Steve Tytler

I know that my claim of fantastic stock market investing claims in my post earlier this month probably sounds like B.S. to many of you.

In fact, if I were you, I wouldn’t believe it either!

So I have started posting some of my trades in real time on Twitter so that you can follow along and check my results.

For example, I bought one stock last week (AUMN) on which I made a 25.56% gain in only TWO days!

Check it out on my Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/SteveTytler

I’m not planning to do this forever, but for a limited time I will post some of my trades in public so you can judge my results for yourself and see if I know what I’m talking about.

Keep in mind that I am tweeting my trades in REAL TIME … I’m not coming back after the fact and claiming “I bought XXX stock yesterday and now it’s up 12%!” … I tweet when I buy and then you can follow along to see if the stock goest up. Sometimes (but not always) I will tweet how much one of my trades has gone up because, quite frankly, I’m not above bragging. LOL!

For example, I tweeted on January 10 that I was looking at buying some AUMN. About an hour later I tweeted that I bought some at $6.65. Two days later (Jan 12) I tweeted that I sold half my position at $8.35 for a 25.56% gain. This was all done in real time on Twitter and you could have followed along with me at each step of that trade.

Please be aware that I don’t tweet every trade I make and I generally do NOT tweet when I sell, so if you follow my trades you MUST have your own exit strategy so that you don’t give back your gains.

Remember, noboby gets it right all the time, I will have some losses as well as gains, but in general I try to keep my losses small and my gains big so that my overall return is WAY better than the so-called “professional money mangers.”

Follow me today at Twitter: http://twitter.com/SteveTytler

As you can see, I have not posted on this blog for a long time. That’s because my interests have changed.

While I still own a successful mortgage company and I continue to do the marketing for that company, over the past year I have become a VERY successful stock market investor. And I want to share what I’ve learned with other investors who, like me, have wasted many years earning minimal stock market investment returns (or losses) because they put their money in mutual funds or turned it over to “professional money managers.”

From January 31, 2011 to January 5, 2012 (less than one year) one of my IRA stock market trading accounts was UP 176.38% !

Yes, you read that right.

The Dow Jones Average and S&P 500 returned virtualy 0% for the entire year of 2011 … yet I managed to increase my account by more than 2.5 times during the same period.

Why did I start with January 31, 2011 instead of January 1, 2011? Was I just picking that date to make my numbers look better?

NO!

I made the mistake of turning all of my money over to a “professional money manger” in 2010 … and despite the fact that the Dow and S&P finished up for the year (unlike 2011) he managed to LOSE 10% of my money! So I transferred all of my accounts away from him and I didn’t get control of the money until January 31, 2011 … and that’s when I started actively managing my own stock trading accounts.

I am now developing an intensive investor training program that will teach a select FEW investors how to do the same thing.

For more information, click here to go to my “Un-Diversified Investing” website.. You can enter your name and email address and I’ll put you on the “Priority Notification List” so that you’ll be the first to know when the investor training program is open for applications.

I wish you all the best of luck this year in the mortgage business … and the stock market (if you are invested).

As I mentioned in my last post, I attended an awesome life-changing 3-day workshop in San Diego a couple weeks called “InfluenceOlogy” that taught a small group of 12 of us how to make very powerful, very persuasive sales presentations to groups.

InfluenceOlogy Seminar - Oct. 15-17, 2010 - San Diego, CA

We all paid a lot of money to attend the workshop, and their information is proprietary, so I can’t go into too much detail but I can tell you this:

When you make a presentation to any group of people, first determine what is the goal you want to achieve?

For example, if you are a mortgage loan officer making a 15 minute presentation to real estate agents at a sales meeting in a real estate office, what do you want them to do at the end of the meeting?

You might think the answer is obvious, “I want them to send me some loan business.”

But WHY should they send you loan business?

What happens if they DO send you loan business?

And more importantly, what happens if they DON’T send you loan business?

You need to think this through before you make a presentation to any kind of group that you are trying to influence to a specific desired action so that you can tailor your entire presentation to that desired outcome by answering the questions above.

It’s a marketing cliche, but it’s true: Always put yourself in your audience’s position and ask the question “What’s in it for me?”

You must know the audience.

What are THEIR needs and goals?

What are THEIR pains and frustrations?

How can you solve their problems and help them achieve their goals?

If you focus on those concepts every time you make a group presentation you will find that you are much more successful at getting people to actually take ACTION when you are done rather than just thanking you for the information.

Simply saying “We have great rates and great service and we always close on time” is NOT a powerful, persuasive presentation!

You need to be more specific, “feel their pain” to quote a former president, and tell them WHY and HOW you are there to solve their problems.

If you want to get into this in much more depth, I HIGHLY recommend that you consider attending a three-day “InfluenceOlogy” workshop on your own.

Click Here to check out the InfluenceOlogy website for more info.

Roberto Monaco, Steve Tytler, Jeff Paro

Here you can see me with the InfluenceOlogy experts Roberto Monaco (former #1 sales rep for Tony Robbins) and Jeff Paro (former Tony Robbins trainer).

Steve Tytler preparing to break board

I am not a big believer in the “touchy feely” motivational stuff that you see at a lot of marketing seminars, but a week ago I was at seminar in San Diego where we learned how to make very powerful and persuasive group presentations.

The seminar was awesome, and I’ll post more about it shortly, but I want to tell you about an exercise they had us all do at the end of the seminar.

They made us break a board with our bare hands Karate style … with only a couple of minutes of instruction.

It was a metaphor for breaking through the barriers that are holding us back from achieving our goals.

Before we broke the board, we had to write on the board all our fears and other stuff that has been us holding us back. It sounds kind of crazy, but being able to break a board with my bare hands … something I had never done before in my life … really drove the point home.

Click Here to watch the video

At the beginning of this year I recommended that you get an accountability partner who will hold you responsible for actually following through on your plans and goals.

I’ve had an accountability partner since the beginning of this year and we talk every day at 6:00 PM to go over what we’ve done that day and what we’re going to do the next day.

Has it helped our businesses?

Absolutely!

My accountability partner is a mortgage loan officer and his personal production and income has more than doubled this year compared to last year and my business has grown dramatically this year as well.

So I can tell you from first hand experience that it really, really works.

It’s easy to tell yourself “I’m going to do xxxxx today … ” and then you get busy and “stuff happens” and you never get it done, so you say to yourself “I’ll do it tomorrow.” But you know what happens, you get busy again and you never get it done.

When you have made a commitment to your accountability partner to get something done and you know that he/she is going to be calling at 6:00 PM you will find yourself busting your but to do what you said you were going to do so that you don’t have to tell your partner that you didn’t accomplish that goal.

Now, of course, this only works if you are honest with your partner.

The #1 rule of accountability partners is “no judgment.” If you are afraid of being judged, you may be less than honest. But trust me, you don’t need to have your partner judge you to make you feel bad when you don’t accomplish your goals. I literally start sweating if it’s getting close to 6:00 PM and I have not finished whatever I said I was going to do.

For example, I promised to get a new marketing video online today. It’s 2 PM and I have get going so that I don’t have to tell my partner that I failed at that goal!

If you want to make more money and get more done, get an accountability partner, it really works!