Newspaper Classified Ads In the bookmarks of my Ultimate Buying & Selling Machine home study course, there is a section called “newspapers” where you can go to the sources I have provided for you and find any local newspaper in the United States that has a web presence. That way you don’t have to buy the newspapers. With these bookmarks you can find any local newspaper and you’ll be able to save them right to Read More
Realtors are a great source for deals. We used to buy most of our properties from realtors. I say go after the low hanging fruit in your area. That means what works best in your market. At one time the realtors were the easiest way in my market, but now we also use other methods. Let’s see how you can work with realtors. First, every time you talk to a realtor, get their email address Read More
With Google you can run advertising campaigns on what is called “Google Adwords”. If you go to Google and search for anything you’ll see that there are listings down the side of the page and a couple at the top. These are paid advertisements. Go to Google and search the words “sell my house” adding your city to the search term first. Ex: “Charlotte Sell My House”. Look at the different ads of local realtors Read More
Canvassing is like putting out door hangers but you’ll actually ring the doorbell and have a script you say at the door. There are many places you can canvas. You may be going to people in pre-foreclosure or just in neighborhoods where you want to buy houses. Realtors do it all the time and they call it “farming a market”. You want to be careful when canvassing especially if you are female and/or you’re hiring Read More
Let’s talk about newspaper ads. There are a lot of different ads that you can run. This is one of the key ways that a lot of people get started. There are also a lot of other people out there running ads, so you want to be creative about where you run them. You may not only want to run them under “houses for sale”, you may also want to run them under “houses for Read More
If you’re in business, you need unique business cards. Just your picture will make people hang onto your card longer than a generic card. I recently saw a card where an investor copied part of a $20 on the back so when it was upside down it looked like it was a folded up $20. We use million dollar bill business cards. Some people have magnetic business cards, some fluorescent colors, but the point is Read More
More Free Bandit Sign Stands than You Can Handle How would you like to get all of the free bandit sign stands you can handle for an entire year? I mean seriously, enough to line a major highway for miles. Legally, even. Well, every year right after the local elections, simply call the campaign headquarters for the local candidates and ask if you can take the signs up for free in order to keep the Read More
There are many places where you can put out bandit signs for real estate. Not only can you put them out on stands near the road, on the highway or in front of your property, but I have businesses that allow me to put them in their window and I either pay them rent, a property commission, or per lead. Partnerships Aren’t Only with Other Investors Always keep some signs in your car and stop Read More
Let’s talk about some more successful marketing strategies. Marketing is, as I mentioned in another article, basically anything that makes the phones ring. Here is a quick tip. If you have voicemail where callers responding to your marketing can leave a message, be sure to ask them to also leave their email address and to speak clearly. This way you can go ahead and put them in your database even if you can never get Read More
Here is how you can start any type of marketing campaign with absolutely no cash or credit. Yes, you can get all of your marketing for free. Although it will take a little effort on your part, once you set this up you will be able to simply run your campaigns 100% cost free. Here is how it works. Simply contact any business who would like to market in certain neighborhoods or to homeowners specifically Read More