On this episode of the Fresh Fit Podcast, we have special guest Gedim and Paul on the show. They are both former law enforcement officers and now entrepreneurs. We talk about how they got their start in law enforcement and how they made it to where they are today. We also get into how they have built multiple businesses and what it takes to be successful in the business world. We hope you guys enjoy this episode and stay tuned for our next episode on AT&T ATMs and credit card terminals. Stay tuned till the end of the episode to find out what we are working on next. Peace, Blessings, Cheers. - The Fresh Fit Crew - Cheers, EJ & Paul Hosted & Produced by: Fresh Fit Produced By: FreshFit Podcast Music by FreshFit and Produced & Edited by: FreshFit Music by: Alyssa Miller All rights reserved. Used w/ permission. All songs and music copyright of their respective labels. All credit given to their respective record labels. Thank you to our good friends and artists. and Thank you for all the support and all the hard work they put into making this podcast possible. If you like the podcast, please leave us a review on Apple Podcast, share it on iTunes, Podchaser, and share it with a friend, and spread the word about the podcast! or share it around the world! We love you guys! Timestamps: 5 stars 5 stars: 6 stars 7 stars 8 stars 9 stars 10 stars 11 stars 12 stars 13 stars 14 stars 15 stars 17 stars 16 stars 18 stars 19 stars 20 stars 21 stars 22 thumbs up 16 15 17 18 13 19 14 12 21 20 22 23 24 25 27 26 & ( ) And so much I m 4 with a review , 7 8 11 3 9 10 2 + 1 30 Thirteen ! 32 = 5 # 29 @ 28
00:04:46.000We built multiple businesses together.
00:04:49.000As you guys are going to know in the next couple minutes, after we talk about the whole BTM thing, start getting into credit card terminals.
00:04:58.000And, you know, essentially I told him, you know, I shared the vision with him on this venture, which you guys will know in a couple minutes.
00:05:05.000But I had told him, I was like, hey, bro, if you put in the work for my first company, like you take care of it like it's yours.
00:05:11.000I'm going to hook you up with the next project I'm going to work.
00:05:14.000Because I really knew what I was going, man.
00:06:14.000Yeah, it wasn't until after I came back from a narcotics task force, I was undercover for like about three years, targeting straight cartel, worked a lot with HSI, the feds and all that.
00:06:23.000That's why, you know, when you would bring up your law enforcement, I almost shed a tear, bro, because I still remember my counterparts out there in the San Francisco Bay Area and shit.
00:07:21.000So, like, if a police officer shows up and finds out that, you know, a kid was abused or whatever it may be, they might not necessarily do the investigation, but they're absolutely writing their part of, hey, I showed up.
00:07:32.000And if it doesn't make, if they don't, If they're not able to establish how they were able to get the probable cause of search or how they were able to do X, Y, Z, that could fuck up everything else because the investigator is going to take the case and he can't build upon the case if the foundation is fucked up, which a lot of times the uniformed guys set the foundation.
00:07:53.000That's why they got, you know, on a major scene like a murder or something like that, they'll lock down the street with like 20 officers, look at all the cameras, you know, due diligence, and then you got the detectives going in there.
00:08:02.000And all those guys got to write a report.
00:08:45.000So, like, they're more, you know, like, they're not used to...
00:08:48.000There's a difference between, like, writing a report, you know, to talk about what happened versus writing a report as a part of an ongoing investigation.
00:08:58.000So we got into, basically, business together.
00:09:02.000Launched the whole ATM, cash ATMs, went to 30 locations.
00:09:05.000I became financially free, and then I stopped working a lot of overtime.
00:09:09.000I was working 60 to 100-hour work weeks back when I was in the department, and that now allowed me to just work the standard 40, which I was super grateful for, bro, because, dude, I was killing myself.
00:09:19.000I was killing myself for almost, I think, six years at that time.
00:09:23.000And I was just like, dude, I lost a seven-year relationship.
00:09:28.000I was barely seeing my families, and as you guys know, because you guys are family guys, my parents, they're everything for me, bro.
00:09:34.000Like, they came into this country, immigrant, Peruvian, Mexican, and they work hard.
00:11:00.000And I started doing online digital marketing as well, which is that's Digital Nomad, right?
