Archive for January, 2007

A lot of growth and a lot of changes coming with CSG very soon. They announced last night that we will be able to offer mortgage and commercial loan referrals beginning next Monday. They have revamped their lead programs and their back office systems as well to accomodate several new websites targeted to each market to help us promote our services to the public.

CSG also announced a change to their structure which will include a huge change in the pay. They are changing their LM1 and LM2 programs to Junior and Senior Referral Agents. They are also changing the fee to upgrade from $497 to $997 and will be paying out 50% iin commissions on the fee. The other commision rates of 40-40-20-20 will nto be changing but the new upgrade commission is great news. In the real estate business, it is not uncommon for a deal to take months to close and moneys to get settled. Professionals in the field are familiar with the time frames and are okay with it. Many people who are new to the industry do not understand this and get frustrated with the delays in getting paid. People are quitting because they are not seeing any money. They just don’t get it.

The commissions on the new upgrade (training) fee will be paid out within a few business days. This is a great help to those looking for quicker cash flow.

And here’s another quick update on my stats. I now have 425 people in my downline. This thing just keep growing. I love it!

 

 

Real Quick Update on CSG

I logged into my backoffice again this afternoon and totaled up my downline. I am at 343 total right now. Two days ago I was at 312. That’s 31 new signups in just 2 days. I’m pretty psyched about that one.

Also, I got a brief glimse of the commission reporting the other day because of a system error and was excited to see some of the figures that will be coming to me soon. They are very nice numbers considering the effort I have put out to date which, frankly, is pretty minimal in my opinion. Commissions should be getting paid out soon too so I’m looking forward to that.

Since the accident (I don’t think I’ve gotten into that yet but I will at some point) I have been having a difficult time getting my head straight and focus on earning again. I was all ramped up back in September getting ready to go full swing in October when things got messed up. Since then it seems like one thing after another has been going wrong with me or someone in the famliy. I have had to reset and start planning for a future date to get the ball back in motion and February is the time. I just finished my course of antibiotics for pneumonia so I should be full swing again soon. Being sick is tough when your body is all banged up already. Not enough energy to heal and fight the illness too. I really need to get more rest but I’ve been having trouble sleeping again too. It’s a perpetual downspin that I am trying not to give in to.

Anyway, so much for quick, eh?  Good things coming in February. Looking forward to sharing my results.

Creative Real Estate Investing

I have been a real estate investor for about 10 years now. I used to own rental property but I sold it off and have recently been focusing on the more creative real estate methods that are used to generate larger cash and cash flow from a transaction. I have purchased many programs and courses and none have really hit the mark with me. One “guru” that I think has great materials and information is Richard Roop. He focuses mostly on the marketing aspects of the business which is where most investors fall short. He has teamed up with Dan Doran and they are now doing the seminar circuit and selling more and more programs. He has built a monster information marketing business and must be making a killing on bootcamp fees and coaching fees. He charges his coaching clients $1,100 per month (last I knew) and he has a lot of them! People will spend a lot of money on real estate info.

Though his materials are very good and I have done deals based on his program, I have not put the methods into full swing 100%. Something inside me said that there was something else out there that would fit me and my style and goals better and I had to keep searching to find it. Well, I think I finally found what I was looking for. I can’t speak of it at this time but if things go as I hope they will, I will be sitting pretty doing exactly what I always wanted to do as a real estate investor. The focus is completely on finding buyers instead of the elusive “motivated seller” in the deal. I will definitely keep you posted on this one.

I wanted to follow up on my last CSG post and let everyone know how well things are going. At the time of this writing, I have a total of 312 people in my group. I will be earning commissions on all of their business. I have 29 people directly sponsored by me and 77 that were brought in by them. These are the people that I will be earning 40% overrides on. The remaining 133 on my third level and 73 on my fourth level, I earn 20% overrides.

WOW! I can’t see this growth slowing down any time soon. Especially because the company leads haven’t even kicked in yet. They are supposed to be putting 50 new downline members per month in my first level each month for the next 6 months which will be incredible. That was just a special promotion, they standard deal is 20 per month for 6 months. Hopefully at least some of those people will be active and do something with this business.

I have several people in my group that are real go getters so I try to spend my time communicating with them the most. I don’t want to overload people just yet however. I will most likely setup some sort of public forum to help my team and comminicate that way. I’m not sure. I am looking forward to great things from this company.