All Forum Posts by: Drew Clements

Hi @Nate Julian, the meeting agendas are pretty simple. We make sure everyone gets introduced, the presenter presents, and we talk/network to fill in the gaps. You'll probably want to bring something to take notes with and maybe some questions for Randall if you've got them. Oh, and get on the mailing list at Nureia.org. no cost to membership.

See you Wednesday!

Hey @Nate Julian,

Welcome to BP! Hope you can make it to the Nureia meeting next Wednesday. Also there's the Cache Summit tomorrow - I think you can still sign up on eventbrite. It's the annual conference on planning and development issues in cache valley.

hi @Cole Phillips, your best initial resource will be the AdWords certification course. It's all free. There are also TONS of blogs covering pretty much every question you're likely to have. So get the fundamentals down with Google resources, then search bolgs when you have specific questions 

Hi @Cole Phillips, I ran a media team at a digital ad agency for 5 years in my recent "past life". To do it right, there's a pretty substantial learning curve to getting AdWords accounts in any category optimized. I'd strongly recommend finding a professional to handle it for you - unless of course you want this niche to be your profession. But just like with anything you outsource, you'll get better results if you understand the fundamentals.

Google has a ton of videos and support articles. You could even review the material in the AdWords certification program (all free now). You just need to know enough to ask smart questions of the professionals you'll consider farming the work out to. Make sure that you own the account (they can link to it from their My Client Center - MCC) so that you always have direct access to reports. Paying for performance is ideal, so be willing to go through the work of setting up systems to track conversions - any firm worth their salt in this space will know how to do that for you.

Also, similar to direct mail, search is a bit of a numbers game - the number of searches on any relevant keyword will be finite, so you'll need to be addressing an area large enough to justify the cost of implementation and management.

Best of luck!

Hi @Marc Bracy - love the comment on walking for dollars with your family. Did this with my 3 kids and wife yesterday for the first time. Was great to get out! My 3-year old is just starting to ride a pedal bike (without training wheels - woot!), so trying to keep her from crashing into everything was a little distracting, but fun!

Good luck to you (and your family)!

What's your profit model? Per lead? Per closed deal? Management fee/percent to media?

And how are results reported?

Thanks for the perspective on Quickbooks desktop vs. online, @Daniel Lee

Although I've gotten "used" to Quickbooks, I wouldn't say I love it by any means and I'm in the middle of "forced upgrade" in the lifecycle of my software. I think I'll pull through the end of the year on it's last breath and make the switch to Freshbooks for 2016.

Good idea about GoToMyPc/TeamViewer, but I personally prefer purpose-built solutions for mobility (fewer points of possible failure). 

Here's a "Me too" subscription to this thread - seems like "everyone" agrees that this is a great method for sourcing deals, but no one seems to know the details of the legalities involved (if any). I just moved into a neighborhood where the mail carrier is really good friends with my neighbors. Next time I see him, I'm going to bring it up and ask if he know's of any rules (or where they might be published)... of course I'll try to recruit him for deal sourcing, too! If I can get some clarity, I'll report back.

Hey all,

I'm categorizing this as a software question rather than an accounting question, but it could be both.

I've been using Quickbooks to do by book keeping (Mac), but am looking at moving to a web-based tool for the benefits of mobile features, etc. Anyone out there make a similar switch? Desktop to web-based? Quickbooks vs. Freshbooks?

What's been your experience? What would you recommend?

I just finished my classes last Friday and will be taking the licensing exam Tuesday morning. I only have one flip to my name and I don't have any experience as an investor with a license (obviously), but what convinced me to move forward with getting a license was the collective experiences of hundreds of investors here on BP.

I saw a clear trend: Investors that got their license pretty much universally say that it's one of the best decisions they made in their careers.

The investors that jump in and say "it's not that important" or that you can "just find an agent and use them" typically didn't get their license... so how are they even qualified to say if it's of benefit?

For me, just having gone through the classes has really boosted my knowledge and confidence - clarified a TON of questions I had about the transaction process (even having done a flip), legal issues (like with wholesaling or landlording), etc. To get to this level (although still relatively basic) as a newbie just reading on BP would have taken much longer because of the time spend filtering out opinion and misinformation vs. fact, etc. Not at all saying that BP isn't awesome - it is - but is's still a forum and the moderators aren't attorneys.

Do it :)