00:11:05.000But at the end of the day, yeah, I decided to move here because of state taxes.
00:11:09.000State taxes was number one, but then two, bro, look, at this stage of the game in my life, I want to be able to check out the entire world, so why not?
00:11:59.000And then on top of that, like if you're in L.A., I know, correct me if I'm wrong here, guys, you get an L.A. tax, a county tax, a state tax, and a federal tax.
00:12:25.000Not only as a W2 employee you work hard, but then as an entrepreneur, If you start making a massive amount of income, dude, they're going to try to get you either way it comes.
00:12:52.000And I think Florida is definitely going to be one of the frontiers.
00:12:54.000But it's going up in price now too because everyone's like, Miami used to be, I've always said it, Miami used to be like the best kept secret.
00:13:02.000I remember when I first moved here in 2018, you could get an apartment in Brickell, a one bedroom for well under $2,000.
00:13:07.000You could get one for like a one bedroom, one bath.
00:13:09.000I was paying $1,700 for an apartment down the street in Brickell.
00:13:13.000And I was like, wow, this is actually really cheap because what people didn't realize is that When people think Miami, they think Miami Beach.
00:13:20.000No one actually comes to the city of Miami in parties.
00:13:22.000And there's two different things, guys.
00:13:24.000So, like, when I came and I saw how cheap it was, I was like, wow.
00:13:26.000But then the pandemic hit, and, you know, all the New Yorkers started coming down here and realizing, whoa, hold on, you're telling me I could get an apartment here for under $2,000 a month?
00:13:39.000So they all came down in droves, and it just fucked up the real estate market.
00:13:42.000But it was good for me from a landlord perspective, because I was able to raise rent, but then, yeah, rent went up significantly, so I was like, whatever.
00:13:51.000Last thing you guys were on the podcast, you spoke about your story, you know, making money with ATMs, and sorry, BTMs, but you gave Myron a machine.
00:14:05.000I got sidetracked with the law enforcement talk.
00:14:08.000Yeah, guys, as you guys know, I went ahead and I partnered with ATM together, which thank you guys for being so gracious and giving me an ATM. Basically, I got a Bitcoin ATM through them.
00:14:17.000And we monitored, basically, we monitored progress for a couple of months.
00:14:21.000And, you know, we were going to do a show earlier.
00:14:22.000I think we were going to do on like last month or the month before.
00:14:48.000If you guys remember the second pod that we jumped on at me, and when Gettem started talking about the BTMs, just like the I don't believe in that, I don't believe in that.
00:15:00.000But then, they showed a lot of love when you sent that video out, bro.
00:16:21.000But, you know, vendors a lot of times, I mean, and you can speak to that a little bit better as far as vendors.
00:16:25.000It's entrepreneurship at the end of the day, right?
00:16:26.000Like what can go wrong will go wrong sometimes, right?
00:16:29.000And if you're not going to have skin in the game, something's going to happen, right?
00:16:31.000So the way we look at it is like, let's make it as simple as possible.
00:16:33.000Let's make it simpler, faster, and easier for a normal nine-to-fiver entrepreneur that wants to get into a business, get into it without having to deal with a lot of the headaches, right?
00:16:41.000And that's what we try to do, just make it simple.
00:16:46.000Really, all you do is you fill out the paperwork and everything else like that, and then they find the place, they put it, they got a contracting company that comes in and installs it, all that.
00:16:55.000So this is actively passive income on the go.
00:17:47.000I mean, I've been saying it forever, you know, crypto is the future, and I'm a biased real estate guy.
00:17:53.000I wholeheartedly admit all the time that I'm a biased real estate guy, but, you know, I'd be foolish to not acknowledge that there's other asset classes that can absolutely make you money.
00:18:00.000I do think Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general is going to be the future, especially as we continue with all this conflict.
00:18:07.000Guys, right now, we're probably going to go into World War III here sometime soon, bro.
00:19:30.000So it's like you go to like a badass taco truck.
00:19:33.000You just found out it's really good, you're telling all your friends, and then six months later, finally when people start kicking in, they start seeing it, it becomes more popular, then it's a spot to be at, right?
