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March 31, 2017April 26, 2017

The Flipping Houses for Dummies Guide

Are you ready for financial freedom? Ready to take charge of your own life?

Have the popular HGTV shows got you hooked on house flipping? They sure make it look easy, don’t they?

Americans are getting back into flipping houses, for a good reason.

But it’s really not as easy as TV shows make it out to be. If you’re interested in investing in your future, and you want to put in the work to flip houses and grow your income, this guide is for you.

If you’ve never flipped a house before, but you’re ready to get started, keep reading.

This is the ultimate guide to flipping houses for dummies. Keep reading for tips, tricks, advice, and maybe even a humble warning.

The Ultimate Guide to Flipping Houses for Dummies

In 2016, 6.1 percent of US home sales involved house flippers (people who bought a house betting on short-term price appreciation).

Maybe they fixed the house up a bit, slapped some new paint on there, maybe spruced up the yard for some curb appeal and stuck a “for sale” sign right back in the yard where it had been just a few short months prior.

The practice of flipping houses was pretty common around 2006, prior the economic recession. But it’s catching back on.

Cities that were hit hard by foreclosures are now seeing a major comeback of house flipping. Cities like Las Vegas, Tampa, Fresno, Memphis, and Atlanta are experiencing record breaking highs.

House flippers can even provide a valued service to their communities by making improvements to local homes that buyers just don’t have time for.

Getting Started Flipping Houses for Dummies

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These are the steps you need to know before getting started flipping houses.

Take a look at your finances.

Flipping houses is a big decision, a business decision, and it should be taken seriously.

Are you in a financially secure spot in your life that you could even take on a project as big as buying, renovating, and flipping a house?

Are you ready to take on the risk? You need a decent amount of money stashed in order to guy the house in the first place, and renovations certainly aren’t cheap.

If you plan to take on a loan, are you OK with that risk? If you can’t sell the house as fast as you expected, are you able to support that loan after the expense of the renovation is all said and done?

Find the right house.

Don’t jump into a loan for the first house you find.

And don’t get too excited about a house you just love. This is a big decision and should be done sensibly.

Don’t make the mistake many others make, this project is a business decision, not just a hobby. Do plenty of research and take the time to learn from the pros.

Our guide, flipping houses for dummies, is here to help. Here are some tips you might want to consider before picking a house.

Location, location, location! It’s important.

Consider buying a smaller house that needs a little work done but is located in a great neighborhood.

Home buyers are usually looking in the area they want to live, before deciding on a house. Local attractions are important and the quality of the neighborhood is crucial especially if the buyer has a family.

Do your research and find out about the schools in the area. Are they schools parents would love to send their kids to? This plays a major factor in the decisions of the home buyer.

Some home buyers get themselves into a predicament by purchasing a house, investing a lot of money into fixing it up, then marketing the house, only to find that nobody wants to buy it simply because of the neighborhood it’s located in.

And try to buy on a nice and quiet street. A home on a busy street that’s loud and possibly dangerous to children and pets might lead to lower offers than you expected or no offer at all!

Don’t worry about curb appeal, yet.

Don’t be deterred by certain houses because they look ugly.

No curb appeal can be perfect for you. A little paint, some simple landscaping, maybe a new door could be easy ways to up the ticket price of your home.

Speaking of curb appeal, you might want to steer clear of anything too quirky or unique. You might love the style, but this is “flipping houses for dummies,” not finding your dream home.

Make sure and invest in a house that most anybody could love. Personality is great, quirky might not appeal to your ideal home buyer.

Check out the neighbors.

And check out the neighbors, if you can.

Do they keep their yards clean? Or do they have a very loud and mean looking dog chained up? Home buyers will be looking at these things, so you might want to check them out before investing your hard earned money.

How are you feeling about the guide on flipping houses for dummies, so far? Ready to jump in?

Well, hold your houses… er, horses…

Don’t overprice your project.

It’s easy to fall in love with this house.

After all, you picked it and you put a lot of work and hard earned money into it. It’s tempting to look at your finished project and think, “You can’t put a price on this beauty!”

