All Forum Posts by: Bria Johnson

Take a minute to familiarize yourself with the do not call list and rules about doing robo calls or using an automated dialer before doing any sort of telemarketing.  The fines can be really high.

@Bria Johnson in my local area I have begun direct mail marketing for local run down houses that I can send to local flippers for finders fees. After reading this, I am going to work in a website, honestly even an IG is a start. I have already registered my IG name last week.

Cheers

@Bria Johnson Cold calling is fine and all, but, pursuing only one such marketing strategy won't get you far in the long run. I always suggest using a multichannel approach to marketing. 

This is what works for me: I stick to a well-planned direct mail marketing campaign and send mail to each of my listings at least once every month. I use the time I have between mailers to keep marketing to the same houses. I will Cold call, send text messages, leave RVM, set up google and facebook ads, work on SEO etc. 

Consistency is key when it comes to any marketing strategy. So, you definitely can't give up if you can't get deals fast. Direct mail takes 3-5 touches to generate a single deal. Responses may come sooner. Most people tend to stop sending mail after 3 months. This will put all their efforts down the drain. 

Be patient, stick to a schedule and don't be discouraged. 

Good Luck! 

Do you have a website?

If no, you are wasting a lot of effort and I will tell you why.

The more shady the marketing, the more you need to push your credibility scorre up.

If you have a nmber 1 ranking website and a ton of reviews and you are all over facebook with thousands of lieks and comments and myou give to charity and people talk about you and Google suggests you when people seach for keywords... sure you have enough credibility.

But put a bandit sign out and people have no idea who or what you are  they need to have a way to find you on their own when they try to do a bit of research about you.

So now you spend all this effort cold calling and what not, and when you DO finally score and the person is somewhat interested or at least curious, and you can not provide a website with your mission statement, an about us, and info about you, guess what will happen. It i snot that internet results in no results when they look for you. No.. the internet will show your competitors that DO have a website and you have then done a LOT of work ... to hand over that precious lead to your competitors..

I know because I am that competitor in my market.

I tell people to get a website yet they are too stubborn to listen to me. I hear people comlain all the time they get no leads, buit they choose not to do what WILL get them leads... I simply do not get people.

Do not be like them. 

If my rambling does make sense and it is logic, WHY not just do it? How bad do you want to be successful? Wealthy? Eat frigging crab-legs for breakfast dinner and lunch? HOW BAD woman!!

Super bad right?

But not bad enough to just get a website and do it right? Doesn't make much sense logically doesnt it.

Do you plan to cold call for ever? No? Good answer. What are you doing at THIS very moment towards ending your need to cold call?

Nothing? Then you are doing it wrong.

You get a website. You get a logo. You start branding yourself. You build your reputation and internet presence. You SEO the HELL out of your website.

Let's do a comparison.

You will spend a lot of effort cold calling strangers. How many hours a day wil you do this? How many leads do you think you will get?

3 a month? 10 a month?

Compare this to my reality:

I was in the movies when the leads came in. I was cooking. Hiking, heck I could be sipping a pina colada on the beach while these leads are streaming in. Slap a Filipino VA on these leads and I wouldn't even need to open my email.

Yes I am trying for you to feel that urge of "Dang it I need that too"

Feel it. Savor it. get motivation. Want to do it right? Step the heck up and grab your destiny by the balls and take control. 

You can do it!

@Bria Johnson I do not cold call, but I follow a few accounts on IG that do cold call. I hope you get some properties out of it, remember it isn’t personal!