All Forum Posts by: Noah Brinker

Googling "we buy houses" in your area to find local investors
Finding and calling the bandit signs you see on the side of the road for investors
REIAs
As Jerryll mentioned, you could try running ads but would need to track ROI to make sure it's profitable

Good luck!

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@Roy Covert There is a BP group that meets up in Fayetteville. It's normally the 4th Wednesday of each month at Six Twelve Coffeehouse. There's an email that goes out but I'm not positive how to get on it. @Ryan Blackstone should know!

Hope to see you there.

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Welcome! Glad you're here. If you're ever in the area, there's a BP meetup that happens once a month in Fayetteville.

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@Dan Mackin

1. BRRRRs and Flips

2. About 2 years

3. Start taking action, whatever you want to do just start taking the first steps

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Originally posted by @Trevor Mauch:

I LOVE this thread! :-)

@Noah Brinker great question man.

Jerrylls advice was solid and at the end of the day, there's 3 things you need to look at when it comes to performance on your website.

1) Tech stack: Is it setup to load fast, clean code, ssl, etc. etc. We've invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into building the best tech stack in out there. Here's a solid article on a study that was put out on website speed of the website builders out there

https://freshchalk.com/blog/150k-small-business-website-teardown-part-two

It dives into the different website builders (wix, squarespace, wordpress, etc.) and the page speed and time to first bite. Carrot out performed all of the big website builders out there except Google's own websites, which puts you at an advantage vs. most other websites in your market... and on the same level playing field as other Carrot members.

2) Conversion optimization: There are a ton of easy website builders out there to get a website up and online and plenty of people who can build a website for you. But the whole reason I created Carrot in 2014 was because they just weren't setup to focus on performance... and were really bad w/ conversion. Over the years I've done over 1k split tests and hundreds in the real estate market alone and we continually are improving the conversion of our sites. That's one of the reasons we have restrictions on some design elements that some members have requested... because there's a trade-off between design aesthetic vs. performance. So we focus on performance which means there are more limitations on design in order to retain that performance element. But many of the top investors move over to Carrot because of this one (from their expensive custom sites).

3) SEO: That's the part we've innovated on the most over the years and the results in Google show it. Jerryll has been crushing it and really helping tons of people do the same. Great work @Jerryll Noorden!

So focus on performance first, then build your credibility out on the platform to increase the performance from the strong Carrot foundation.

Reach out anytime if we can help w/ anything man! Good luck w/ your investing!

Hey Trevor, thanks for the reply! I appreciate you chiming in here.

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I'll be there!

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@Ray R.

That’s really helpful. Thanks!

I’ll look into those resources.

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@Ray R.

Thanks Ray. Viewing it as a business is a good perspective to have. I think there’s still value in working on SEO to try to get a high organic ranking but I agree it shouldn’t be the whole strategy.

I’d love to know your thoughts on the impact of sticking with a Carrot website + content or trying to be unique and build the site and content myself.

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@Garrett Crawford

Thanks for the reply! That’s a good point. I’m not necessarily concerned with having a pretty website, more so concerned with getting the top ranking for keywords. I’m assuming (right or wrong) that a unique website would give me more credibility than having the same website and template as all the others.

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@Jerryll Noorden

Thanks man! That’s part of my question - does a Carrot website hinder credibility if it looks the same and has the same content as all the others?

What factors go into credibility if most websites look the same with the same keyword content etc.?

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