Author: Nick

One quick promo before we jump in: Tax season is right around the corner and my final income tax bill will be $0 for one main reason – Cost Segregation Studies and bonus depreciation.DO NOT FORGET TO GET COST SEGREGATION STUDIES DONE ON YOUR REAL ESTATE.The folks at RE Cost Seg have already delivered my cost segs […]

Don’t take this email the wrong way. I love a small businesses with less than 10 employees. They are nimble. They can move quickly. They can adjust. They can do things that don’t scale and they can grow. And they are exceptional opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs. But big businesses (50+ employees) have a massive advantage […]

This email is an open-book look at an agency I’m building, what we’re struggling with, our profit margin and more. I hope you can take something away from this to grow your own company!​Bold SEO is 8 months old as of last week.We now have 85 customers, 11 employees and $165,000 of monthly recurring revenue.It has […]

You hear a lot of people talking about SCALING a business. Growing a company from $1 million profit to $10 million profit. That is scale. But if you think about this too early, you’ll miss out on a lot of ways to grow your business that DON’T SCALE. As a matter of fact, some of […]

NOW LETS DIVE IN: What successful people understood before they were successful: Mentorship isn’t about finding a great mentor. It’s about becoming a person great mentors WANT to help. Hiring isn’t about finding good people. It’s about becoming a person good people want to work for and building a business that can thrive without unicorns. […]

Folks ask me quite often what the best business decision I ever made was. Here is my answer: Hiring my first overseas employee. In 2021 I engaged a company called Support Shepherd to recruit a Philippines based employee for my storage company. Today 80% of the employees across my 11 companies are located in either the Philippines […]

The hardest thing about entrepreneurship, real estate, or anything else worth doing: You have to be able to look at incomplete information… Or a complicated problem without a clear-cut solution… And make a good decision on which way to proceed. There is nobody who can take you by the hand and lead you through a […]

If you’re in a sales position (like all of entrepreneurship) make sure to listen to this podcast episode where I discuss HOW TO SELL effectively with my friend Jerimiah Lancaster. We give our exact playbook on how to close more deals. Enjoy! — Tax season (for me) is here and my final income tax bill will be $0 for […]

I’ve hired 30 employees outside of the USA with the help of Shepherd and it has been an absolute game changer for my business. Underwriters in Colombia for $1,500 per month full time. Customer service reps with perfect english in the Philippines for $1,100 per month. Executive assistants for my construction team for $1,000 per month.If you haven’t […]

I have a podcast on small business and entrepreneurship. In this episode I discussed how my dad raised me to become an entrepreneur with a few key decisions. Enjoy! — I recently switched to AdRhino to run my pay-per-click Google ads at my self storage company. The results have been VERY GOOD. AdRhino drove higher quality traffic at 48% […]