Welcome to The Accelerated Investor Podcast with Josh Cantwell, if you love entrepreneurship and investing in real estate then you are in the right place. Josh is the CEO of Freeland Ventures Real Estate Private Equity and has personally invested in well over 500 properties all across the country. He’s also made hundreds of private lender loans and owns over 1,000 units of apartments. Josh is an expert at raising private money for deals and he prides himself on never having had a boss in his entire adult life. Josh and his team also mentor investors and entrepreneurs from all over the world. He doesn’t dream about doing deals, he actually does them and so do his listeners and students. Now sit back, listen, learn, and accelerate your business, your life, and your investing with The Accelerated Investor Podcast.
Josh: So, hey, welcome back to Accelerated
Investor. Josh Cantwell here again. I’m really excited, as always, to be with
all of our listeners and all of our audience, especially in this very strange
virus environment that we’re in, to jump in. Be live with you to be very real
time with you in the middle of this thing and talk to you about strategies that
are working in my business and guess that I can bring on. And guys that I can
share with you about what’s working for them and how this virus sort of before
the virus and after the virus, what they’re seeing. Today, I have a special
guest whose name is Dr. Adam Gower. He is. He’s got 30 years. Listen to this
guys, 30 years of real estate, banking and finance guy PhD in banking history
from the University College of London. He hosts his own podcast right now, but
real estate syndication. He’s written books around real estate, crowdfunding.
And obviously, as I’ve talked to all of you about the Jobs Act of 2011,
although it took time for it to take hold, it’s really been instrumental now in
creating this whole alternate investing, alternate lending space. And Dr. Adam
Gower is a leader in this space. And we’re going to talk to him about his
systems that he uses to help his clients recruit and bring in new investors.
So, Adam, thanks so much for joining us on Accelerated Investor. How are you?
Adam: Josh, I’m so thrilled to be with you
today. Thanks so much for asking me to be on the show. Fantastic.
Josh: You got it. So, Adam, what you just
tell us real quick. Tell the audience. Tell me about the Gower crowd. Like,
what is it? Help us understand a little bit. Give us a 30 second one minute
kind of background of what you’re into right now. What do you do right now in
your business to help your clients recruit investors?
Adam: All right. First of all, I want you
to know something we all talking about. My favorite subject which is me in 30
seconds. All to one minute is going to be very, very tough, but I’ll manage my
best. All right.
Josh: That’s all good. I could talk about
myself forever, too. So do your best.
Adam:So Gower Crowd is. You know what? I’ve
actually struggled to accept what I do now having, God, hundreds of years of
experience in real estate investments and finance is actually a digital
marketing agency. That’s basically what we do. Agency and education. That’s
basically what we do. And the short story is that when the Jobs Act was passed
in 2012, I just a couple years later had migrated to a remote location. That’s
a whole long story, completely separate. Right. And I started investing. I did
at this dropped off the map, basically. I didn’t retire, but I did. The 2008
crisis was extremely good to me. That’s a whole nother long story. But you
asked about Gower crowd. Yeah. So I found myself. I actually moved into an
incubator, a startup incubator at a university and was surrounded by these
young kids who were totally immersed in digital marketing. Right. And I started
investing. I did some seed investing, and I sat in front of dozens and dozens
of presentations. And Josh, they were talking a foreign language. A language of
tunnels and CRM and SEO and all this stuff. It was like I had no idea what they
would talk about. Five years. And then the Jobs Act passed, and I realized that
what that did was that it moved the needle for real estate sponsors like you
and me, basically. And it said you don’t have to raise money in person anymore.
As you know, the 1933 Securities Act restricted solicitation for investment to
people with whom you had a preexisting relationship. In other words, you had to
meet them, you had to know them already. That’s right. What the jobsites it
was, it said now you can advertise online. You can go online. So here I am
seeing that with all the years of experience raising money in person and at the
same time seeing these digital wizards basically in this incubator. And I
realized here is an extraordinary opportunity for real estate said to me.
