In the first part of this Flashback Friday episode, Jason Hartman shares a poem by Don Weill, The Reluctant Investor’s Lament. Then, he welcomes Harvey Mackay. He’s the author of Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt. Harvey talks about The Mackay 66 Customer Profile, humanizing your selling strategy, and getting your foot in the door.
Announcer 0:00
This show is produced by the Hartman media company. For more information and links to all our great podcasts visit Hartman media.com.
Jason Hartman 0:09
Hey, this is Jason Hartman, thank you so much for joining me. Do you know what day it is? Yes, it is flashback Friday, where you hear the best of the creating wealth show and you hear some good prior episodes, some good review. Remember, we’ve got almost 500 episodes out. And you know what? iTunes doesn’t even hold them all if you’re an iTunes listener, if you are listening on Stitcher, thank you for joining us. So we want to bring you some good review stuff. Now. What’s interesting about flashback Friday, it’s a little scary for me. I got to be very, very candid with you on that. Because you the listener, you get the chance to hold my feet to the fire. Did I make any predictions? Was I right? Was I wrong? I’ve been right about a lot of things, but I’ve been wrong about a few. So you can give me a hard time about that if you wish. But it’s flashback Friday, and we will give you the uncensored Best of the creating wealth show with a prior episode. So let’s dive in. Here we go. Remember, this is not current. It’s flashback Friday.
Announcer 1:22
Welcome to the creating wealth show with Jason Hartman. You’re about to learn a new slant on investing some exciting techniques and fresh new approaches to the world’s most historically proven asset class that will enable you to create more wealth and freedom than you ever thought possible. Jason is a genuine self made multi millionaire who’s actually been there and done it. He’s a successful investor, lender, developer and entrepreneur whose own properties in 11 states had hundreds of tenants and been involved in thousands of real estate transactions. This program will help you follow in Jason’s footsteps on the road to your financial independence day, you really can do it on Now, here’s your host, Jason Hartman with the complete solution for real estate investors.
Jason Hartman 2:12
Thank you for joining me today, we’ve got listeners in 26 countries around the world. And we’ve noticed the ratings and the downloads of the shows going up a lot lately. So we thank you for referring your friends and family special show for you today. We’ve got a very famous author swim with the sharks, Harvey Mackay, and he’ll be talking about his new book today, which is entitled Use your head to get your foot in the door aren’t all his books, they have such great titles. And we’ll get to my interview with Harvey here in just a moment, but wanted to just make a couple of quick announcements and share a little poem with you today.
First of all, we’ve got our next creating wealth boot camp event coming up our date that we’re scheduling that for is July 31. And I just should let you know we are thinking about doing that event. Although we have not confirmed the location in Los Angeles near LAX airport, or maybe even in long beach near the Long Beach airport. We’re Of course located right here in Orange County near the Orange County Airport. But we just thought maybe we try a different location and look at some different connections for our out of town visitors who seem to be coming to the event more and more. And if you have any feedback for us on that talk with our investment counselors here, shoot us an email through the website at Jason hartman.com. And if you have any location, suggestions, preferences, maybe you’ve wanted to come to one of our events, but our events, but the travel has stopped you because it’s more difficult than you want it to be. And we’d love to try and accommodate you. So any feedback would be appreciated.
Before we get to the interview with Harvey Mackay, I’m going to share a couple of properties with you. But before we do that, I want to share a little poem. And this is a very, very inspiring poem. And it is written in 1977. Can you imagine that this is a perspective from 33 years ago, and it’s just interesting. I love to watch old movies and and read sometimes those compilations of old front pages from the newspaper 50 years ago, 100 years ago, even 10 years ago, it’s just so interesting to get a perspective of what were people thinking about back then? Well, this poem is entitled The Reluctant investors lament. And it’s by Donald Weil, and it was written in 1977. And it is so telling when you look at the opportunities that we are faced with today. As investors, the opportunities couldn’t be better, because I think unfortunately for most people, the chances of extremely high inflation in the future couldn’t be worse. Now, some people say that inflation is going to hit us in 18 months, some say in two years. Some say in four or five, maybe even not until six years, but we all know No, it is coming, it must come. There is simply no other choice ultimately. And we also know that we are going to see interest rates increasing. So our strategy again, packaged commodities investing my little trademark term there, you tie up long term commodities that have long term universal need universal value, and you tie them up with three and four decade long, fixed rate mortgages, so you don’t have to even see inflation.
