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The Game with Alex Hormozi

Active Business to Passive Income | Ep 330

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.94.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Wealthy people own the right things. Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about his experience and what he learned in regard to turning an active business into a passive income. Listen in as we learn the mental framework that is needed in order to take two steps forward in the field of business.

Welcome to The Game Podcast where we talk about how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, and keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way to $100M in sales. We've got roll-up-your-sleeves kind of hustle with a little bit of cleverness and a lot of heart. 

Timestamps:

(0:58) - You can make anything passive and you can make anything active but what is the better decision?

(2:25) - A walkthrough on how to do it and when to do it

(3:16) - This is the mental framework that took Alex a while to discover

(7:05) - Here is the big picture to turning your active business into a passive income 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, real quick. So Layland and I are definitely working on our social media presence if you guys haven't noticed and we're just breaking now into linked in.

0:06.2

Alright, it's not as bad as I thought. It's actually been pretty awesome so far and you guys have been really cool in there and people are sharing our stuff a lot.

0:12.2

So if we aren't connected on LinkedIn, go ahead and let's connect and let's rock and roll.

0:17.0

You want to take your passive things and make them more active in order to increase your returns.

0:20.8

And that's a very tempting thing to do because we're entrepreneurial and we can see where the margin is getting lost.

0:26.6

Welcome to the game where we talk about how to get more customers, how to make more per customer, and how to keep them longer in the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way.

0:33.6

Hope you enjoy and subscribe.

0:35.6

In this video, I'm going to show you how to take an active business and make it into passive income.

0:40.6

So the goal that most of our entrepreneurs have is to have freedom.

0:46.6

We want to not work or not have to work and have money coming towards us.

0:51.6

And the thing is what I have learned is that you can make anything passive and you can make anything active.

0:56.6

And one of the difficulties for entrepreneurs when you switch from entrepreneur to investor is that you want to take your passive things and make them more active in order to increase your returns.

1:04.6

And that's a very tempting thing to do because we're entrepreneurial and we can see where the margin is getting lost.

1:09.6

But if you always chase time, then you'll always be able to make whatever it is.

1:14.6

If you chase time, always, then eventually you'll end up with all your time and you should have some leftover that is coming towards you.

1:20.6

And so I'll give you a quick example.

1:22.6

So Jim launched two years ago, I think it made 17 million, according to our quality of earnings, we made 17 million in profit in 2018.

1:35.6

And this year will probably do 8 million in profit. So you're like, whoa, you cut in half.

1:41.6

Here's the difference. When we did 17 million, I was the business.

1:45.6

It was 100% Alex's face wrapped with a monetization structure wrapped around it. I was taking calls. I was doing all of these things.

1:50.6

I was definitely CEO. I was definitely in front of the marketing. I was also the product. I was doing all those things, right?

1:56.6

Right now, the business basically generates half the profit, but it involves me for about 90 minutes a week.

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