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Give Me 90 Minutes and I'll Fix Your Wholesaling Business (LIVE)
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Zach Ginn frames wholesaling as a lead-generation and sales business. Consistent results, he argues, come from generating enough seller conversations, focusing on activities that move a deal toward an assignment fee, and improving the process based on what works. He says most struggling wholesalers have a volume problem, while also emphasizing the importance of follow-up, seller qualification, and closing technique.
Frameworks and playbooks
- Treat outreach as “shots on goal.” Calls, texts, marketing touches, and offers are opportunities to find a motivated seller. Increase outreach volume while using automation to avoid doing every task manually.
- Measure output, not hours worked. Use focused work blocks—he recommends trying a distraction-free hour or two—and track calls or other useful work completed.
- Double down on proven channels. When a list or marketing tactic produces a deal, keep working that source and test additional ways to reach the same audience. Expand effort on channels that work and stop spending time on those that do not.
- Prioritize income-producing activities. Ginn defines these as actions that directly advance a deal toward an assignment fee: speaking with motivated sellers, making offers, setting appointments, and contacting likely buyers. Automate or delegate much of the administrative “grunt work.”
- Condition sellers before making an offer. Confirm the seller is prepared to make a yes-or-no decision before investing time in an appointment or offer. Ginn says this helps reduce wasted appointments, stalled contracts, and sellers choosing another buyer after receiving an offer.
- Use targeted disposition rather than relying only on blasts. For each deal, identify roughly 5–10 likely buyers and call them individually rather than assuming a mass email will sell the property.
- Build a business that keeps operating without the owner doing everything. Ginn warns that a business dependent on one person for marketing, acquisitions, dispositions, and operations can stop producing leads when that person takes time off.
Operations, technology, and team structure
Ginn advocates using AI agents for repetitive tasks such as pulling public data, skip-tracing, texting or emailing leads, qualifying responses, and identifying likely cash buyers. He describes AI as a way to increase total company output—not simply as a replacement for human sales work.
His proposed workflow is:
Source and process data → automate initial outreach and qualification → route interested sellers to a human → make offers and close → contact selected buyers.
He recommends that owners focus on higher-value conversations and deal execution. For employees, he emphasizes measurable contribution and using AI to increase their own output.
Tools and services mentioned include Muse AI, XLeads, Google Voice, Grokbot, and Real Estate Deal School. These are recommendations and promotions made by the presenter, not independent evaluations.
Lists and market examples
Ginn gives rough conversion estimates to illustrate how list quality and outreach volume can vary. These are his estimates, not guaranteed benchmarks:
- Probate leads: around 1 deal per 100–200 contacts in examples he discusses.
- Code violations: around 1 per 300–400.
- Driving for dollars: around 1 per 400.
- High-equity leads: around 1 per 5,000.
- He also describes a motivated-seller list example with roughly 1 deal per 60 contacts.
Live coaching examples included:
- Rochester, New York: Ginn suggested using property conditions, such as snow remaining on a roof, to help spot possible vacancies while driving for dollars. For a time-constrained operator, he recommended text marketing and using fresh local code-violation data.
- Buffalo: He suggested automating the collection of newly posted code violations and contacting owners quickly.
- South Jersey and Long Island: For a caller who had closed deals through probate leads and networking, Ginn advised continuing to work the channels that had produced results. Where probate records were difficult to export, he suggested testing obituary data and comparing it with tax-delinquent records.
- Providence, Bristol County, and Worcester: For a newer wholesaler, he recommended pulling multiple public-record lists—not just pre-foreclosures—and testing combinations such as code violations plus tax delinquencies.
- Houston and statewide Texas: For a caller who had already completed seven deals but struggled to convert prospects, Ginn focused first on seller conditioning. He also recommended more automated, targeted outreach rather than adding markets before fixing the conversion process.
- Inherited-property deal: A caller described a property with multiple heirs and a potential partition action. Ginn said the economics depended on heir cooperation and legal costs, which he estimated could reach $10,000–$20,000. He directed the caller to submit the deal for review; this was a case-specific discussion, not general legal advice.
Metrics, targets, and claims
- Ginn claims that about 90% of people needing help have a volume issue.
- He urges operators to make more calls, send more targeted outreach, make more offers, and work more motivated-seller data.
- He recommends testing a one-hour distraction-free work block and tracking calls completed to establish a personal baseline.
- He makes an aspirational claim that anyone could put $50,000 in their pocket within 30 days through wholesaling. The video does not provide evidence that this outcome is typical or guaranteed.
- He says a wholesaler could potentially build $500,000 per year from two effective lists by repeatedly expanding what works. This is presented as a possibility, not a documented standard.
- He mentions an XLeads price increase planned for November 27 and says a new version was expected to launch then.
Presenters and sources
- Presenter: Zach Ginn.
- Live callers: Sosa, Tim (Timothy), Francisco, Tyreek, and another caller whose name is unclear in the subtitles.
- Sources and references mentioned: Ginn attributes a quote about overestimating short-term progress and underestimating long-term progress to Bill Gates, as relayed by Tony Robbins. He also references Elon Musk as an analogy for company-wide output. These references are used rhetorically in the talk.
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