marketing
Landlord Tenant by Ken Corsini | June 15, 2011 
If you’re like me, you may prefer to find tenants without the use of a property manager or real estate agent. Over the years I have found that it’s really not that difficult to locate good tenants if you put a little bit of effort into it. Most landlords know the two basic methods for [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Jason Hanson | June 5, 2011When I use direct mail to try and get deals I almost always use an absentee owner mailing list. If you happen to be new, this just means I’m getting a list of landlords. Why is this the type of list I use most often? First off, most landlords are amateurs and have no idea [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Danny Johnson | June 3, 2011 
You simply cannot make an unmotivated seller motivated. This statement will save you a lot of time and headaches. When taking calls from people wanting to sell you their house, how do you determine whether they are motivated or not? What questions need to be asked and what are the main objectives of the conversation? [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Jason Hanson | May 29, 2011I know that putting out bandit signs isn’t a fun activity. Although, I must say that every successful investor I know has gone through the experience of putting out bandit signs at 3am in the freezing cold. I also know that addressing and stuffing several thousand envelopes a month isn’t much fun either. But again, [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Jason Hanson | May 22, 2011It happens to almost every new real estate investor. You start out marketing like crazy, doing everything you’re supposed to be doing – this includes direct mail, bandit signs, networking and flyers. And thanks to all of this marketing your phone starts to ring off the hook and perhaps you get a few deals from [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Pamela Cendejas | November 15, 2010 
The key to keeping people on your website is to grab the visitor’s attention. Of course, increasing your contact list is a huge priority as well. However, requiring people to give you their contact information before they can obtain access to other pages on your real estate website can be a turn off, causing your [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Shae Bynes | September 16, 2010 
Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever. -Unknown Did you know that storytelling is one of the most effective strategies that you can use to grow your business? I spent much of my corporate career [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Shae Bynes | September 9, 2010I’m sure many of you are familiar with the expression “The fortune is in the follow-up.” Follow up is a key to success in any business. Unfortunately there are real estate investors who are ignoring this critical business activity and leaving money on the table. We all know that in the real estate business, you [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by J. Lamar Ferren | August 15, 2010In this video blog post (vlog) we’ll talk about how to use the Flickr photo sharing website to set up a virtual property photo tour and share photos online. This is a good method to use if you don’t have a website and you want to advertise your properties online to attract potential buyers. It’s [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Technology by Shae Bynes | July 29, 2010I’ve used Craigslist off and on for the past year to find buyers for properties, build a cash buyer’s list in my local area, and find motivated sellers to make offers to. The reason why I say “off and on” is because I could never find my groove and work Craigslist consistently. Mostly because I [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by J. Lamar Ferren | July 19, 2010It’s that word “Effective” that I want you to focus in on. What does “effective” mean? Why is it that I asked this question at a Real Estate Workshop and was told that it was such a dangerous word? How can you identify what marketing strategies to concentrate on and which ones to push to [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Dean Ouellette | July 18, 2010 
1 ) One of the biggest pieces of news in real estate this week was the Class action suit filed against Bank of America for abuse. BoA should have known you don’t mess with Texas. 2 ) I think some people forget that a Real Estate Contract is legal, binding, can’t just walk away! Buyers [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Jason Hanson | July 18, 2010Besides direct mail there’s another marketing method that is doing well for me right now. It’s completely free and it takes me about 10 minutes a day to do. Actually, I don’t do it myself anymore, but it takes my assistant Lisa about 10 minutes every day. Also, the reason I’m writing about it today [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Jason Hanson | July 4, 2010 
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 [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Jason Hanson | June 12, 2010Last week I wrote a controversial post about why you should stop doing Internet marketing and instead use direct mail if you want to become a highly successful real estate investor. And today I’m going to show you the exact direct mail steps I use in my own business which make me over six-figures a [...]
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