Josh: What an amazing way to automate the
process? Right. Whether it’s through email marketing, video, but a sort of a predetermined path of
selling and doing it through video marketing or through messaging that’s
automated and delivery, but still very personal, but automated in a way that
you don’t have to talk to every single person, shake every hand, kiss every
baby. Right. So that’s what we’re talking about is a lot of our crowd raise
lots and lots of money. Adam put a lot of our crowd is kind of like, well, how
do I, what do I, I don’t want to get into something that’s super manual. It’s
gonna take a long time. So whether they’re experienced investors that are guys
that are raising money manually and you’re kind of like, God, this is very
transactional. This is brain damage. What we’re gonna talk about with Adam is
gonna make a lot of sense to help you. And even if you’re new, you’re just
doing your first raise. Maybe you’re buying your first apartment or doing your
first private lender loans. Don’t do it the old way, like do it the way that
we’re going to be discussing here, using digital marketing, email, marketing,
podcasts funnels. That’s what we’re going to talk about. Adam, I’d love to hear
your take on it. We do a ton of this already. I know you build this stuff for
actual clients and you charge for that. You work with big institutions and you
also have a training program, a course where you teach people about how to do
it themselves. So let’s unpack that. So in the last five years, kind of leading
up to this virus, what were you helping your clients do specifically? What kind
of path were you putting them on to raise money more automatically?
Adam: Got it. So you know what? I’m gonna
make a distinction for you. There’s actually almost two things. One, there’s
almost no difference, actually, between the new and the old way. And I’ll
explain why. OK. And to you will spend no more time raising money the new way
than you did the old way. The difference will be that you will be massively
more effective in the time that you spend. Yeah. And the reason for that is
basically what you’re going to do. Think about it this way. However, you raise
money and you just described it perfectly, Josh, obviously, you know, you’ve
been, I know you know what you’re talking about that, but basically you
described a sequence of events. Right, a funnel where you have these various
touch points, either an article or a video or a podcast or whatever it is where
you’re communicating with an investor as they go through their investor journey
to getting to know I can trust you before they actually invest with you. But
think about it. That is actually exactly the same as you and I been doing it
for decades. The difference is right. You meet somebody for the first time,
just like you and I are talking, what’s your background where you’re from. Is
this guy credible so you’ll ask questions, etc. etc.. What’s his experience? So
you’ll ask questions, etc. etc. Then eventually you get to the point well you
do know I can trust that person in person and then you’re willing to invest.
Well, all you doing in the digital space. The quote new way unquote is you are
committing that same exact narrative, that same exact story that you give to
people in person, to the digital world. You’re recording it, right? Putting it
out. Pushing it out. So the prospects and investors can consume your pitch,
your story, your background and everything, you know, in that own time using
one of these devices. Yeah, it’s a funnel for anybody listening. That’s the
only difference.
Josh: I love, Adam, the idea and I’d like
to hear your take on when you do it manually. Like it’s just kind of you maybe
sitting like I am in one of my home offices doing this podcast recording with
you. But if I’m home and I’m raising money by myself, one of the one of the
caps or one of the restrictions. One of the ceilings is it’s only how much time
I can invest. I only have so many hours in the day to talk to investors. That’s
one. The second restriction is, which I will be your take on, is controlling
the message, because as you talk to investors, I don’t care how good you are.
Even if you’re as good as near as good as Adam at raising money. You’re gonna
get kind of off script, if you will. You’re going to have good sales calls and
bad sales calls and good messages and days that you’re on and days you’re off.
There’s days when I’m so on. I’m like, oh my God, that guy is going to invest
half a million dollars with me. No problem. Then they’re saying, Oh, my God, I
totally blew that sales call. Right, cause that’s basically what it is. I’d
love to hear your take, too, on not only blasting through the ceiling of being
able to raise an unlimited amount of money because the digital the digital
environment is conveying the message for you. But also you’ve now contained the
message to say the same thing over and over and over. And that’s got to
increase your conversions. Right. So talk to me about those.
Adam: Yes, I’d say that’s a really
interesting thought that you have, because the word that comes to mind and this
is something that I would advise anybody embarking in the digital world not to
worry about. And that is perfection. There’s no such perfection. There’s two
expressions I like. One is perfection is the enemy of the good. And progress,
not perfection. Don’t try to be perfect when you go. It’s okay to make
mistakes. I sent out an email for a client yesterday and their Web site was
down. So we sent out a gazillion emails and they clicked on anything. Then they
went into a panic and I said, look, you know what? It’s OK. We’ll just send a
resend and no one. Okay. Next week, tomorrow it’ll be forgotten. So it’s not a
big deal. But the, here’s the key is that it’s less about controlling the
message. So the message is perfectly frame. It’s how you break down the
message, how you actually segment the message into a coherent story, because
everything. Look, when you look at deals, Josh, you know, when you especially
in this environment. Right. You go to somebody and they say, we’ve got a deal.
