#43: Austin Zaback: Real Estate, Branding, and Podcasting: Insider Tips from Top Entrepreneurs
JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED
Jayson Waller
4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, we are joined by Austin Zaback, a real estate entrepreneur and podcaster. Jayson and Austin discuss the real estate market's current state and potential impact on investments during a recession. Austin emphasizes that real estate is a sound long-term investment that tends to trend up over time, despite market unpredictability.
Jayson and Austin also deep dive into the importance of branding and marketing oneself in today's digital world and share their experiences and tips for creating and maintaining a strong personal brand.
Austin Zaback is a highly successful real estate entrepreneur and social media personality, known for his expertise in making money through real estate. With over 550,000 followers on his Instagram account, @austinzaback, he shares valuable advice and insights on real estate investments. Zaback is the founder and CEO of Zaback Group, a real estate team under eXp Realty, where he has sold approximately 1,500 units and achieved $1 billion in sales by the age of 26.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
- Austin discusses the current state of the real estate market and its potential impact during the recession
- Austin emphasizes real estate as a sound long-term investment that trends up over time
- Jayson and Austin discuss the importance of consistency and branding on social media to build a strong personal brand
- Jayson also discusses his passion for coaching and the excitement of seeing people's hard work pay off.
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SOCIAL MEDIA FOR AUSTIN ZABACK:
Website URL: https://www.theaustinzabackshow.com/
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TIMESTAMPS:
- 00:00 - Prelude
- 00:33 - Introduction to Austin Zaback
- 02:42 - Nobody has a crystal ball
- 03:20 - Why real estate is a long-term investment
- 04:19 - Bitcoin is a good diversification strategy, but not enough about crypto
- 06:22 - What is wholesaling and what does it mean?
- 07:02 - How wholesaling works in the US
- 08:12 - Understanding the model more
- 09:57 - Mortgage is an ancillary type of business
- 12:14 - Having the right people to do the deals
- 13:19 - Supply and demand in the current market
- 14:40 - Branding yourself in the business
- 15:36 - What does it take to be a successful influencer?
- 16:41 - That one person to follow you, the one person that makes a difference
- 17:26 - Selling yourself and your product/service
- 18:48 - How youtube is a beast of a platform
- 21:58 - Using the same post or writing something different
- 24:09 - How to keep current and consistent on each social media platform
- 25:50 - Favorite guests on the podcast
- 26:09 - The vision for the podcast is to consistently improve
- 27:08 - Investing in a business that doesn't make money
- 27:20 - Coaching is stimulating and addicting
- 30:22 - Having a podcast is like a vehicle
- 31:07 - The value of having a podcast
- 35:11 - END
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| 0:00.0 | Bam, Jason Waller here with the Bam podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | That's right, business and money podcast. You want to make money, you want to conquer business, you want to go ahead and get that mindset right to take you to the next level and level up, you got to listen to the show. You're going to have all kinds of guests on their billionaires, millionaires, athletes, actors, you name and we're going to have them on here. They're going to be talking about their success, their struggles, their life, their hardship. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm going to talk about my success, my struggle, my life, my hardship. |
| 0:25.4 | So tune in. |
| 0:30.1 | Bam! |
| 0:33.7 | Bam! |
| 0:34.4 | Jason Waller here with the Bam! |
| 0:36.1 | Podcast. |
| 0:36.8 | That's right. |
| 0:37.3 | Business, attitude, money. |
| 0:39.2 | Here, kicking some ass top five podcasts for entrepreneurship and motivation. I've got a special guest today. |
| 0:45.4 | Everybody's talking about real estate failures and shit going down and people not being able to make money. |
| 0:50.5 | And we're going to have a recession. I haven't seen it yet. But I brought in a guy here that has crushed it in real estate. He has his own podcast. He's a badass. I got Austin Zabak. How you doing, baby? Hey, dude, I'm doing phenomenal, man. I appreciate you having me on the show and I'm honored to be here and I can't wait to drop a little bit of value for everybody. Well, let's start with some of the values. For the listeners out there and the viewers out there that are watching the show, |
| 1:14.9 | you know, give us a two-minute commercial of who you are. |
| 1:19.9 | What's your biggest success in real estate? |
| 1:22.1 | What brands Austin? |
| 1:24.7 | Yeah, dude, I appreciate the question. |
| 1:27.2 | I, you know, I've sold about 2,500 homes. So I'm 27 years old, right? So I'm, I, you know, I got a young start at life. And so, you know, real estate is a hundred a year since you were a kid. Right, right. Yeah, we've done, we've done a lot of deals. So, you know, real estate, I've been doing real estate since 2014. I've always been an entrepreneur, though, but I've been in real estate for about nine years, going on 10 years. And in that time, you know, I've built multiple different real estate companies. I've sold over a billion dollars in real estate, 2,500 houses and counting. And man, you know, we've hired and fired a lot of people. And we have an |
| 2:02.2 | incredible culture, an incredible team of people now. And, and we're just getting warmed up, man. That's exciting. And what do you think of what's going on to the world today? I keep, you know, I'm just now fumbling with real estate. My experience of real estate's limited. I'm always, you know, bold and up front with honesty. |
| 1:58.8 | Like there's a lot of things I've done great. |
| 2:00.3 | I've built, you know, four big businesses. |
| 2:02.3 | I did always, you know, bold and up front with honesty. Like, there's a lot of things I've done great. I've built, you know, four big businesses. I did a successful podcast, wrote a book, did a TED Talk, can motivate a room to run through a brick wall. But I suck at real estate. Like I'm still like, I bought some houses and flipped them. I've bought a house, dumped a shit ton of money in it, lost my ass, bought a house, dumped a shit ton of money. Market went up, crushed it. But I'm still like flirting a little bit with it. I want to get more into it. But with everybody talking about this recession and all the problems and the rates going out of the, you know, up to the moon, what are your thoughts on that? What, is it a good time still? |
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