The Importance of a Website for a Wholesaler

[Travis Newton]

I'm just starting out wholesaling and wanted to know if I truly need a website right out the gate. I have my bandit signs (200), and a list of absintee owners I will be sending yellow letters to, so I really dont have the budget to get a site created right away.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for any input.

[Ryan Wilkinson]

Websites are important to selling but not crucial when starting out. I like the ideas given here to give you some presence on the internet which absolutely helps, but the name of the game is visibility. The internet allows other people to have access to your information. That's it. Likely, if you're just starting out you don't have 20 houses to sell so don't need to attract buyers by the 100's...nice as that would be. Wholesaling is a PEOPLE business. You can compensate for a lack of internet presence by increasing your own personal profile. If people know you and what you are selling you've achieved the objective. Do more direct mailings, flyering, call for sale ads to find investors who may buy from you. Go to community events, tell everyone what you do. You just have to raise your profile the old fashioned way. Yeah, crazy as it sounds, that stuff actually worked before the internet and it still will. BUT, when you have the money to get a website, DO IT, and make it great. Technology is the future. period.