All Forum Posts by: Chavel Diaz Jr

@Chavel Diaz Jr

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You have to use your actual phone number from your phone or secondary phone. You get blocked by carriers then expect your personal phones to be shut down.

You don't have to using a service like Launch Control or the others...Only with the google play app do you have to use a personal phone number and I haven't used that number in 1 1/2 year.

The anti spam things the networks are doing are pretty difficult to get around I can see why that SMS platform threw in the towel and has you using your real phone number.  

No, actually they're not IF you know how to write carrier compliant text messages.

Its confusing all the steps to me. All I can say is that creativereireply.com walked me through setting up a squeeze page off their site with the needed opt out, I did have to register my LLC/EIN and the rented phone numbers with some org/site. My SMS and my replying go through on rented local phone numbers (today).

Oh, O-Kay....

Re another poster above;   a seller calling me on my rented phone number does show on the platform who it is/was.  It bridges to my phone and all I get on my real phone is the sellers real phhone number so you are flat footed talking.  But on the system it shows which lead called AND it recorded the conversation to replay!!  Handy if you are using VAs to cold call off this system.  It has a power dialer feature if you want to do out bound cold calling as well as the SMS marketing.

And re another poster above re reireply you can add any number of tags, I have a dozen or so on many leads.  But I agree tracking leads through a multi touch situation for me is tough as well.  I just toss on another tag to track where they are at.

Creativereireply scraps local FSBO and expired leads and adds them daily to new outbound SMS for me. Yes you have to pay $75/mo (might be higher) for each area you get creative leads from.

== SMS marketing success: I can share that the rumored motivated sellers stuck in a recent mortgage and not being able to sell and their MLS listings expire then they put their house on FSBO are NOT that motivated. Oddly!!! I see crazy situations on FSBO (via this platforms scrapped leadsd). Vacant new fixed houses on FSBO and the sellers are unwilling to take a seller financed offer. LOL they are willing to hold on and wait. Very odd that folks are still financially strong enough to hold on. It seems we all wait till late spring and their trying to re-list sells / fails and they are more open to creative offers. I'm stuck working these leads daily in the hopes that this is a case of "last man standing" re us investors marketing to these folks that I have to out-last everyone re my SMS and offers to buy.

Just sharing to you that if you are not seeing motivation in your leads;; I'm not eaither and I have the highest quality leads today (IMHO) expireds and FSBOs. You can market to the older idea of absentee or high equity, I just don't see those being motivated. If they don't have mortgage payments killing them why would they dump now, in April? Why not re list and try to sell in spring to early summer? Anyway; I'm very surprised that leads that listed, expired, re put on FSBO aren't that motivated. If I was a cash or financed buyer I could pickup deals at lower offers I suspect but I refuse to go that route. I have enough mortgages I'm 100% focued on creative deals. BTW study up on what type of houses you end up getting creatively; 100% need some amount of fixing and that is all personal cash. So creative is not LOW cash. Its low/no new debt.

Yeah, never said I couldn't get leads...Soooooo

Good luck to all, curt

@Trey Crusey REI is just very disorganized. It's a great concept but that whole "all in one for only $50" just is horribly implemented. They are like " a jack of all trades but a master of none". If you have no budget and just getting started, it has the essentials. But if you are more experienced it in no way is a replacement of any of those services. The website is horrible, so many spelling and grammatical errors that you can't fix unless you know how to code. You can customize some stuff on the website, but its meant to not be changed. REI reply altogether is not user friendly at all. All their campaigns auto send texts, but you can't pause a campaign... There is absolutely no way to organize your prospects or leads except with "tags" but they even specifically say you shouldn't be tagging people with more than 1-2 tags. There is no way to go see who didn't respond when they are done being sent text messages so that you can re-market to them or cold call them. A ton of bugs that needed to be worked out. The automation aspect was cool, but as carriers are getting stricter it's going to be harder to have good delivery rates. Honestly it doesn't even save you too much money since all their stuff is through Twilio and so many other platforms use twilio. Plus there is no integration with CRM's. Absolutely impossibly to be organized with them. I think they think they are a CRM too, which I don't see that at all. But we would have to manually enter everything in to podio. The ONLY thing we liked is that their app was better than a lot of the other apps that we had tried. Lead Sherpa is my favorite so far, but they are moving to where they will be through Twilio as well which I don't like.

Nothing to my knowledge is an upgrade from Launch. Batch is worse, Sherpa is fairly comparable. Sherpa probably has a better UI but worse deliverability and less automations. While Launch occasionally bugs out, it's still the best out there. We are sending almost 100k/month and still getting 90%+ deliverability, which rarely happens even at small scales on other platforms 

@Chavel Diaz Jr I've had a similar experience with SmarterContact. What platform are you considering switching to? I'm debating Launch Control or staying with SC. 

Hi Nikolina, the best templates are conversational. Most investors will say something like "Hey [firstname], this is [user] with [companyname], I'm a local investor in the [city] area looking to purchase another property. Would you consider an offer on your property at [streetaddress]?

You can create multiple templates that are similar that vary in how you may ask that question.