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If you’re still trying to protect that extra few hundred bucks or that few thousand dollars a month thinking that you’re going to be able to take that time yourself and deploy it to the tasks that aren’t serving the bigger mission as much as these bigger things could be… I can tell you right now that you’re sacrificing multiples of that revenue by not hiring an Executive Assistant. Trevor Mauch

This episode of the CarrotCast has been a long time in the making. Two of our most commented episodes have been about hiring an Executive Assistant.

So it’s about time that we have, the World’s BEST Executive Assistant, Jen Delamotte, on the CarrotCast.

Jen has been with Carrot from the start. Actually before the start!

On this episode, we’re going to dive into Jen’s journey with Carrot and Trevor as she went from 5 to 10 hours per week, hopping into blog posts and some marketing tasks that she really didn’t enjoy to turning into a really amazing asset and person.

We’re also going to explore her thoughts on what she’s not liked, liked, and sometimes struggles with while managing the day-to-day, upper-level, work of a high-quickstart CEO like Trevor is.

Carrot wouldn’t be where it is today without Jen!

So, enjoy this episode and pull out why it’s so important to think about time and revenue within your businesses.

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What Makes An Excellent Executive Assistant? Behind The Scenes At Carrot

3:00 – How Jen and Trevor’s business relationship all started.
5:55 – What are some to the tasks Jen started out doing for 5 to 10 hours per week and the struggle to “what to have her do” in the beginning.
10:00 – As Carrot and Trevor began to grow, Jen started to step into new roles. Learn about the evolution of responsibilities.
12:55 – Managing the different personality traits that Trevor has compared to Jen and an Executive Assistant should have.
15:50 – Some of the random tasks that Jen does that people would probably look at and say “wow, you’re really like Trevor’s Mom.”
20:45 – Segway into critical communication, how it’s evolved over the years between Jen and Trevor, and what they use to communicate better.
26:40 – The evolutions and training of how emails are organized and prepared for Trevor to see and respond to. He typically logins to email once or twice per week. Creating the non-negotiables of communication.
33:10 – Openness and transparency… Getting out of email and comfortably allowing Executive Assistants into your messages.
38:14 – What has Jen noticed about Trevor giving up control of things. What has been the toughest things for him to give up?
44:30 – Building communication candor.
45:30 – What are some of the struggles Jen currently has with working with Trevor.
47:30 – The importance of setting time boundaries. Requests for tasks to be completed and how that currently looks now.
51:30 – What Jen does on a daily basis to know what she is supposed to be working on. And, when she hits the overwhelmed stage, what does she do to back-up and refresh.
53:45 – How by creating environment build on processes has helped Trevor and Jen be more productive.
1:01:15 – Rapid fire… 2-minutes of tips and hacks that they’ve been able to get done.
1:05:20 – What is the biggest thing Trevor wouldn’t be able to do without Jen

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• Hiring an Executive Assistant (Rockstar) – Resources, Tools, Mindset Shifts: CarrotCast
• 10x Your Productivity And Income – My Formula For Hiring A Personal Assistant: CarrotCast
• Real Estate Investor Virtual Assistant: 3 Key Mindset Changes You Need to Make Before Hiring: CarrotCast

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Your brand whether you think you won or not is the one thing that no one can copy. I think your website is the best channel for you to showcase that brand and the best way to do that is just to put up as many testimonials as possible. Dan Schwartz

Hopefully, you’re gearing up for the end of this year, and really starting next year with momentum. I’ve got a series coming up for you, over the next several months to help you plan for the next year, to really help you figure out what is on the horizon as a real estate investor, real estate agent, that I should be paying attention to.

On this episode of the CarrotCast. I dive in with my guest, Dan Schwartz to talk about automation, we’re gonna be talking about how do you really gain freedom and flexibility and time-freedom from your business and with your business.

And really, how to leverage systems better to close more deals, because you need to refine your systems in 2019 to get that edge, to get that advantage. If you have leads slipping through the cracks, and you’re not closing deals that you should be closing, you are going to be struggling in 2019. We want to help you crush it in 2019.

All right, so without further ado, I want to welcome on Dan Schwartz.  He owns InvestorFuse. We probably have three, four, five hundred of our member using InvestorFuse as their CRM.

It’s an amazing company, an amazing product. And they’re actually coming out with a completely revamped version of it, but in this call, we talk about time-freedom, how to really gain time-freedom.

A little bit about how to build a team, and also, diving into systems and specific systems.

Ask yourself…

“Hey, what would you do on a follow-up to really gain an advantage in 2019? What would you do with your systems to gain time and really build that team so they’ll actually to use the systems?”

All right, enjoy this conversation with Dan Schwartz and have an amazing day!