But remember what you got into this for. Financial freedom. Controlling your own future. It’s tough to do that if you can’t get the house sold.

The flipping houses for dummies guide wouldn’t do you any good if you can’t sell the house after all this work.

Remember that your buyer is looking to pay what’s in their best interest. And they most likely didn’t see the project you started with. All they see is that beautiful kitchen. They don’t know what you went through to create that.

Research the general price point for the neighborhood and try to stay within that. Ready to start your new favorite project?

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September 5, 2016September 16, 2018

Are you Curious about Real Estate Wholesaling?

Real Estate Wholesaling gives you the opportunity to build income with little capital or credit.

To get started with real estate wholesaling you’ll ll you need is some specialized knowledge and the commitment to take action. The more committed you are and the more driven you are, the more money you will make. You might be asking yourself “if you need to be a Realtor?” A license is not required to buy or sell any property that you have an equitable interest in. Those interests can be a contractual (you have the property under contract) or you actually own or have title to the property. However, having a license or aligning yourself with someone that does can be very beneficial in monetizing all your leads and it is something that you should really consider if your wholesaling real estate.

What is Real Estate Wholesaling?

[pullquote align=”normal” cite=”Investorpedia“] A: Real estate wholesaling is similar to flipping except that the time frame is much shorter and no repairs are made to the home before the wholesaler sells it. A real estate wholesaler contracts with a home seller, markets the home to his potential buyers, and then assigns the contract to the buyer. The wholesaler makes a profit, which is the difference between the contracted price with the seller and the amount paid by the buyer. The goal in real estate wholesaling is to sell the home before the contract with the original seller closes. A typical wholesaling scenario looks like this: The wholesaler has a house under contract for $90,000 that he estimates needs $20,000 in repairs but will sell for $150,000 once the repairs are made. Using his network of investors, he finds an eager buyer at $100,000. He assigns the contract to his investor, who then has a profitable fixer-upper project, and the wholesaler made a $10,000 profit without ever owning the home. The key to wholesaling is to add a contingency to the purchase contract that allows the wholesaler to back out if he is unable to find a buyer before the expected closing date. This limits the wholesaler’s risk. As the wholesaler never actually purchases a home, real estate wholesaling is much less risky than flipping, which cannot only involve renovation costs but also carrying costs. Real estate wholesaling also involves much less capital than flipping. Generally, only enough to make earnest money payments on a few properties is sufficient for wholesaling. Success depends on the wholesaler’s knowledge of the market and connection to investors for quick sales. – Source Investorpedia [/pullquote]

The simplicity of real estate wholesaling…

A wholesaler puts a property under contract and appoints or resells the property to a cash buyer or even perhaps an end user for a fee. The investor or retail buyer is simply buying the opportunity to purchase the property at the price secured by the wholesaler, they are taking advantage of an opportunity. This makes for quick closings and fast cash. It also allows you to control real estate without having to own real estate. Real Estate Wholesaling can be very powerful and very profitable.

A real estate wholesaler really does live off of the idea that price defeats all objections. If you can sell a home for a low enough price…well then it doesn’t matter what’s wrong with it, somebody will buy it. A wholesaler focuses on 2 priorities: finding deals and their network of investors to sell those deals to. An investor becomes a very well paid middleman that other investors love. The key to real estate investing is leads and relationships, if you can grow and strength this part of your business you deal volume will explode.

With real estate wholesaling the bottom line is that if you have a good enough deal under contract, there are other experienced investors out there that will be more than happy to pay cash for it. You can easily make 5 to 10k a month wholesaling real estate deals in your local market, questions is are you going to take action.

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March 4, 2016

Find And Flip Houses For Fast Profits – Wholesaling

Have you ever been interested in real estate investing, wanted to flip houses, and/or wholesale houses? Are you currently a real estate investor or wholesaler who is struggling to close deals?

Look I get it! I’ve been there….

