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I have a spreadsheet with almost 5,000 GO! student wins. The most common word in them: (Besides "the", "and", etc.) "Referral" Ones from current customers. Ones from past customers. Ones from network connections. Ones from loose partnerships. The community has closed hundreds of millions of dollars just by b…

What's especially crazy about this story is that this deal is still paying me decades later. It was a real estate property. I acquired it one year after the 2008 housing crash. At the bottom of that crash, my company was struggling, and that property kept us afloat. Kindness isn't about money, of course. You s…

These are the best ways to become known in just about any industry: (We teach them all in GO!) 1. Personal branding. Regularly posting content and having an optimized profile is a cheat code. It'll make people aware of you and make your other networking efforts a lot more effective (it PREsuades for you). 2. No-s…

I have a spreadsheet with almost 5,000 GO! student wins. The most common word in them: (Besides "the", "and", etc.) "Referral" Ones from current customers. Ones from past customers. Ones from network connections. Ones from loose partnerships. The community has closed hundreds of millions of dollars just by b…

What's especially crazy about this story is that this deal is still paying me decades later. It was a real estate property. I acquired it one year after the 2008 housing crash. At the bottom of that crash, my company was struggling, and that property kept us afloat. Kindness isn't about money, of course. You s…

12 valuable ideas, visualized: 1. Progress comes slowly, then suddenly 2. Growth is up and down, not consistent 3. The less you want, the more you have 4. Not trying is the only real failure 5. Focus leads to quickened progress 6. The first step is always the hardest 7. Understand that you have blind spots 8. Exper…