00:19:42.000So it's a big thing with these is that for the first few months, you're going to see it slower and you might see some changes in like profit, but you started investing in marketing, marketing at the end of the day, right?
00:19:52.000So with this, you're seeing in June, it's a, I think you made about, it's like $2,000 total to get a profit on the side.
00:19:58.000So the machine itself sold like about some, I'm squinting, man.
00:20:03.000My vision's like terrible, but it's like 12 grand in there.
00:20:05.000So you're charging people 20% to actually use that machine.
00:20:09.000So someone's actually putting cash in there.
00:20:11.000So you see somebody put in like 8600, you charge them 20%.
00:20:15.000So they're getting their crypto on their wallet or they're printing out actual receipt from the machine, but you're actually keeping that 20% of the profit from there, right?
00:20:27.000You don't care if the price goes up or down, you're just the one profiting on the middle.
00:20:31.000The first one is $5.15 profit, then $500, $4.99, and then $1,432 in June.
00:20:38.000I know it's a little crappier quality, but this is a screenshot that we grabbed from the thing, so I know it's not the clearest, but this is actually what it is.
00:21:08.000June was the first month it was installed.
00:21:10.000So we say for the first six months, it's what we call the ramp-up period, in the industry that people understand that people need to know the machine is there.
00:21:17.000The best example I can mention is that taco truck.
00:21:19.000Even if there's a Whole Foods at an actual new neighborhood, people need to find out that the actual store is over there for people to start going, start increasing the traffic.
00:21:28.000So the big thing we focus on is marketing.
00:26:13.000So again, like I said before, being 100% transparent with y'all, not every single month I'm going to be making thousands upon thousands of dollars.
00:26:19.000But I definitely made a few thousand in a few months for doing nothing.
00:26:52.000And here's the thing, they said it from the beginning, like, hey, you're going to make somewhere between $100,000 to $1,000 a month passively, which is roughly what it is.
00:27:00.000I can only imagine if you add marketing all the way on that.
00:27:24.000You had a meeting concerning these BTMs and how they can be converted for other uses.
00:27:28.000Yeah, so quarter one, quarter two, it's coming.
00:27:31.000We're already speaking with one of the largest manufacturers that's working on an all-in-one.
00:27:36.000When I mean all-in-one, All in one, we're talking about cashing in checks.
00:27:42.000We're talking about being competitors directly with Western Union and MoneyGram, where you're going to be able to deposit and people are going to be able to send money to their family.
00:27:53.000Got family in Peru, got family in Mexico.
00:27:55.000But not only that, But they're also trying to work out a deal with DraftKings, bro, where people are gonna be able to place bets on these machines.
00:28:32.000Who wouldn't want to make a percentage off of cashing in checks, to actually going and transferring money, to the Bitcoin, to just standard cash ATM. So it's an ATM that does everything, essentially.
00:28:45.000That does everything, and that's the future, bro.
00:28:47.000And if you have a BTM already, it's just converting it over to have these capabilities?
00:28:51.000Well, that's the good thing about the BTM, bro.
00:28:53.000You're able to upload all the updates on there.
00:29:49.000I used to be in corporate America for six years before law enforcement.
00:29:52.000The only reason why I had that little step, I guess, above everybody else to go land my own locations is because I knew how to talk to people.
00:30:02.000So at the end of the day, I was able to go there, relate to the small mom and pop business owner, and I was able to go ahead and form a foundation.
00:30:12.000So, yeah, that's why I was able to scale to 30 ATMs so quickly while I was still working my night to five.
00:30:17.000That's a skill that most people don't have, by the way.
00:31:10.000And that was the first tech I actually employed with my first couple of ATMs because I just never wanted to go ahead and actually install it myself.
00:31:45.000They're like, hey bro, how did you guys reach the level of success that you guys did?
00:31:50.000And I was just like, work, save, and invest.
00:31:54.000And then the second thing that comes into play, I always tell people, you know what, if I was 21 and I had either a GED or a high school diploma, I would just go ahead and try to be a cop.
00:32:07.000You could be a six-figure hero, go work overtime, and mind you guys, this is not for the lazies, okay?
00:32:13.000So if the lazies are listening to me, you're gonna hate me when I say this, but we don't want you, okay?
