All Forum Posts by: Jeremy T.

EDIT: I'm just relaying a story I heard from a friend of a friend's dog's owner's barber:

Oh hell no.

No one needs to look into why I seem to enjoy my 9 hours in the office more than most of the other people around here (hint: it has something to do with reading this website).  Sure, Big Brother may be watching me, but I have spent a LOT of time on BP at work and no one has ever said a word about my activities.  

I also feel no need to provide anyone with a potential source of rationale should a little cordial "downsizing" take place.

One of my favorites is "Do the Work" by Steven Pressfield.  

It's a somewhat ambiguous collection of thoughts (meaning, NOT a "how to" book) on how to overcome "resistance" to push forward.  It's geared toward writers, but upon reading it quickly becomes clear that the content is applicable to anything that requires sustained mental and/or physical effort.

Right, because death, disease, drugs, divorce, and unemployment take November and December off out of respect for the holidays...

@JPaul Mills  

Often it is more about the (wo)man behind the marketing, moreso than the marketing itself.

Bandit signs have worked for you because you made an effort to make them work for you...if that makes sense.  You have been solving problems from the very start: figuring out a better way to reduce the 4x8 sheets. 

(aside: I used to work in a cabinet shop and also for a wood wholesaler in Oregon running a beam saw for 8 hours a day...I have cut a 'couple' of 4x8 sheets in my day...nice work there by you).  

With this in mind, IF you stick with it, I have very little doubt that you will see results from direct mail.  @Rick H.  knows what he is talking about.

^^ This.

Sorry to see you get jammed up by a coworker.  Your star burned bright.  

If you are still lurking around and read this, you should email me: [email protected] so we can stay in touch.

@Matthew Trotter 

Time for some constructive criticism.

Instead of putting out the "image" of being trustworthy, why not just "be" trustworthy?

Your letter needs work.  People are not going to sell your their home below market value because you are the nice guy next door.  As mentioned by @Doug Pretorius these same people do not care about where you plan on residing.  You need to find the cause of their pain and then build trust with them so that you can offer them a reasonable solution.  This means that you are almost certainly NOT going to get a deal on one mailing.  IMO, this is a lot of time, energy and money just to buy a single off-market rental property.  

I think you would be better served running numbers and making offers on listed properties.  The commission you will pay will likely end up being less than the money you are shelling out to buy a list with 5k names and produce mail for that list (even once).  

@Account Closed mentioned, with bandit signs, the only control you can employ is where you place the signs.  Granted, there is a strategy in targeting specific areas and learning about what intersections "queue" at certain times of day in order to give your sign exposure to cars waiting in traffic.  

That said, I see so many bandit signs around here while I'm driving 30 miles per hour and think "who the hell can read the ad, let alone the tiny 10 digit phone number?" in the 4 seconds I am exposed to the sign.

OTOH, direct mail allows you to screen by almost a limitless number of variables, including the exact people you are looking to 'touch' with your bandit sign.  Only in this case you don't have to dodge local code enforcement and handle a bunch of calls from other "wholesalers" fresh out of their 5 figure guru seminars calling to see if you can be added to their "buyers list"...

There is tons of direct mail info on BP.  I have devised a unique strategy for pulling lists all from the information I have compiled while on this site and playing around with listsource (clearly I have a very exciting life).

shhhhh!! Bill...this city is a dirty wasteland, filled pierogi eating slobs who were voted as having the worst accent in the US.