How do you deal with competition, right?

Because you found something successful,

and then you started getting copied by people outside of your network

where you guys are helping each other.

Well, you gotta be better than everybody.

You know, you gotta stand next, you gotta have the better than everybody you know you got to stand

nice you got to have the best location you got to have the best marketing you got to

have your marketing is everything but what I really you know one of the big things that I've done

over my life is buy lots of businesses. So my favorite business to buy by far are my competitors.

Literally, first of all you get rid of the competitors. I mean there's so many upsides from doing that you know now you could there's a

million things we probably don't have time to get into but I have bought my first

competitor in the baseball cards I would buy other people out but my first really big competitor I bought was when I was

in Beanie Babies I had one of the best websites top five websites in the country

and I bought the you know two of the other top five websites if that sold Beanie Babies and we sold Beanie Babies

Pokemon Cars Magic the Gathering all these kind of kind of collectibles that were you

know kid collectibles and stuff and I bought my I bought this this competitor and I remember I paid him it was a

creative deal it was like a six hundred thousand dollar deal I was in my early

20s so it was a decent amount of money I had it but I didn't want to spend it all

yeah I like you know same so I worked a creative deal with him I gave him like you know around 10% percent down and the rest over you know five years and I was literally paying him a few thousand a month but I was making ten thousand a month

on what I paid him so I had that seven thousand a month cash flow and it was really good so I got hooked

on buying competitors after that and I just realized how beneficial it is besides getting rid of my biggest

competitors I was able to grow my own business infinitely overnight instead of

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