From:

George Ross, Esq.
Trump Tower
New York City, NY
7:43 AM

Dear Reader,

If you’ve never heard of me, that’s OK; I’ve probably never heard of you either. (My best attempt at humor.) I recently spent a few years doing a TV show called “The Apprentice” with a buddy of mine on NBC.

No, I’m not the flamboyant, boastful—some even say arrogant—billionaire that FIRES everybody. I’m the other guy. The really good looking one. (My second attempt at humor; better keep my day job.)

My name is George Ross, and if you’ll indulge me for a few minutes, I think you’ll find it very worth your while: You see, I’m pretty good at making money.

In fact, I’ve helped my clients and associates make BILLIONS of dollars over the years; mostly giving sage advice and recognizing opportunities wherever they exist.

For instance, before joining The Trump Organization, I’d been a real estate attorney for more than 50 years. As the senior partner of a major law firm, I served as general counsel, consultant, and negotiator for a number of renowned real estate investors.

I assisted with the acquisition and development of major buildings and other projects in the New York area including the GM building, Chrysler building, Olympic Tower, Trump Tower, the St. Regis, Stanhope, Grand Hyatt, St. Moritz, Gotham Hotel, Graybar building, 40 Wall Street, 100 Wall Street, and 101 Park Avenue.

During the 10-year period when Sol Goldman and Alex DiLorenzo Jr. became two of the biggest property owners in New York City, I personally bought 702 individual properties – more than one a week – on their behalf.

Plus, like the headline says, I’ve built myself a tidy little $425 million nest egg in the process.

A smart man once said “You can get anything you want in life helping other people get what they want” and I’ve made a career of it. I learned very quickly that whoever has the best information has the best advantage.

But I didn’t grow up rich; far from it. I was born in 1928 into a poor family. My father was a traveling salesman who never earned more than $12,000 a year.

I didn’t want to be a salesman. My plan was to go to MIT and become an engineer. Then, when I was 16, my father died of a heart attack. We didn’t have the money to send me to college, so I enlisted in the Army instead.

After completing my service, I was entitled to go to law school on the Army GI bill.

I did, though it wasn’t easy. I worked three different jobs while in law school to support myself and my widowed mother.

When I graduated law school, the first job I got was as a law clerk at a salary of $25 a week. I remember telling my wife Billie back then that if someone would hire me at $15,000 a year for life, I’d jump at the opportunity.

But I’m glad it never happened, because today I am worth $425 million. I made my money in real estate and a variety of other business ventures as well as representing high-profile clients in multi-million-dollar transactions.

For example, I was a co-founder of Beck-Ross Communications, which owned and successfully operated multiple radio stations in the United States until 1987 when we sold it to a large conglomerate for millions of dollars.

But when I started in business I only had $36 to my name (full disclosure here, I’m old as dirt) and a few good ideas learned from some VERY smart men I met early in my career.

I’ve made a fortune out of uncovering highly profitable opportunities– separating the facts from the hype–and delivering that information to people who could then act on it.

Until now I have only worked for billionaires and multi-millionaires, Kings and King-makers, the uber-rich.

They were the only ones who could afford me. You don’t think I got that $400 million billing as a lawyer at a measly $1,500 an hour do you?

In business, knowledge is power. Uncovering inside information – and using it to your advantage – can make or save you a small fortune.

For example, I was negotiating a rental agreement for a tenant in an expensive New York City office building in which the elevator was not working properly. I asked the landlord for – and got – a concession: my client would pay no rent until the elevator was fixed.

But what I knew … and the landlord didn’t … was that the City of New York would not issue a permit for the repairs for 18 months. Result: my client occupied the space for a year and a half – entirely rent free – and saved thousands of dollars.

Imagine, if you knew that electrical rates were about to rise 300% nationwide over the next 18 months… How would you turn that information into MONEY?

That’s what I do.

Should you buy stock in green builders who develop properties that use half the energy of their competitors?

…Or should you short the electric car startup that just IPO’d at 300 times its real value?

…Or should you go long in natural gas, and if so, which companies are worth their salt?

“What’s our call on this, George?” I’ve heard it a thousand times.

Here’s the bad news for you…

Why? Because they have me; and I gave them the low-down days or even weeks before the news…

Before you get started, this is NOT insider trading. This is SMART trading — the kind that, while completely legal, creates an UN-FAIR advantage for my clients.

I do get insider information, but not FROM the companies I trade, but by being able to see the trends and happenings around them.

For example:

Yes, I said you’re double-screwed.

Why?

Because by the time you hear what you THINK is news and jump in feet first, I’m already selling out and moving on.

The lion’s share of the profit is completely gone.

Late information and bad information are as costly as good information is profitable.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

It’s truth as old as time.

The part that sucks MOST is that almost all the opportunities would be just as ripe for small investors with $5,000-$10,000 to play with, and just as profitable.

If you only had the information in time….