I’ve been in the real estate business for over 15 years, having made this leap shortly before my daughter was born. At the time I held a demanding position in the restaurant business, and I realized that position would significantly limit the time I would be able to spend with her. I knew I had to choose a different path. A path that didn’t require late nights and working every weekend. That’s when a friend of mine talked me into getting my real estate license.

I was always interested in real estate. I dreamed about where the business would take me and I was excited about the prospect of investing and flipping houses for profit. But I had never felt the time was right to take the plunge until that moment. I leapt right into the real estate world, anxious to realize my dreams. However, as those of you who have also taken the plunge know, it is not as simple as it can seem.

Once you go through the process of getting your real estate license you soon realize that the moment you hang your hat with a brokerage it becomes all about the “retail” business. Brokers and agents all pushing you and training you on how to list houses and drive buyers around, etc. Don’t get me wrong…I had great success as a Realtor. I did over 50 short sales, was an REO broker for a couple years and worked with a ton of clients but I never felt satisfied.

Over that time period I began researching how to get started in real estate investing. I found some great info online about flipping houses and doing rehabs. One of the things I stumbled across was a real estate investor lead generation system. I immediately signed up for my exclusive territory figuring it would be the answer to all my prayers. Haha, boy was I wrong.

I tried to learn all I could about how I could do my first real estate deal. I was very optimistic at first but then the frustration set in and the reality of actually doing that first deal seemed daunting. I was strapped for cash and credit, I really wasn’t sure how I was going to pull it off. The first real doubts had just settled in when I got an email that changed my life.

The email was from the owner of the real estate system I signed up for (let’s call him Mr. K) He emailed me and my partner at the time thanking us for being a customer. I was surprised and impressed by the personal touch and follow up. Mr. K noticed that on our sign up form we mentioned that we were Keller Williams agents. That piqued his interest because he was currently working on expanding his customer base not only to other investors but to agents too. And since Keller Williams is a very investor friendly brokerage it seemed like a great place for him to start. I completely agreed and saw an opportunity, an opportunity to surround myself with someone who could be my mentor. A little advice, always remember that the fastest way to success is modeling successful people! That was 8 years ago and since then Mr. K has been instrumental in my success…not only as a coach and mentor but also as a good friend.

It was about 7 years ago that Mr. K came to New York to speak at my local real estate investor association….I’ll never forget it because it was a turning point in my business. We were sitting in the lounge of the Hotel killing some time before Mr. K was going to speak to the Real Estate Investor Association. I was explaining to him the challenges and frustrations I was having with doing my first real estate wholesale deal. That’s when he interrupted me and said….

“You know what your problem is?” I was really taken back by such a direction question and replied with a chuckle…

“No…No I don’t”

Mr. K immediately replied with…

“Your problem is that you THINK like a Realtor.”

What he was trying to tell me was that I was so wrapped up in being a real estate agent that it was holding me back from becoming an investor. I was thinking like a Realtor, not an investor. I had blinders on and was missing the bigger picture, the bigger opportunity. I had to change my thinking. I had to start thinking like an entrepreneur, like an investor.

The truth is that most of society goes through life very much the same…regardless of their job or career path. We live in a society that encourages you to work to live, instead of living to work. A society that teaches us to get a “secure” job and to work hard – on someone else’s schedule, to make someone else successful, until you can finally retire someday and enjoy life.

That may work for some people but it doesn’t work for me and it doesn’t have to work for you either. I didn’t want to follow the status quo. I wanted more than that and I quickly realized that if things were going to change I had to to change, too.

If you are reading this, it’s reasonably safe to assume you’re one of the “weird” ones too. Do you wake up every day wishing that there was something else or waking up unsatisfied because you want to be doing something else?

Well that just means that you were meant for something else…you were meant for something BIGGER!

If you CHANGE YOUR THINKING TOO, challenge the status quo and have faith in yourself, a whole new world will open up to you — a world of true inner independence. It’s always been there. You just had to want it bad enough.

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It was only a few months after that encounter at the REIA meeting that I did my very first deal. A motivated seller found me online by googling “we buy houses” and about 30 days later I wholesaled my first real estate deal for a whopping $35,000 profit. Since that time I’ve dropped my real estate license and now do this business full time.

