All Forum Posts by: Tim Livian

They're taking massive fees 2% on assets they manage, 20% on increases in net asset value, large salaries for only $7-8m assets, they are self dealing with a $2m in promissory notes that pay Dutch's other entities 10.95% interest. 

i think the 36% return might be before all these fees or for his 3 other entities that lent the company money at a very high rate.

source: their sec filings https://sec.report/CIK/0001721...

What are the capabilities you're seeking that Podio didn't offer?

Probably easier to do with a user-friendly web scraper than an Excel macro, unless you're good at Excel macros :)

Depends how you want to spend your time and where your time is best spent...

It's possible that it's bot traffic, you can check like this:

1. Go to the Country report
   
2. Add a Secondary Dimension for Hostname 
3. Then Filter for Russia.  
   1. If the hostname isn't the URL of your site it's probably bots
   2. You can also look at bounce rate and if it's like 98%+ it's even more likely its bots

What I like to do is create a copy of the View/Profile and enable the option to filter out bots.  This won't get all the bots, since there are so many out there.

The other thing I like to do is create a custom segment that filters out traffic that doesn't have the hostname equal your domain name.

+1 for WordFence

Sucuri is also a good security plugin

It depends on the site you want (e.g. size, functionality, design), the web designer, payment option (one-time or recurring) and how quickly you need it live.

Lots of "flavors" to choose from...

That's why I do consultations and proposals for prospective clients and have sample pricing on my website to make sure we're in the same ballpark.

If you have a clear idea of the website you want (and document it for your discussions with a web designer), as well as have a few example websites you like for the web designer to go off of you'll have the basics to get the conversation started and keep it focused.

Make sure to go through the web designers portfolio to see if you like their work and if they have experience designing the type of website you need.

I was looking into doing something similar and either using a CRM (lots of free ones out there or with good trials) or combining a Google Sheet with an add-on for mapping, so I can look at the list by neighborhood.

I got the idea for the free CRM after Googling and finding a BP blog post that talks about the same exact thing (https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/02/1...).  They tested 2 CRMs.

I use DocHub (https://dochub.com/) to speed things up with client contracts.  It's integrated with Google Docs/Drive, so if you already use that it makes things slightly simpler.

A good landing page isn't "trivial".  You can use is for way more than redirecting.  You can capture lead information, pre-sell people, collect email addresses, get them to download an ebook, fire a pixel to retarget them for additional ads, sell them something...

It's the starting point for so much online and offline revenue.