Second, figure out how to get that website in front of those homeowners when they are truly motivated to sell their home quickly (ppc, seo).

Your position in web results is also a factor, so SEO best practices also apply to local search optimization.There's no way to request or pay for a better local ranking on Google.

I am giving investor carrot a try (River City Home Buyers Website) and handling the seo myself since I have a little bit of experience with seo and adwords from managing it at A-1 Door. 

My story is pretty simple.In 2017 I typed "real estate investing" into Google and BP was right there - Great SEO presence ;)Been here ever since!

I have put together a group of partners that want to begin our, hopefully long term, venture in to the real estate world. We have high hopes of eventually getting into buy and hold on bigger properties. But to start, ...

Honestly I think 99% of the "find motivated sellers" stuff is just to get newbies to shell out big money for SEO, mailers, "ringless voicemail" (aaaaaa hate!)

@Chandra Mcculloch - our response rate on direct mail is admittedly bad, we have much more success doing calls and we are working on establishing an online SEO presence (not there yet, but see the value).We've also recently tested handwritten notes to a small group around our current jobs.  

I am currently in the process of learning seo, but I know that it will take a long time to get at the top of the markets I am targeting (separate landing pages for albany, utica, syracuse, rochester, binghamton, buffalo). 

@Don PhelpsWe don’t have just a ton of money to throw at SEO but I do have some ideas to get people bringing us deals.

I figured this was a bad print or since it rains a lot here in the pnw that it was an accident. but over the course of the next few months every postcard i got back was badly smudged and felt like it wasn't very appealing or coming across as professional (i also had my website listed on the postcards)I've got a carrot website and have started the SEO content packages and have had that up since June.