00:32:18.000If you're proactive and you're going to work hard, you can work a limited overtime at any police agency.
00:32:24.000If you guys didn't know, just in California, you can easily make a quarter of a million dollars a year.
00:32:29.000We knew guys, OGs, that, mind you, they were like divorced, had hello kids and all that shit, but they were making half a million dollars a year.
00:32:38.000And most people won't believe this because they're stuck in their little world, in their little bubble, and they're like, oh, well, that's bullshit, you know, cap, cap.
00:32:47.000You could go ahead as a 21-year-old right now, become a cop, make six figures, invest your money into a side hustle, make it work for you with ATMs, BTMs, even credit card machines, right, which we'll talk about in a couple minutes.
00:33:01.000But at the end of the day, you could become financially free off of this shit.
00:33:04.000Paul, are you saying if I work hard as a police officer, I can make a lot of money?
00:33:21.000But guys, remember, if you do overtime, which most police departments have damn near unlimited overtime, especially if you're in an inner city with high crime, you can absolutely make six figures And for all the people out there that, you know, whether you're fed, state, local, I mean, a lot of the times the state and locals would make more than the feds because they had unlimited overtime.
00:33:42.000The only special agents that get overtime a lot of times are Secret Service or Diplomatic Security Service, and that's protection type details.
00:33:49.000But as far as criminal investigators actually doing cases, FBI agents, DEA, whatever, rarely if ever are you going to get overtime and accept it in certain special situations like a Title III or whatever.
00:33:58.000I would rather take a job that gives me unlimited overtime than a salary that I have to depend on.
00:34:03.000And then you can take that money, you can make that six figures, and then you can absolutely use it to funnel that money into a side endeavor like I did, like Paul did, and then you can buy back your freedom I think if you had to do it again, because I see that you basically, so you have a system in place,
00:34:18.000so you made the money, you had kind of a team in place, you bought ATM, and when you bought that ATM, you'd have someone go in, install it, I'm assuming they'd put cash in and everything else like that for you as well, right?
00:34:28.000They'd set it up, and then you just systematically did this over and over and over again, 30 times, and at that point, you basically were making just as much as you did with the department.
00:34:35.000Once I got to 10 ATMs, I learned, you know, the method.
00:34:41.000You're like, Like that moment, you come in a cross vote and you're like, oh shit, this is it.
00:34:47.000And yeah, all I was doing was just closing the deals.
00:34:50.000Okay, my team's gonna come over here in the next week or so, install the machine, and I'm gonna bring somebody to actually load up the cash.
00:36:09.000How do they get started to join your program?
00:36:12.000Should they start with a cash ATM first or should they start with a Bitcoin?
00:36:14.000I mean, I kind of just jumped into a Bitcoin ATM. Maybe should they jump in with cash because it's a little bit of a lower investment up front?
00:37:41.000That way I was able to separate myself and then go and build another company in the beginning of this year with the credit card machines and stuff.
00:37:47.000But for anybody that's looking for BTMs or ATMs, they can simply just go to our website at atmtogether.com.
00:37:54.000We're also going to do a giveaway as well.
00:37:56.000We're doing a giveaway this month, guys.
00:37:58.000So we're actually going to be giving away a free ATM to one of you folks that actually joins our free Facebook group.
00:38:05.000You can just click on the link, put your name, put your email, your phone number, and then, yep, that little yellow highlight button right there.
00:38:12.000And then you're going to be entered into a free giveaway for your own free ATM, guys.
00:38:17.000We've given away so many ATM programs.
00:38:22.000I mean, if people, like, you know, again, I know some of you guys might be like, oh, I don't know if I, you know, want to jump into this full-fledged.
00:38:28.000Like, bro, just get a cash ATM and test it out.
00:38:30.000Like, get a cash ATM. Like, that's lower risk, you know, obviously.
00:39:55.000And you gotta be flexible to be able to adapt, because like I told y'all before, the first location we had, I think we put it in Pembroke Pines or something like that.
00:41:30.000And guys, by the way, if you guys got questions, Please get them in right now, man.
00:41:33.000These guys are experts when it comes to ATMs, so there's no one else really, I mean, at least on social media I know that are coming close to y'all, as far as the big corporations.
