You said the seller found your website, was that through a post card or yellow letter that you sent out, or did they just find your website from google searching ?

Like most newbies, I have very little means to market other than driving for dollars and mailing hand typed letters (no budget for postcards).

V have sent thousands of letters and postcards, and the result was less than 1%.For example from August 2015 to February 2016 (that is 6 months), we emailed about 4000 postcards and letters and received 7 phone calls ending up getting 2 listings.

For example: You get a call off your Cash For Houses postcard. 

These services don’t just mail yellow letters but also have other forms of marketing materials including zip letters, postcards, door flyers, etc.

During the marketing time, I send a variety of pieces (typed professional, handwritten, postcard, etc) to catch the differences in what people respond to.

this is the perfect time for you to get creative with your investing or don't do it, one thing you can do is become an AUTHORIZED user on your parents credit cards. please do your own research on what that details. since you are working you could send out post cards to everyone in you area and wait for the calls to come in, this might take a while but when you talk to the sellers you can mention that you are willing to do seller financing.

I will have a separate number for the postcards so I can better track the results.On the weekends I am also driving for dollars , taking addresses and compiling my list.For the driving for dollars each time I get 10 leads I am planning on sending out Letters.If anyone has advice for me feel free to chime in.Thanks 

I want to know how many calls should I be expecting from that many post cards and if I should continue doing direct mail.

We kicked off our first marketing campaign last month and mailed out 2318 post cards focusing on absentee owners (which we pulled from MLS) and houses we found when "driving for dollars" in 9 zip codes.