You've heard me say this before. We need to be reminded more than we need to be taught. That's why today's episode is one you may have heard before. I brought it back because it's important. If you've already heard it, take this as a sign that maybe you just take more action. And if you haven't, then welcome to the game. Enjoy. There are only four ways to get money. Steal, inherit, marry into it, trade for it. If you have morals, you probably don't want to steal it.

And if you're watching this, you probably aren't going to inherit it. And even if you are, you probably don't want to wait until your parents die to get it. And if you're a guy, you're probably not going to marry into it. Even if you do, do you really want to be owned by your wife's family? which means in all likelihood if you're watching this video,

you're likely only have one option left,

which is to trade stuff for it.

And trading stuff for money, I made $1 million $106 times in a row in a weekend. I also want a portfolio of companies that trade stuff for money that did over $250 million in revenue last year at Acquisition.com. Now, within the element of trading stuff for it, there are six ways to structure those trades.

And in this video, I'm going to break them all down and show you which ones to avoid and which ones to go for, and I'll do them in reverse order of bestness.

Now, I said there's six. The last two are God tier setups that only can work in very specific circumstances.

But that being said, let's start with number one.

So scheme number one is I work, then you pay.

This is a very classic arrangement.

This is a very standard W2 employment agreement.

So the trade is, no matter what happens, I get paid outside of getting fired.

So as long as I don't get fired, I get paid. And so I trade risk for

Reliability in this construct and as much as the entrepreneur talking heads want to say being an employee nowadays is risker than owning a business

That's not really true because if it were that everyone would own them and be rich and that is not the case and as a fun fact

The average business owner,

like almost half a business owner is don't make any money at all. That means they work the whole

year and end up poorer than they started. Crazy. And that's because them's the stats. But the median

is about the same as minimum wage in California. So as much as people want to believe that

all business owners are rich, that is not reality. And so this is the lowest risk, but most reliable way of making money. The second way of trading stuff for money, a little bit better on a risk reward. Number two is you pay as we go. So if you think about the first one is you front, like you work and then you get paid no matter what.

This one, it happens in parallel.

So as I work, I keep getting paid. This is very typical for contractors.

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