The Agreement Seekers Blog

In the early stages of mentorship, this is the most important question you can learn to ask: "when can we talk next?"  Initially, this should be every day.  Then, as things settle into place, you wean off of constant contact and then just check-in for support and metrics. Your job, as a sponsor/mentor, is to get the people you partner with up-and-running as quickly as possible.  Up and running with what, you ask?  There is a ton of things initially. Personal Resources (at minimum to get started) a Gmail account for your business that is used exclusively for business purposes a Gmail account that is set up as an autoresponse a personal "About Me" page Payment Processors (you need to have ways to get paid) PayPal Account Venmo Account Cashapp Account There are many others which are addressed in other places, these three are a good start. The "Getting to Know Each Other" tool we use a Google Form that is designed to bust through layers...

I have written other posts about "the money being in your list".  This post is related.  I have argued that building a large list and monetizing that list is certainly one viable strategy, however not an easy one - both in terms of the resources required to make it happen (a capture page, autoresponder, etc.) AND the entire process to make it happen. Juxtaposed to this is a small list.  A group, if you will... of About 40 People.  Or, a tight-knit community of 40 who share common values, skills, goals... an interdependent, supportive, and cohesive structure all geared to each others' financial well-being.  Allow me to slice and dice this a few different ways. So, why 40?  To be clear, I am starting here explaining the "end state".  This is the place you work toward and where you "end up" after a year's effort.  (You can't blink this into existence). We use a progressive model that builds different income platforms.  The first starts a...

First, let's talk about these words and their meaning and then apply them in terms of how they are related and work together. Aggregate means to collect, gather, or bring together.  We aggregate people and money. Leverage, in physics, involves a fulcrum and the length of a lever.   It involves creating a mechanical advantage.  Think of prying a rock out of the ground with a digging iron.  Here, the rock is a pool of money (or income).  The fulcrum is the platforms (the businesses) we utilize.  The long end of the lever is all the resources and credibility we apply working with the fulcrum in order to pry the rock (money) out of the ground. Residual Income is money that is created and recurs over time, typically monthly.  This is accomplished through various means.  Compensation models of the businesses we work with have residual income "built-in".  These vary.  The most stable is a monthly subscription, like any other subscrip...

Here is the truth:  making money through marketing an online business is neither easy nor simple.  If it were, everyone would be doing it and enjoying success.  Obviously, this is not the case.  The fact is that there are many components that need to be in place all acting together in an integrated fashion.  This is not to say that it can't all be laid out and explained.  It can.  However, one of the "tests" you should apply is running from anything that proclaims to be a "no brainer". Here's the truth:  you need to create resources that support your "ventures".  If wanting to create a long-term business, it is not as simple as joining something with a replicated website and promoting that link.  If you want a business with long-term legs, there are many more things that need to be in place.  However, let's just start with the first two: Here's what you will want to consider.  First, how will people get to know you?  Y...

There is an email in our system that talks about "having ways" to get paid.  In the first tier of our business model, we are in the direct-pay / instant-pay arena in terms of the vehicles we use to earn income. It (should) go without saying that in an online environment where commerce is taking place, you will need platforms to enable transactions.  In other words, you will need to set up relationships with payment platforms and link these platforms to your existing financial resources - .typically this is your bank account and your debit or credit card. Why?  You need to have ways for people to pay you.  The more payment platforms you are set up with, the more ease there will be in enabling people to "transact" with you. The most fundamental and universal of these is PayPal.  If you do not have a PayPal account, you will want to get one.  As well, PayPal owns Venmo.  You will want a Venmo account as well. CashApp, Facebook Pay, Google Pay are ...

Aggregate, accumulate, save, invest, build a nest egg... call it what you will, the "ways" to establish a pool of money are diverse.  So, let's talk about what we do and how it fits into this context of building your bank account. You are no doubt aware of the phrase that "it takes money to make money".  Here is the reality:  it does.  You need savings in a bank for it to gain interest.  You need a broker or brokerage account to put money into and hope stocks appreciate.  You need the funds to buy a fixer-upper to upgrade and then flip for a profit.  If you can think of a scenario where it does not take money to make money, I am curious to hear about it. Like all of these, our business requires an initial outlay of money.  This is based primarily on two factors.  Means (does someone have the money) and risk tolerance (how do they view potentially losing this amount of money?).  What we do is not traditional.  We aggregate peop...

Everything starts with making decisions.  And, (for our purposes) ends with money in your bank account, e.g. decisions to dollars. This assumes there is a sound decision-making structure to operate from.  You will find this information on a few other places on this blog:  Decisions are a function of information.  D=(f)i  Slow down and let that sink in if you have not pondered it before. So, what information do you (or someone you are wanting to attract) need to gather, evaluate and act upon in order to progress to the point of "getting started"? This breaks down into the two broad categories of affect and intellect.  In other words, how people feel and what they think. The biggest affective component is trust.  Are you being dealt with in an honest and fair manner (and) is your best interest is at heart?  Trust is (typically) built and earned over time, however in our business, we need to move people through "trust development" in a relati...