You Too Can Flip Houses For Fast Profits Too

But having the right training and systems is absolutely critical to your success. Over the past year I’ve been coaching and helping people achieve success and freedom through real estate estate investing and marketing online. In addition I”m currently a business coach at the premier real estate investor education community in the country.

Our team’s mission is to teach people how to find and flip houses and properties for profit. We teach you how to build a real business, one that can create generational wealth for you and your family. It doesn’t matter if you are brand new to this business, you can get started flipping houses in your spare time and contrary to what you might think you don’t need a license or that much money to get started either. If you are experienced and are already doing deals, then the system I’m going to share with you will naturally take your business to the next level.

If you’re brand new to this world, this system will help launch you.

The founder of this organization is my mentor who came to my local REIA 7 years ago. Since that time Mr. K and his team have built the absolute best turn-key marketing system and community available in the real estate and real estate investing industry. A system that will allow you to win in real estate no matter what the conditions are in the market.

It all boils down to 2 things. Strategic Marketing And The best Real Estate Training available.

Flipping houses can be very profitable when you have the right strategic marketing systems. Systems that are built to take you…the real estate investing entrepreneur, through a “natural progression” for success. These are the same systems I’ve used to grow my business and they are the same systems our students use to grow theirs too.

Our team and our students have access to the single greatest tool to build a cash buyers list quickly and effectively, which allows us to flip the hottest deals in record time. We’re able to find the hottest deals right in our local markets. We can find vacant houses, and high equity motivated sellers that everyone is desperately searching for at the click of house. Not only that but we even have access to a semi-secret back door to private lenders who are currently funding real estate deals on a regular basis. These are private money lenders who could fund your deals too.

Yes, our systems are groundbreaking but our training is equally important to your success. Taking advantage of this opportunity to learn the ins and outs of real estate investing from a team like ours will change your life. Our community is world-class and there is nothing more comforting than knowing that everyone you meet is willing to SHARE with and HELP their fellow investors.

Our real estate training can dramatically increases your chances of success. Having personal knowledge is important, but being able to leverage the knowledge and networks of literally hundreds of fellow investors is priceless.

These systems and our community have become such a HUGE part of my success and now they can become a huge part of yours too. I’m a passionate about helping people discover that they can absolutely work and live on their own terms. With that being said, I believe that real estate is the single greatest opportunity for you to do just that.

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March 4, 2015

How To Attract Motivated Sellers Leads To Your Real Estate Investor Website

Building a great looking real estate investor website is just one part of the overall picture for a real estate investing company’s success online and attracting more motivated seller leads into your real estate business.

Most investors don’t really understand the importance of getting the right real estate website online. They don’t understand that getting a website online is all about having it out there for people to find so you can generate leads for you business. 95% of most real estate investors and agents forget that a website should really exist for one reason and one reason only, to help you get more leads for your business and help you earn more money.

I’ve been generating motivated seller leads online for almost 5 years now…not only for my real estate investing but also for my affiliate marketing business too. I personally have years of SEO, Search Engine Optimization, traffic generation, and conversion experience combined with a great deal of knowledge for real estate investing and wholesaling. Throughout this article I’m gonna walk you through some of the major ways the my inbound online marketing system for real estate investors can help you get more traffic, convert more leads, and do more deals as a real estate investor or real estate wholesaler.

Attract Motivated Seller Leads To Your Real Estate Investor Website With Inbound Marketing

So you might be asking yourself “what is inbound marketing anyway?”

Inbound marketing is simply the act of positioning your marketing in a way, so your marketing attracts prospects and, of course, customers, letting you do deals as a real estate investor, of course, by helping solve their problems. This process can work for any business or company and when implemented correctly and consistently it can easily 3x your business. Inbound marketing online is simply creating content, videos, articles built and based around keywords that your prospective audience is actually typing into the search engines.