Remember, you’re listening to flashback Friday. Our new episodes are published every Monday and Wednesday.
If you just see higher interest rates, that should have the effect of dramatically dramatically increasing your income from your properties. So again, even though this poem is based around the concept of price increases, it’s not just about price increases. Remember, income property is a multi dimensional asset class and all of us regular listeners, we know that we get it. So this is just a really good perspective. Then I’ll talk about some properties real quickly and then Harvey Mackay talking about getting your foot in the door. So here it goes. I hesitate to make a list of all the countless deals I’ve missed on answers that were in my grip. I watched them through my fingers slip, the windfalls, which I should have bought or lost because I overthought. I thought of this I thought of that I could have sworn I smelled a rat and well I thought things over twice another grabbed them at the price it seems I always hesitate then make up my mind when it’s much too late. A very cautious man am I and that is why I never buy when tracks rose high on sixth and third the price asked I felt was absurd. Those block fronts black and bleak was set were priced at just 30 bucks a foot. I wouldn’t even make a bid. But others did. Yes, others did. When Tucson was cheap desert land. I could have had a heap of sand when Phoenix was the place to buy. I thought the climate was much too dry. Invest in Dallas. That’s the spot but my six cents one me I should not and that is why I never buy how Nassau how Suffolk grew North Jersey, Staten Island to when others called those sprawling farms and welcome deals with open arms, a corner here 10 acres they’re compounding values year by year I chose to think and as I thought they bought the deals I should have bought the golden chances I had then are lost and will not come again. today. I cannot be enticed for everything in 1977 is so overpriced. The deals of yesteryear are dead the market soft and so is my head last night I had a fearful dream. I know I awakened with a scream some Indians approached my bed for trinkets on the barrel head in dollar bills worth 24 and nothing less than nothing more they’d sell Manhattan aisle to me but the most I’d go was 23 the Redman Scout, not on a bet and sold to Peter minuet. At time a teardrop drowns my eye for the deals I had, but did not buy and now life saddest words I pen. If only I’d invested then.
Don’t be The Reluctant investor. Do not let that be you. We all have regrets in life. I am sure we all have regrets of some sort. It’s the coulda, shoulda, woulda, you’ve got to seize the opportunity. And I am telling you, the opportunity is so great. Now, in the midst of this global financial crisis, the population is increasing. The government is spending irresponsibly, municipal bond funds are going to default like crazy states cities, counties will declare bankruptcy. And that means one thing more fake fiat money will be printed and things will become meaningful and money. Well, I shouldn’t say money, I should say currency, namely dollar bills will become more and more worthless. And our debt is denominated in those dollar bills. Think about the opportunity to use someone else’s money, the bank’s money to stock up on things, things that have universal need. things matter. People say money isn’t important. Well, I don’t know about that. That’s debatable. But I will say that things are far more important than money. things really do matter. And we say use other people’s money to buy lots of things. Things that everybody needs. Get into control of the resources that have universal need. That is the road to wealth.
Let me talk to you about a couple of these resources right here. So here’s a property in the greater Dallas area, three bedroom, two bath built in 2006. It’s just four years old, almost 2000 square feet, you can buy this property for a total cash out go closing costs everything just over $44,000. It’s $77 a square foot, the projected rent is 1450 per month, the cash flow is $144 per month based on that projection, and the return on investment is projected at 21% annually. What if it doesn’t work out so well? What if you only get half of that? Well, that means you would earn 10.5% annually. And you know what, that’s going to be about 10 times better than you’ll earn in any bank right now. And it’s probably a heck of a lot better than you’re going to earn in any mutual fund. I know that. Here’s another one. This we’ve talked about before. These are little duplexes that we have in St. Robert Missouri, big military town, three bedroom, two bath units, two of them brand spankin, new new with warranty and even the not new homes, they all come with warranties, all the stuff we recommend 20 640 square feet hundred $93,069 a square foot it only takes 15,000 total cash invested now on these because they’re brand new, and we’ve got a unique financing opportunity you do initially have to deposit in a secured cd $36,000 but you get a bunch of that back at closing. So ultimately you’re only putting in just over 15,000 cash flow is projected at $253 per month that’s over $3,000 per year in positive cash flow return on investment is projected at 58%. Did you hear that? Five 8% 58% it only has to go one 10th as well as projected and you’re still going to beat the bank and you’re probably going to beat the heck out of the stock market.
