My New Coaching Gig

Ask Me About My New Coaching Gig

I have been a real estate entrepreneur since 2001.  Between then and now, I have invested a lot of my time and money to learn and apply the "tricks of the trade."  Along the way, I have been asked by many of my fellow entrepreneurs to evaluate deals they were considering.  Without fail, when I did that, they always told me how clear I was in teaching them what they needed to know and calling attention to the parts of the deal that they needed to consider.  They told me I should be coaching other real estate entrepreneurs.

I didn't really take all that talk seriously until a couple of years ago when I realized how much I know about buying and selling real estate compared to most of the people who are trying to be real estate entrepreneurs.  At the same time, I realized that it wasn't fair to me, my family, or my teachers, coaches, and mentors to just give away the knowledge I had paid for so dearly in time, money and experience.

But, I had no clue how to monetize all that accumulated expertise other than to keep doing succesful deals.  Also, I was worried that setting myself up as a real estate coach might look like I was trying to compete with my own coaches and mentors.  About a week ago all that changed.

About a week ago I got an email from a nationally renown real estate guru named Preston Ely.  I have bought several products from Preston and always found them to be a good value.  He gives very good information at a very reasonable price (here is a link to one of his most comprehensive courses - Real Estate Empire - reempire.com

So, when Preston sent me an email offering to help me establish my own coaching business, I was interested enough to check it out. 

I listened to his whole pitch and immediately bought what he was offering.  The short version is, he is co-branding many of his materials with me and is teaching me the same model he has used to build his own very successful coaching and real estate business.  So, I don't have to create all original materials, I can take what he has, add my own and use it all day long with his permission.

I realized that setting up my own coaching business is not really competing with my own coaches and mentors any more than my buying houses is competing with them.  There are so many deals out there, that there are plenty to go around, the same is true of coaching clients - different people need different types of coaches.  My coaches and mentors are so much more successful than I am that we can only compliment each other's businesses, we don't compete.  So, I thought I could do this, emphasizing the local nature of my services and only taking on distant students as the exception.  Also, by strictly limiting the number and caliber of students I take on, I won't be poaching from my coaches and mentors.

Preston gave me permission to compete with him as a coach and he gave me what I would need to succeed at it.

Preston's program starts with five days of "Quickstart Lessons" followed by another lesson each week.  He also provided me with several wonderful tools, including a version of his own sales page for coaching.

I promptly loaded up the site, customized it to reflect my own experience in addition to Preston's, and published the site.

Then, I sent out an email to some of my close friends and associates letting them know that I was "hanging out my shingle" (that means going into business for those who don't know the phrase) as a real estate coach.  My email gave them a link to the site (www.coaching.thomasksheppard.com).

The next day, I got a phone call from Lori.  It went something like this.

     "Hi Lori. How are you doing?"

     "Tom, I need a coach."

     "You went to my site?"

     "I sure did!  I sent in my application right away."  I immediately checked my email and found Lori's application to my program in my inbox.

I signed her up on the spot.

Okay - I actually had to scramble and really quickly download the model contract and several other things Preston provided me with, including some student bonuses like an ebook and an audio.  Then I had to modify the contract so it was from me instead of Preston and I edited the ebook so that I could legitimately be listed as a co-author with Preston.

I fired off the contract and a roles and repsonsibilities agreement in an email to Lori and by the next day, I had a signed contract in hand and payment the day after that.

When I mentioned my quick success in an online forum with others who have purchased Preston's program, they hounded me with questions about how I did it so quickly.  So, rather than pound that out in a forum posting, I decided it would be easier to just post it in my blog and let anyone who is interested come read it here.

So, here is the quick recap of how I managed to garner some overnight success as a real estate coach:

1. I spent years learning how to master my business
2. I spent years building my reputation and giving value to others
3. When Preston made the offer - I took advantage of it right away.
4. I took Immediate, Massive Action.  I immediately did everything I could with what he gave me, as soon as he gave it to me.

So, here's to overnight success!  May it endure at least twice as long as it took to achieve.

Regards,
Tom S.

Tom Sheppard is the author of "Fire Yourself: Get the Job You Want" available from XLibris Press. Tom has been successfully investing in real estate since 2001 while working part time. In 2008 he left a six-figure job as an enterprise project manager with a major national bank to manage his real estate business full-time. His goal is to help 100,000 people find peace of mind by finding quality, affordable homes. He is currently looking to expand his network of funding partners who are helping him achieve this goal. If you would like to know more about how you can Do Well By Doing Good (TM), go to www.CharlotteWealthPartners.com

WOW, SHOCK and AWE!

WOW!

It is Monday and I am still in shock and awe of what the Info Renegades, Jeff Vacek and Ken Preuss did for us here in Charlotte this past weekend.