00:41:42.000So if you guys got questions when it comes to cash ATMs or Bitcoin ATMs, ask away, man.
00:41:48.000They're here to answer your questions.
00:42:20.000Considering that so many of the highest paying jobs in the U.S. are located in blue states, what do you recommend people do seeing as you push for red states so much?
00:44:56.000Merchant services is a huge business, okay?
00:44:59.000But there's a special program called Cash Discount Program.
00:45:02.000And what it is, is basically you're just reversing the fees.
00:45:05.000Instead of the merchant that's paying 500 to thousands of dollars a month in credit card processing fees to allow their clients to actually use credit cards, it just switches it up where it actually charges the client.
00:45:20.000So it gives the option for the client to actually pay with cash, which then they don't have to pay fees.
00:45:25.000If they want to pay with credit card, then they end up opting in for the additional credit card processing fee, which is usually about 2.5 to 4%.
00:45:33.000The great thing about this is how you and I make money is that that fee that we just saved them and the actual clients paying, it goes to us.
00:45:42.000Of course, you're not getting the entire, like I like to say, enchilada.
00:45:47.000You're not getting the entire 4%, but it gets divvied up.
00:45:50.000Visa, MasterCard, American Express gets 1%.
00:45:52.000Your ISO, which is your independent sales organization that allows you to have the processing network to make these devices actually work with the account, they get like about 1%.
00:46:01.000So you're left with about like 1.5%, 2% depending on the account.
00:46:05.000So let's say you have an account that's pulling in like $100,000 in revenue.
00:46:10.000In California, your local liquor store, any liquor store, any bodega clears over $200,000.
00:46:16.000But just to keep it simple for the folks, $100,000.
00:48:48.000I did the exact same thing with ATM together, went to 30 locations, then started building out my own online program where I help people do the placement with the ATMs and the BTMs.
00:49:12.000We hired an additional 20 call center agents, started cold calling everywhere throughout the United States, closed them remote, and then we would ship them out pre-programmed already, where basically the settings for the merchant is as simple as setting up your Wi-Fi at home,
00:51:08.000You know, if you don't get trained up by somebody who's more experienced than you, you're going to lose in life.
00:51:12.000If you're narrow-minded and you don't believe in self-education, self-education is Everything to me, you know, it started with one $5 book that showed me just the simple concepts of sales and business and now two weeks ago, I just invested over $150,000 instead of buying a Ferrari and into a mastermind with one of the biggest,
00:51:32.000you know, online marketers in the world, you know, from ClickFunnels, Russell Brunson.
00:51:36.000And now I'm gonna fly to Idaho, what is it, Boise?
00:51:39.000I've never been to Boise, bro, but I'm going there for the first time just to Be in the same room with 14 other entrepreneurs that make 8 to 9 figures so I can learn from them because what we're trying to go, man, we're not content with just AFIGs.
00:51:52.000We're trying to go to that 100 million mark, man.
00:52:20.000Also, investing with y'all with the Bitcoin ATM. And you've just got to be able to diversify, like you said, because if you have all your eggs in one basket, it's not a good move.
00:52:29.000You want to create multiple revenue income streams, man.
00:52:55.000Okay, so it incentivizes them to purchase things in cash and then you end up getting what would have been spent on the credit card processing fee?
00:53:20.000So, if we're pushing people to use a cash discount program for credit card terminals, guess what?
00:53:26.000They're going to be like, where's your ATM? It's a double A, dude!
00:53:30.000So, majority of our clients, they see the benefit behind it.
00:53:33.000So you're going back to the people that you have ATMs with and telling them, hey, I can give you this thing that will help you save on credit processing fees.
00:53:53.000I go in there for business strategy only.
00:53:56.000So what I did was I created a waitlist.
00:54:00.000Before I launched this actual program, first, I got the results myself.
00:54:05.000Second, I established the actual strategy behind it.
00:54:09.000The call centers, the booked appointments, even what we provided with you as well, where we gave you- I got my machine over here, guys, by the way.
00:54:18.000I'm also gonna get any piggy and share my results with y'all as well in a few months, so don't worry.
00:54:21.000Your money should already be in your account, bro.
