Entries from September 2008

September 27, 2008

Even though

This Depression 2.0 is doing every bit of good for the note industry as it is bad for the rest of the economy, I’m getting peeved.
A lot of our clients own notes as a symptom of what happened during the housing boom- corruption. Now these same people, the smart ones anyhow, are selling that note. [...]

September 24, 2008

How I work

I was just thinking the other day how much vulnerability there is to my entire operation. I write everything down on loose leaf paper and place it in a 1″ binder. If a competitor were to really try to trump me, all they would need is that folder and they could really throw me for [...]

September 10, 2008

The Differentiation Curve

In any business, uniqueness is what sells- so why are so many new brokers copying the Jones’s? It seems every new trick played by infamous seminar gurus is the newest “innovative” method used by those trying to be true brokers. Info-pupils don’t know better; you do.
The more you look like the competition, especially the ones [...]