The lady was older and she was "old fashioned" in the way she communicated, so emails, text messages, and other technological forms of communication weren't efficient in communicating with her.

Invariably, they enjoyed investing success, and then at some point whipped out an Excel spreadsheet and determined that they could make more money, leverage their time in an unbelievably profitable fashion, with better hours, by morphing into a coaching organization that is harnessed to state-of-the-art marketing.And if you're not a self-starter, do you really have any chance at being successful as a real estate entrepreneur, with a coaching program or otherwise?

You don't receive as much money, but you have a solid deal and it's handled in a smooth fashion.

On the label use a seasonal or generic art work followed by your first name and return address.

Do you actually answer the phone or call back in a timely fashion?

We started in a similar fashion, with an full-gut REO freshman year of college (with the help of our parents, we were only dating at the time) once finished we lived there and leased to several college kids.

If you wanted to get very detailed, there are other off market type deals like BK, direct from banks prior to MLS, probates prior to MLS, etc, however, I would also lump those into the direct marketing bucket as each of them require you to market yourself to them in some fashion or form.

You'll come off as a fashion plate.   

Wise on this one I think many of these folks if they would just take the time and energy to get a RE license and learn from that angle and get paid to learn they would do much better than thinking they can just learn from a guru or even on BP  its nice to talk about it all and there are many very experienced and successful folks However I suspect most of them learned the old fashion way trial and error not just reading on line how to get rich in real estate ..

If you would like the art work let me know..BTW the Mail Merge Pulls better.