The corner of Walk and Crosswalk. What is the first thing you want to know? You
want to know? What’s the story? What’s the story behind this? Why are they selling?
What’s going on? Tell me the story behind this. Did not the numbers out gets
into wants to start? Why are they selling right in the middle of a crisis?
Right. Right. When you tell your story, when you pick somebody, you’re really a
storyteller. And the key thing is to break down each small component of what it
is that is your value proposition and creating small pieces of content around
each one of those segments of your value proposition. Right. And that’s what
you put out and you’re not going to sit with…. When you raise something, some
money from a prospect in person. Both you and they are going to be subject to
an hour of conversation over lunch. Right. Oh, nobody wants to do that. Oh god,
let’s a sit down with Adam.
Josh: When people say I gotta get…. I’d
like to grab coffee and pick your brain. I’m like, no, thanks. Right. So when
raising money, when I’m talking to prospects, I’ve kind of got to do the same
thing. I don’t want to do that because they don’t want to take the times. We’ve
raised tens of millions of dollars online, just like we’re talking now through
podcasts, medium, zoom, go to meeting, Skype calls, stuff like that. Because
when somebody is really interested, they’ve been through this journey that
you’re talking about. Now you’ve actually dialed this in using your science and
your system. Ours is probably not as dialed in as what you do and teach. We do
a lot of e-mail broadcasting. We do a lot of podcasts with a big sort of more.
Like, get a lot of stuff out on the Internet approach. And people just really
like us. We have a huge e-mail marketing lesson. People invest with us so we
can definitely tweak this a lot. But you’re right. People just don’t have the
time. They do have the time to really be golfing, spending time with their grandkids
than actually sitting down and listening to somebody for an hour, two hours go
through a real estate deal. Right. They want to learn at their leisure.
Adam: Yes. Here’s the thing. If somebody
asks you, just tell me about your background. Right? You’ve got a hot prospect
somewhere. So, you know, you’re the one asking the questions. I’m gonna turn
the lights on you now and ask you if you don’t like it. So what do you do if
you got if somebody says, I’ve got to, you know. How do you how do you
introduce yourself? You arrange a phone call each time?
Josh: Yes, we have we do have some videos,
YouTube videos and things like that. And if somebody does opt into our Web site
or somebody does reach out, we get a lot of people that just call the office.
We have a big email marketing less than students and subscribers already that
want to know. So we’ll send out. We sent out a link to our Web site and some of
our videos about credibility. But it’s just very manual as opposed to automated
through a funnel.
Adam: Yes. So what we do is we build. So we
take all these little pieces of content. So let’s take your value proposition.
And let’s just assume that you’re able to take 10, 20, 30 components of that.
Right. And you break that down into individual pieces of content to discuss.
And we can talk about specific examples if you want. You know it, so. What’s a
multi-family? I mean, it’s a kind of a silly one, because you would think
everybody knows, but they don’t. But they don’t have to explain. It’s an
apartment building. Right. What does that mean? Multifamily. Right. So you put
together a thought leadership piece, a piece of an article that explains the
different types of apartments, multifamily. Then from that, you might be able
to create video. You might be able to create some slides. What we do is we push
those out on social media. So somebody who is on social media, who comes to
look up a client’s name, will find a whole host of different topics on their
Linked-In profile, Twitter profile, et cetera, Facebook, wherever they are.
That’s top of funnel. So that’s an entry point for them then to come to the Web
site. So each one of those posts has a CTA call to action that says to find out
more, click. And they land on the Web site. There’s another CTA that’s sign up.
So this whole process is totally automated when somebody signs up. They now get
an automated sequence of e-mails that might be I’m going to send you four
emails. The first one, my background. The second one. Our background as a
company. The third one, the kind of deals we like, and the fourth one where we
think we all now. And you’re going to get those over the next eight days. Now,
you don’t need to make that phone call. Plus, at the end of that, you might say
or even at the beginning, you might say, our minimum investment is 50 thousand.
So if you want to make if you want to talk to us, you know, give me a call,
then, or click this button. Then, you know, when you get that button clicks,
they already know what the buy in is.
