark: Sorry Android people, YouTube Director is for Apple users, but helps small businesses create ads for YouTube. Want your questions answered? Summit your question at wiselike.com/mark-podolsky Your question may just end up on the next FAQ episode!   We are ready for Vegas, Baby—you've

In today’s episode of the Best Passive Income Model, Mark talks with Mark Asquith—host of Excellence Expected, the number one small business podcast out of the UK. Excellence Expected is a way to share actual advice and inspirational initiatives borne out of the trials and tests he was faced with when he started and ran his businesses. Mark is also the co-founder of an online podcasting platform, PodcastWebsites, which he runs with John Lee Dumas from Entrepreneur on Fire. Mark delves into how he broke through the noise in the market and created his own noise to get traction and drive sign ups. Three important factors are: Run test experiments. Build an avatar or profile of your ideal customer. Get out there, boots on the ground and talk to people! If you talk to 10 people and ask them to talk to 10 people, you will grow and surpass expectations. Listen in for all the details! TIP OF THE WEEK Mark Podolsky: Read Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Method to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Cr

In this episode of The Best Passive Income podcast, Mark talks with Jefferson Lilly—ParkStreetPartners.com. Jefferson is a self-made millionaire and mobile home park investment expert, educator, and industry consultant who has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg Magazine, and on the Real Money television show.  Jefferson provides affordable housing to help people become homeowners. He tells us why he chose mobile home parks and how it's structured so that you don’t have to put much time or money into it, making it a true passive income!   We also discuss:   The parts of the business that suck Managing the parks Using outside capital  Want to know more about this lucrative scale-able extension of the land niche? Listen in as we delve into mobile home investing!  TIP OF THE WEEK Mark: Go to IFTTT.com to automate searches. Also, learn more about Jefferson Lilly at ParkStreetPartners.com. Jeff: Go to SearchTempest.com—a website that goes out and prowls through both Craigslist and eBay where you

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark talks to a fellow tax delinquent land investor, Jack Bosch—JackBosch.com. Jack, who is an immigrant from Germany, came to the US in 1997 with two suitcases, student debt, and zero knowledge on buying and selling real estate. Three years later he fell into land investing and has developed a system that has made him millions from 3,800 deals! He has also written an Amazon #1 seller with his wife, Michelle—Forever Cash: Break the Earn-Spend Cycle, Take Charge of your Life, Build Everlasting Wealth. Jack shares his story with us and delves into:  Working with his wife Why there isn't a big pool of land investors His best deal What he thinks the future holds for land investors Plus, did being an immigrant give him an advantage? Listen in for for his answer and as we dig deep into the land niche! Tip of the Week Mark: Go to MyOpenPath.com if you’re interested in tax delinquent investing. If you’re interested in going even deeper and going into land in

In today’s Best Passive Income Model podcast, Mark talks with Heath Binder—head of investor relations for RealtyMogul.com. Heath is a crowd  funding expert and in just two years, he has helped raise over $180,000,000! Heath shares his journey from real estate to private wealth management, and finally to real estate crowdfunding. Listen in as we talk about: The definition of an accredited investor The benefits on an online platform like Realty Mogul Why choose a crowdfunding platform over your family and friends network Capital raising tips One of the most important tips, which is applicable no matter what type of business you're in, you want to have a real sense of transparency. You need to establish trust with the people who are gonna give you their business. Also, Heath doesn't view investors who pepper him with due diligence questions as an impediment but rather as a learning process for his junior guys.  That can also be said for land investing, whether you're a newbie or seasoned investor—we all may pr

In today’s episode, Mark Podolsky, the Land Geek, talks to Leslie Samuel, former university professor and creator of becomeablogger.com and interactive biology blogs. His passion for education has led him on a mission to change the world one blog at a time. With a simple message of creating content, inspiring others, he is changing the world while building a solid online business. When he started to do research for his biology blogs, he saw that the other biology blogs were boring and made him yawn. He remembers getting his start with 400 people until he was able to build his community to 15,000 to 20,000 people a month. In the last month alone, he was able to get 95,000 to that blog and he hasn’t even touched his blog for years! His blog gave him the chance to teach what he wanted to teach and it eventually landed him a job as a professor. To build his blog, he says he used a combination of a number of different things. He put his videos on YouTube, the number two search engine in the world and leveraged tha

