The Truth about Our Competitors (CFFL 0050.3)
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Jack Butala: Hey this is Jack Butala from Land Academy and welcome to our Cash Flow for the Land show.
In this episode, Jill and I discuss what we think of our competitors in the land business and in the real estate education business. Jill, I've been looking forward to this show.
Jill DeWit: Me Too.
Jack Butala: I have lots to say but I'm going to be concise about it.
We have a couple of competitors ...
What I really want to talk about is our land sale competitors, the people we are in competition with to buy a piece of property from the seller. Which, the thick of it is, we don't really have any competition.
Before that, I thought it would be fun to talk about the two competitors that we have in the Real Estate Education business, the Land Academy business because it's such a short conversation.
Jill DeWit: It is.
Jack Butala: We have two competitors. Two competitors in our property niche, I should say. Which is unwanted rural land. One is my first Land Academy student. He's got a lot to offer in a real specific portion of what we cover. I think he's more back tax oriented than we are. In fact I know he is.
Jill DeWit: There are just some difference in how he approached things which is great and healthy!
Jack Butala: Yeah, that's a good point. Competitors always keep people honest. The consumer always wins when there's lots of competitors.
Then we have another competitor that came a lot later to the game. I'm not sure what he offers. I haven't looked into it a lot but I know that we have a tremendous number of our members are former members or maybe even current member with that group. We would like to think that we deliver the best product at the most competitive price with the best experience I guess.
Jill DeWit: As we were talking before the show about ... I always like to come up with some points for the topic. Let me hit on this. What stands out to me in some of our differences is, one is the level of experience, which I love. What you bring to the table, Steven, is, and me for the tale end of it, is now between fifteen thousand and sixteen thousand transactions. I heard Jason Hartman say that one time. Remember when we were on his show a while back, he asked you point blank how many transactions that you had and you said fifteen thousand and it was so great because Jason Hartman said "Oh, excuse me folks, I have to say we're talking to a bunch of amateurs here." That just make me laugh. That was really good because people go ...
I know you've had conversations when you first got to know Seth Williams and you guys were talking an Seth went, "Okay, Got it!" Before he really knew who we were and who we were. When you said what you've done, he said "Okay, Never mind. I know you know." I think that's one of the things people are drawn to us, because there's a pretty good chance, whatever obstacle or situation they are facing, we may have dealt with that before and have some experience in it.
At least because of all of our combined experience we have a good idea of how to attack that problem and get past it. I'm sure that if we just started doing this six months ago and said now we're going to teach it, one of the things they would be saying is "How do you know this." "Because I've got a good feeling" No! We've done this. A lot. With that many transactions, boy,