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Foreword

Explode your passive income through Mastering Real Estate investments is an eBook that aimed at helping you become successful by investing in real estate. This is research based on expert advice and firsthand experience of real estate investors.

In this eBook, different aspects of being a real estate investor will be looked. First of all, you will get to learn the basics of real estate and the investment opportunities. This will give you some background on what exactly is entailed in these investments.

You will also get to learn whether or not you have what it takes it even invest in real estate. There are many people who rush into making an investment without really thinking about what it really entails. This eBook takes a look at some of the considerations that you should make before making your investment. It also helps you realize right from the start whether or not real estate is the right investment for you.

There are a number of simple techniques that successful real estate investors have managed to use and succeed. These tips will be shared in this eBook. You will also get to learn the simple methods that you can use to get started in real estate investments.

Like in any investment opportunities, there are challenges and risks that come with investing in real estate. In this eBook, we will look at a few of these. Knowing what hurdles to expect helps one to be adequately prepared. You will also get a few tips on how to deal with these issues.

All successful real estate investors share a number of qualities or character traits. These are what make them stand out in the industry and make a name for themselves. We will look at these qualities in this eBook. This will enable you to determine whether or not you have these traits of a successful investor. Some of the qualities are developed as you grow as an investor, you will also learn about them.

You will also get some tips on how to succeed as an investor in real estate. These tips will work for the people who are just starting out and also for those who are already investors. You can learn how to fully realize your potential by simply applying a few tips.

After reading this book, you will be able to establish whether or not real estate is the right investment for you. You will also be able to learn about the industry and get some advice on how to explode your passive income by mastering real estate investments.

If you have been investing in real estate without getting the returns that you desire, this book will enable you to learn what you may be doing wrong. Maybe you just need an attitude adjustment or maybe you chose the wrong kind of property investment opportunity. All this will become clear by the time you complete the final chapter.

Investing in real estate offers a lot of good opportunities. The key is to know how to succeed as an investor. You need to learn what real estate entails, the risks involved, challenges and success tips.

Real Estate Essentials

Explode Your Passive Income Through Mastering Real Estate Investments

Chapter 1:

The Art of Real Estate Investments

In this chapter you will learn what exactly it means to invest in real estate. If you are new in this industry, this will give you a great insight of how this kind of investment really works.

You will also learn the basics of real estate.

Definition of real estate
Real estate investing
A real estate investor

You can’t invest in an industry that you don’t know about. For this reason, you have to familiarize yourself with real estate before even thinking about any investments.

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Introduction

As a business owner, you know that how your market your business is at the heart of your success. In fact, most aspects of your business are dependent on you developing a successful marketing campaign. You may provide the best services or sell the best products, but if you don’t have a solid marketing plan, potential customers would never know about it.

Today’s prospects are looking for useful information, but have a strong resistance to the "hard sell." Most consumers spend the time to research services online before making a purchase. They take the time to study different products, compare prices and features before ever stepping foot in a store. They want good content that helps them make a decision but don't like being sold. In fact, 70-percent of consumers would rather learn about a company through an excellent article rather than advertising.

Compelling content can help your business build strong customer relationships without resorting to the less productive "hard sell” tactics. The content you produce showcases your expertise, which gains consumer trust by highlighting important topics that affect consumers. Well-crafted content can bring traffic to your website and social media accounts, boost your performance on search results pages, and give your audience the chance to share your content with their friends, resulting in higher conversion rates for your business.

Chapter 1 – Developing Your Content Marketing Strategy

One of the most powerful arms you can add to your overall marketing strategy is content marketing. Content marketing is used to establish you as a subject matter expert, which leads to an increase in your company’s revenue, as well as having a high-profit potential. However, creating content to build your audience and create a successful business is not a fast growth strategy. It takes months for the content you produce to grow into its potential.

Before you begin creating content for your business, you need to have a clear picture of your business goals if you want to develop a successful marketing strategy. This is especially true when it comes to content marketing. It is essential for you to have a consistent approach when it comes to the content that you are producing. Having a regular strategy provides you with content that keeps your audience engaged, resulting in them seeing you as an authority on the subject. When your business is seen as an authority on a subject, your audience is more likely to purchase from you when the time is right.

For your business to see a return on investment regarding your content marketing effort, it is essential that you develop a comprehensive ecosystem around your central content platform. Developing a complete system helps to leverage your resources to help you grow your business, rather than wasting your resources. For you to have a successful content marketing campaign, it is vital that you see your complete content marketing strategy as an ecosystem in which your content is a dynamic medium, where your customers are involved at every stage.

