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Response Rates for Direct Mail at Different Times of Year

by Sharon Vornholt | February 7, 2012

Do you track the response you get from your direct mail campaigns each time you send one out? I hope that everyone said yes, because you should be. Tracking your response from each mailing is the only way you can figure out if it’s working like it should. It’s imperative that we spend those precious [...]

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Real Estate Wholesaling

Why Should Your Work with Real Estate Wholesalers?

by Sharon Vornholt | November 21, 2011

A forum discussion that I came across about working with wholesalers recently caught my eye. This person was saying something to the effect that they wanted to go around the wholesaler and work directly with the seller. I can tell you that doing that with the wholesalers I know, would guarantee that you would be [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

The New Way to Market to Probates

by Sharon Vornholt | November 14, 2011

I have been marketing to probates using direct mail for a long time now. Over the past 6 months or so, I have noticed a change that will directly impact how I market to these folks in the future. In fact, I would say this will be my new way to market to probates. My [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Is There A “Magic Pill” for Real Estate Marketing Success?

by Sharon Vornholt | October 31, 2011

I talk to a lot of folks about marketing their real estate business every week, and on just about every forum you visit, marketing is always a hot topic.  Most real estate investors intellectually understand that you have to do marketing to get those leads in the door. What so many people don’t understand is [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

How Sending Cards in the Mail Can Win You More Real Estate Deals

by Jason Hanson | August 7, 2011
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Earlier this week I got three and a half hours of sleep. I was coming home from vacation and my flight got in super late. I had to get up early to do a few things, however I made sure that I did not meet with any sellers that day. Why? Because I felt like [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Direct Mail Tip: How & Why You Should Track Your Direct Mail Marketing

by Jason Hanson | May 15, 2011
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Last week I wrote about how you could save a small fortune by applying stamps to your own letters, instead of having a mail house do it for you. (99% of them will rip you off on postage, trust me on this.) I’ve also written about how using a live stamp can make you more [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Tracking and Testing Your Real Estate Direct Mail Campaigns

by Shae Bynes | July 22, 2010

Earlier this week on the BiggerPockets blog, J. Lamar Ferren posed the question: “What are the most EFFECTIVE strategies for real estate marketing?”  In the post, he responded that its not about effectiveness but rather about profitability and that the best way to determine what is profitable from what isn’t is to do tracking and [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

How to Create a Profitable New Direct Mail Sales Letter

by Jason Hanson | July 4, 2010
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It’s no secret that I believe direct mail is the best way to market and buy houses. And right now I’m going to share with you some of the details of one of my new marketing pieces that is doing well. I’m not going to give you the letter word for word, however, after I’ve [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Why You Should Do MORE Internet Marketing

by J. Lamar Ferren | June 12, 2010
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Did you read Jason Hanson’s post last week? Seems like I’m going to have to stir the debate pot on Jason again because I have somewhat of a different stance than he does. Last week Jason created a pretty controversial article that was titled: “Why You Should Do Almost Zero Internet Marketing” When I saw [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

Real Estate Marketing Espionage – Part 2

by Jason Hanson | April 11, 2010
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Last week I shared with you the first part of the Marketing Espionage method which I believe is a great way to attract motivated sellers. This week I’m going to show you how the rest of the method works and give you the follow up letters. So… in a quick refresher, Marketing Espionage is using [...]

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Real Estate Tips

Marketing & Making Offers: 5 Ways to Make Persistence Pay in 2010

by Shae Bynes | December 24, 2009
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Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. ~Brian Tracy I believe that many investors will agree with me when I say that persistence is a vital key to your real estate investing success.  As Brian Tracy (awesome author – read his books!)  indicates, a person’s ability [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

How Would You Like $1,200 a Month In Positive Cash Flow?

by Jason Hanson | March 18, 2009

A few posts ago I talked about what methods are working in today’s economy. For the quickest refresher ever: Lease options and subject-to’s are working and wholesaling is not. Well, another question that I’m getting a lot lately is “what marketing methods are you using now?” What Marketing Methods Are Working Now? I’m always running [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

If you are not getting “yelled at” then you are not doing enough!

by Jason Hanson | June 26, 2008

On Saturday at my local REIA meeting (everyone should be going to ALL of the REIA meetings in your area), I was talking with an investor who had received a nasty phone call from a homeowner who was not happy that they received a letter in the mail. They wanted this investor to know that [...]

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