00:55:07.000You know, I'll talk to the people and all that because people like that.
00:55:09.000They like that person-to-person interaction, right?
00:55:12.000So then within five weeks, man, we made a million dollars in revenue.
00:55:17.000From the clientele that we serve on the ATM, BTM side, they came over to the merchant services side and they were like, Paul, you do good business.
00:56:10.000So we understand when people come to us and they're like, bro...
00:56:12.000I work and I grind and I got kids and I'm just trying to find for a second, you know, source of income or something that I could do on the side, just like you did.
00:56:21.000And I'm like, bro, you have so many choices.
00:56:24.000We're here to provide you as many things as you want.
00:56:27.000You know, you could choose credit cards, you could use BTMs, you could do cash ATMs and it all works.
00:56:32.000It just depends on what do you believe in?
00:57:27.000And I think we've been very clear with the audience in letting them know this isn't a get-rich-quick scheme.
00:57:31.000You're not going to become a multi-multi-millionaire doing this.
00:57:33.000This is stuff that you do on the side to make passive income once you already have an established stream of income so that you can create more streams of revenue so that you can go ahead and eventually get your freedom back.
00:57:46.000Realistically speaking, how long does it take someone to make, let's say, 5K off a BTM machine?
00:57:54.000Realistically, you're going to be looking at about six to eight months.
00:57:56.000And you're talking about a month, right?
00:59:34.000I was going to say for the audience, because some people might not know what you're talking about.
00:59:37.000Guys, if you've been in New York City or one of these major cities and you go into a bodega or one of these stores, a lot of times they say no credit or you have to have a spend limit or whatever.
00:59:45.000That is because they want to make sure that they offset those credit card transaction fees.
00:59:50.000Especially American Express and Discover.
00:59:52.000Which charges some of the highest credit card transaction fees.
00:59:54.000So whenever you go into business, they say, no credit unless you spend $10 or above, or hey, we don't accept credit, whatever.
01:00:00.000Nine out of ten times is to avoid exactly what Paul just described to you.
01:00:03.000Some people won't even take your AMS cards because of the fees that they have to pay.
01:00:08.000It's a win-win because the business is now able to accept more forms of payment, and they're not necessarily getting crucified for allowing you to use a credit card.
01:00:19.000The merchant is able to save money, the buyer is able to use their payment method that they prefer, and then you're able to get a percentage of it.
01:00:25.000Obviously, you get a small percentage, but over time, if the business does a lot of money, $100,000, $200,000 a month, which is very easy for certain businesses, like you mentioned, a liquor store, easy for them to make $100,000 a month.
01:00:35.000Because remember, that's all transactions.
01:00:39.000Companies that have to pay that charge for the actual credit card fees, they charge you to cover that fee.
01:00:45.000So now, they can charge you less and still make money.
01:00:48.000That's a W. And a lot of the actual small businesses out there in the United States, the reason why they haven't converted to cash discount is because you have to think about it like this.
01:02:57.000You also get $250 back the last time I used it.
01:03:00.000I don't know if they're still offering that, but I know they're still offering the zero interest.
01:03:03.000Best way to do it is put the business on that, whether you're going to go ATMs, BTMs, or credit card machines, and then go ahead and just pay it off.
01:03:14.000Yeah, if you've got good credit, guys, you can literally open up a credit line, use that credit line to buy your first ATM or two ATMs, depending on how much you want to spend, and then you can wait a year and then make the money back and then pay off that credit card.
01:03:28.000Now, bam, you just created a new revenue source.
01:03:29.000My first six ATMs was on a credit card.
01:03:33.000I don't know if you guys remember, but...
01:03:35.000But yeah, the credit card was on the six ATMs, credit card, and then the cash that I had in my savings, that's what I used to fill up those ATMs.
01:03:42.000How much money do you need to fill up the ATM? So when testing it out the first few months, we always say $2,000 to $3,000.
01:04:26.000It just depends on your cash flow and how comfortable you are in life.
01:04:29.000At the end of the day, you know, I always tell people if it's not the right time, I'll actually guide you.
01:04:34.000The biggest thing is just contact one of us, either get them or myself on social media or like, you know, go to our website and then there's contact information as there as well.
