All Forum Posts by: Donte Mazyck

There a few things you can try. Place an ad in the cheaper papers like the nickel paper or any of the freebie papers that have a large circulation rate.

You can also add mailing out 100 letters per week. Anything less would be wasting your time. When mailing you need to have a specific message for the group you are mailing too. Some would tell you to tailor a message for everyone, which is good, but you want to focus on problems that will push buttons.

Get your message on the internet, you can write an article here and put your contact information in the signature section and market that article through pay per click and save the website cost.

Last, target an area that you want to invest in and plaster fliers on every door. Just make sure there aren't any "No Soliciting" signs around.

You should be able to apply all of these with a $500 budget.

This topic comes from just wanting to know what is working best for active investors, not so much the full time investor. A lot of people would go with mailing to circumstantial sellers. When you mail out, are you mailing 400 or more pieces per month? It would be easy to send out 100 pieces per week to test the market.

If you have a job, how are you handling calls that you might generate from your letters? Majority would send their messages to a voicemail system while few might want to take all of the call themselves.

Why take the call immediately versus sending the call to voicemail?

Mailing is fairly simple when compared to internet marketing. If you want to have a website that will generate the amount of traffic as sending mail pieces then you have to work hard. My experience has been off line marketing attracts the best online leads. Online marketing is just as good, but can cost more money intially due to fine tuning. Pay per click seems to bring in traffic within a few hours.

Mailings have worked well for me and so has internet marketing, but i want others to give us their synopsis of whats working best for 2008.

Again my question is what marketing are you committed too and are the results good?

i use property shark for looking up owners of record and complete property profiles, but not for comparables.

a site that provides good comparables for a reasonable price is sitexdata.com plus they give you a free trial. not sure if i can post their site here, but they are pretty thorough.

i just joined, thanks!

ok, i understand.

this morning i just realized that i should join some of the groups in areas i am interested. you provide so many different elements that its going to take some getting use to all the benefits of this site.

Eric you need to check your website url, the page shows that it expired on 9/4

you might want to try doing a reia search for your area.

if you need help finding deals then i might be able to assist you some.

Day or Ramos, feel free to contact me.