Adam: So, you know, it’s a, they’ve
self-qualified as an investor. There’s nothing random about all you accreditor.
Are you accredited? Non-accredited or don’t know. So if you got accredited. Yes.
And they know that the minimum buy in is 50 grand. Then you also know qualified
worth a call or I’m gonna send them a different sequence of emails. If the
answer is non-accredited so I was just I was kind of getting to the punchline
anyway. The effects of that means that what you’re doing in your funnel is you
are creating segments of or categorizing people that are coming into your
network. Those that are qualified and those that aren’t. And each time somebody
hits a certain button, you can automatically send them a sequence of
communication that moves them further and further along the funnel. So if
they’re non-accredited or don’t know, you might send them educational
materials. Here, learn this, buy this stuff. If you’ve got educational
materials, if they’re accredited, you might start sending them case studies of
deals that you’ve done. Perfect. You know, waitlist stuff. Join the waitlist
for the next deal, etc., etc.. And what you’ll find, Josh, is that when you do
it this way, the first time that you have actual personal contact with somebody
and you know this because you’ve got a podcast. They already know you. They are
already hyper advanced in what you would call might call the sales process.
They are actually predisposed to investing with you. And you know they’re
qualified. That’s the power of building a funnel, right? It’s that out there.
Every single piece of content you build becomes an asset to a company out there
working for you while you’re recording podcasts. Yeah.
Josh: And it gives them the opportunity to
learn maybe whether, you know, that free time. They want to watch a video on
the phone. They want to read an article on their phone or from their computer.
It’s not tying them into a specific date in time and they’re able to get to know
you like you and trust you while they’re doing it on their time. But even if
somebody falls off and stops watching your material, the automated funnel and
email marketing allows you to kind of pull them back on track with an updated
or automated message. Maybe three days later, six days later, even a month
later, I’ve had some funnels that I built that were two years long.
Josh: Not necessarily for raising money,
but that kept these automated communications for two years. And people buying
our products are getting to know us, you know, learning more about our
businesses for two years and never once actually picked up the phone to talk to
people. So funnels can be super long and exotic. So, Adam, let’s talk for a
second about the kind of top of funnel, very top of funnel, which is what I
call awareness. Right. A lot of times about getting people like people who are
cold, who don’t know Josh Cantwell, don’t know Adam Gower. You have to put
things out into the world, right. To make people aware of you to attract new
prospects. So what are some tools that you talk with your clients and the
people that enroll in your programs? What are some of the logistical things
they can do their top of funnel to create more awareness. We’ve already talked
about some of the automated messages in the middle, maybe case studies, a
survey, those kind of things. But what a lot of people want to know is, well,
how do I just get myself out there to get more people in to the funnel?
Awareness stuff? So I was at this pay per click advertising. But to tell us a
bit more about what you do with your clients.
Adam: Okay. So the single most important
thing. Josh, there is really only one thing you could do pay per click. You
could do list buying. You can do in some marketing. We do all of that. You can
do as SEO. We develop all of this for our clients. We have some of the most
sophisticated systems in the industry. But none of it does anything. It’s
totally a waste of time and money unless you have one thing. Content. Yeah,
content is the fuel that powers your machine. So I like to describe it like a
car. If you build a website, that’s like the body of your car. So you’ve got a
gorgeous car and in the driveway. That’s your website. The engine is all the
automation, the funnel, the auto. You know, you also posting on social,
responding emails that’s the engine. But if you haven’t got content, then
you’ve got a beautiful Web site with a great engine, a beautiful car with a
great engine and no fuel. You’re not going anywhere. So the first thing the
number one thing you have to do is identify what is your value proposition,
what are your talking points. And this is something we’re very, very good at.
So all parts of the course you mentioned at the beginning, it’s all in that.
Yeah. And then you create content and from that and you have to really be a
content production machine.
Adam:So from a video, for example, you can
create video, you can create audio, create articles. You can create video
shorts. You can create notable quotable. That’s something that we create. So
out of a single podcast, I will create at least 20 pieces of content. Imagine
that one hour, 20 pieces of content. So if you do two or three podcasts. You’re
now 60 a week, pieces of content after six months. You’ve got hundreds of
pieces of content now what you do is you distribute that on social media.
