Top 10 Marketing Strategies for Real Estate Investors Part 4 Win-Win-Win with Realtors

“It’s tangible, it’s solid, it’s beautiful.
It’s artistic from my standpoint.
I just love real estate.

Donald Trump

Building relationships with Real Estate agents is vital to any real estate investor’s success. Why?

They bring you buyers.  They bring you sellers.  They bring you leads before they hit the market.  They present you to other realtors for offers.  They teach you how to get your offers accepted.  They are one of the most important members of your “power team”.

Important to work with “Winning Agents”

The old 80/20 rule applies. 20% of Agents will be handling 80% of the … Read the rest

Top 10 Marketing Strategies for Real Estate Investors Part 3 – Business Cards

business-card

“Make it simple. Make it memorable.
Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.”
Lee Burnett (Advertising Executive, 1891-1971)

Giving out business cards is crucial to marketing your skills or services.  Anyone who is serious about their business should have a professional business card and always be looking for places to hand it out!

Here are some steps to getting them done most professionally, quickly and at the best price.

1)      Do some personal research. What are the other investors have on their business cards (or even their websites)? What do you like? What do you not … Read the rest

Top 10 Marketing Strategies for Real Estate Investors Part 2: Personal Networking

“It isn’t just what you know, and it isn’t just who you know.
It’s actually who you know, who knows you, and what you do for a living.”
Bob Burg

Investor Community of Central Valley

Networking is such an important part of your business. You must let everyone know what you are doing. Everyone can be a “bird dog” for you – And you for them.  A great book to read if you are uncomfortable with the idea of attending events to network yourself and your business is ‘How To Win Friends and Influence People’ by Dale Carnegie. It’s a great book that helps you … Read the rest

Top 10 Marketing Strategies forReal Estate Investors Part 1:Aim – Ready – Fire – Talley the Score!

Quote of the Day:

“Without promotion something terrible happens… Nothing!”

P.T. Barnum

In order for you to make money as a Real Estate investor you need your phone ringing off the hook (or your inbox full of leads), each and every day so that you can make offers for properties and cater your offers to your buyers. The great thing is these Motivated Sellers and buyers with cash in their bank accounts are actually looking for you because you can provide solutions to their problems.

But guess what typically happens… They can’t find you. Why? Because You’re not marketing yourself. … Read the rest

Don’t Quit

The last time I wrote, I asked you the question, “Are you afraid?”  In summary, I shared that successful people are action takers who work through their fears have a picture of what they want …and focus on that picture.  If you missed reading that post , you can find it under ‘recent posts’ on the right side of this page.

Some of you may have wondered why I was talking about goal setting since I normally focus on real estate investing. Here’s why….let me ask you some questions.

  1. What do you think is generally the biggest barrier is to
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