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How You Can Benefit from Warren Buffet’s Recent $900M Walmart Sell Off

Mohammed Jay Shalaby — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 21:21:03 GMT

Warren Buffet just sold $900 million in Walmart stocks (Business Insider,) acknowledging that traditional brick and mortar retailers were struggling against competition from online retailers like Amazon. What does that mean for people like you and I? First, let me tell you a little story.

Source: Yahoo Finance

I’ll never forget the first time inconspicuous insanity was pointed out to me. A jack of all trades named Jon was making repairs on a refrigeration unit at my restaurant. He was finishing up and enjoying an appreciative “on the house” burger around rush hour, and the foot traffic in the restaurant was light that day. Jon offered his marketing advice suggesting, “Why don’t you put free sweet tea or free dessert on the sign during rush hour times…see all those cars out there (pointing to the main road out front)…you gotta offer them something to break their routine…look at them all lined up nice and neat in a row….like sheep. They drive 1 to 2 hours to work every morning in that mess, return back same way. You get a few in, the rest will follow. They are insane!”

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.” ~Albert Einstein

How often do you hear friends or family complain about

their job
or someone at their job
or their lack of time
or wanting to spend more time with family
or traffic
or needing a vacation
or (gasp) wanting more money?

The status quo has many of us in a 9 to 5 state of mind. So much like sheep we don’t see the signs for opportunity. However, change has been brewing, as technology disrupts yet again. It’s no surprise there’s a growing trend of entrepreneurs breaking out of the herd.

Pay attention here — -

Average everyday people with little to no tech skills are building wealth online — -and they are having fun doing it. They are essentially their own small scale Amazon!

The tools available today to even non-techy people allow them to leverage systems and automation, allowing them to start small and scale without dedicating more time.
They are choosing who they work with…friends or connecting online with new people around the world and formulating masterminds.
They are building their wealth after work hours and on weekends, eventually replacing their incomes altogether, leaving them with more time to do things they love (the sheep are planning to do it when they retire at 65.)

So back to you…and how to capitalize from the recent actions of a man with unparallelled retail trend instincts?

Capitalize by being on the front end of the trend. Break free from the herd. Don’t be insane.

My only bit of advice is…don’t go it alone. I ripped through close to 20k and 2 years of searching & failing before finding the best way to do this.

The good news is…you can leverage me and what I learned to just plug right in and get going without the uncertainty.

Connect with me on Facebook or visit www.mjshalaby.com

~MJ Shalaby

A regular guy who has lived the challenges of a 9–5, owning/operating a business, & balancing family life. I show others how to leverage time, tools, & talent to live a purpose filled life!