I will tell you now what I told them after the class.

I have spent tens of thousands of dollars attending training events all over the US.  Of all those expensive, 3 day classes this was the best one for teaching both the principles behind what needed to be done and the practice of how to make it happen.

There are no teasers here.

I have gone to three-day events, where I paid thousands of dollars and found that what I was taught was either just enough to whet my appetite for the real meat (for which I would have to pay for a follow-up class), or that what I was taught was working several years ago, but not today.

Jeff and Ken teach what they are doing in their business today. 

If you were invited and didn't show up, you missed out on an amazing class.  If you want to learn how to tap into the power of the internet for your marketing efforts, these guys are the real deal.

They taught us four different models we can use to make money with digital products and they taught us how to make them a reality.  They didn't just give us warm and fuzzy ideas with unbelievable promises, instead they gave us practical, actionable instruction with realistic expectations.

I am so excited to apply what I have learned from them.  Like so many others, I have heard the promises of how I can use the internet to get paid for what I know.  Others have told me to do this or that, but they never told me how exactly I could accomplish what they told me and more, how I could set it up right so that I could actually make money doing it.

Only recently was I able to get my ecommerce site, www.APlusResults.com up and running correctly after several years of bumbling around, and I was able to do that after spending about an hour going through materials that Jef and Ken gave me on a thumb-drive when I first met them earlier this year.

Now, thanks to their instruction, I can sell some of the digital products I developed over the years while helping people learn to Get and Keep the Job You Want (TM). I created them and delivered them by hand to my coaching clients.  Other than that, they weren't available to anyone except my coaching clients who were paying me hundreds of dollars for each session with me.  Now, I can make them available to a everyone without having to charge them hundreds of dollars for my time or run myself ragged with printing and distributing them.

Of course, after this weekend, I realize I will need to revise a lot of what is happening in my storefront, but it will be all to the good.

I was so impressed with the value and integrity that Jeff and Ken deliver that I told them I would promote them whenever and whatever they do.  I admit it...

I have become a Raving Fan of the Info Renegades.

And, as if giving us amazing content wasn't good enough, they WOWed us by bringing in JT Foxx and Dr. Nido Qubein to speak with us.  Admitedly, JT Foxx wasn't at the top of his game.  He was too ill to catch his flight to LA and was trying to recover in his hotel room.  But his mentor, Dr. Qubein threw down a challenge to him to see if he could still deliver high quality, high content, high value instruction even when he was feeling terrible.  So, instead of just trying to recover and recuperate in his room, he came down and gave us about two hours of high octane material that he hasn't put in front of the room before.

Of course, I cannot say enough about Dr. Qubein. He is currently the President of High Point University in High Point, North Carolina and the Chairman of Great Harvest Bread Company.  On top of that he is on the board of directors of several major corporations (Dots, LazEBoy, BB&T, and others).  If you have never had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Qubein speak, then you have missed one of the wonderful experiences this life has to offer.  I can say that I have been able to sit with him for hours in several different settings and I cannot hear him without coming away transformed and inspired to go from success to significance.

While he was there, I was pleased to have the opportunity to present Dr. Qubein with a copy of my new book, "Fire Yourself: Get the Job You Want, A No BS Guide."  He read an advance copy and allowed me to publish his comments on the back cover of the book.  He said,

“If everyone applied these principles consistently, it could affect dramatic change in the workplace yielding greater results and productivity. Results rule, and this book proves that.”

It still stuns me that this entire, three day class was mine for just a $100 seat reservation fee, which they refunded to me, just as they promised! What really kills me though is how many people I know right here in the Charlotte area who could have really benefitted from this and they didn't take action. There was a couple there who flew all the way from Australia just for this class!
I will say it again, if you have a business that does any kind of internet marketing and you have a chance to attend one of these events with Jeff Vacek and Ken Preuss (The Info Renegades), you definitely need to make the investment of time and money even if you have to go Australia to do it.

Ken and Jeff do regular webinars where you can learn some valuable information from them and learn how you can attend one of their upcoming classes.  They were kind enough to allow me to post a link here to their site where you can register for their next webinar.  If you click it, it will take you to their site.

Enjoy,
Tom S.

Yes, I Wanna Learn More About the Info Renegades

Tom Sheppard has been successfully investing in real estate since 2001 while working part time. In 2008 he left a six-figure job as an enterprise project manager with a major national bank to manage his real estate business full-time. His goal is to help 100,000 people find peace of mind by finding quality, affordable homes.   If you would like to know more about how you can do well by doing good, contact him at Tom@CharlotteWealthPartners.com or go to www.CharlotteWealthPartners.com