Category: The CarrotCast Podcast

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Entrepreneurship is like a river. The rivers that change directions often and meander always move more slowly.

While rivers that pick a course and always move forward flow over everything in it’s path and are unstoppable forces of nature.

Trevor Mauch

I’m going to start a short series that will resonate with certain entrepreneurs. Those you have been at it for a year, 2, 3, 4+ just past the honeymoon phase of their businesses. On this first edition to the series, I’m going to walk you through how to break through ceilings in your business. That can be a ceiling of happiness, income, or tasks. Whatever is currently draining your energy.

I want to challenge you to blast through the feeling like you’re constantly on a plateau. I’m going to give you some tools that I use to overcome bottlenecks and to help you build processes to amplify your business and to gain more enjoyment from what you’re accomplishing.

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Breaking Through Ceilings In Your Business: My Formula and My Story

2:15 – Breaking through ceilings in your business.
6:50 – Have the feeling that you’re not doing work that gets you excited? Here’s how to change it.
8:25 – The #1 thing that unblocks every bottleneck.
10:30 – Poison oak, a fever, and a root canal… But one AMAZING week. Here’s how it unfolded.
13:05 – One of the most misinterpreted phases of being an entrepreneur. 
15:00 – What to do when your processes start to fail.
17:05 – Compounding wealth and tying it into building processes.
21:00 – What plateaus are you up against right now and how to attack them.
22:05 – The core process to decision making.

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• From 0 to 3,347 Multi-Family Units: “How I Did It” w/ Carlos Vaz: CarrotCast
• Tips On Building Your Wholesaling Team To Gain More Freedom And Purpose w/ Alex Pardo: CarrotCast
• How RJ Will Do $2M+ Flipping Houses In 2018 In 4 Different States: CarrotCast

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The success with our business and in life comes through practice. It comes through the right habits and it comes through the things that you do repeatedly. Raul Bolufe

In five short years, Raul Bolufe, President at Capital Rise Investments and Sellhousenowcash.com, has built incredible momentum to now close 10 deals per month.

In fact, Since 2014 he’s done over 200 deals and by, now 25 he’s wholesaled over $15M++.

On this episode of the CarrotCast, learn how he’s been able to gain that momentum, both with Carrot and away. We unpack what his marketing looks like, how he’s adapted to the different market trends, and how he’s found his mission and built a team of 7 people and 3 agents

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$15M++ Revenue in 5 Years… How Raul Bolufe Has Built the Momentum to Crush Wholesaling in a Very Competitive Market

1:20 – Adding context… Who is Raul Bolufe, what his real estate business looks like right now in the Miami market.
5:44 – What volume of deals is he doing right now.
6:35 – What were some of the biggest struggles he had during his first year of business and now 5 years in what breakthroughs he has had.
9:45 –  How his business model shifted during years 2, 3, and 4.
10:00 – Unpacking marketing. Breaking down what has been working for him to achieve 10 deals per month.
11:55 – How and why Raul’s Carrot buyer website has been getting at least 1 lead per day.
15:00 – What Raul would like to do with his company other than flipping houses.
22:00 – What his mission has meant to his team and how it’s been worked into his business.
24:30 – What Raul does to get into his mindset on a daily basis.
27:50 – What his overall marketing mix look like right now.
31:50 – TIP: How to optimize your online real estate marketing.
32:45 – His mindset around team building. How to go from a one-man operation to build a team.
37:30 – Building flexibility into your business.
40:45 – What’s next for Raul’s business and his strategy to get there. 
42:55 – What types of direct mail are working for him right now.
43:30 – Why follow up is so important and a process to do it.

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• [Case Study] How Luke Harris Flipped 50+ Pieces Of Bare Land This Year: CarrotCast
• You Can Achieve Financial Freedom and Build True Wealth w/ Jack Bosch: CarrotCast
• How RJ Will Do $2M+ Flipping Houses In 2018 In 4 Different States: CarrotCast

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Everyone is so nice! I’m looking for someone I don’t like, but I can’t find them. Tim Oppelt

This CarrotCast episode is actually pretty darn unconventional. We’ve never done one like this before. You may hate it, you may love it, I’m not sure.

