elBenbo’s amateur investment portfolio

I don’t know how many people reading this will care. But I’ve always been a huge fan of Robert Kiyosaki’s investment advice. And over the past few years, I finally started to get off my gluteus assimus and begin implementing some of his ideas. Specifically, his advice on investing in the 4 main asset classes: Real estate, business, paper assets, and commodities. Plus, as a 5th and 6th “class”, I also dabble in crypto and believe in investing in my community’s people & future. But, before I show you anything, a caveat: Nothing I write here is investment advice. Frankly, you’d be an idiot to take any kind of investment advice from me. But, since there has been a handful of people over the last few years who have asked, and are curious, here’s some of what I am doing with these asset classes currently. (If I leave out specifics, that is done deliberately for privacy, etc). All right here goes — Real Estate: This may better-qualify as sort of a hybrid real estate/business. Hardly makes me any kind of serious real estate investor. And as my pal Trevor Mauch said when introducing me to some folks in the real estate investing niche at a mastermind: “The only real estate experience Ben has is he’s bought a house.” He ain't wrong. But at the same time, I met a fellow via that mastermind who invests in gentrifying (my description, not his...) some of his city’s areas via fix & flip and rehab projects. And by investing with them, I get passive income each month without the hassle of managing real estate. Business #1: First is publishing my books (fiction and nonfiction), Email Players newsletter & related book offers, and other multi-media projects. This is my primary gig, for obvious reasons. Businesses #2: I also invest in my own software platforms — Learnistic and BerserkerMail, plus our Profit Pirates coaching program, with our ContraCart and ScuttleCast software tools still being cooked up in the kitchen. Plus there is our SocialLair platform, which we are augmenting with new bells & whistles for its 2.0 release. Paper: Nothing earth-shaking. Mostly just some investments in various mining and some other companies who I am a heavy customer of myself — including various investments in an app I use. Commodities: As for commodities… I am a big fan of precious metals. Particularly silver & lead (ammo). Both of which I believe are extremely important — the former as a way to protect what wealth (big or small) you have now. The latter as a way to protect your life and your family’s lives — which should be everyone’s most valuable assets, the way I see it. Unless of course you think the police exist to prevent crimes from happening or will magically beam in, Star Trek style, if an armed violent criminal attacks you or your family as you all hide under the bed. If that’s the case, Daddy has some swamp land for you to invest in… Crypto: I simply take the gains from my real estate and invest it directly into Bitcoin each month and put very little thought into it. Community: Then there’s community. Whether investing in it financially and/or with your time/energy/labor — it is an intangible investment that probably won’t make you “rich”, but it can enrich your life, your family’s life, and the lives of those you are surrounded by. All of which can only benefit you. What I donate (always via money, I’m a funding kinda guy, not a "boots on the ground" volunteer kinda guy) to depends on the time and situation. But I always do at least some of it at the local level, to benefit my town and/or county. I’ll talk more about my “donation portfolio” later if’n that interests you. The pronouns-in-their-bio harpies'll probably be none too happy with my choices. But really, nobody cares what they think anyway. Okay, I was wrong. Community wasn’t the last one. My most recent investment adventure is trading Options. But I don’t do it myself at all. I do it completely passively, via my business partner in the software companies I mentioned Troy Broussard. I am definitely not a “trading guy” but he certainly is. And he not only invests some of our software profits into trading (Options, specifically) using a clever way of doing it he figured out, but he helps a whole lot of other folks (including some of my best customers) too, and from what I hear tell a lot of them are truly loving every minute of it. If you are: (1) interested in learning more about his Options coaching and… (2) getting an extremely valuable bonus via buying it with my affiliate link below by Friday 10/13 at midnight EDT Like I said, I don’t “do” options myself at this time. But as sure as God made little green apples I am benefiting from it via Troy’s methods investing revenue from our software companies into Options that is partly based both on his experience as both a marketing automation guy (he has a mind for that sort of thing) and as a former Navy Nuclear Engineer who understands systems. Here is the link: [https∶//www.EmailPlayers.com/options]( Ben Settle P.S. The bonus I am offering to those who buy Troy’s coaching by the deadline via my righteous affiliate link? Your pick of any ONE of the books below that I sell. To read more about a specific book below, Google is your friend. NOTE: You have exactly 48-hours after you buy Troy’s coaching to let me know which book you choose as your bonus, otherwise you are disqualified from this bonus part of the offer. None of this waiting around for 4 months and then deciding to tell me. I hate “tail” in marketing in all its evil forms. All right, following is the list of books to choose from. 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