If you see and understand what I’ve been talking about, then I have some fantastic news for you…

I am willing to give you the same quality of advice and strategies I give to my friend Donald Trump (one of the most brilliant business minds of all time, by the way) and my handful of private clients here in New York City.

There is, however, a catch – one condition that is not negotiable. But it’s one you’ll not find unpleasant. I’ll get to that in a few minutes – and I think you’ll find my one requirement easy and painless to meet.

When it comes to going from rags to riches, or from modest circumstances to affluence, there is no one more qualified to show you how to do it than I am.

I started with nothing and became a half-billionaire.

I can’t promise to make YOU a billionaire … or even a half- billionaire ….

But by following my wealth-building advice, you can significantly improve your financial position from where you are today … even if you are just scraping by.

OK. Now let me tell you how I propose to better your financial situation and make you significantly richer than you are right now….

Other than through inheritance or winning the Lottery, there are only a handful of ways that the average man or woman can acquire above-average wealth.

One of my favorites, and the one Donald Trump and I have used to make our respective fortunes, is investing in real estate.

Now, in my new monthly advisory letter, The Empire Report, I share all the secrets that have made billions of dollars in real estate profits for me and my clients – and how to apply them on a more modest level, whether it’s buying a small commercial property or flipping a single-family home.

Including:

But real estate investing is only the tip of the iceberg of what we’ll cover in The Empire Report. You’ll discover an array of alternative high-yield investment opportunities … investments that the rich make all the time but the average man on the street hasn’t even heard of.

Normally these deals and investments are only offered to the super-wealthy. But I’m going to show you how to bypass that barrier – and grab your share of the mega-profits being made today.

I have spent decades advising the wealthy on how to become even richer. My clients have included some of the largest real estate investors in New York as well as other multi-millionaires and billionaires.

But I live a fairly average life – not part of the jet set. My wife and I live quite comfortably in a somewhat ordinary 5,800 square foot home on the shore in Long Island.

And when I’m in the city, I stay at my $2 million Manhattan pied-a-terre.

But we don’t drive a Rolls Royce (I’m perfectly content with my Jaguar), even though we could easily afford it – and we don’t have a private jet or vacation condo in Maui. I prefer to invest my wealth so I have more of it to donate to my favorite charity, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.

The people who are my friends and neighbors are, for the most part, average people. So I have a desire to help them – and you — achieve a greater level of success and financial security through real estate, investing, entrepreneurship, and other proven money-making ventures … on a much smaller scale than Donald Trump and with minimal downside risk.

Because my association with the Trump Organization keeps me so busy, I can take on very few private clients. And very few people can afford my legal and business advisory services.

Now, in each monthly issue of The Empire Report, I share with you a different tactic for building significant wealth at a much greater rate of return than you get by merely investing in the stock market.

One week we may be talking about how to buy a small commercial building or a mixed-use property. The next month, I might decide to show you the A-B-C’s of starting and running a small retail business or launching a new product. The next month after that, we could be talking about investing in real estate investment trusts or oil wells, or owning a share of an apartment building, or buying a franchise. We’ll cover whatever the best opportunities around are right now.

The point is, I’ll select for you a wide range of proven profit-making strategies that are different than what you read and hear about elsewhere. Rich people don’t get richer investing in the same low-return instruments that John Q. Public does. They put their money in asset classes and deals that few other people know about. I’ll show you what billionaires invest in … and how you can make similar investments only on a much smaller scale than billionaires do.

What’s more, when you activate your no-risk Charter Subscription to my Empire Report (more about that in a minute), I’ll send you three bonus gifts that could be worth their weight in gold to you….

In The Empire Report, you’ll learn to build and sharpen the skills and know-how you need to succeed in investing and small business. These include product development … operations … manufacturing … management … cost accounting … legal issues … finance … and more.

By far, the most important skill I will teach you is the art of making deals. There is nothing that puts money in your pocket faster than negotiating the right deal.

For instance, I recently went to Tiffany’s to buy my wife a present. The ring I had my eye on had a hefty five-figure price tag. Of course, I could afford it without batting an eye. But why pay more than you have to? Using one of my negotiating tactics, I got the store to lower the price by $30,000 in about half a minute. That’s a savings of $1,000 a second!

And that’s why, when you accept my invitation to receive a no-risk Charter Subscription to The Empire Report, you also get a free bonus report, Strategies for Mastering Every Deal: How to Make a Thousand Dollars a Second.

This is not the first time in my life I’ve taught my business strategies. I’ve written two books of business advice published by John Wiley & Sons – both became national best-sellers. And for more than 20 years, I have been a professor at New York University’s School of Continuing Education and Professional Studies, where I teach courses in real estate and negotiation – for which I received NYU’s prestigious award for teaching excellence.

But The Empire Report will be a bit more personal. Think of it as a private communiqué from me to you as I instruct you on the art of making money.

Our second free bonus report, 14% Yield from a Secured Investment, shows you a little-known investment that “the little guy” can easily profit from.

