What does productivity mean to you? How do you know if you’ve had a productive day? In this video we list our top 10 tips for having a productive day and define what it really means to be productive. Follow …
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Chris and Jason are talking about consistency, particularly in business. Aside from some great tips and tools to help you remain consistent, they have some reminders that are very helpful so that you don’t get overwhelmed, including one of their …
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It’s summertime and that means it’s vacation season. As a small business owner or a one man operation, you’re probably thinking about how your business will run while you’re away. Chris and Jason have some tips to assure everything goes …
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Brittany Hodak is an entrepreneur and Co-Founder of ZinePak, a company that provides add-on products for “Superfans” in the music and sports industries. She and her business partner, Kim Kaupe, were contestants on Shark Tank and they received offers from …
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Do you “play” business? Chris and Jason have a lot of different examples of how people play business versus do business. Whether you’re having meetings just to have them, going to lunches with the wrong people, or driving to properties …
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Chris and Jason love automating and simplifying, so this week, they are discussing their favorite hacks to get to the next automation level.  These hacks include two types of software, one of which is free, virtual assistants, and proper reporting.  Watch …
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Chris and Jason have been conducting interviews for the past few months with top experts in the real estate field. In their search to come up with interesting and insightful questions, they came across this list from one of the …
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Chris is interviewing real estate agent Nick Waldner whose business and team have grown to impressive numbers over the past few years. One of the keys to Nick’s growth has been his focus on education and coaching. He goes to …
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Chris and Jason are talking about the books that had a real impact on them and their business this past year. Â Among their picks are “The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life,” “The Richest Man in Babylon,” and …
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Going after what you love isn’t always easy. In fact, pursuing the highest version of yourself and your life is always the most difficult endeavor. It requires discipline and growth. You must be willing to plan, act, and face the …
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It’s that time of year when we’re all closing out the tasks we’ve been putting off and starting to think about the coming year. Chris and Jason are asking each other questions about year end tasks, new marketing campaigns, and …
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Changing your attitude isn’t easy. Climbing Mount Everest sounds more doable than constantly policing your point of view. So don’t. Start with action. Attitude will eventually catch up. The most efficient and effective way to change your luck is to …
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Chris and Jason are discussing masterminds and how beneficial and potent they are to your business. They reference Napoleon Hill’s book, “Think and Grow Rich.” Hill was the person to coin the term “mastermind” as “the coordination of knowledge and …
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The willingness to design and engineer success through high-aiming goals and consistent action requires planning and discipline; it necessitates a deepened level of commitment to your life’s work. The process isn’t easy, but it’s meaningful. As the French writer Antoine …
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Chris and Jason are talking about the concept of playing offense and defense in business. They define defense as the transactional, necessary tasks that must be done every day to keep the business running, as opposed to offense being the …
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The question is how to fully harness ambition. It’s hard to be ambitious about a goal if you don’t believe it’s possible. It’s also difficult to rally ambition if you’re already anticipating a negative outcome. The key to mastering ambition …
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Chris and Jason are diving into the topic of business coaching. They have been fans of coaching for many years now and are big believers in the power of having an outside consultant to help get to the next level …
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Chris and Jason are talking about how vital to your business and productivity a positive work environment can be. They first discuss the work space here at the Hard Money Bankers/REI360.net headquarters, some of the stuff that goes on here, …
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Chris and Jason are talking about being day winners in your business. They are differentiating between tasks that are transactional and those that they see as growth and optimization “point scoring.” They believe a lot of people get caught up …
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For us, the whiteboard represents fundamental principles essential to business growth and success. These principles comprise the “Whiteboard Strategies,†the first being the Clean Slate Principle: The whiteboard illustrates and represents exactly what you can accomplish in business and in …
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Chris and Jason are discussing how vital it is to provide unexpected value to your clients. They believe that you should always go the extra mile outside the transaction, and that good customer service should be the bare minimum when …
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Idea generation is the first ingredient of savvy entrepreneurialism. Some ideas occur organically. They may pop into your head while you’re taking a shower or doing the dishes. If this doesn’t happen often for you, don’t despair. You can still …
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Chris and Jason are talking about audience critique and how to differentiate between constructive criticism and “trolls.” Once you start putting out content regularly, there will be some negative comments that come your way, however, you don’t have to pay …
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Chris and Jason are talking about human psychology and how it relates to business. They wonder if business would go more smoothly if conducted by robots, talk about getting stressed out and over analyzing, as opposed to not caring or …
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