The Content Marketing Ecosystem

The content strategy that you first develop will grow and evolve. For your strategy to be healthy and productive, you must include many different elements. There are two main types of content that you will have to consider when developing your strategy; recurring content and content assets. Recurring content is content that builds your customer base over time, while content assets are used as a near-term client acquisition tool.

When working with a recurring system, there are six parts that need to be included to ensure a healthy ecosystem;

• High-quality front-end content
• An opt-in offer
• An email onboarding sequence
• An initial conversion opportunity
• A follow-up sequence
• Another conversion opportunity

The asset system consists of four parts and can be used on its own or combined with the recurring system. The four elements necessary for the asset content system to be useful are as follows;

• A high-quality long-form content asset
• An initial engagement opportunity
• An initial conversion opportunity
• A follow-up email sequence

Here is a quick look at the parts that you should include for both the recurring content system and the content asset system.

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Introduction

Every year in the United States, more than 627,000 new businesses open, according to estimates from the Small Business Administration, SBA. That's more than half a million people deciding to leave their 9 to 5 job and set out on their own. Unfortunately, not everyone is cut out to be a small business owner, as evident by the nearly 595,000 businesses that close every year. To those companies that are able to get off the ground and running, only 51 percent are able to remain in business for more than five years.

With such disheartening numbers, you may be wondering if you should venture out on your own and start a business, and whether or not you’ll succeed as an entrepreneur. The good news is, anyone can become a successful entrepreneur with the right mindset. The mindset of successful entrepreneurs is different from everyone else. There are many ways in which they think and act differently. When you know what you are looking for, you can begin to think and act like a successful entrepreneur.

When it comes to creating a successful business, like any journey, you need to have a map. Having a plan of where you need to go will help you get to your destination in the fastest time possible. This book is meant to be your map and help you become a successful entrepreneur, as fast as possible. To be truly successful, in anything that you do, you have to have the right mindset. This is true whether you are an elite athlete, a world champion, or a billionaire business owner. All of these people share a specific mindset, and if you want to be a successful entrepreneur and be successful in life, you will need to develop this same, robust and focused mindset.
The more important question that you will have to ask yourself at the beginning of your journey to entrepreneurial success is why are you doing this? The answer that you give is one that will have to last you for the majority of your life, so the answer better be good. It has to be good enough that you won’t falter, even at the worst of times.

Staying focused and driven to reach your goals and find success will require you to rewire your brain. However, if you've never reached a low point or a turning point, how are you going to do this? How can you get into the zone and stay there, all the time, no matter what? Finding the zone and staying there month after month, year after year isn’t an easy task. That’s why the question of why you’re doing this is so important.

Chapter 1 – Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mindset

Who you are, what you think, your personal habits, your attitude, your thoughts and your beliefs will determine the results you get, regardless of what you do in your life. Developing an entrepreneurial mindset is one of the best things you can do. It helps you to challenge yourself to recognize, overcome, and change what isn’t working in your life.

As a business owner, you have to quickly come to the understanding that your mindset is your business. It represents the path you’ll take and how quickly you’ll achieve success. The entrepreneur’s mindset begins with your excitement about the success that is still to come. Successful entrepreneurs can see the opportunity put before them and spends hours daydreaming about the success they will achieve and how it will feel when it becomes a reality. It’s what fuels the fire. Without it, the motivation for any entrepreneurial venture will quickly fade.

Many people believe that a successful business relies solely on the business model. However, there is more to it than this. To truly find success as an entrepreneur, you have to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. So, what does having an entrepreneurial mindset entail?

The Spirit of an Entrepreneur

When you envision what an entrepreneur is, you probably think of a hard-working individual, who is smart and knows how to network. Someone that is creative and is able to take calculated risks. They might have outstanding leadership skills and other qualities that make them successful. While these qualities are integral parts of every entrepreneur, not all successful entrepreneurs have these qualities in abundance. The fact of the matter is that some entrepreneurs will lack some qualities altogether while having a wealth of others. So, what is the commonality between all entrepreneurs; what is the one thing that all entrepreneurs possess?