But the reason I’m saying this is we recorded a little bit of a side conversation, Friday this last week, during the week of CarrotCamp, with my team.

There were a couple of our guys from out of town, out of state, one of them from Delaware, one of them from Philly, and a few local guys.

We were just kind of chatting. One of our Carrot Camper attendees, Beau Hollis, crushing it, does well over a hundred deals a year, he brought an amazing, amazing bottle of whiskey you could only get in Kentucky where he lives. So we cracked the bottle open, we sipped a little bit of whiskey, and we chatted for a half an hour, kind of decompressing CarrotCamp week.

We talk about business culture, company culture, the perspective from some of these employees of Carrot, from these team members, their perspective of culture, and why they joined Carrot, and how they joined, and how you can do the same thing in your own business.

What we’ve done here at Carrot, while it is unique to our culture, like what we’ve built is uniquely Carrot culture, you can build your own culture as well, and take these cues, take these tips, take the conversations from our team members, and infuse them into how you build your culture, moving forward to.

Now, with that said, the audio is a little bit weird. We weren’t planning on recording a podcast at that time but I pulled out my cell phone and I literally just pointed it towards people, so my voice is definitely a little bit louder.

If this is your first episode of CarrotCast, this is not how all of them are. This is kind of a special fun one, but hopefully you get some great information, some great content as you’re listening to this episode of the CarrotCast, a special one, behind the scenes conversation in our office, end of the week of CarrotCamp, talking about culture, hiring people, joy in your work, the whole shebang. Enjoy!

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Behind The Scenes: Carrot Culture, CarrotCamp, Whiskey, and More

2:00 – Carrot employees and real estate investors, Tim Oppelt and Grady Sullivan share their thoughts about CarrotCamp and Carrot HQ in Roseburg, Oregon.
5:50 – Introducing Josh McIntyre, one of the newest “local” Carrot employees.
7:55 – Building Carrot Culture. Why Levi Chappell decided to join Carrot as an employee.
8:55 – How to build a company that people want to work for.
10:45 – Why Tim has chosen to deploy his time to Carrot instead of somewhere else.
13:05 – Creating good Core Values. Why the latest Carrot additions felt a connection before joining.
19:30 – Be clear when communicating… One of the ultimate ways to build trust.
21:00 – Josh’s perspective of what he experienced during CarrotCamp.
23:20 – The ikigai exercise. Battling the common symptoms of being a high-achieving entrepreneur.
25:45 – The number one thing that Trevor is most proud of with Carrot.

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• CarrotCamp Spring 2019: CarrotCamp
• Perfecting a Creative Real Estate Strategy to Beat the Current Market Environment w/ Joe McCall: CarrotCast
• How RJ Will Do $2M+ Flipping Houses In 2018 In 4 Different States: CarrotCast

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Stop sabotaging your success. Learn to face the fear of taking risks. Trevor Mauch

On this episode of the CarrotCast, I want to talk something I was discussing with a really high-level house flipping business CEO recently. Having the energy to make people feel better and thinking “who do I need to show up for today?” It’s really easy to get lost in your metrics. It’s really easy to get lost in your KPI’s. It’s really easy to get lost in your goals.

Everyone gets lost. It’s part of being motivated. It’s part of being an entrepreneur. We tend to stop thinking about what and who we need to show up for right now and bury ourselves in the achievements and sorrows of our work.

If this is you, listen to this episode and start changing your mindset. Start showing up for the people you love. Start showing up to make people happy. I hope this helps and starts making a difference in your life.

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Who Are You Showing Up For Today?

:50 – Happiness and energy can come from many different places. Quick story about Trevor’s recent “high energy” encounter.
1:30 – This one phrase helps Trevor build energy and passion for his day. Find out what it is.
3:35 – Ask yourself this important question every day.
5:50 – Close your eyes and think “who am I showing up for today?

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• We’re The Fastest Growing Software Company In Oregon… + Speaking Dreams Into Reality: CarrotCast
• Perfecting a Creative Real Estate Strategy to Beat the Current Market Environment w/ Joe McCall: CarrotCast
• How RJ Will Do $2M+ Flipping Houses In 2018 In 4 Different States: CarrotCast

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We’re never going to sacrafice performance for the sake of design. Trevor Mauch

On this episode of the CarrotCast, I’m going to dive into the age-old debate of short vs long-form content and performance over aesthetics.

