Business Signs Tell You to Go from Part Time to Fulltime (LA 714)

Business Signs Tell You to Go from Part Time to Fulltime (LA 714) Transcript: Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit:                            Hello. Steven Butala:                   Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill DeWit:                            I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California. Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about business signs that tell you you should go from part-time to full-time wholesaling land or houses. Jill DeWit:                            I have a good list. Steven Butala:                   This is a good week. Jill DeWit:                            Yeah. Steven Butala:                   This is the kind of week I like. This is Business Week. It's Get Your Business Kicked Up to the Next Notch Week, or whatever ... I don't know. That's not the formal name. Jill DeWit:                            Yeah. Steven Butala:                   You got all that stuff, though. You got all the things that, in the beginning, that just trip you up. You got your wits back about you. You got your confidence. You know the business works. Now, it's just all about doing some deals. Jill DeWit:                            You just passed all your tests, whatever your personal tests were. Sometimes people question- Steven Butala:                   You convinced your wife. Jill DeWit:                            Well, they question not only, "Is what we provide ..." but, what you can ... How do I say this? It's not just about if the business is a viable business. It's, "Are you a viable candidate to make this business work?" They both have to be on the same page. Steven Butala:                   Right. Jill DeWit:                            Thank you. Steven Butala:                   Jill and I just got off the phone with a guy who already has a business, and he's going to add this to it. Which, I think, he's already knocked out that whole attitude part of it. His attitude is correct. Jill DeWit:                            Do you remember we had that list a while back, though? We thought about, "What are the top three things of all of our most successful members?" Steven Butala:                   Yes. Yeah, go ahead. Jill DeWit:                            Number one was they know how to run a business. They've been a business owner. They are a business owner. You have to have that mentality and have to be able to know to get things ... If you have a successful business, you've been through a lot of crap. Steven Butala:                   Yeah. Jill DeWit:                            You know how to cut through it, and to- Steven Butala:                   Cut through it. Get over it. Jill DeWit:                            Power through and get it done, and get there. If you didn't have a successful business, like you never conquered accepting credit cards for your business, it wouldn't work, kind of thing. So, you've got through all that, and there's always obstacles.                                                 The second one was understanding data. You have to be able to ... Steven Butala:                   Spreadsheets. Jill DeWit:                            You can't say, "I just finished Excel 101, now I'm ready." Steven Butala:                   Yeah, that's not going to work. Jill DeWit:                            Then number three was you really have to have some funds, or access to ... We want to be honest. I don't want you to come here with $80,000 in debt, and you have one credit card left that you're living off of. This is not for you. You need to be able to- Steven Butala:                   Yeah, you got some other stuff to do first. Jill DeWit:                            You're not going to be able to sleep at night, and that's not the right way to start something.