I won’t give you all the details here, since it’s explained step-by-step in your free report. But the basic method is to invest in mortgages. By privately holding a homeowner’s mortgage, you can get a 14% return on your money. And few investments are as safe and secure as mortgages: if the homeowner defaults on his payments to you, you own the house!

I understand you may not be ready to buy mortgages. But in my report, I show how you can still make money with this strategy by locating people who want to sell mortgages, finding buyers, and collecting a handsome finder’s fee for matching the two together.

Your third free bonus report, 100 Best Dividend Plays, gives you a hundred stocks you can own that pay unusually high dividends.

High-yield stocks are an ideal investment in a volatile market, because they increase your total return from the stock. For instance, if a stock has an annual gain of just 10% but pays an 8% yields, your total return is a handsome 18%. Plus, high-yield stocks are ideal for investors who seek income and not just growth.

A UK study published in the Journal of Wealth Management found that firms with more than 10 years of consistent dividend growth have returned considerably more than the equity market as a whole, with lower volatility and smaller draw-downs. {WM} And a study from Morningstar reports: “Once considered boring and stodgy, dividend-paying stocks are enjoying renewed attention from investors. It is not hard to see why….” {MS}

The Fed is keeping interest rates low through 2013. The stocks in this report all give decent yield with relatively modest risk.

Most of my time these days is spent advising Donald Trump on how to make his next big deal become a profitable reality. As a result of my commitment to the Trump organization, I’ve dramatically scaled down my legal and consulting practice.

Once, I employed 110 attorneys in my law firm. Today, it’s just me – and my time is sorely limited.

So when I do take on the occasional consulting and law client who is seeking advice, rather than partner in a million-dollar joint venture deal, I charge $1,500 an hour for my time. And I am highly selective in who I work with: I don’t take on a client unless there is potential for much greater profit down the road.

But now you can have me help you attain a new level of wealth and success in your business – without becoming a client of mine.

How?

Well… remember that “condition” I alluded to at the beginning of this letter on how you can get me to advise you? The “condition” is a simple one: just join us as a Charter Subscriber to my new monthly advisory letter, The Empire Report.

Now, with a subscription to The Empire Report, you get my top profit-making strategies and best negotiation and deal-making tactics all year long … for the very reasonable rate of just 13 cents a day.

And that’s the price only if you absolutely love The Empire Report. If not, the subscription will cost you zilch. Zip. Zero. That’s because you can now…

In my 50 years as a Manhattan business insider, I’ve made a fortune by having the best information, and therefore, the best advantage. I was worth almost half a billion dollars well before anyone ever saw or heard of me on The Apprentice.

And in the next 12 months, I’m going to give you the New York City insider thinking on how to make money.

I will show you new opportunities to make money even—or especially—in this economy.

Is there money to be made today?

Sure there is.

Someone is going to capitalize on the opportunities I see, why shouldn’t it be you?

In fact, just to make it really easy, a one year membership to THE EMPIRE REPORT will cost $99. That’s the regular rate that other subscribers pay. But if you take advantage of this Charter Subscription offer today, I’ll take HALF-OFF the regular rate and you’ll get it for just $49 for a full year.

I would give it away for free since I have enough money for 10 lifetimes, but my publisher won’t let me…

But your 12 month membership includes:

1. The Empire Report—12 monthly issues. In each issue I will give you hands-on business advice on wealth building strategies, money-making opportunities and how to protect yourself in all kinds of business situations.
2. Premier Issue of The Empire Report. In my first-ever issue, I tell you how to acquire a business–any business—and the critical steps you need to take to make sure your return on investment is at least 20%, and why and when to sell. You will also learn how to best make money and allocate your time in any business situation, and more.
3. Bonus Report #1: Strategies for Mastering Every Deal: How to Make a Thousand Dollars a Second. In this report, you will discover the 2 inviolate rules of negotiation, 3 easy ways to control the pace of negotiation, 3 things you must learn about the other side, 8 dos and don’ts of skilled negotiators, and many more negotiating techniques.
4. Bonus Report #2: How to Get a 14% Yield from a Secured Investment shows you a little known investment that “the little guy” can easily profit from with very little risk.
5. Bonus Report #3: The 100 Best Dividend Stocks show you stocks you can own that pay unusually high dividends even in this difficult economy.

Are some of my ideas unconventional? Of course. But my strategies can be used in all kinds of investments. If you want my personal business insider edge, take advantage of this opportunity today.

There’s still plenty of opportunity to make money, and I want to show you how it’s done.

If you opt for a 2 year membership, I’ll let you in for only $79.50…for 2 years.

Again, if you don’t like the way I make money, I’ll refund yours, no questions asked. It’s a win-win deal for you.

Sign up below and we’ll get started showing you how to put more money in your pocket—and keep it there.

Remember, the best information gives you the best advantage.

All the best,

George Ross

The Empire Report