Right, on the main ones linked in Twitter and Facebook and YouTube if you’ve
got video. And that is your top of funnel content. That’s what powers your
machine. That’s how you create awareness.
Josh: Yeah. Love it. For us. We’ve been
doing. Oh, well, I just want to comment on that for us. It starts with this
podcast. Actually, my team and I had a podcast all the way back in 2015. It
worked so good. It got really big. Then we stopped doing it like a bunch of
idiots? And we got away from it and then we came back to it. Like that middle
of last year, it was probably May, June of twenty nineteen, and that I I work
with Raimy, who is on recording this podcast with us now. I said, look man,
this is really the rocket fuel. This is what we really need to be focusing on.
Because whether people are students of ours investing in residential real
estate or multifamily or raising money or want to invest passively in our
deals, it all starts with a podcast. You can have a voice, you have to have
content. You have to put something out into the world that is you’re kind of
planning your flag and saying, this is who we are. This is what we believe.
Josh: And so we started this podcast out
twice a week. We’ve been doing it now religiously for the past basically 10
months. And then, look, just like you said, we have a part of our team. We
actually outsource a lot of the content creation to a separate third party.
They create a bunch of other videos, a bunch of other blog posts, very similar
you’re talking about. And people have said to me, Guy, you just invest in the
deal. We closed yesterday because a 20 million dollar apartment deal yesterday
raise three million dollars of private money because one of the guys, an
investor, said, Josh, you’re everywhere. Right. And that was exactly what I wanted
to hear. That was really an estimate. It’s really a testament to our team, our
marketing team that’s distributing the stuff everywhere. I just get on and
record and have fun doing interviews like I’m doing with you. But for him to
say you’re everywhere, I’m interested in what you’re doing and then actually
invest real money in the deal. It was, you know, 50, 60. General solicitation,
accredited investor, the whole thing. It worked exactly like what you’re
talking about. We weren’t as methodical, I guess, as what you’re talking about.
What you do, what you do with your clients. But we’ve got the same effect. We
just haven’t automated.
Adam: Hey, look, John. You know, there’s
one word for it. I think it works. Yeah, that’s the point. It works. That is
the point. And it’s extraordinary. I mean, I’ll give you an example. Just think
I we told us about this before we started. This is one of the most challenging
times in the history of the economy around the world. This is as hard as it
gets. And yet my my business is I have to tell you up, having created this for
myself. Absolutely exploding. Exploding. Because the only way to communicate
today is online. You’re not allowed to go out. You are forced to being online.
And so in a way, it’s accelerating the awareness that people have that the
digital world is actually not an inconvenience. It’s actually an amazing way to
leverage your own skills, to leverage your time. And to get your message out
there in a very, very powerful and effective way, it’s like a force multiplier.
So too. Right. That’s. And so what’s happening? I mean, my seriously Josh, it’s
just…Yeah, I’ve been working on it for a long time and I look at my analytics
and I have, I’ve never seen anything like it. We all we are doubling down right
now on content.
Adam: When this thing hit, I was putting
out six posts a day of original content on all channels. Wow. The second that
lockdowns went in place because it was tune deaf to what was going on. I
actually shut that down and immediately turned up the volume on creating
relevant content that talks to my value proposition. Wow. From zero. So if you
don’t mind just a little plug because I’m actually quite proud of it. If we get
out of home my backs. I’ve actually put a button up that just yesterday is for
COVID-19 resources. You can see what I’ve created over the last four weeks.
It’s my whole team is going down googley eyed. Because they can’t believe how
much worse they get sick from it. We’re doing this for clients as well, by the
way. Doubling down on volume, massive ways. And all of that that you see that
times at least times 10 or 20 is rotating on social media. So if you got to my
linked in profile or Twitter or Facebook and all of those slash GowCrowd Either
way, you will see this cycle of content. That’s the awareness exactly that you
were talking about. That is all top of funnel. Every single one of those posts
brings you back to the Web site and every single one of those landing pages on
the Web site says click here for more. Right basically.
Josh: Right now, just the COVID-19 stuff
and all these amazing interviews that you’ve done. Really? Yeah. This is great.
It’s a ton of great, amazing stuff. Yes. Guys, if you’re watching this, we’re
gonna put this in the show notes. But go to Gower crowd. You can see it in
Adam’s background there, Gower crowd dot com and you’ll see in the upper
right-hand corner. I’m on this website right now that says COVID-19 Resources.