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Simplify Your Lead Management Systems To Gain Time Freedom

2:00 – From living in an entrepreneur co-work space in San Diego to attend conferences… Where Dan has been working from recently.
5:05 – Dan’s backstory and what his business looks like right now.
8:30 – Team + Automation = Time Freedom… What does this mean?
11:00 – Adding “vision” to the equation and why real estate investors can struggle with communicating “vision” with their team.
13:00 – What type of deal volume has he seen in the past 6 to 8 months and what type of marketing is working the best right now.
17:50 – Online marketing gives you the chance to differentiate yourself from the competition. Here’s why.
20:00 – Marketing cycle predictions for 2019.
21:40 – What should you be automating on the backend when a lead comes into your system.
25:25 – Creating a drip sequence to follow up with cold leads.
30:55 – What Dan found to be the struggle between Podio and InvestorFuse integration and why they’ve started to build a new platform.
36:55 – Learn more about InvestorFuse.
38:45 – Check out Dan’s new podcast, Real Estate Time Freedom.

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• Effective Copywriting Tips For Real Estate From World Renowned Copywriter Ben Settle: CarrotCast
• The Power of Recognizing the Pivotal Points in Life to Scale Up Your Real Estate Investing Business w/ Tim Oppelt: CarrotCast
• How April Acquired 40+ Units and Flips 10+ Houses Per Year in Pennsylvania w/ April Crossley: CarrotCast

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Don’t feel guilty for being in a phase of your life that you’re following YOUR goals and not those of others. Trevor Mauch

This topic FIRES me up!

We’re now about two years into the CarrotCast and we’re so grateful of our audience and the impact that we’ve been able to provide.

This impact was touched on recently when I was talking with one of our Carrot members. There was a question during the conversation that hit me at my core…

The question of “when is enough, enough?”

We all have ambitions. We all have the drive for more. But, when does that get out of hand?

My initial goal when I first started out was to make $4k per month. But, over time, my aspirations, motivations, and standards changed.

Luckily, my path has taken me personally and Carrot on a journey to impact the lives of others.

But, there are those who what that next higher level while either losing their purpose or never having one in the first place. They get the “not good enough” disease. Whatever they have or do just isn’t good enough anymore.

On this episode, I want to help cure that mindset. I want to help our audience get over the need for validation. It’s time to switch that mindset to truly feel your work is making a positive difference in the lives of others.

If you’re not waking up each day and feel excited and fired up to help not only your life but the lives of many, many people, then you’re most likely in the enough is enough phase.

Listen in. Start enjoying yourself and put to use the finances, freedom, and flexibility that you’ve worked so hard to achieve.

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When Is Enough… Enough? (My Thoughts on the Dangers of Ambition)

1:50 – Striving for positivity and ambition.
2:55 – When is enough, enough? A brief backstory into Trevor’s early career ambitions and simplicity.
5:05 – What happens with the bar changes and you feel a need to shoot higher and think bigger? The “It’s Not Good Enough” disease.
7:10 – The dangers of ambition and the situation of pushing through goals and working or wanting more.
8:15 – Enough is enough when… What you do fires you up every day. You’re not chasing income and you’re not chasing someone else’s goals.
10:50 – Homework Assignment: Write down the initial goals you set before getting to where you’re at now. Then write down where you’re currently at. This can be a great reminder to either take a step back and be happy with what you’ve accomplished or to ramp up a bit again.
12:55 – Trading freedom for making a greater impact.
16:00 – The mindset around having a new spark to ramp up and do bigger things.

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• The Secret To True Happiness For Ambitious Entrepreneurs w/ Seth Buechley: CarrotCast
• Working Too Much And Profiting Too Little? I Interview My Favorite Author Mike Michalowicz: CarrotCast
• Traveling The World While Investing + Interns Closing Deals w/ Justin Lee: CarrotCast

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It’s really easy to miss things if you’re going too fast. Sometimes you need to slow down and look around. Trevor Mauch

This topic has been on my mind lately. It’s how to go fast by slowing down.

Many times in our businesses it’s easy to miss the important things when we’re working fast and furious, but we’re actually getting behind on projections.

Instead, we need to place importance on what is going to move the needle and with clear objectives.

We need to slow down and create better strategies and plans that are going to pull the biggest levers in our business.

Where can you slow down to better serve your team or family?

Learn from what I’ve been going through the past six weeks. I’ve been going, going, going, but failed to slow down. Slowing down will actually help you speed up when you have the right structure.

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Why It’s CRITICAL to Slow Down Before You Speed Up

:40 – The perception of going fast by slowing down.
4:00 – How to handle the situation when you start falling behind on your growth model.
6:30 – The strategy and process of slowing down.
10:30 – You’ll face distractions while slowing down. Here are some tips to help work through those.
12:00 – Planning for the future the George Washington way.
14:00 – When is the right time to speed back up?

