Move Over Rich Dad Poor Dad: M.E.R.C.A.T.O.
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Flowery Branch, GA — You needn’t look far for information on where to get an education on the best way to invest money. The question Jimmy Slagle asks (and so should you) is this: are you the kind of investor who wants to finally break free from the endless (and expensive) cycle of books, CD’s, seminars and finally learn the best ways to invest money?

Jimmy Slagle, a 20-year veteran investing-education instructor emphatically replies, “I feel your pain. You’ve bought the programs, read the books, attended the seminars, and done the work, desperately trying to find something that will answer the one question that has haunted you for years: ‘Why am I not where I want to be financially?’ You’ve done everything that you can… but something is still holding you in a suffocating death grip of investing education frustration.”

“It’s time we separate fact from fiction, and myths from truths. The real story here is that the vast majority of investing books, CD’s and seminars leave out the ONE thing that is holding you back. This is the one thing that every “Top Tier” Guru does himself (but doesn’t tell you about) so that you will keep thinking that the problem is “you” and keep buying his programs and funding his luxurious lifestyle.

As proof, Slagle asks all future and current investing education seminar attendees to consider the following survey responses he received from hundreds of investors over the last three years before deciding on where (or from whom) to get their investing education.

• 71% of investors surveyed shared they had spent more money on education than the education had made them.

• 73% shared that they would prefer a pay-as-you-go investment education program.

• 74% suggested that they would enjoy learning 1-3 new investment strategies per month.

• 79% informed him that, given the choice, they would prefer to learn specific investment skills from multiple instructors who each specialize in a proven investing strategy.

• 86% of the investors who have participated in the survey suggested that, when it comes to investing, they would prefer to be “hands on” and proactive in their investment, business, and educational process.

• And an overwhelming 92% emphatically agreed that they were tired of the investment seminar “sales-pitch fests”.

Jimmy Slagle, the Dart-Throw Trader, derives his nickname from the title of his first book Dart-Throw Trader which chronicles a year of throwing darts – picking stocks – and making money. In addition to his two popular investment books, Slagle is the author and creator of core curricula for two well-known international investment seminar companies, as well as hundreds of published investment articles. His position as keynote speaker at several major investment conferences and summits ultimately led to his featured interview with Consumers Digest Magazine. To date, Slagle has stood in front of over 80,000 investors teaching upwards of a thousand investment workshops, boot-camps, and seminars throughout the United States and Canada in the last 20 years.

To claim your free DVD: “M.E.R.C.A.T.O.: The Seven Core Principles to Achieving Accredited Investor Status in 12 Months or Less… Guaranteed!” go to www.UndergroundInvestorsNetwork.com/bwdvd for more detailed information.

June 18, 2009…

For most, including myself, it was a normal kind of day. However, as the day unfolded, I would meet a man (and his family) who would forever change my life.

My father had surgery on June 11, 2009 to fix some ligaments that were torn and stretched in his lower back. Because of his subsequent incapacitation, I was doing my part (the good son) by helping my mom get him settled back home and attending to some of his property management duties.

It was about 6:00 PM when I made the trip up to the local video store to rent my dad a movie, as he was not allowed to leave his bed for a few more days.

I pulled into the video store parking lot from the right side entrance, and made my way to the closest parking space I could find. I walked into the video store, browsed through the available new releases, selected a film I thought he would enjoy (we share the same tastes in movies), paid for the rental, and walked out.

Normal, everyday stuff… so far.

As I got into my car I noticed there was a backlog of cars trying to exit the main entrance and I didn’t want to be bothered with having to wait in line, so I drove my car around to the left side of the building and around the back, my clever way of getting ahead of the traffic jam.

As I drove around the back of the building and then turned to the right, something unusual caught my eye. It was a little girl with long bouncing curls playing in the parking lot, wearing nothing but a diaper.

She couldn’t have been much more than two; with the brown curls bouncing off her shoulders, I had to do a double take because she looked just like my youngest daughter.

There were a few cars stopped ahead of me at the stop sign, and this pause in time allowed me to get a better look at the girl. I needed to look, mostly to convince myself that she wasn’t my daughter, but also to determine why this young child was playing in the parking lot.

Upon closer inspection, I noticed a man, woman, and two other young girls sitting on the sidewalk, lounging against the wall of the video store. This scene struck me as odd, so I pulled back into the parking lot to get a closer look.

I pulled my car up to the right side of what I assumed was their car (it was), killed the engine and then tried to decide what to do next. Something about this situation just wasn’t right and I couldn’t put my finger on what it was.

I got out of my car and slowly walked around behind their car, smiling at the little girl who had earlier grabbed my attention. As I came around the back of the car, the man sitting on the curb noticed me and our eyes made contact. As quickly as our gaze connected he looked down and away as if he just wanted me to walk on by.

“Is every thing ok?”, I asked. “Yeah, its cool”, was his reply. I wanted to believe him but something inside of me said, “This guy needs a hand”.

As a man, I understand pride. I understand how pride can wreck a life, a marriage, a family. The last thing I wanted to do was judge this guy or cause him any shame… I just wanted to help. So I asked again, “Are you sure? Maybe I can help.”

