Did you know that by discovering and applying seven simple skills, you could quickly and easily build a fortress of financial security?

As an investor and an entrepreneur I have spent the last twenty years researching numerous ways to achieve passive income, wealth and security.

During this twenty year quest I have had the unique opportunity to study under some of the greatest investment minds this country has ever produced. Many of these great investors I never had the opportunity to shake hands with personally, however, I can always continue to hope.

One of the most important things that I have learned about investing and wealth creation is that one needs a proven and successful system that can be easily learned, applied and managed.

This is what I set out to create almost 3 years ago. During the last 3 years I have spent an inordinate amount of time talking, polling, questioning and studying individual investors across the country and I learned some valuable information that I would like to share with you.

Of the people I surveyed…

71% shared with me that they had spent more money on education than the education had made them.

92% shared with me that they were tired of the “Sales Seminars - Pitch Fests”

73% said they want a “pay as you go” educational program

88% said they would like to choose from a list of strategies.

79% said they would like to learn specific skills from multiple instructors

74% said they would like to learn 1-3 investing strategies per month.

14% said they would like to have someone just do it for them.

Now a lot can be concluded from this, however, I will try to narrow it down to a couple of obvious conclusions:

1. Investors want to be educated and they want the education on their terms.
2. Investors would prefer to “do the work” themselves.

It is because of this information that I wrote the now published (and best selling) book:

MERCATO: The Underground Art of Wealth Creation.

MERCATO is actually an acronym for

1. Master Mind Groups (surround yourself with people who are smarter, faster and richer)
2. Entity Structures (which is right for you)
3. REO investing (The most lucrative real estate there is)
4. Credit (both personal and business)
5. Auctions (Not Ebay or any equivalent)
6. Trading (specific setups and assets)
7. Outsourcing (Getting others to do what you can’t or won’t)

To better help you understand each of the above steps role in achieving your investment goals allow me to briefly elaborate on each one.

Master Mind Groups – In the MERCATO program I teach you how to not only create a mastermind group, but more specifically how to get paid to do so. Surrounding yourself with accountability partners enables you to exponentially explode your efforts and results.

Entity Structures – Each available entity structure was created for a purpose. It is imperative that you use the proper entity for the proper purpose.

REO investing – With the flood of foreclosures that have already occurred and the thousands expected each month, this has created the most profitable and simple real estate investing opportunity we have seen in generations.

Credit – In our society cash used to be king, however, as we become a more global economy credit is becoming the currency of choice. Getting, keeping and using credit as an investing resource is more important today than any time in our nations history.

Auctions – When most people think of auctions, they think of Ebay, and rightly so. Ebay has taught us that the auction process can be simple and fun. Ebay has also brought the auction process to the masses and taught us that it is a viable avenue to selling and acquiring various goods and services. MERCATO teaches you how to use the auction process to quickly and easily flip your REO properties and other real estate for profit.

Trading – When most non-traders hear this word they begin to run for the exit. MERCATO has taken the mystery out of trading by teaching the “what you need to know” information as opposed to hours and hours of frivolous theory.

Outsourcing – We can never achieve greatness on our own, no one ever has or ever will. It is this truth that quickly needs to be accepted and acted upon. MERCATO teaches that each of us has natural talents, strengths and abilities; it is how we use our strengths and the strengths of others around us that could determine how far and quickly we will rise.

Combining the power of these seven simple skill sets can enable anyone to achieve a life of promise, fulfillment, wealth, security and success.