About Mark Archer

I was born and reared in the suburbs of New Jersey to a large family and started learning about business at a very early age. At age nine my younger younger brother and I started our own lemonade stand.

(From the picture on the left, you can probably tell that we didn't sell much lemonade, because the sign's decimal point was so small, and the price looks like $25 per glass…my first harsh lesson in copy-writing)

However, the lemonade stand did attract the attention of a professional photographer and the picture made its way to the local paper (And I learned the power of press releases)

At age 16, I was short on cash, so I started mowing lawns in the local neighborhood. Things go so busy that I had to outsource some jobs to my brothers and some trusted friends.

After high school, I attended and graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY.  Following graduation, I attended the U.S. Navy Flight School and was winged a Naval Aviator in 1999 and deployed on two combat cruises.

Graduating From the US Merchant Marine Academy

In 1999, I received my Naval Aviator wings of gold and was selected to fly helicopters on the West Coast at San Diego, CA.  After some advanced training learning how to fly and operate the Sikorsky SH-60F/HH-60H I was assigned to my first operational squadron, HS-6 (Helantisubron Six).  While at HS-6, I did two deployments with Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11) on the USS CARL VINSON (CVN-72)  and USS Nimitz (CVN-68) in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Piloting the Navy's HH-60H in support of OIF 2003

But, my story really starts in Singapore sometime in 2003 during my second deployment.  I was visiting the great city-state of Singapore and in that beautiful foreign city, I realized that I had been lied to.

While I had dabbled in some small business ventures (like my failed lemonade stand), all my life I was told to go to school, work hard and get a safe, secure job with benefits.  But I knew there had to be another way.

Sometime during that visit in Singapore, I walked into a Borders bookstore and purchased a large stack of business and personal development books. I spent the next three months on my ship studying at night.  I learned the great concepts of leverage and cash flow and envisioned how successful men and women started and operated their businesses.  I studied great leaders like Henry Ford, Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, Robert Allen, Ron Legrand, Seth Godin, T. Harv Eker and Warren Buffet.

During that brief time, I also noticed my inner thoughts change from "that is not possible" to "I can do it."

As I read the stories of both great successes and devastating failures, I also realized that many people starting their own businesses were simply looking for the next get-rich-quick-scheme,  and often don't take the time to learn to build a business properly. I noticed that at the first sign of failure, many people "cash" in their chips and quit.  I learned that while many view "failure" as a vicious adversary, some can take the "failure" and learn from it. (Like my copywriting mistake with my lemonade stand)

Homecoming from that long and arduous deployment was sweet as I met my wife and my two boys at the pier.  As the "honeymoon" ended, I decided it was time to go back to work to learn and pick up where I left off.  My friend saw a FREE Real Estate Investing ad in the paper and he asked me to attend with him.  Following the seminar, I spent considerable money on the tuition for the follow-on training, but learned an enormous amount of information and strategies.

My friends laughed at me when they learned how much I spent for the class.  However, shortly after the class, I tripled my real estate investments and diversified my portfolio in 4 different states.

While the information at the real estate seminar was enlightening and life-changing, I also met some great, like-minded individuals.

Now, I'm assisting small business owners, entrepeneurs and real estate investors leverage their time, money and resources to maximize their investments.

Never stop learning.

To Your Success.

Mark Archer

Mark Archer started investing in real estate as an active duty Navy pilot. Within three short years, he tripled his net worth and then moved much of his portfolio to start-up companies, and virtual real estate.

He is now sought for his online marketing, and expertise with blogization, and search engine marketing and search engine optimization.

Mark is a licensed real estate agent in the state of California, and helps both individual and institutional investors with real estate acquisitions, development and sales and has personally owned both residential and commercial real estate in 6 different states.

He has been a top earner for a publicly traded Network Marketing company and is a promoter and advocate of the network marketing industry.

Mark is a licensed FAA commercial pilot and lives in San Diego with his beautiful wife and four children.

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