In today’s episode, Mark Podolsky, the Land Geek, talks to Sam Dogen who has been writing on personal finance for 7 years. He has an MBA for UC Berkeley, rated a 5.0 as a tennis player, a 16 handicapper in gold, and speaks three languages pretty well. He has lived in different countries and visited roughly 40 countries as of March 2015. He has been seen in The Wall Street Journal, The L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, Bloomberg, Kiplinger, and now, is a guest on the Best Passive Income Model Podcast. Sam worked in equities from 1999 to 2012, servicing institutional fund managers that they invest in. These were mostly mutual funds and some hedge funds. He also helped take private companies and placed institutional investors in public companies when they go IPO. The kind of stress Sam had to deal with working for the industry was getting to work at 5 AM in New York and 6 AM in San Francisco just to keep his finger on the pulse in relation to what was going on in the markets. There was never a dull moment. Wo

In today’s episode, Mark Podolsky, the Land Geek talks to Jim Palmer, a marketing, business builder, and in-demand coach. Jim is the founder of the the Dream Business Academy, Dream Business Coaching, and Mastermind Program. He is also the host of Dream Business TV watched by thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses. He hosts Stick Like Glue Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim’s own unique brand of smart marketing and business building strategies. He is internationally known as the Newsletter Guru and creator of No Hassle Newsletters and No Hassle Social Media. Jim’s 30 years of practical business experience and his kind of staying power is anchored on powerful customer relationships. As an old school thinker, he believes that getting up every day, delivering value, and focusing on service first will give you a longer lasting and profitable business. Jim set out to be a Vice President by the time he was 40. He achieved it but when he turned 41, his position was eliminated and he was unemployed. At tha

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, listen in as Mark Podolsky, the Land Geek, chats with former student, Chris Pritchard, a Land Geek student and coach extraordinaire. Chris tells Mark about how he was a software engineer by trade and trying out new businesses but having the tendency to over analyze things. When he heard Mark for the first time ever on a podcast, he instantly knew he was interested. He wanted something that was simple, where you do the work and keep doing the system. He says he’s doing what he’s told and it has worked out for him. When asked what ‘worked out’ meant, Chris said that he’s sitting on a monthly revenue of about $1,400. He has $75,000 on the contract values. Last month, he did $27,000 in cash deals within ten months of starting the business. The most difficult part of the business was when he was just starting. He said there was a lot to absorb. He had to watch all the videos and there’s all this new information and he was scared to call the counties to ask

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, listen in as Mark Podolsky chats with digital marketer, Eric Siu. Eric Siu is the CEO of the digital marketing agency called Single Grain and has worked with Fortune 500 Companies such as Sales Force, Yahoo, and Intuit. He is also the founder of the podcast, Growth Everywhere. In this episode, Mark and Eric talk about how he got started. Eric graduated from college and was doing data entry at a cubicle somewhere when a friend suggested he try out digital marketing. Instead of rotting away doing the same job every single day, Eric decided to go for it. From there, Eric got an internship and never looked back. Eric worked with his mentor, Neil Patel, as the Vice President of Marketing online, an educational marketing company called Treehouse when Neil asked him to help his cousin out and run the company. Eric eventually took over the company two years ago, paying $2 out of his pocket from the company profit. He then brought it to where it is today. When

Listen in as Mark Podolsky, the Land Geek, talks to Erlend Bakke, MrOutsource.com, about working with Virtual Assistants from the Philippines. Mark talks about how he has gotten hooked on working with the well-trained MrOutsource.com team. Mark talks about his six-week experience working with the MrOutsource.com team. When Mark first dipped his toe into working with MrOutsource, he was a bit skeptical at first. He had some experience with other companies and they all left him wanting. Mark highlighted the fact that working with the team, he has gotten daily reports from the team with updates, questions, and clarifications. He has been happy with the communication between himself and the team, which made working with the team such a great experience. Mark’s experience, working with the MrOutsource.com team has been wonderful for him. It has become a one-stop shop for his podcast. Right after he records each episode, the podcast is sent to the team, who would literally do everything with it. Erlend stressed tha

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with reluctant entrepreneur, Dan Lok. Listen in as Mark and Dan talk about his journey from a penniless immigrant to a multi-millionaire who owns 21 companies, tinkers around on Facebook making $150,000 a month in income, having a mentor who gave him the million dollar year of his life, online marketing, writing books and being the guy behind the guy. Dan Lok talks about how he was an immigrant who didn’t speak a word of English and going to North America at the age of 14. By the time he was 17, his father’s business went bankrupt and he had to grow up and be a man. His journey from rags to riches began because he had no choice. He needed to take care of his mother. Dan’s journey to success had many more failures than successes. He attributes part of it to the timing. He came into the business during its heyday. As a result, he got invited to speak in many different conferences and was making a ton of money as a speaker and information marke