So click on that and you’ll see all these amazing interviews. Also on the site,
he’s got a training program where he teaches people how to do this for
themselves. Calls it the investor syndication master system. And he’s dropped
the price by 80 percent during these uncertain times to give more people access
to this information. So you’ll see it on his Web site as well. Just click on
that and you’ll find the training course will also put the link in the show
notes as well, because guys, listen. Adam’s taking the stuff that I teach that
I tell you that you should be doing. But he’s actually has a digital marketing
agency basically that will do this for clients, build this all out. If you have
the capacity that you want to raise tens of millions or hundreds of millions of
dollars. Adam’s somebody that you need to talk to about potentially building
this for you. If you maybe have a smaller need or maybe you just don’t want to
raise as much money it or you’d like to just do it yourself. He has a whole
course there that you can learn and go through his modules and learn how to do
this yourself and build it out. So definitely check that out because he’s taken
some of things that I do, put it on steroids and gone to a whole nother level.
Josh: So, Adam, you were you were talking
more about today’s market. So because people are home. that’s definitely one of
the reasons one of the levers people are home so they can consume more content.
But also, I just think we’re learning now more how to just learn from home.
Like my kids are learning from home. There’s a huge Fortune 500 companies
working from home, operating through calls like this. Zoom and things like
that. So this whole idea of raising capital through funnels is going to be more
prevalent and on the backside of this virus, not less more prevalent. So what
do you see happening over the next six months to 24 months and beyond?
Adam: Yes. So it’s funny you should say
that. You know, I. One of my regular programing guests right before COVID
actually hit was Brent Hegglekey, who is a CMO at crowd. Street. And what Brent
said was very interesting. You said today. Well, he said, basically, if you
don’t have a digital presence, you will cease to exist. And so what this event
is doing for us is it is expediting that the truth of that. I was on a call
with a prospect. This guy wants me to build a system for him. He said, why
should I have one? So because you know what? If you don’t have a solid digital
presence. You will cease to exist. He said don’t even try and explain why
that’s true to me. So I said no. Think of it this way. This is what I’m talking
about. Everybody has got somebody high net worth investor who wants to expand
into real estate. Alternative products when they run a search online saying why
do why invest in real estate? Well, can I send my money to. Right. Is this the
hidden story there? And you don’t show up on that search? You don’t exist yet.
So that person is dead to me.
Adam:So you have to have you have to have a
presence, because this is a tsunami that has been caused by this downturn, that
everybody is learning to conduct business online, to do everything online in a
way that nothing else could have done. Right. Yeah. It would have taken years
to get to the same forced environment where everybody has to do everything
online. This is the time to start talking. To put your digital marketing, to
put your presence on steroids online. Because coming out of this, it will be
the world that people will be more comfortable with than ever they have been
before because they’ve been forced to be in it for weeks on end.
Josh: That’s right. That’s right. So it’s
kind of round third here and head for home with this interview. I would love to
know. Because I’m partially interested for myself. Right. I even tell my
audience, I do these podcasts for me, to meet cool new people and to learn how
they’re doing their business. And I hope that my subscribers get a lot out of
it. But I do it for selfish reasons. And they got to get a lot out of it.
Adam: That’s great reason to have a
podcast. That’s why I have a podcast. That’s right.
Josh:So I’m curious if I onboarded with you
or any of my students or followers. Onboarded with you. Help us understand,
whether it’s through your course or actually physically working with your
digital agency. What’s kind of the first step? What is it? Is it like a line of
questioning to pull out the story? What’s the first kind of thing that they’re
going to learn, whether they work with you directly or work through your
course? What’s that top awareness? Creating the message. What is that? How do
you start the process? What’s the first step?
Adam: That’s such an amazing question. That
is one of the top FA cues in my world. First often asked question. You nailed
it. So just a couple of things. First of all, we are probably backing off
taking any more private clients at the moment. Sure. And we’re kind of going
upstream. Just to be completely transparent in terms of the scale of the
companies that we’re working with. Very, very powerful, robust systems. So I’m
not sure if we’ve got much bandwidth, more private clients. So what we’re really
focusing on is the course, sir, and the done with you programs. So the two
things. The two most important things, Josh. Number one, you have to
have….You have to know who your audience is. So the best thing you can do and
we’ve got an amazing program for this is to define your investor avatar. OK,
who is your ideal investor? Who actually quite literally? Well, again, we’ve
got our own program. We can take you through for this. To quite literally go
through and identify. What do they read? How were they educated? What do they
do for a living? How many kids do they have? Right. What are their concerns?