01:04:43.000And then we're able to set up like a Zoom appointment.
01:04:45.000So we're able to talk to you and then you're able to tell you like, all right, so what's your cash flow?
01:05:28.000And, you know, sometimes it's a sergeant hat or maybe having old school parents.
01:05:31.000But at the end of the day, it's like, hey, as long as you're doing your best to make something right, people can feel that when you're hearing them out, when you're making the situation better for them.
01:05:39.000At the end of the day, people appreciate that.
01:05:41.000And you don't see that in business anymore.
01:05:41.000And you build a relationship with that person and they trust you.
01:05:47.000I mean, you know, that's why we have two phones.
01:05:48.000I mean, I have, you know, hundreds and hundreds of clients here that will text me like, hey, again, I got this question regarding this business.
01:06:51.000And that's what is everyone's issue that has a problem scaling business is like how clear are you on your message with your offer and the way you're explaining and articulating your service.
01:07:03.000Majority of time we could go on a call and say the exact same thing as let's say a new consultant We just employed the thing is the new consultant.
01:07:11.000He doesn't have the life experience like we do So we're able to read the situation comes back to law enforcement read the situation and then also like get it to the level where we're We're at the same level as the client and be like hey, this is how it works Do you understand that they're like yeah,
01:07:27.000I really appreciate you explain it to me like this and Because there's common objections people have, but obviously if you're a newcomer, you don't know.
01:07:54.000So if you're thinking about doing one on the side or if you have questions about ATMs in general, these guys definitely know what they're talking about.
01:07:59.000I mean, you mentioned the two ones together.
01:08:01.000Were the two ones that you mentioned earlier?
01:08:02.000Like, I don't even know what those were.
01:10:08.000I mean, I'm still gonna get hit for half the year from California, but, you know, we're, yeah, we're working on it, and, like I said, we're gonna be down the street from you guys November 1st, man, which is gonna be kick-ass.
01:10:40.000We got Darsh goes, I own an HVAC business and we use Chase for credit card payments and they charge us 4%, but everything online, we don't carry the machine with us to customer houses.
01:10:51.000What's something you have I could use?
01:11:04.000And we usually sell it to vendors, contractors, mobile guys.
01:11:10.000If they have an entire fleet, they can give one to each one of their guys.
01:11:13.000Once you become a client, it is a five-figure investment to become a client with us.
01:11:16.000But after, you can buy these for $300 from us.
01:11:20.000Yeah, which is amazing because people can scale so fast.
01:11:24.000I mean, we've had a couple people scale with us already where they've made more than what their wife and they actually made from their actual 9 to 5 and then they came to work for us.
01:11:37.000Because we're like, bro, you're so good at this.
01:11:53.000If you do well at what we actually do, and you love it, and you have the passion for it, and you want to work with us, Hey, we're hiring all day.
01:12:58.000Yeah, okay cool So you have to pay the processing Network, which is your ISO your independent sales organization Which basically those that's the business that I teamed up with to provide me the network to provide me the terminals to provide me the actual high-level support That's why when you don't have to worry because you've already taken care of that exactly.
01:13:14.000Yeah, and And then from there, you have to pay Visa, MasterCard, Amex.
01:13:46.000Like, how much in a rental property, and I know because you guys got a lot of rental properties, like, right now, in 2023, right, which a lot of people are calling the American trap because they can't even afford their own house, right?
01:13:59.000It's, um, how much are you making in rent Like, from just a tenant, like a one bedroom right now.
01:14:23.000Obviously, you know, there's back-end benefits to real estate, but if we're going to talk strictly cash-on-cash, how much money you're making, yeah, the Bitcoins, the ATMs make more money from a strictly cash-on-cash perspective.
01:14:33.000And also, you don't need credit to get a BTM or ATM. Yes, you're not dealing with a bank to get a loan.
01:14:51.000To get into the real estate game and you need more capital, right?
01:14:54.000And I tell you guys all the time, real estate is more about the auxiliary benefits that come alongside it, you know, taxes, all that other stuff, right?
01:15:00.000Cash flow is just, you know, the cherry on top.
01:15:02.000But if you're just focusing on cash or cash returns, you want to get into something, you don't have necessarily $100,000 or you don't have the credit score to go ahead and pick up a real estate property, this is a fantastic way to segue in and start Getting your money to work for you.
