Results Are NOT Typical

Have you ever been up late at night and turned on the TV just to break up the silence a bit? There they are, newfound millionaires who bought houses for no money down, made it big at car or government auctions and even got free money through government grants. And if you call right now, they are going to share the secret with you straight from their $5 plastic lawn chair special. Nothing screams millionaire like sweatpants and no-name polo shirt.

I mean, you can’t argue with the numbers. Especially when their riches are smudged with a drying highlighter at the bottom of the cheap copier paper.

I’m about to share an equally earth shattering secret with you. That secret is that there are really no big secrets when it comes to building an IT business and if there were these ridiculously profitable business models that somehow nobody else has figured out.. trust me.. no businessman with more than 2 brain cells would share those tips with you. They would be an idiot to do so.

Vlad’s IT VAR Gold Mine

I recently bought 4 acres of land in downtown Dallas on the edge of Trinity River to build a data center and while digging out the foundation we found a huge deposit of gold! Now, I’m already too rich and instead of hiring $5 day laborers I’m going to give you the chance to make billions – it’s just going to cost you $1,000 so I can train you how to dig properly. Well, I won’t be the one doing it, but I will have special CEO golddigger sessions in which you can learn how to buy your own property full of gold. Those are $10K though.

Not interested? It’s probably because you’re a loser. Call me when you become serious about becoming rich.

Now most people are intelligent enough to know that the above is outright fraud.. but some folks skipped school the day they were handing out IQ points and are probably doing the math right now.. “Well, it’s only $1,000.. Even if I dig out 1oz of gold…”

Aaassssssssssss.

Advice as a service.

I am going to break protocol here and give you some advice for $10,000. But it’s worth at least $100,000.

Well, because I like you, it’s gonna be $10,000 but only if you promise to read it now. Ok, $5,000 but you have to vote for me. Tell you what, since you’re a fan of Vladville, it’s gonna be $1,000. You know what, I like your smile. It’s free but you have to share this post on Facebook. OK?

The hindsight of successful business owners is that they should have invested more money into the business back when they weren’t making a lot of money.

Every single person (that is trying to sell you some advice) will advise you to spend money.

Oh yeah?

It’s like the newspaper business. Gotta spend money to make money. Ok, well if the ads work so great wouldn’t they sell them like crack – first hit is always free. Oh, it’s not? “Wait, you want how much???”

If you want to make more money you need to buy an RMM. No, a PSA. No, you need a BDR. No, you need to get at least 100 seats of ExchangeDefender. Any guess what a marketing business sales guy will tell you you need to spend your tight budget on?

So the secret – you should ONLY spend money on getting more business. Everything else should come free unless you can mark it up selling it to someone else.

Yes, looking back I probably should have changed just about everything about my business in every way. But guess what, I don’t operate a web design business in 1997. So my ability to offer my 1997 self is as good as advice some of you feel like you should take from people that have not operated your business in years.

You were so awesome at being an MSP that you aren’t one today. Please teach me how to be just like you! I want to be an MSP millionaire just so I can try selling other MSPs my brilliance instead of sitting at home stacking cash.

You can be a Go Giver in your community. But when you want to be a Go Giver in business and the guy on the other side is asking you for a check – you’re a Go Sucker. And if you get sold, you only got yourself to blame. Because nobody knows what is best for your business more than you do. And the number one rule in business ownership is:

Will this make me money? If not, pass.

If you can’t quantify the benefit of something, and have a historical pattern of your capability to do it, do you really want to try juggling knifes with stacks of your businesses cash?