For 99 percent of successful entrepreneurs, they have the spirit of entrepreneurship in common. This means they are unable to accept the status quo. Deep down, successful entrepreneurs are rebels. They are rebels who are unwilling to conform to standards set by others. They push themselves past these set boundaries. It is this spirit that allows them to face a plethora of problems and see the solutions and opportunities presented. It is the same spirit that allows them to rise above the fear of failure and overcome doubts. It allows them to improvise, innovate, invent, and create new paths and businesses, where none exist. The entrepreneurial spirit is the undying belief in one's own ability. It is the resolute belief that we all have a role to play in shaping society through the creation of business solutions for some of life's most common problems.

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Chapter 1: The Challenge of Digital Marketing

Many of us got into digital marketing thinking it was going to improve our lives in major ways. You may even feel that you were ‘promised’ by internet marketing gurus that your life would suddenly be easy once you took up this line of work.

Digital marketing means working online and that in turn means working from anywhere, and without a boss. So of course, life will be easy! You can choose your own hours, you can work out of coffee shops or from beautiful locations…

And you can do it all your own way. Without someone breathing down your neck and shouting at you when you get things wrong.

What’s more, if you manage to achieve a ‘passive income’, then you’ll be earning money even while you sleep. Passive income means generating cash from a website, or a YouTube channel, or through affiliate sales. It means that even as you are resting, the seeds you sowed continue to reap their rewards.

So, you can take time off whenever you want.

And let’s not forget that during all this, you will be discussing things that matter to you. Things that you are passionate about. Things that you can’t wait to leap out of bed to start writing about.

That’s the dream of the digital marketer.

Oh, and you’re rich too.

Dreamer, Meet Reality

The question you should be asking at this point though, is that if it is that easy, why isn’t everyone doing it?

The answer is that – of course – things are actually a fair bit more complicated.

Because most people don’t wake up one day with a website getting thousands of views a day and generating solid passive income. In fact, no one manages to do that.
Instead, it takes a lot of time. Likewise, it takes a lot of time to build a massive mailing list that you can use in order to make money from affiliate marketing emails. It takes a lot of time because it simply takes that long for a site to take off in a big way or for anyone to collect that many emails.

But likewise, it also takes that long simply to learn. You’ll start off with your internet marketing not really knowing what you’re doing. You’ll make mistakes. You’ll build a brand that you’ll be embarrassed of in retrospect.

And if you’re anything like the vast majority of today’s most successful internet entrepreneurs, then you’ll probably end up scrapping your first few businesses and trying again. Trust me: I work in the industry and I know some of the biggest players very well. None of them got it right the first time. They all floundered at first with non-starter ideas and brands. That will be you. Trust me.

And this is when running a business is not easy and is not fun. This is when digital marketing is hard.

You were told you would be able to give up your job and start working from home right away. You were promised the world. Instead, you’ve done nothing but work your socks off, stay up late and give up your free time… only for nothing to happen.

And that can be crushing.

What’s more, is that many internet entrepreneurs will never quite achieve passive income anyway. I consider myself an internet marketer and yet a large portion of what I do involves working for clients.

And let me tell you: if you work for clients then you might as well work for a boss! Even the nicest client in the world is going to expect you to honour your deadlines to at least some degree. Even the best gigs around will sometimes involve writing about topics you hate, or designing sites that you don’t massively approve of.

How about all the times you don’t get paid? Or the times where you’re between clients and the money just isn’t coming in?

And when you work from home, how do you prevent yourself from going entirely mad? You know, even when everything is going well and you’re getting paid for doing work that you enjoy… how do you avoid the temptation to sit in front of the TV all day? Likewise, how do you avoid the temptation to not stop working when it gets to 5pm? How do you avoid the temptation to squeeze in just a bit more work? And a bit more? Especially if you’re getting paid by the word or by the hour.

How do you manage your finances, knowing that you’re always going to have different amounts of money coming in at different times?

Do you have what it takes to do your own taxes?

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Chapter 1:

The Basics

Before you jump right in, it is better to not only discover more about investing and how it all works, but likewise to determine what your goals are.

What do you hope to accomplish with your investments? Will you be funding a college education? Buying a home? Retiring? Before you invest a single penny, truly consider what you hope to accomplish with that investment. Knowing what your goal is will help you arrive at smarter investment decisions along the way!

The Start Point

Too often, individuals invest cash with dreams of becoming rich overnight. This is possible - but it's likewise rare. It's commonly a very bad idea to start investing with hopes of becoming rich overnight. It's safer to invest your cash in such a way that it will grow slowly over time, and be used for retirement or a youngster’s education. However, when your investment goal is to get rich quick, you should learn as much about high-yield, short term investing as you possibly may before you invest.