Inbound Marketing VS. Outbound Marketing

Outbound marketing historically has been the foundational marketing modality for real estate estate agents and especially investors. This is predominately through direct mail. Inbound Marketing is a process by which your are attracting prospects, customers or clients to you…

…rather than outbound marketing which often requires higher expenses, you know, paying for mailings and postcards and things like that, and often lower conversion numbers while again increasing costs!

A solid real estate investing business and marketing plan should really find a good mix of inbound online lead generation and outbound offline lead generation for your business to really thrive. So let’s look around the inbound marketing methodology that I really believe in and have honed in on over the years as an online marketer. As you’ll see in this article I’ve taken my online marketing knowledge and combined it with my preferred website system to help you as a real estate investor…let me guide through the steps you need to implement so you can scale your business.

3 Key Phases to attract motivated seller leads and traffic to your real estate investor website

The front end of the inbound marketing methodology I use to generate massive amounts of online real estate estate leads and one that I’ve perfected all starts with…

The “Plant” phase.

You need to attract visitors and, of course, traffic to your website, but how do you do that? It all begins with having a website with the right SEO, Search Engine Optimization, that can help your optimize your webpages by taking you by the hand and showing you exactly what you need to change or add to your website to give the better chance of ranking your site well in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. You’re probably saying “WOW Dave” that is a mouth full. It is a mouth full but it can be very simple once you understand a few your audience and what they are actually searching for online. The system I use for this “Plant” phase does all this for you. It was built with SEO in mind from the ground up, and it helps you deliver exactly what Google is looking for when it decides what ranks where in the search rankings.

Next comes the “Nurture” phase.

This is the inbound marketing strategy for real estate investors is what I call the “Nurture” phase. So you’ve attracted the traffic to your real estate investor website by using our search Engine optimization strategies, training, other sources of leads like direct mail, craigslist, etc….now what? Well now it’s time to really build that relationship with your prospect and bring them aboard as a customer. It could be a cash buyer. It could be a motivated seller looking to sell their house, but it could be a private lender or heck a rent to own tenant it really doesn’t matter as long as you you have a system that can help you convert and nourish your leads. Having a lead capture or squeeze page system built into your website and blog is essential. Here is a screenshot how my real estate investor website is set up. See how I have call to action and and lead capture form front and center? This is the first thing my prospect sees when they visit my website and this is EXACTLY the you should have it setup on your real estate investor website too!

The system I use to have my websites on can help you quickly build real estate investor squeeze pages just like this on the fly, or you can use the pre-made ones that are already created for you that have been proven and tested.

Once a cash buyer or motivated seller or private lender or tenant opts in to one of those lead pages, it’s time to build a relationship with them and help them become evangelists for your company. The key thing you need in order for that to happen is a flexible social media integration that lets your website visitors share your site with their friends or sphere. Social media is a huge part of getting found on the search engines so you need to have social buttons and share links on your website. Google and the other search engines put a lot of weight in this and based on their algorithms it can play a very important roll in getting found and generating leads online.

So what should you do and what should happen after a lead submits their information?

You must have some sort of email auto responder that goes out to opt ins immediately after they opt in. Why? Because it starts the conversation, it gets them to raise their hand. Last, if you really want to take it to the next level with this “Nurture” phase, plug in an email auto responder sequence. You can set up a sequence by using a email marketing service like MailChimp, iContact, AWeber, Constant Contact, Infusionsoft, ZOHO, Get Response, and a whole host of others.

Next comes the “Grow and Harvest” phase.

When you have a system that really helps with taking a prospect through the first two phases, this Grow and Harvest” phase becomes a lot easier. Now let me run through the five most important features of the system I use and the one you are going to use when you make the decision right now to become a member here. First of all, the websites are fully customizable with their appearance and they’re mobile responsive so everything looks great on a cell phone just the same way it would look great on a computer. Number two is the powerful Search Engine Optimization tools. Number three is something I covered in the article and that is a powerful lead page engine. Number four, blogging and the social media capabilities in the system. And number five, the epic training and support we provide.