Listen in as Mark and Damion talk about living on the beach, Damion’s journey to building an 8 Figure real estate empire, taking risks, making mistakes, putting systems in, and investing in QRPs. In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model, Mark chats with Damion Lupo, owner of an 8 figure real estate empire, multiple black belter, a renaissance man of life. Damion left home at 17, made his mistakes along the way, but made it by the time he was in his 20’s. Damion mentions that when he left home at 17, he was moving fast, not listening to the rule, making his own rules, and just going for it. He did something unorthodox and brought what he learned from the experience of having his first big mess and stumbling around and learned what he didn’t know. Now, he has more than 30 businesses and companies. When asked about Damion Lupo’s Tony Stark-ish lifestyle, Damion says that when he moved to the beach in California, he started getting up between 4 to 5 in the morning and doing whatever it is he was going to

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model, Mark chats with Jordan Harbinger, the co-founder of the Art of Charm podcasts, which hit $2,000,000 a month with 440+ podcasts. Jordan Harbinger’s Art of Charm has been featured in magazines such as Men’s Health, Detail, and Cosmopolitan. It has also been featured by NBC. Listen in as Mark interviews Jordan on the Art of Charm: how he got started how he found his niche in the market, introversion and extroversion, acquiring social skills, and leveraging the power of social dynamics in applied psychology. Jordan simplifies the tools we need to succeed in life through his Art of Charm program. Jordan mentions it’s about unlearning years of negative thoughts and putting them under intellectual or rational scrutiny. Focusing on social skills rather than personality, Jordan has been able to successfully change peoples lives using a formula that has worked for most of his 800+ clients. Jordan shares how he and his partner got his start through meeting successful p

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model, Mark chats with Erlend Bakke, owner of 3sixty, 3sixtyfactory, and Mr. Outsource. Erlend, a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and #1 international bestselling author, has been in the business for about 8 years and made his money doing product photography and outsourcing it in Norway. He has also been successful with his 3sixtyfactory, which creates product communications to clients worldwide. Mr. Outsource, an offshoot of these companies, has also contributed to his success by giving him a steady income stream from providing entrepreneurs with passionate virtual assistants. Erlend has written a #1 bestselling book called Never Work Again. Listen in as Mark and Erlend talk about: Managing your business, travelling, working smarter Knowing how to handle and motivate employees, morning routines, and; Avoiding the trap of being a business prisoner. Unlike most of his colleagues in the US and worldwide, Erlend focuses on honing down on tasks he should be doing and spe

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model, Mark chats with Todd Tresidder, founder of financialmentor.com. Tresidder has been a serial entrepreneur since childhood and made his money from the use of his expertise in statistics and risk management systems in managing hedge funds. Bringing technology to the investing space has allowed him to retire at the age of 35.Listen in as Mark and Todd discuss: how Todd helps change people’s lives, the different ways to look at and apply the wealth building equation in life how you can apply Todd’s model into your wealth plan, his quantitative approach to investing, what to look out for when investing in real estate, the different ways of skinning the wealth building cat, and ultimately enjoy and live life. Todd shares his knowledge without the technobabble and giving realistic advise on investing that will help you attain financial freedom, allow you to transform your life, and gain personal fulfillment. He also shares the lessons that he learned, the sacrific

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with David Ralph from JoinUpDots.com. Take massive action and connect the dots as you listen in as Mark and David discuss success, passion, and living the dream! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   David: StayFocusd a chrome app to increase your productivity by limiting the amount of time that you can spend on time-wasting websites and Vocaroo.   Mark: Learn more about David Ralph and Join Up Dots Podcast and PodcastersMastery.com.

In this episode of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast, Mark chats with Chad Carson the Renaissance Man; passionate student of real estate, business, money, and life. Listen in as Mark and Chad discuss about real estate, systems, and year-long sabbaticals...designing the life you want! Thank you for listening to The Best Passive Income Model podcast. Your support helps me attract great guests who share knowledge that you can use to grow your business. If you'd like to help out the Land Geek Community, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.   Tip of the week:   Chad: Read Your Money or Your Life.   Mark: Learn more about Chad Carson and his zen way of investing in real estate at CoachCarson.com.