What are their… What drives them? And find a photograph of somebody online
that looks exactly like your avatar. Right. And then print that out and put it
up above your desk. And every time you write content or producer, talk to that
person as though they were sitting in front of you. So that’s number one, the
second thing I know, I’m going to give you some a deep dive here. Right. So
this is behind the kimono. This is very, very this is how you extract your own
DNA.
Josh: Right.
Adam: Take the next thing you have to do is
break down your value proposition. You have to identify what you’re going to
talk about. Right. So that’s the next thing. And the bet there’s a few ways to
do that. We have three or four techniques that we use to extract that from
private clients. It is it is also extremely, extremely detailed in the digital
course that we put out. But the way to do it, here’s one way you can do that. Grab
your latest offering documents. Right. So if you’ve got a pitch deck. Right,
your 20 million dollar deal you presumably put together a pitch deck.
Josh: Product placement memorandum. That’s
the whole thing. Right.
Adam: The grab, but yet grab a pitch that
one of your pitch decks and give it to somebody who doesn’t know anything about
real estate, right. Anybody could be Dominic. Dominic, read it with the
highlights and go through and underline every single term. He doesn’t know.
What is this? What’s this term that. What’s multi-family? What’s IRR stand for,
Dad? Right? Or anybody? Doesn’t matter. Right. Content about those terms. And
here’s a case when you educate somebody. This way, you are not just teaching
them about real estate because you know what anybody can find out about? Just
run a search online. What’s the IRR? What’s multifamily? And they will get a
thirty-seven million hits with people teaching them what that concept means.
They want to know what you understand about that concept. So when you put out a
piece of content on the IRR, you are teaching people through your lens, the
lens of your experience, what that concept is, so that when you pitch them an
actual deal down the line, they understand how you think. They have come to see
the world the way you see the world. So that means that they are predisposed to
invest with you at the end of the day because they will see that deal exactly
the same way that you see that deal. So those are the two things that you
should do.
Josh: That was awesome, Adam. Well, listen,
Adam, it’s been great visiting with you today again. Adam Gower, the author of
Leaders of the Crowd. Adam, if my audience wants to learn more about you, we’ve
already mentioned your website. GowerCrowd.com. You’re your training the investor
acquisition system, which again is 80 percent off during this amazing, you
know, crazy kind of virus environment that we’re having. We’ll put links in the
show notes for you guys to check that out. But any other final pieces of
advice? Words of encouragement that you’d like to leave our audience with
today?
Adam: Yeah, I think so, yeah. You can find out where I am, obviously, but at the Web site, but yeah, words of encouragement. Look, I am very, very bullish about where we’re headed. I think actually right now, as dark as it may seem, is actually an extraordinarily good time to be making hay. Actually to be learning how to communicate online, to be creating content, because if you do that now, you will emerge from this crisis stronger, more agile and more effective than you went into it.
Josh: Fantastic. And Adam, is there anything….
Adam: I can keep on going, you keep pausing like, oh, yeah.
Josh: No. Is there any other any other Web sites, phone numbers, email that you’d like to give out to our crowd to reach out to you?
Adam: Yeah. So what I would ask is. Yeah. Go to the Web site if you don’t mind. I don’t mean to be, you know, hard to get. I want you to find me right? Obviously, but go to the Web site and sign up for anything, anything that says sign up if it’s the acquisition course. If it’s the how to build a better home office, sign up for any of those, watch any of those videos. Most times I think everything’s free, basically. But as soon as you sign up, you’re gonna get on my email list. And we are pumping out massive amounts of content at the moment that will help you navigate this crisis. You’ll be in touch very, very closely that way. That really is the best way to get in touch.
Josh: That is awesome. OK, guys. There you
have it. Listen, if you enjoyed this interview, leave us comments, questions,
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Thank you. Dr. Adam Gower, thanks so much for joining us today on Accelerated
Investor.
Adam: Thank you very much, Josh. I enjoyed
it very much indeed. Thank you.
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