"Business and investing are team sports." -- Robert Kiyosaki
My poor dad often said, "What you know is important."
My rich dad said, "If you want to be rich, who you know is more important than what you know."
Rich Dad explained further saying, "Business and investing are team sports." The average investor or small-business person loses financially because they do not have a team. Instead of a team, they act as individuals who are trampled by very smart teams."
That is why the Rich Dad's Advisors book series was created.
Rich Dad's Advisors will offer guidance to help you know who to look for and what kind of questions to ask so you can go out and gather your own great team of advisors.
Blair Singer
"You do not have to be an attack dog to be successful in sales." -- Blair Singer
A top-rated international trainer in sales communications and personal development, Blair's book, Sales Dogs, reinforces Rich Dad's belief that "to be a successful investor, you have to know how to sell." A Rich Dad Advisor and long-time associate of Robert, Blair teaches how to improve your number one business skill – sales.
Blair is considered one of the best facilitators of personal and organizational behavior change in business today. He has earned global recognition through the development of a unique high impact approach to teaching, learning and facilitating that virtually guarantees positive behavioral change and high performance. He is the founder of the international training firm, Blair Singer Accelerated Training (BSAT) and the founder of Sales Dogs: a methodology that offers life-changing sales success.
Sales Dogs will:
* Introduce five breeds of Sales Dogs!
* Reveal the five simple but critical revenue-generating skills to generate endless streams of qualified buyers and life-long sales
* Teach you how to identify your "breed" and play to your own strengths
* Give you the steps to inspire and direct any group of sales people into a charging pack of blue-ribbon Sales Dogs
* Show you how to reduce your sales "efforts", increasing your sales "results"
* Teach you how to radically change your attitude in thirty seconds or less so you can direct your financial results
Since 1987 he has worked with tens of thousands of individuals and organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to groups of independent sales agents to assist them in achieving extraordinary levels of sales, performance, productivity and cash flow. Blair was formerly the top sales person for the Burroughs Corporation (now UNISYS) and later a top performer in software sales, automated accounting sales and airfreight and logistics sales both corporately and as an entrepreneur. He quickly came into demand as a presenter, trainer and corporate consultant. For the past twelve years he has conducted thousands of public and private seminars with audiences ranging in size from three to 300 to over 10,000. His professional activities have taken him to over 20 countries and across 5 continents. Overseas he has worked extensively in Singapore, Australia and around the Pacific Rim. Blair can be found at salesdogs.com and at blairsinger.com.
Ken McElroy
Ken McElroy has been a property management advisor to the Rich Dad organization since 2001 and has spoken in various cities throughout the United States and Australia. Ken has authored The ABC's of Real Estate Investing and How to Increase the Income from your Real Estate Investments - Secrets of Professional Property Managers and has nearly twenty years of multifamily investment and management experience, overseeing over 20,000 apartment units.
Ken and his partner, Mr. Ross McCallister, co-manage, The MC Companies, which is located in Arizona and has investments throughout the Western United States. The MC Companies is a group of companies formed to acquire, develop, construct, manage and convert multifamily property through out the Western United States for themselves and for various investors. MC Companies current management and investment portfolio consists of over 4,000 units with a market value of over $250,000,000. You can find out more at mccompanies.com.
Ken is currently on the Board of Directors acting as the Regional Vice President of the National Apartment Association for region seven, which encompasses eight Western States. He is also Chairman of the Board for the Arizona Multihousing Association in 2004.
Ken is also an active member of the World Entrepreneurs Organization and Young Entrepreneurs Organization holding several board positions including President for the upcoming fiscal year of 2004-2005.
Garrett Sutton
Garrett Sutton, author of Own Your Own Corporation, How To Buy And Sell A Business, The ABCs Of Getting Out Of Debt and The ABCs Of Writing Winning Business Plans and a corporate attorney, helps entrepreneurs and business owners protect their assets and maximize the benefits of corporate entities. As a Rich Dad Advisor he "de-mystifies" the law and explains how the rich use corporate structures to protect their assets and minimize taxes.
Garrett enjoys assisting entrepreneurs, real estate investors and business owners to protect their assets while maximizing the benefits of corporate entities. For over twenty years Garrett has successfully advised individuals and companies on how to take advantage of the creative strategies used by the wealthy to shield them from attack and advance their business opportunities.
Garrett is a founder and partner with the Sutton Law Center, P.C., a law firm with offices in Nevada, Wyoming and California. Visit the firm's web site at sutlaw.com or call toll-free at 1-800-700-1430.
He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (B.S. Business Administration) and received his law degree from Hastings College of Law, University of California, San Francisco. Garrett is licensed to practice in Nevada and California and advises clients from around the world on the benefits of corporate entities, and particularly Nevada corporations. He and other attorneys in his firm also advise clients on strategies involving the raising of money for businesses, from private placements to public offerings and on trademark and licensing issues.
Own Your Own Corporation illustrates how to:
* Select the best entity for your own personal strategy
* Maximize the incredible benefits of a C corporation
* Raise money for your new venture
* Use employment agreements for your benefit
* Easily prepare and maintain corporate records
Garrett is also the author of the books How To Buy And Sell A Business, The ABCs Of Getting Out Of Debt and The ABCs Of Writing Winning Business Plans. He is the radio host of The Entrepreneur magazine Law & Money show, which may be accessed by visiting corporatedirect.com.
Garrett is on the Board of Directors of the American Baseball Foundation, based in Birmingham, Alabama and is a founder and board member of the Sierra Kids Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charity benefitting early childhood autism programs. He is married with three children.