This call is a small marketing lesson to make all of your marketing better. Online and offline. We’re going to cover my strategies and why I believe in the Carrot marketing strategy.

Enjoy and I hope this call helps to change your mindset around your marketing.

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Marketing Rant: Short vs Long Content, Performance Over Aesthetics

:40 –  Building companies based on short vs long content. Example of a direct mail piece of marketing content that blew a short piece away.
2:55 –  The dangers of fully outsourcing your marketing. What Trevor learned from taking this route in past.
5:20 – Trevor’s example of an ugly, long-form, but highly effective piece of marketing. Find out why this piece drew him in.
9:35 – How long-format content can help you cast your vision.
10:50 – Why “wordy” content coverts.
14:40 – Why pre-framing your business after the initial opt-in is so important.
18:20 – Squeeze pages vs. websites. Where there are issues with both and how to solve them.
19:35 – 3 action items you can do to become a better marketer.
26:50 – Test, test, and test again. What our data has shown us. The many factors of the amount of copy you need on your website.
30:25 – Why and where (industries) long copy works best.
33:35 – Why a Carrot member in Oklahoma has been closing 1 in every 4 leads.
36:30 – Having the right mindset. Always consider aesthetics vs profits. Which is more important to you?

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• Perfecting a Creative Real Estate Strategy to Beat the Current Market Environment w/ Joe McCall: CarrotCast
• How I 10x’d My Income And Found My Purpose With This 15 Minutes Per Quarter “Energy Audit”: CarrotCast
• My 3 Mindset Tips to Help You Motivate, Inspire, and Execute… CarrotCast

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I think investors today especially need to be educating themselves on creative real estate because lease options, owner financing, subject to’s, contracts for deeds and things like that become a lot easier to do when the market starts going down. Joe McCall

Hey everybody! I’ve got a special guest with me today on this episode of the CarrotCast. I’ve known Joe McCall for years. Funny thing is, I didn’t even realize it until after we recorded this, I’m going to see him four times in person in the next about 60 days at four different Masterminds. Kind of cool, and we have a chance to talk about a lot of cool stuff on here.

So the main things that you’re going to be grabbing away from this Podcast. There are some really cool things we didn’t even intend on diving into on the impact of Masterminds and what we’ve done with them and how you can even start your own the way that we have. We dive into that, we dive into wholesaling lease options. Why in this market environment, you need to be doing creative real estate because if you’re not doing creative real estate in this market environment where we’re at or near the top of the market, you can’t keep on doing things the way you’ve been doing it the last one or two or three years.

We’ve seen Carrot customers go out of business, because they haven’t shifted it off of their strategy. So are you molding your business around your solution and not changing your solution? Are you molding your business around solving the problem your clients find? One of the ways that you can do that is with wholesaling and lease options and we dive into that in pretty good detail.

Joe also dives into his process on finding the best cash buyers out there.

Without further ado, let me welcome in Joe McCall to the CarrotCast.

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Perfecting a Creative Real Estate Strategy to Beat the Current Market Environment

1:35 –  Joe’s LOVE for Carrot and why he can’t understand when people think they can do it on their own.
6:00 –  How Joe started his own mastermind to help others grow their real estate investing business.
10:55 –  The fruit of your labors pay off. Joe shares his thoughts about giving more than you expect to get back.
14:10 – Falling from the corporate ladder. Joes path into real estate investing.
20:50 – Be aware of what is going on around you. How to ride the market upswings and downswings wave.
24:00 – Why you need to educate yourself on creative real estate strategy.
25:50 – Knowing what the “Smart Money” is doing next. Setting yourself up for the next real estate phase.
29:30 – GOLD TIPS: How to use a list source.
34:05 – Joe’s phone system method.
36:50 – Standing out from your competition. On and Offline strategies.
43:25 – How online marketing impacts your offline marketing. Also, how one Carrot member could making hundreds of thousands more just from making the switch to Carrot.
45:45 – Where wholesaling lease options can play into your real estate strategy.
51:20 – The wholesaling lease options avatar.
54:50 – What is mechanically different within the types of offers Joe makes for wholesaling lease options.

