All Forum Posts by: Thomas Flanagan

I see Michael beat me to the post as I was typing!

I haven't mailed to real estate owners yet (starting this week) but I have mailed to business owners (who usually don't check their own mail) and have a terrific response rate.  

1)  Best response rate comes from NO return address, hand written delivery address, and any regular stamp placed somewhat crooked.  Those basics will get most letters open.

2)  I would also focus on smaller batches i.e. 100/day instead of 1000/month.  Easier to fulfill and you don't get swamped with calls in 1 day like I used to and end up missing calls.

3)  For the changing script on the mail merge, I can't help with that but @Michael Quarles may be able to answer those and input better pointers.

To use the @ someone I believe you must add them as a colleague, then you will see their name appear.

Good luck

Budgeted for 6 months so far but would like to extend out indefinitely.  I'm not scared of spending the money, I'm scared of spending it wrong.  I would spend $10k month in marketing if a system was working.

Yeah Sharon's and the others metrics are invaluable, really drives home the point of multiple contacts.

Little bit of luck and some BP help goes a long ways, thanks.

First off let me say thank you to all the members of BP.

A big thank you, I have especially learned from @Sharon Vornholt @michaelq @aaronmazzrillo @jerrypuckett

I want to be sure my advertising $$ don't go to waist.

Budget:  $1200/month

Plan:  Simple Yellow Letter w/postcard follow up 1x per month.  $1 per mailing = 60 mailings per day x 20 days per month

Area:  Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, CA

Contacts:  Out of state absentee owners and probates.

I've had successful wholesalers flat out tell me I'm wasting my money doing direct mail in my area.  On the flip side I know people like @aaronmazzrillo that are successful in this area.  It can be confusing.

Questions:

Is my budget large enough?

Should I be able to land a deal within 6 months?

Is there anything you would change?

If a successful wholesaler wants to partner up for a share of the profits to increase the success rate of the campaign, I would definitely be open to that.

Thank you for the quick responses.

Double close, assignments, cash buyer lists etc

Looking for a investor friendly title co in the Riverside / San Bernardino area. Anyone know here know one?

p.s. i searched the threads but came up empty

This shows the power of keyword alerts.. I just turned mine on for Cal and this alert popped up for my area. I would have missed out on this event.

Confirmed. See you guys there