Here’s another one in Indianapolis income property bond country 2100 square feet $74,000 35,000 and change total cash in only $35 per square foot. I bet it would cost you double to build that house today. This is a 2007 house only three years old. Again, the ones that aren’t new, they’re all bank foreclosures pretty much that’s pretty much all we’re dealing in now positive cash flow projected at $413 per month that’s almost $5,000 per year in positive cash flow return on investment projected at 24% annually cash on cash return 14% cap rate 12.1% try beating that let’s go back to the Big D Dallas Texas four bedroom two bath 2003 I’m looking at the picture. This is a really really nice looking property 20 373 square feet 135,000 40,000 total cash in $57 per foot hundred $90 per month projected positive cash flow and 20 $300 per year positive cash flow projection total ROI we are projecting 22% annually folks do not be The Reluctant investor Do not be the one who says now life satis words I pen if only If only I’d invested then changing the subject here.
My pleasure to interview Harvey Mackay just recently and let’s hear that interview. Now Harvey Mackay is a very famous author. Now this interview should be interesting to you for multiple reasons really the book his new book is really about getting a job and it’s entitled Use your head to get your foot in the door unique job search secrets that no one else will tell you. However we talk about his other books if you are in sales and listen, everybody’s in sales. If you are interested in ever being an author, a publisher, a speaker, Harvey Mackay, you can learn a lot from this guy because he has an incredible success story. He started out as an envelope salesman and through just sheer networking. Like if you want to learn how to network Harvey Mackay is your guy you’ll really like this interview. So without further ado, let’s just go to the interview and we will play that interview in just less than 60 seconds. Be right back with Harvey Mackay.
Announcer 14:33
Want to know what you’ve missed in the creating wealth series? Well, here’s your opportunity with Jason’s five books set that’s shows one through 100 through digital download, you save $288 by getting this five books set. Learn all of the advanced strategies for wealth creation. For more details go to Jason hartman.com
Jason Hartman 15:00
Just a reminder, you’re listening to flashback Friday. Our new episodes are published every Monday and every Wednesday.
It’s my great pleasure to welcome Harvey Mackay to the show. You certainly know of him. He is the man with all of those great book titles first and foremost many years ago was how to swim with the sharks without being eaten alive. Many other bestsellers in between his latest book is use your head to get your foot in the door, and he sold over 10 million books translated into 42 languages distributed in 80 countries. I’ve enjoyed his syndicated nationally syndicated column for many years now. And Harvey, it’s great to be talking with you.
Harvey Mackay 15:39
Jason, nice to be with you. I’ve been looking avidly looking forward to this interview.
Jason Hartman 15:44
Well, good. Tell us about your most recent book, if you would, it is so timely and by here that it just hit number four on the New York Times bestseller list. Congratulations.
Harvey Mackay 15:52
Very proud of that found that out about 24 hours ago. Yes, this coming Sunday. So kind of proud along with USA Today. And Wall Street Journal bestseller, you know, you work on a book for two years, and you’d like to get results after all that effort. So I’m a very happy camper. The book has a little unique feature in it on the back of the book. If everybody turns it over. If they eventually had a book, it would say the following do not read this book. underline it, highlight it, use post it notes. And if after six months, you don’t have a job. Alright, I personally, and I sign it right down the back cover, will give you your money back. People, Jason, have asked me and I’ve been out on the road now. I’ve got 23 cities left seven down 23 to go. So I’ve done numerous radio and television, maybe over 50 or 60 interviews already. Everyone asked me how can you make a claim like that? Well, my answer is I’ve been doing this for 45 years, calling from Minneapolis where the company had founded right here, the K Mitchell envelope company, I’ve had about 500 people through my front door. In the last 40 or 45 years, they’ve gotten exactly what they wanted. When I wrote swim with the sharks. I had in the back page Money Back Guarantee. If you don’t like this book, well, 5 million copies of sharks were show sold 18 people Jason 18 people asked for their money back seven of them, were my best friends.
Jason Hartman 17:16
Well, you know what no prophet is ever revered in his own circles.