You ought to strongly consider talking to a financial planner before making any investments. Your financial planner may help you determine what type of investing you must do to reach the financial goals that you have set. He or she may give you realistic information as to what kind of returns you may expect and how long it will take to reach your particular goals.

Again, remember that investing requires more than calling a broker and telling them that you want to buy stocks or bonds. It takes a certain amount of research and knowledge about the market when you hope to invest successfully.

Chapter 2:

Should You Invest

Investing has become increasingly crucial over the years, as the future of social security advantages becomes unknown.

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Individuals want to insure their futures, and they know that if they are depending on Social Security advantages, and in some cases retirement plans, that they might be in for a rude awakening when they no longer have the ability to earn a steady income. Investing is the answer to the unknowns of the future.

You might have been saving cash in a low interest savings account over the years. Now, you want to see that cash grow at a faster pace. Perhaps you’ve inherited cash or realized some other type of windfall, and you need a way to make that cash grow. Again, investing is the answer.

Investing is likewise a way of attaining the things that you want, like a new home, a college education for your youngsters, or expensive ‘toys.’ Naturally, your financial goals will determine what type of investing you do.

If you wish or need to make a lot of cash fast, you would be more interested in higher risk investing, which will give you a larger return in a shorter amount of time. If you are saving for something in the far off future, such as retirement, you would want to make safer investments that grow over a longer period of time.

The overall purpose in investing is to create wealth and security, over a period of time. It is crucial to remember that you will not always be able to earn an income… you will eventually want to retire.

You likewise can't count on the social security system to do what you expect it to do. As we have seen with Enron, you likewise can't necessarily depend on your company’s retirement plan either. So, again, investing is the key to insuring your own financial future, but you must make bright investments!

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Chapter 1:

What Is Forex

The stability of the forex is never guaranteed as it is dictated by many connective elements around the world. Things like war, oil prices, and global shifts in power are just a few of the elements that effect the forex movements. However most times these changes are not immediate but gradual over time.

The Basics

There are many companies that are successfully trading in the forex. For the forex trading there are no off days, holidays or time offs. These companies run on 24 hour cycles no matter which part of the world they may be located in.

The forex trading also has its fair share of scams and to avoid this it would be prudent to do some research before taking the word of the forex traders and investing a lot of money on the here say or speculation of a few people. There are no magic formulas that most traders tout and every trade has the accompanying risks.

There are also many career opportunities in the forex trading line. Most large forex trading companies hire a varied amount to trades depending on the successes of the trade. Individual traders, brokers and bank to bank transactions are the most common and accepted ways of trading. The statistic taken last year showed the trading volume reached about 4 trillion USD.

Besides the daily transactions for profits, there are also other uses that require some lever of forex movements. These other users may include wages paid to foreign banks for the multinational personnel. However a large percentage of the trading is more for profits which can be rather considerable if the risks involved weren’t so high.

Chapter 2:

About The New York Stock Exchange

Some documentations list the beginnings of the NYSE or otherwise known as the New York Stock Exchange to begin in May 17th 1792. At the time of its humble beginnings it only had about 24 stock brokers working together to form the stock brokerage. All this was and still is on the same named street called Wall Street.

NYSE

As it expanded over the years it has changed locations but has retained always kept the “wall street” tag. It is known to be the largest stock trading house in the world and at last statistical count it was listed to be trading daily at about USD153 billion. The statistics also showed that at one time it had a market capitalization of its listed companies at the huge figure of USD13.39 trillion. These are all mind boggling figures and it is rather amazing to note the amount of paper transactions that are done on a minute to minute basis.

This powerful form of trading which is facilitated by the NYSE provides the platform for buyers and sellers to trade share of stock in companies registered with the board for public trading. Keeping to the age old working time frame of a five day working week of Monday to Friday, its runs from 9.30am – 4.00pm, closing only for holidays previously set and declared by the Exchange in advance.

Though when first observed it can seem quite chaotic and loud, there is an underlying system in place which is very familiar to all on the trading floor. The “buying and selling” is done at a very fast and energetic pace and the alertness of an individual plays an extremely big role in getting the transactions done according to requirements of clients or customers. These “customers” or clients usually appoint brokers to do the trading on their behalf sometimes with specific guidelines and some leaving the decisions to the discretion of the brokers hired.