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• Real Estate Mastery: Wholesaling Lease Option Book
• Real Estate Investing Mastery: Podcast

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Stop sabotaging your success. Learn to face the fear of taking risks. Trevor Mauch

What a crazy week! One of the worst but best. A fever, some poison oak, and a root canal forced me to take another look at my process and how I can serve the Carrot team better.

Recently I’ve found myself wrapped up in agendas and failing to draw the line to what I can “throw away”, “hand off”, and “what need to be involved in.”

I’ve also been creating strategy systems so our team can understand what I’d like see happen without being so involved. Things that not only drain my energy, but also the team.

Most of all, I talk about flipping your risk profile and what that means to me. It can be difficult to take a risky leap from a job that is putting food on the table.

But, if you don’t take a chance you’re 100% guaranteed to you won’t enjoy the benefits of being an entrepreneur.

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Flipping Your Risk Profile + My Crazy Week…

1:40 –  Struggling to draw the line. What number is too many meeting?
3:40 –  Shifting the priority matrix on to more important things.
4:50 –  Cleaning out commitments. What can be through out, what can be handed off, and what needs to be given to the team so they are successful.
5:45 – Creating systems that everyone is accountable of using.
8:00 – Building strategies so the Carrot team can better understand what I need from them.
9:20 – Flipping your risk profile.
10:20 – Sabotaging your success. Learn to face the fear of taking risks.
12:00 – What flipping your risk profile means.
14:45 – If you don’t take a chance, you’re 100% guaranteed to never enjoy the benefits of being an entrepreneur

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• Breaking Down the Barriers to Achieving Your Goals: CarrotCast
• What I Told 53 Local Entrepreneurs About Life, Success, and Happiness: CarrotCast
• My 3 Mindset Tips to Help You Motivate, Inspire, and Execute… CarrotCast

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We very often compare ourselves as entrepreneurs with these business people that are selling billion-dollar companies or have $100,000,000 companies which I’m not close to on that area. The reality is that I’m playing on a different field. I set up a different game for myself and if you don’t actually have the ambitions and haven’t created the goal to get there and created a plan to get to that goal… it’s absurd to compare yourself. Brad Weimert

On this episode of the CarrotCast we welcome on entrepreneur, adventurer, and founder of Easy Pay Direct, Brad Weimert.

Brad has a similar sense of core values as we do here at Carrot. We seek out and build real relationships with people that are passionate about what they do and who they help.

He does it with a slightly different approach than most.

Learn what climbing the size of Mt. Everest TWICE taught him about high-performance in areas of his life that otherwise (without adventure) may never have been learned. Therefore, his entrepreneurial spirit also might not be burning as hot.

Enjoy and get ready to be inspired to take on a new level of passion, commitment, and spirit.

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What Climbing the Elevation of Mt. Everest TWICE Taught Brad Weimert About High Performance Entrepreneur and in Other Areas of His Life

2:30 –  Deep dive into Brad’s company, Easy Pay Direct.
5:35 –  The Challenge that triggered Trevor to want to bring Brad onto the CarrotCast.
9:55 –  Brad’s Everesting challenge and why he chose to dominate 34 laps instead of 17.
12:30 – Understanding the motivational wheel and what our bodies are capable of accomplishing.
14:40 – Brad’s training before the challenge.
17:50 – The perceptions Brad had before the event and what people had to say to him during the event.
21:00 – Mental demons he had to battle during the event.
25:15 – How to have full convection in whatever you’re doing.
29:00 – The growth and benefits Brad has experienced personally since the event.
32:35 – The personal challenges does Brad have up next.
33:30 – What it takes to be able to accomplish extreme physical challenges.
36:10 – Brad’s day-to-day diet for sustained energy.
37:30 – The Unplugged Fiji “mastermind” where “250 Entrepreneurs Unplug to Connect” and challenging themselves to go to the next level.
41:10 – The #1 way to breakout of a rut.

LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• Breaking Down the Barriers to Achieving Your Goals: CarrotCast
• What I Told 53 Local Entrepreneurs About Life, Success, and Happiness: CarrotCast
• My 3 Mindset Tips to Help You Motivate, Inspire, and Execute… CarrotCast

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