01:15:15.000I would wager, if you do Paul's technique, you get the American blue cash card, right?
01:15:41.000So when you look at if I was, let's say, 21 or I was like a fresh investor or like a newbie entrepreneur, maybe I'm watching this and I'm a 9 to 5-er and I'm like, dude, what?
01:15:53.000Someone here that might be watching this, they might have 10K, they might have 20K, they're a 9 to 5-er, they're making 50K per year, right?
01:16:19.000We have a funder, an affiliated company that actually allows people to get Business funding for our programs that we worked with them for the past three years, man.
01:16:43.000And then they could go ahead and use that cash.
01:16:46.000Whether it's cash ATMs, they could go ahead and fill up their ATM. Or they can use that cash reserve and then buy it at wholesale from us and keep scaling.
01:17:54.000And Andrew's like, hey bro, so how can I help you?
01:17:56.000I was like, bro, do you have another method?
01:17:59.000Besides our funding company that we have, where we're able to leverage, because a lot of people come up with us, hey, I have a credit card, I want to use it, so how can I leverage that?
01:18:08.000He's like, oh yeah, I'll just connect you with a law firm, and then they'll go ahead and they can actually charge them, liquefy their credit card, and give them cash if they want.
01:18:19.000There are some credit cards that let you do it, but yeah, there's not many.
01:18:23.000I know Bank of America has a credit card that lets you use a transaction for 4% and then you're able to take the balance and put it into your checking account, etc.
01:18:31.000But you would need a Bank of America account and it's only certain credit cards that let you do it.
01:18:34.000But yeah, the fact that there's other...
01:18:40.000Your network is your net worth, right?
01:18:41.000And that's what I tell people when they work.
01:18:43.000So there's really no excuse to not get in because you can literally...
01:18:46.000And the fact that you guys have people that are willing to lend your clients money to get involved in this tells you that it's a pretty stable business.
01:19:41.000Last question for me, actually, for you guys.
01:19:44.000What is something you've learned from working as a police officer, working in corporate America, but being a business owner now, you can tell the audience now, like, for example, how to be successful when you learn through that process?
01:19:58.000The biggest lesson I learned is you've got to have skin in the game.
01:20:01.000You've got to be comfortable being uncomfortable because at the end of the day, don't get caught up in the corporate trap.
01:20:06.000Work five more years, work ten more years, and all of a sudden you wake up and you're like, man, I'm 60 years old, I'm retiring, I barely got any savings.
01:20:12.000And my savings ain't going as far as it used to be.
01:20:15.000So the first thing I'd say is step into the comfort zone, get comfortable being uncomfortable.
01:20:19.000So the first thing they said to us in the Marine Corps, same thing they said to us in law enforcement, and that's the same thing I take with me in corporate America.
01:20:26.000I mean, my answer, bro, is going to go back to what I gave you earlier.
01:20:30.000And you were like, oh man, that's a beautiful cover.
01:23:50.000I'm showing you the transition of what the fuck I went through, working 60 to 100 hour work weeks, busting my ass at Raider games and shit, you know, and then fucking going ahead and transitioning, investing that money into something that I believed in, made it grow, Started another business, hooked up my boy that believed in me,
01:24:05.000made him a millionaire, and then fucking now we're in Miami, we're fucking traveling wherever we want.
01:24:42.000Let me fill these, read these real quick.
01:24:44.000Okay, WFNF, W Money Monday, I heard that some of these BTMs have advertisement toppers, which models have these features, and how much money do these ads produce, and how much would a machine like that cost in total?
01:25:59.000And they're flexible, guys, working with you.
01:26:02.000They definitely will work with you depending on your situation.
01:26:05.000Question for the guests regarding the merchant services.
01:26:06.000The hard terminals are great, but is there an e-commerce option with the same features where the consumer would be charged the credit card fees up front?
01:26:13.000So we can either match what you currently have or see what we can actually, as far as saving money for you.
01:26:20.000So just check us out, Merchant Automation, talk to one of our consultants, and then they'll go ahead and just walk you step-by-step on what you currently have and what we can match or actually do better for you.