As soon as I said those words the woman sitting next to him looked at me as if to say…please. As I smiled at her his eyes left mine and darted to hers. After exchanging a look with his wife, he turned to me and said, “What did you have in mind?”

His response actually caught me off guard and all I could say was; “I don’t know, lets talk.”

I won’t go through the entire conversation, but I will provide some highlights so that all of this will make sense to you.

His name is Steve (not really, but for his privacy that is what he as agreed to be called). He is 44 years old. He and his wife have been married for 16 years. They have 3 daughters aged 12, 9 and almost 3. He lost his job a little over a year ago and they are at the end of their rope.

As we had our conversation, my first thought was to give him some money. However money is just a temporary solution. Steve needs money… yes. However, what he needs even more is a friend who understands… some hope… a sense of control… and a means to provide for his family no matter what the economy does.

We talked for almost 40 minutes and during that time I laid out a step by step plan that he could begin immediately. So with his permission and the support of his wife we have agreed to dive into the core concepts and truth of M.E.R.C.A.T.O. to help Steve rebuild his life as quickly as possible and I am going to chronicle it here.

I am going to be very up front and transparent about something. I have a selfish motive in all of this.

You see, I have spent most of my adult life traveling around the country teaching investment strategies to others. Most (if not all) of the investors I have worked with over the last 20 years had some investment knowledge, resources, funding, skills, and desire to pull from.

Steve has none of these. I get to start from the very beginning with him. I get to teach him everything I have learned about making money and, most importantly, keeping it (something that even I have struggled with in the past).

My selfish motive is this… I get to chronicle his journey and I get to participate in the life of a family that will forever be changed. And I get to prove to myself and at least one other person that the principles I wrote about in the book M.E.R.C.A.T.O., really do work.

I invite you to come along on the journey with me, Steve, and his family as we get to share and enjoy this thing called life. There is nothing to buy here unless you want to help Steve as he builds his financial empire over the next few months.

I have but one goal… help Steve and his family amass one million in net-worth within the next 12 months. Our goal is that by July 04, 2010 Steve and his family will truly be enjoying their “Independence Day”.

I expect to throw one heck of a BBQ party next year to celebrate.

Hello Underground Investors,

For those of you who know me, I normally don’t do things like this… but this is such a great laugh I had to share. Take a moment to watch the video below (its 3:30 long) and then read the rest of this post.

Being an all around, “help others out” type of guy, I thought I would use a video distribution service called TubeMogul to quickly distribute this video to a few (5) video hosting sites.

I have used them before for one other video; however, I generally use TrafficGeyser (even though they are a paid service and TubeMogul is free, you will find out why in a moment).

Let me back up for a moment and tell you how this all began…

Last night I was having a conversation with some folks at twitter.com and Scott Stratten’s name came up (twitter.com/unmarketing). Anyway, I didn’t know Scott so I went and checked out his site… www.un-marketing.com.

Scott is a video production specialist and I got inspired by watching some of the videos he produced. Being an impulsive perfectionist ( if you read MERCATO you know what I mean), I sat down and created the video you watched above.

No where near the quality of Scott’s work; however, I liked it.

Once the video was completed, I wanted to send it to Scott to get his professional opinion (Scott said, and I quote… “I like it :-)”. Yes, he actually put the smiley face in his response).

Normally for something like this I would have uploaded it to Google and kept it private.

Guess what? Google won’t let us upload videos anymore. So I knew I was going to have to go to Youtube. Since I have to upload it and make it public… why not “share the love” and upload it to other video-sharing sites as well?

Sounds like a plan, only I didn’t want to use TrafficGeyser for this (long story); I remembered a friend telling me about TubeMogul and I thought: Here is a chance to give them a try.

So I head over to TM, register a free account, plug in my account details for a few video-sharing sites, hit “submit”, and boom! Away the video goes.

A few minutes later I get an email saying… “Your TubeMogul Upload has Completed”. Well, that was painless… I kind of like this service… UNTIL…

I GET THIS EMAIL

Subject Line: Tubemogul Account Disabled

Body of Email:

Dear TubeMogul user,

Your account is suspended for violating our policy regarding “spam.” For reference, here is a link to our terms of service:

http://www.tubemogul.com/about/ts_and_cs.php

Think we made a mistake? Feel free to contact us by replying to this email.

Thanks,

The TubeMogul Team

Email End

I Got ACCUSED OF SPAM… SPAM… That is so freakin’ funny, I had to share. Yes, Dorothy, we are not in Kansas anymore. TubeMogul has suspended my account and basically tried to take away my 1st amendment right to free speech.

Needless to say I will not print my response to TubeMogul, but I will allow the folks who follow me (and the power of twitter) to spread the message…

I am no longer allowed to Use TUBEMOGUL to market my business because I am a “spammer”.

So here is my official plug for TrafficGeyser.com If you need a good video distribution program that won’t censor you or violate your 1st amendment right to free speech, go check them out.

See you underground,

Jimmy - The DartThrow Trader

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.