Harvey Mackay 17:22
So anyway, if I could set the stage for you, and this is not a typo, our listeners after No, these are real numbers. And I know this goes to many, many, many countries, I’ve had an opportunity to speak in about 80 different countries. So I’m sure virtually every country that is listening person listening from a different country, I think the concepts don’t change, the philosophies don’t change. Nothing has changed in the last hundred years, or the next hundred years as far as being successful now how we get our information and everything. That’s a whole different new world. But here is the setting for the table. If I made this very moment, and this is not a table this is federal girl labor statistics. There are 14 point 8 million Americans right looking for work unemployed, downsize, restructured, right sized mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, 14 point 8 million people 6.3 million of the 14.8 have been looking for seven months or more. That is just unrealistic. That number is only a million and a half, five years ago, the average college graduate this coming June he or she will have 10 to 14 different job changes in his or her career. And now get this three to five different career changes 10 to 14 job changes by age 38. I’m gonna repeat that by age 38 on the 14 Wow, just three to five different career changes three to five different career changes in their entire career. So you see, it’s a perpetual job search that we’re talking about out there.
Jason Hartman 18:55
Yeah, times have definitely changed. Nobody’s going to work for the same company for 40 years and getting a gold watch anymore, are they?
Harvey Mackay 19:02
That’s correct. My father was a writer headed associate presser in St. Paul Minneapolis for 40 years. He did get the gold watch. But that’s right. Not anymore. So you have to prepare to win. You have to do your homework. I’ve got 300 pages 69,000 words that gives a lot of review a lot of secrets, how to be successful. Make sure you’re not one of those 14.8 unemployed.
Jason Hartman 19:25
I loved some of the stuff you cover in the book and it’s so timely again with so many people looking for positions and wanting to use your network and by the way Harvey I got to tell you one of my other very favorite book titles of yours that I have talked about in in many speeches I’ve given
Harvey Mackay 19:40
Can I take a guess?
Jason Hartman 19:42
Yeah, go.
Harvey Mackay 19:43
I’m just gonna guess, Dig your well before you’re thirsty.
Jason Hartman 19:45
You got it. I love that title. And that’s really what that applies to networking and job searching and so many opportunities in life, doesn’t it?
Harvey Mackay 19:53
It’s in 200 universities, Dig your well before you’re thirsty. And, and guess what? I don’t sell anything on my website. This is for All the listeners around the world they will receive just by listening this very minute, they can receive a 12.95 book. It’s the Harvey Mackay Rolodex network builder, which summarizes the dig your well before you’re thirsty, no charge free, they can download it, I sell nothing on my website, they can get that book free, they can get all kinds of reports free, they can get a 66 question customer profile, just all kinds of gifts on there. They can do all of those things at no charge. So yes, thank you for mentioning that book. And that’s a very good opportunity for all our listeners to go to that website and get that free book, which will help them not only getting a job that will help them climb the ladder, the rest of their life. You see what I wrote here, Jason is an A to Z Career Resource book. This is not a book just for someone looking for jobs. As for entrepreneurs, this is for CEOs, managers, people who hire who fire negotiations. It’s all in there. And they’ll find out by hitting my website.
Jason Hartman 21:03
I remember a long time ago learning about the Mackay’s 66, as you call it. And Harvey, tell us how it relates to job seekers?