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November 17, 2014September 15, 2018

How to use bandit signs for real estate investing

Real Estate Investor Bandit signs

A great way to drive leads to your real estate investing website and get your phone to ring off the hook.

If you’re a real estate investor then your business will only survive by locating undervalued or distressed properties in your local area. Bandit signs can bring these buyer and seller leads to your office.

Bandit signs are those small signs you see while driving, they are usually seen on telephone poles and at major intersections. Bandit signs have been predominately used by real estate investing companies and they are very similar to those used by Realtors when advertising homes for sale. These bandit signs are very affordable, they come in various sizes and they are a great way to attract both buyer and sellers for your real estate flipping business.

How to use Bandit Signs for real estate investing

If you are a real estate investor then you should definitely have bandit signs on every property you have. You should also be putting bandit signs around town and near the busiest traffic and high visibility areas. When you’re putting out these signs be sure to avoid the “sign police”, these are the folks that work for your local Town and enforce local codes. Putting your signs up high or putting them out strictly on the weekends is a great way to avoid any problems with the “sign police” Its all a great way to avoid having a lot of them taken.

When using bandit signs be sure to keep your message simple.

Remember you only have a few seconds to catch the attention of your potential customer. You want to make sure that they will have enough time to get your contact information. Make sure your message is large and keep it only to a few lines. Bandit signs are great for instantly building your buyers lists and seller leads for your real estate investing business but it’s also a fantastic and low cost way to build your brand. Even if you phone doesn’t ring, and if they ever need your services they will be more likely to look you up if they do. Besides, whenever you work with someone who has seen one of your signs you will have an immediate psychological advantage over your competition. You will be known as the go to business and will find and close deals much easier.

Adding credibility to your marketing, bandit signs and real estate investing company is essential and another great tip is to use a 800 number. Many investors flipping houses have great success using local numbers, however a toll free number offers the ability to capture caller contact detail in case they get distracted on the road and do not leave a message. Advanced toll free number tools will even allow callers to enter certain preferences or even request faxed, text and emailed lists of your properties.

Bandit signs are great way to “kick it up notch” in your flipping houses business. If you’ve never used them then you should definitely give them a try to see how they work in your local market. Remember, to include your business name, logo and even your real estate investor website address. A great source to buy bandit signs is http://www.supercheapsigns.com

You can also create bandit signs all over the internet using your real estate investor website. If you do this you can absolutely dominate your local market. Let’s face it…a lot of people drive by those real estate investor bandit signs fairly quickly. What do you think they probably do when they get home? They go straight to their computer and type in “We buy houses” or “Sell my house fast” in Google. When they do that do you come up in the search engines? I know I do. My strategy is to let all the other investors in my area put out bandit signs, then when the seller gets home and searches for what they just saw I come up. How cool is that? Check out this article so you can learn how<<

April 29, 2011

Flipping Houses

Flipping houses and wholesaling properties is a terrific strategy and a great way to get started in real estate investing.

Although a lot of investors are talking about investing for buy and holds in today’s real estate marketing flipping houses is still a terrific method of gaining wealth with real estate. There indeed may come a time in your life or business when you’ll want to hang onto a piece of property, although you’ll only be interested in keeping certain types of property. If you’re just starting out, flipping a house may be an ideal way to get started.

Basically, there are three ways that you can get started flipping houses, although each one has it’s own terms, motivation, and type of property.

The first method is known as retailing. What this means, is that you buy a house in bad shape, do the repairs to fix it up, then turn around and sell it. There are a variety of houses in need of repairs out there, and several ways that you can quickly flip a house to net profit. All you need to know are the techniques that will get you the most money in the least amount of time.

The second way you can start flipping houses is through wholesaling.

Real Estate wholesaling involves finding a home for sale then flipping it to an investor for a fast, yet small profit. To do this, you’ll need to know the real estate investors in your area, the types of homes that flip the best, and how to fund your property so you can flip it to them. If you live in a big area or a city, you’ll find that using the wholesaling method of flipping houses is actually easier to accomplish.