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• $15M++ Revenue in 5 Years… How Raul Bolufe Has Built the Momentum to Crush Wholesaling in a Very Competitive Market: CarrotCast
• Closing 25% of His Leads: How Max Maxwell Leverages Online Marketing and Inspirational Storytelling to Close 1 in 4 Leads: CarrotCast
• Need Inspiration? Jason Is Almost Single-Handedly Renovating His Small Ohio Town by Investing… One Building at a Time w/ Jason Duff: CarrotCast

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We had no advantages. We had ups and downs just like everybody else. I think that’s what you know a lot of people in this real estate game don’t show that other side of the downside and we stuggle everyday. I mean it’s not easy. Max Maxwell

What’s up CarrotCast community. It is the end of a week right now as at the time I record this. I’m actually getting ready to head out to North Carolina and Tampa on Sunday for my last, last, last trips of the year for business.

It’s been … It’s definitely been cramming a lot of stuff in this past month and a half, it’s been all amazing stuff. Just meeting a lot of amazing people. I’ve talked about it in recent episodes of the CarrotCast and different masterminds and high level. I’ve been in boardrooms with two multi-billion dollar companies, their CEOs, different masterminds with just amazing, amazing people.

Speaking of North Carolina, the guests I’ve gotten today’s episode of the CarrotCast, they were actually out here from their home in North Carolina. They were here at CarrotCamp and it’s actually Max Maxwell and Tony Robinson. Max and Tony had been friends for … Shoot for decades and are going way, way, way back.

I think everyone in the industry knows that Max has been kind of taking the industry by storm with his YouTube channels, podcasts, his Instagram following. He’s just building a big, big, big movement. And it’s cool. I love seeing what he’s doing because he’s just sharing what he’s doing as an investor. And originally the whole aim was hey, how can I get from $20K a month to $100,000 a month? And he passed that, and here at CarrotCamp, he’s talking about doing some amazing, amazing things. They’re already doing crazy, crazy great things.

Anyway, we had a chance to kind of, hole away at CarrotCamp in my office, I pulled them to the side and I said, guys, everybody knows Max’s journey from the past two years. Everybody knows how he was broke and how he dove in and started tackling real estate investing and really nailed cold calling and really nailed PPC with Carrot and is doing great. Everyone knows that story.

But, one thing that hasn’t been told is the backstory before that, what happened 10 years, 20 years prior. What happened with their relationship? How did they get to know each other? And how did they support each other through the ups, through the downs?

So we sat down for this candid interview going all the way back to when they were 12 years old and they met, and through the struggles, through a jail stint, through both of them going broke at times, but opposite times through Tony making millions and then losing it all and going to jail.

It’s just crazy, crazy things during the story, but the cool thing I want you to guys to notice is what made these guys who they are today.

People see the success of the past two years as instant, just overnight success, but it wasn’t. It was success decades in the making and I’m insanely proud to sit down with these guys, they’re making an impact, so proud to call them a Carrot customer, Carrot member, Carrot client, and I’m just pumped to be able to see them again and see the impact they’re going to make on more people.

So listen in to this candid conversation with myself, Max Maxwell and Tony Robinson, his business partner, as they discuss their journey and their path that led them to a multi-million dollar real estate business.

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The Struggles, Lessons, Failures, and Keys That Led to a Multi-million Dollar Real Estate Business

1:55 – Tony and Max’s backstory. How they came together and their relationship.
3:15 – Their high school years and how those years impacted their success.
6:00 – Trevor’s brief backstory about a period in his life when he was introverted.
7:40 –  Where Tony and Max ended up after high school. One to the NFL and the other to the Military. How they helped each other during this time and how it ties into their real estate business now.
16:40 – Failed businesses and following the entrepreneurial spirit. Their route to real estate.
21:15 – The ups and downs of 2016 and starting the wholesaling business.
25:00 – Stop trying to duplicate what “gurus” are doing.
26:35 – How Max started creating a YouTube and Instagram following and starting their first meet up.
28:50 – How their business is shaping out to be in 2018.
30:10 – How they get over the fear of having a partnership while being best friends.

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• $15M++ Revenue in 5 Years… How Raul Bolufe Has Built the Momentum to Crush Wholesaling in a Very Competitive Market: CarrotCast
• Closing 25% of His Leads: How Max Maxwell Leverages Online Marketing and Inspirational Storytelling to Close 1 in 4 Leads: CarrotCast
• Need Inspiration? Jason Is Almost Single-Handedly Renovating His Small Ohio Town by Investing… One Building at a Time w/ Jason Duff: CarrotCast

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