You've saved up £5,000 and you're wondering how to invest it and what you should do because
you don't want to waste it and it might have taken you a very long time to save it up and
that's fair enough.
So I'm going to tell you how I invested my first £5,000 which has resulted in me now
co-owning a company that has £1.8 million worth of properties in the pipeline all for
our clients and we now have a waiting list of clients and we have a converter belt of
deals coming our way.
So it's definitely worked for me.
So my plan for this video is to tell you what it is that I've done, how I invested it and
then what you can take from it to apply to yourself.
So the first £3,500 I invested was into like a training course.
It lasted about three months, it was CPD certified and it wasn't like one of those three day
ones.
I'm not really a big fan of those three day ones because for me personally, I can't take
in all of that information at once.
It'll just go out as fast as it came in right.
I can't do those.
So I prefer one of those three months one and this was like an everything course for
what it is that I do.
So it wasn't just like just learn these like little bits of information.
It was just everything.
So basically I went from nothing to setting up the company to learning everything that
it is I need to do.
So the area of research, I had to find clients, I had to find deals, marketing, sales, all
the things like negotiations, all of these things.
And then by the end of it, I was fully trained, fully qualified and ready to go.
So the first £3,500 I spent investing in myself and my education.
Then after that I spent £1,250 setting up the company.
So getting all the compliances because in what I do, you need to be fully compliant,
which means I had to get like ICO, I had to get insurance, I had to get PRS, I had to
get what's the other one?
Any money laundering, all these things I need to be compliant towards to do what I need
to do like legally.
And then after that I spent the last £250 on just going to networking events because
I moved to Sheffield, I didn't know anyone.
So I decided I'm going to go to a few networking events, meet people, ask them to go for coffee
to start building my network and also just go there to let them know that I'm here and
this is what I'm doing and just tell the world what is I'm doing.
Now I understand that you may not want to do what it is that I do like deal packaging.
So let's talk about what it is that I actually invested in.
The first large chunk of money I invested in myself, my education, I needed the training
and I also wanted to show people that you can invest in me because I invest in myself,
I believe in myself.
Like I need to get fully trained and fully qualified in order to build a solid foundation
to then scale a skyscraper on top of it, right?
I don't think that's how the saying goes but you know what I mean.
And the second part was just setting up the company.
Setting up a company, yes you can technically do it for like 12 quid on company's house,
that's what you need to like register the company and whatnot but a lot more can go
into it.
So for me I had to get all these compliances, all these things to make it a legal company
and for a lot of other companies out there you have to do all these things to get the
company like legitimate.
So you might need to save money towards that.
And then after that I spent the rest of my money telling the world about my stuff, telling
the world what it is that I do and that's something that everyone needs to do.
Yes you can do it for free, you can message people online which I also done but I wanted
to go to these networking events because I knew that's where like-minded people like
met and the whole theme of it is to network, is to connect, build each other's networks
and help each other, give each other referrals.
That's what I wanted because like I said I'm new down here, I didn't know anyone at the
time so that was something I had to do and I wanted to go out there and just introduce
myself to people and make sure that they knew what it is that I done.
So you have to let the world know what it is you do.
You can do it for free, that's absolutely fine and I also done that on top of it but
going to networking events, going to events where people in your niche also go so you
can ask them loads of questions.
It doesn't even have to be just to get clients, you can just go to people and ask them loads
of questions and learn how did they get to where they are today because you might see
someone that's a few years ahead of you doing what it is that you want to do and you might
be thinking how did they do that?
Like how did they do what I want to do?
How did they succeed?
So you approach them, hey I want to go for a coffee and just be like look I want to ask
you a few questions if you don't mind it would really mean the world to me if you could just
help me out because I'm just starting my journey and I just want to learn from someone who
is doing what it is that I want to do.
So to summarise what it is I done, I invested in myself and got training, I set up the company,
I made it legitimate and legal and then I went out there and told the world what it
is that I done and to be honest that's what I think most people should do.
Get training, get legitimate and then tell the world about your stuff.
I'll see you in the next one.