business cards and websites.....?

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Im looking for advice because I am finally ready to take action and start marketing for sellers and buyers. I have been looking at Freedomsoft and Flip2Freedom as kind of software mentoring programs to help me along the way, as well as biggerpockets.com. I know that there is an unbelievable amount of experience and helpful people on this site. And as soon as I get that first deal, I will be on here sharing and questioning. The reason I was looking at those two software programs is the additional resources that they offer. They both offer you websites and squeeze pages to get started as well as the coaching backup. Do most of you on this site agree with starting on your own very basically or going with one of these programs and pay a little more for the automated help. If more people agree that you can start wholesaling on your own without those types of programs, how and where do you build and host your websites. Because you need your business cards and lead capturing websites to begin networking or you look extremely unprepared. Thanks

Joel Block · Answer

We have been using http://www.gogvo.com/ for several years. They have been reliable and fairly priced. Be sure to surround yourself with people who know what they are doing so they can help get your web site and internet presence up and running. Good luck.

Stephen Dillard · Answer

Plus I definitely wanted complete control over my site to manage traffic and my own internet marketing. A lot of these programs give you a generic website with a lot of fill in the blanks.

Stephen Dillard · Answer

Thank you for your replys. I definitely wanted to get my websites built and hosted before marketing for deals and networking for buyers. Did you set up your own websites and who do you recommend for hosting?

Alisha Lee · Answer

HI Stephen-

I tend to agree that don't waste your money on expensive software programs when you can put up a nice Wordpress site very inexpensively.

I'm actually a real estate investor and marketing consultant...so here are some tips. Remember that a website won't make you a cent if you don't have quality traffic to your website. If you have a small budget or are doing it yourself get a simple website up focused around your target customers needs. Think about what your target customers concerns, issues and questions are and speak to those on your website. If you can add some video as this will help you relate to your audience better. Then when it comes to getting traffic, I'd recommend that you start with a small budget doing Google PPC (pay per click) ads. This will give you the opportunity to select a specific geographic area and test out what search terms work in your market. Before you start running any ads, make sure to set up Google Analytics on your website so you can track what's working, set a set daily budget that you can afford and then make sure you use the following Google settings: Exact match on your search terms, target your specific Geographic area ex. the city/cities you're targeting, manual bidding, and break up your search terms in specific groupings like a specific city and write ads specific to those ad groups.

By doing PPC right away you'll know what terms get your target customer to take the action you want, plus you'll be able to get traffic to your website right away.

There are lots of other things to get traffic to your website, like SEO, Facebook PPC ads and specific social media strategies but PPC is a very good place to start.

I hope this helps.

Shanequa J. · Answer

I don't think you need those programs. Biggerpockets is full of free information about wholesaling and many types of investing. Save your money on the deals and marketing. Vistaprint is good for business cards and word press for a website. However, if you feel that you should pay for information, you could always upgrade to a pro account on Biggerpockets.

business cards and websites.....?

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