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Today is Trump University’s three year anniversary.  Three years ago the Trump U. site went live and our doors opened for business with a few online and audio products.  Today we continue to expand our offerings to meet your needs and requests for new content and delivery methods. In the last year we have launched a series of live events and innovative real estate investment training to keep up with your investment and educational goals.

Now let’s take a quick look forward. We have a few new exciting product launches planned for the next few months including topics covering: Tax Liens, Commercial Real Estate, and Entrepreneurship.  Look for more info on each product as they become available. 

To help celebrate our anniversary we are offering 20% off all apparel, online courses and home study products.  Just visit our store, select your items and proceed to checkout.  Then enter coupon code ‘3YEARS’ during the check out process (sorry but the coupon will expire on June 15th).

Mark your calendar now so next year you can send Mr. Trump Anniversary wishes in advance.

Thanks again for your continued support.

If you love Celebrity Apprentice, we have some great news for you!

Trump University's new Celebrity Apprentice Blog goes live today, with great features about every episode. Make it your first stop the day after every episode airs - and on all the days in between - to make sure you're not missing out on all the information, all the gossip and all the fun.

Wasn't Gene's firing last night a great moment in Apprentice history? It sure was. Get the inside scoop on all things Apprentice by clicking HERE.

As the person responsible for marketing at TrumpU I am always happy to find news about our company getting picked up on Digg.com.  Today we found out a blogger wrote about one of our entrepreneurship tests. The test referenced in the blog rates your leadership skills against Donald Trump's qualities and the post received a Digg. If you are an active reader of this blog and want to help us push this particular story up we would appreciate if you could take a look at the posting and vote for us. 

 

If you are not familiar with Digg you should check out the site since there are always interesting news bits finding their way to the Digg home page.

 

Thanks for your support and please let us know what you think about the assessment by leaving us a comment.

Just one year ago, Scott and Jalisa Schafer were planning to become entrepreneurs. Knowing they needed guidance to make the right business investment, they selected The Art of Buying a Business, a premier course developed by Professor Richard Parker for Trump University.

“Trump stands for quality,” Scott explains. “It is one of the best brands out there. We knew we would get information we could trust to succeed.”

They found the resources in The Art of Buying a Business to be top-notch - particularly, they say, the Buyer Toolbox part of the course, which clearly explained what to do when researching a business - and more importantly, what not to do.

And then they did something else. They bought a business of their own.

3,000 Opportunities . . .  Just One Acquisition!

“One of the key elements in buying a business is your broker,” Scott explains. “The right broker will save you a lot of money. A bad broker will look out for the benefit of the seller, which means more money for them! But if you get the right broker, you can get a great deal. If we didn’t take this course and really investigate the broker, we could have lost a lot of money.”

Scott and Jalisa actually amassed a list of over 3,000 businesses to review for possible purchase. Even when they narrowed that list down to 25 businesses, it still took several months to analyze each of them in depth.

But September 26, 2007 was the day it all came together - Scott and Jalisa acquired a commercial Christmas decorating company called Deck the Malls. When discussing the decision to purchase this business, Scott explains that the business will enable them to do the kind of work that is near and dear to their hearts.

“My wife loves Christmas,” he explains. “Plus, during the remainder of the year, we will work on maintaining and getting new clients. In our first year, we are expecting over $300,000 in profit.”

The seller was so impressed with the Schafers’ business acumen that he ensured the transition of clients to the Schafers and even prospected for new customers while he was negotiating with them.

After Thanksgiving dinner, the Schafers got down to work, decorating malls in Arizona, including the famed Mill Avenue in Tempe. Decorating the interiors and exteriors of 155 malls was no small undertaking! Yet the Schafers were able to work with secured contract laborers - a factor that they arranged during negotiations - to ensure a successful outcome.

We are proud that Trump University was there to help them launch this exciting new phase of their lives. A holiday success story is the best success story of all.

Josef Katz

 Well the results are in (a little slower than we had hoped but nonetheless, they are in) from our recent Name the Podcast competition. The winning name is Trump U Tactics.

Better yet, our first two podcasts are now available for listening. Click here now to listen as our President Michael Sexton talks about the current real estate market with Denise DeVoe, who has pioneered many of the strategies that today’s most successful investors are using to buy foreclosed real estate.

When you arrive on the Trump U Tactics page, bookmark it so you can return often to listen to new podcasts. Or even better, subscribe to our RSS feed.

Let us know what you think and tell us some of the topics and speakers you want to hear. We will do our best to bring them to you.

This past Sunday was Earth Day. All the major media covered some aspect of the day.  Here in NY the Mayor outlined a major 127 point plan to help the environment.  Big business and government are talking about the environment. That got me thinking about all the potential being green/ECO-friendly/conservationist offers to business owners, aspiring entrepreneurs, people buying business, selling products/services and real estate investors. Will a solar power upgrade add value over time? Will eco friendly construction make a difference in your project? Where will these products come from? Who is developing the next solution to our energy problem? 

The answer could be you.   

There is a huge potential to make money while still doing good things for our environment. We have a number of students who are in or have completed our Entrepreneurship Mastery Program with business ideas related to the environment.  They are thinking big and taking some calculated risks. Some have big ideas that may change the way we heat our homes or fill our cars with gas and some have small ideas but with no less significant impacts in our daily lives. The point here is that your business can be a better, more profitable company by being green. If you run, own, or are starting a green business, please share your success stories, ideas, links to your sites and products by adding a comment so we can showcase successful green business ideas to the Trump University community.

As our President Michael Sexton pointed out in his blog post yesterday, Trump University has responded and listened to our customers by adding new products. We want to continue our effort to bring educational resources to as many people as possible in new and entertaining ways. On the horizon is the launch of our new regular podcast series.  Before we launch however, we need a name, and would like to invite our members to help name the podcast. If you are interested in participating, click here to vote on one of our potential names or recommend one of your own. Who knows ... maybe you will earn bragging rights to our new podcast name.

Stay tuned to see which name wins and the launch of our podcast.