The third way to start flipping houses is a wholesale method where you simply assign the purchase contract. Using this method, you won’t need to commit to buy the house. Instead of closing the deal yourself, you’ll assign it to a real estate investor – of course for a small fee. The investor will take the contract over and close the purchase themselves – flipping houses. This can be very profitable, especially if you invest in the right home. You don’t need to have your contract worded any special way to be legal, although you will need to determine the assignment fee.

If you’re looking to break into the real estate market and make big bucks, you’ll need to learn all about flipping houses.

Flipping houses is very profitable, especially once you have learned the basics. The first and third methods are the best, although they will both take quite a bit of work on your part. Restoring homes isn’t easy, and you’ll need to have a team qualified to handle any repairs. Assigning the purchase may be difficult when you first start out, although it will get easier with time. If you stay at it and do your best to make a profit – you’ll be an expert at flipping houses in no time at all.

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August 5, 2010

Real Estate Investors – Create Traffic To Generate More Sellers Leads

There are a lot of different ways to generate online real estate leads and traffic to your real estate website or blog.

Traffic is the single most important thing for the online version of your business. When I first got involved in real estate investing most of our lead generation was from direct mail, postcards, and networking. And this is a strategy that we still use in our business today. It’s important to drive large numbers of visitors to your website site your blog…after all it is a numbers game.

[pullquote align=”normal”]If you the real estate investor can master online lead generation for your business you will thrive. [/pullquote]

As a real estate investor you need a constant supply of deals and motivated sellers coming across your desk everyday. But you also need a good stream and supply of buyers, most importantly cash buyers to sell these properties to. If you master lead generation you’ll always have more than enough of each of these real estate leads.

Here are some of the best ways to generate real estate investor leads and motivated seller leads online

1. Pay Per Click – this is paid advertising. When people to searches in Google, Bing or Yahoo, the PPC ads appear at the top and right of the search results page. Now pay per click is not free you have to spend some money each month to generate these types of real estate leads. The great thing though is you can make this very targeted to your specific market or niche. Adwords from Google is the most popular form of Pay Per Click. When building your ads and campaigns be sure to focus them around keywords. Keywords are popular words or phrases people put into the search bar when searching for a product. A few examples of keywords would be: we buy houses, real estate leads, sell my house fast, avoid foreclosure. The trick is to take these keywords and make the specific to your location of business. This is the company I use for my Google Adwords.

2. Offline Marketing. A great strategy for traffic is offline marketing for real estate leads. All of your postcards, direct mail, business cards, flyers, etc. should have a website where people can go or better yet a squeeze page. Sometimes people like to be able to do some research or are more comfortable making an initial connection by checking out a website. If you do a lot of marketing offline then this one strategy will definitely help you increase how many real estate leads you capture.

3. Press Releases. This is a great way to drive a ton of real estate leads and traffic to your site. There are a few great free sources like prlog.org, clickpress.com, 24-7pressrelease.com, just to name a few. When your writing your press releases you want to be thinking about keywords again. Have a few in mind that will relate to what your writing about and try to include them as often as possible. Try and post a press release at least once a month. Once a week is really effective though.

4. Video – Use your smart phone, camera or other type of quick video recording tool. Start documenting your business through video. Show your properties or record tips or strategies for others to few. Once you have your video done upload it to YouTube and video syndication sites like TubMogul or Traffic Geyser. These sites will blast your video across other video hosting sites online. Search engines love video because they tend to treat it like news. Both press releases and video will help you get real estate leads organically or naturally.

5. Web 2.0 – Social Media platforms are the wave of the future and if you don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account then you need to go get one. Updating other friends and followers about your real estate business on a regular basis will surely bring real estate leads back to your website or blog. So go out and get an account and start posting info, start following others in our industry and share with them what your doing.

6. Real Estate Investor Website – Finally, if you want to have a successful online real estate lead generation platform then you need a website that is great at capturing and converting traffic to leads. Having the right real estate investor website is essential to your success. You not only need a website that is great at generating traffic but you also need to be able to convert those visitors into leads. Our recommended platform does just that and a whole lot more.

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