All Forum Posts by: Douglas Petrie

@Pratik P.

Hi Pratik,

I stopped really focusing on Seo about 10 years ago. The updates were too stressful and there is so much outside of seo. I asked someone I know in Seo to respond, I will add what he says.

@Nick Britton

Hi Nick,

I owned a company called Revnet for about 5 years that hit those numbers. After that I had adnet which Is still around that was not in the 25 range but was over 10, but I left to pursue another company called tendant which I operate now. Keep in mind these are lead generation not investing companies. I am happy to discuss any time, connect with me and we can jump on a call.

I think one important thing people do not realize is that you can build a big revenue company without a social media following or a lot of the other things(big staff) that ppl associate with success. Right now we sell to sales teams all o st the US and we see companies with 30+ mill in annual revenue that most ppl don’t know

@Ed Tamayo Anytime Ed. I highly recommend building some relationships with agents and referral sources. Nothing beats great relationships.

@Ed Tamayo

Hi Ed, its cool. That question is a good one.

I would go with Facebook as long as you are doing some retargeting and you have some sort of funnel. Selling your home is not an impulsive decision so you need to make them aware of your business, educate the user, then offer them a proposition to "see what they can get".

Facebook advertising is effective but it requires a lot of testing between ads and audiences. Also since you are targeting a small geographic area it can take a bit to see results. In my opinion boosting posts has mixed results unless you have an already established audience(page followers or friends) of potential sellers or referral sources. Google can be productive because people have a clear intent, IE searching "sell my home fast". The problem with Google is that it can get really expensive too because of the quality.  

Also **IMPORTANT** if you start to just rely on Google, Facebook, or anything as the main source of your business, you can set yourself up for failure, you need a few new business sources.

I think people are expecting that a switch gets flipped and all of a sudden you get more leads for less money. That can eventually happen but it requires consistency and a long term investment. There is no short term solution, unless you can get some press or wanna spend. You can spend less money but you will need to spend more time. Either way it is going to cost you something.

i was just answering a post and I realized that I could do something pretty cool for anyone that is interested. I have over 16 years of experience in online marketing and lead generation. I realize that I could answer some questions that will help people here be a little more successful. If anyone has a question, post it here, and I will do my best to answer as soon as I can. I do not want anything in return, I figure I could just do this to help people as others have been helped me in the past.

Please do not post a question like; how do I get more leads? Try to be more specific as this question would require me to ask 20 more questions =)

My Background:

• Serial Entrepreneur for the last 16 years
• Co Founded Several Marketing Companies that have had revenues from 10-25mil/yr
• Experienced in Several Marketing Channels (email, SMS, call center, social, PPC
• Current Founder of a company Called Tendant - A Free Digital Business Card Platform

We own a digital business card platform called Tendant with a power user version that allows you to build reusable lists of contacts on your phone. So you can easily re engage people in your sphere of influence from your phone and have it be personalized. I have a 16 year background in lead gen and online marketing across almost every channel out there so ask me questions and I can do my best to answer.

@Dylan Barnard

That works,

Maybe make a checklist of items to look out for like an unkept lawn to reference when looking at Homes. You can do it!

@Dylan Barnard fill up the gas tank drive around the neighborhood your interested in. Any house you like, place a flyer there with a number to reach you. Do that until you get a property.

@Dylan Barnard. Keep working at it. Going from 0 to 1 is hard in any business. Every person you meet needs to know about your wholesale business and should take 30 seconds to think about if they know anyone you can buy from.