All Forum Posts by: Max M.

@Joe McCall

@John Jackson 

For your craigslist/online marketing procedures/systems do you do anything to keep track of who you've marketed to in order to avoid unwittingly hitting them with a repeat communication?

Do you database the people you market to in a specific area, for other purposes, such as repeat marketing after a certain duration of time?

@John Jackson will do!

@Wilson Churchill  Do you mean

• do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers

?

It seems like every single advertisement has that. It might as well be etched in stone ;) Plus technically speaking craigslist direct contact campaigns are solicited because they result directly from the fact that someone is advertising their house for sale or rent. Rent to own is still rent, although it's a different kind of rent with a different kind of outcome ;)

@John Jackson Would this be something like cubixsolutions? I've been considering messing around with that in the future after I get the more finessed approach to Craigslist direct marketing dialed down

Thanks dude, that's just what I needed.

Lies

But successfully intrigued...

@Joe McCall -- Joe McCall

Hey man, you seem to be a real expert on the Craigslist method and really nerding it up with the techy tactics. Might you perhaps have some insight intrinsic to this incident?

I created a new gmail account to handle my internet marketing stuff for lease options, and as my first foray into the game I decided to mail some rentals/FSBO's in my area on Craigslist. What I figured I'd do is first hit up the rentals from 7 days back and work my way up to the front, and then do the same with FSBO's. Never made it that far ;)

I clicked reply and selected gmail on 8 ads yesterday and 8 today and sent a couple sentences saying I'm an investor and would they consider a lease option, if they're interested in having their home maintained while it gets sold, they should call me at my number. After that every single one of my outgoing emails on this gmail account was instantly rejected by gmail on a permanent basis due to their antispam setup. Essentially this gmail account is completely unable to send outgoing email, permanently.

Based on what I've seen, it seems 25 mails per day is a pretty small and reasonable number that many people subscribe to as being a decent marketing stream for Craigslist. And yet I do 8 per day and my email address is shitcanned ;) I find this most puzzling because I hear about hiring VA's to do 25 a day and even making a new gmail or other account specifically to share with them for this purpose.

Where did I go wrong? Is Craigslist not in the stars for me?

@Aaron Mazzrilloyou think you have it bad? The theatre I used to work at had an underground tunnel to the DoubleTree next door. Every time there was a big show guys from DoubleTree would come and man the concessions/bar, and they would bring a freshly baked batch of DoubleTree cookies with them to sell as well, but I was allowed to have free ones. This hotel eventually rated too low to carry the DoubleTree name, which didn't make a a bit of difference to me until I learned that they also lost something far more precious: the right to carry DoubleTree cookies. I was devastated. Since then things went downhill. Eventually, the theatre people decided to redo the bar and hire their own people to man it. Didn't see hotel staff coming over as often anymore, which meant less free food tray pickings for me for their catered events.

I didn't know they gave out their cookies so freely to non-guests. I believe that hotel has since re-gained its DoubleTree status... he he he...

@Jay Hinrichs  You underestimate the value of the DoubleTree cookie. You see, this cookie is priceless. DoubleTree refuses to let go of these cookies and rules production rights with an iron fist! Indeed I cannot see DoubleTree succeeding as a hotel without these cookies. It doesn't matter how good or bad their hotels are. The cookie has already raised expectations too much.

Supposedly the secret to these cookies has been revealed: pulverized oats, and supposedly there is a good copycat recipe out there. However, there's a big difference between having an approximate or even exact recipe, and the actual implementation of said recipe. The devil is in the details. Who knows what other ingredients or procedures are being hidden from the public. Perhaps Area-51 has these answers.

It would appear that the cookies are now available to order @ https://www.doubletreeathome.com/productdetail.asp...

However I am skeptical as to whether they taste like the fresh baked ones. Many a night my friend and I have scoured the local grocery stores in search of good cookies to fuel our computer gaming shenanigans, and many a night have I been disappointed. Would we be disappointed if ordering these? I suspect these packaged ones won't live up to the DoubleTree standard. However, perhaps in the future I will see about ordering up a fresh batch of cookies at a nearby DoubleTree to-go. I wonder who I'd have to bribe over there to get a dozen or two, or would they just out a whole box of them freely?

This is a very important topic and deserves more attention at BiggerPockets.

@Aaron Mazzrillo Dude that's so true, DoubleTree cookies are the best. They ruined cookies for me.

The first thing I'm gonna do once I move into my own place is set up one of the rooms as an office. Likely there will be extra space left over in the room. I'll probably set up book shelves and other types of shelving to hold all the misc. crap that might build up over time. Binders, extra supply cache, long term filing cabinets, etc. Maybe an extra table.

Being dirt poor in this business with insufficient space sucks. All business stuff has to be mish-mashed with everything else. I want to keep my business stuff separated from everything else so that when I'm not engaging in business I'm not thinking about it, and when I am engaging in business I'm not thinking about other stuff. Mental real estate is priceless, I learned this in World of Warcraft where I made dedicated characters for my auctioneering and dedicated storage guilds/chars for my warehousing of supplies. When I play my "real" characters I don't think about any of that crap, it's just all fun.

I will also use separate computers for business and everything else. Maybe separate phones once enough $ is rolling in.