Quick Hits
Quick Hits: What is Happening? | Bubble or Bust | Solid Resources
Cost of wood has skyrocketed 124% YTD (400% in the last 12 months) Home prices are soaring. Gas is up. Used Car prices are up 21% (10% in April alone) Copper is up 36% CPI is up 4.2% Resource – CNBC Are we seeing inflation or a situation where supply meets a lack of demand? You…
Read MoreQuick Hits: Retiring Early | Visual Emails | Letting Go
To the hardest working advisors in the nation, Hope you enjoyed the shorter week, and your events calendar is starting to fill up. Feel like summer yet? Don’t retire too early – there is still a lot of work to do! Here are your Quick Hits: Articles to Make You Better Business Owner: Good Leadership is…
Read MoreQuick Hits: Memorial Day | Your Game | CEO Whisperer
Memorial Day weekend is already here. A weekend to spend time with family and friends, with (hopefully) good weather. It’s a time to exercise our freedom to not have any worries besides what food we are eating and if you are going to be red or blue in your next game of cornhole. We celebrate…
Read MoreQuick Hits: Big Dipper | $2.4M Space Ride | How to lose money
When I dip you dip. Crypto took a dip…ok a BIG dip. Signs of a future dip in the markets? Not sure if you can trust a man that puts “MAD” in front of his name, but he brings up some good points on signs of market downsides. And just like that… Here are your Quick Hits:…
Read MoreQuick Hits: Spark Joy | Fun Stats | Shoeshine Boys
Fun Stats: The S&P 500 has risen 87% since its low on March 23, 2020, adding $50 trillion worth of value to the index in just over a year, the best 12-month rally since the 1930s. –Yahoo, April 26, 2021 Mom and Pop traders now account for almost as much trading as all hedge funds…
Read MoreQuick Hits: Testimonial Time | Buffet on Bitcoin | Rising Inflation
I had a few conversations this week around making big changes to business to make bigger moves and then I read this quote from Warren Buffet that gave me a better perspective. “The interesting thing about business, it’s not like the Olympics. You don’t get any extra points for the fact that something’s very hard…
Read MoreQuick Hits: Snappy Snappy | Dress Codes | NFL Bitcoin
Wow! Where did April go? Did 2020 already happen? Here is a positive stat to kick things off… 72% of workers are somewhat or very confident in their ability to live comfortably in retirement! Here are your Quick Hits: Dress Code from the top AE Offices Survey: We received 8 responses from AE’s…
Read MoreQuick Hits: Excelerating | Whiskey down | 5 Superpowers
We’ve gone from “recovering” to “accelerating!” Skimming the media world, the overarching message has flipped from the recovering and stimulus to the economy is accelerating and hitting new highs. Here at Advisors Excel, we are seeing a 25-30% increase in marketing efforts from our affiliate partners month over month! Maybe instead of accelerating we are EXCELerrating? Sorry… #Dadjokes P.S.…
Read MoreQuick Hits: Buffett Concern | 1.2M Whoopsy | Phone Scripts
Markets up, Vaccines up, states are opening up, live events are up! …feels good to be on the up and up am I right?! What’s next? The one thing we can be positive of is taxes are going to be up too. Now is the time to market and help your clients prepare for the…
Read MoreQuick Hits: One Thing | Housing Boom | Federal Spending
Hope you all are staying warm out there! That groundhog wasn’t lying! Spring can’t come soon enough am I right? Don’t miss hit #1 Geoff Woods presentation from Ignite. So good! Well worth the 90 minutes. Here are your Quick Hits: Geoff Woods – “One Thing” Presentation at Ignite Instead of turning on Netflix this…
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