Harvey Mackay 21:11
Surely, you actually, you must memorize the Book because that’s, that’s the number one key ingredient definition of a secret is when one person knows. And, and there are maybe over 100, I think secrets and good ideas in the book. But this is number one. You just you just nailed it. Jason, you nailed it. And here’s what it is the case 66 question customer profile I came up with at age 21. I was an envelope salesman, working for a huge company. And I decided that every company I called on, of course, is a purchasing agent. They’re called Purchasing Managers today, there are 300 buyers I was calling on. Well, I decided that I wanted to humanize my selling strategy at age 21. So I came up with these 66 questions that I would love to know about the customers that I call on, I want to know about their, about their hobbies, their recreation, if they happen to be married, anything about their children, their previous jobs, where they take their vacations, political preference, odd jobs they’ve had before spouses interest, children’s interest, these are all the things I wanted to know. And therefore I put that in swim with the sharks. And that’s one of the reasons why I guess it went through the roof. But now let’s apply this. And I call that humanize your selling strategy. Incidentally, in that little 1295 book I just talked about, that everyone gets free that’s listening to this program that can download within seconds, there’s 20 pages in 112 pages, a little booklet there 20 pages of my speech that I delivered to the MBA program at Harvard, MBA students, and it’s called a course humanize your job search or humanize yours, selling strategy. So now let’s get back to your question. If you’re going for a job, a lot of people will Google the company, but they forget that people which is wonderful, you have to do that. But now there’s a human being that’s hiring you. People buy from other people. And people hire other people. Because of chemistry because of likability, because of people skills. You have to level the playing field. So we teach our sales people to read the desk to read the walls to read the reception area when you walk in, to keep gathering information about your customers to stay close to them. And then again, you humanize it. So that’s how you get your foot in the door. That’s how you get the business example, just a brief Excel, let’s say, Jason, you’re going to interview me. And for some reason other you don’t get grant me an interview, I’ve been calling on the call and your assistant, your HR director of an XYZ company, and I can’t get my foot in the door. Well, if I go to the invisible web, which is again, in the book, 10 pages on the invisible web, which gives you search engines and databases for actually 99% of all the listeners have never heard of before I can find out some of your interests, I can find out your golf scores, I can find out what your golf handicap is, I can find out who you contribute to, believe it or not. And let’s just say that I find out that you’re with the Salvation Army. I mean, as a volunteer, you’re on the board of directors or the United Way, whatever. What I’ll do is I’ll write you a little letter and I’ll say, dear Jason, I’ve been trying to get an appointment with you and to no avail. Just one let you know, I know you’re involved with United Way, Salvation Army, whatever. I’d be happy to volunteer 25 hours. So that organization, if, if you’ll give me an interview,
Jason Hartman 24:38
Right, right. What a unique way to get your foot in the door, huh?
Harvey Mackay 24:42
Won’t that stand up and listen a little bit to a creative candidate?
Jason Hartman 24:45
Absolutely. Very creative, very creative. And you know, you figure if that candidate is so creative in getting in the door, they’re going to be creative in their in their position with your company. They’re going to think out of the box. They’re going to go the extra mile and really bring revenue to your company,
Harvey Mackay 25:03
You want to be a differentiator in all aspects, whether you’re looking for work or anyone listening right now that has a job already. Differentiator. Outside of the box. All the studies known to mankind, prove the following theory. And it’s in practice to all right, there is no zero zip, none. no correlation between IQ and creativity. I’ve studied it for 40 years. Every listener on this program right now can become way more creative than they ever thought they could. And so that’s what they have to study. That’s what they have to learn. That’s what they have to apply. I’ve always said in swim with the sharks and, and a few of my books, knowledge does not become power until it’s used. Only repeat that knowledge does not become power until it’s used. Ideas without action are worthless. So, therefore, you have to take that self-help book, and you have to take from those pages. All right, all the creative juices that you’re going to learn about, and you have to take them to the marketplace.
Jason Hartman 26:08
Absolutely. Very, very good point. Let’s talk a little bit about the job search. And I do want to leave some time to go beyond that to some of your prior work about salesmanship, management, leadership, etc. But what are two or three questions every candidate should be prepared to answer on an interview.
Thank you for listening to the creating wealth show. This is Jason Hartman, your host, and we appreciate you following the show. We have many, many episodes, hundreds of episodes, and some of the older episodes have been archived and placed in our members section. And that applies to this one. So we include a sample that’s about 25 minutes long. And then for the rest of the show, you can go to our members section at Jason hartman.com. Many of the other shows are still in their full length complete version. However, some of the shows like this one are in our members section where you can hear the show in its entirety. And again, you just need to go to Jason hartman.com. And you can get the full show they’re in the members section plus a whole bunch of other great members benefits and resources, whether it be documents, forms, contracts, articles, other video and audio content, just a great resource, so be sure to join as a member at Jason hartman.com and thanks again for listening to the creating wealth show.
Announcer 27:39
This show is produced by the Hartman media company All rights reserved for distribution or publication rights and media interviews, please visit www dot Hartman media.com or email media at Hartman media.com. Nothing on this show should be considered specific personal or professional advice. Please consult an appropriate tax legal real estate or business professional for individualized advice. opinions of guests are their own and the host is acting on behalf of Platinum
