I hand write the envelopes and letter, and have not tried to reinvent the wheel when it comes to effective marketing.I can tell you from my personal experience that any time I have tried to change that, hand written envelope printed letter or any variation my response has gone down.Set a goal each week on how many you want to send out, then divide that by days and you will know how many you need to do daily.Also, your letter does not need to be a long one.

Maybe I should try everything for a trial period and see what works best...Just wanted to throw this out there to see what is working for others and if there is anyone that could push me in the right direction.

Moreover, older sellers prefers direct mail over phone call.Facebook ads is also good but not the best when it comes in finding sellers.SEO is more long term strategy than some of the other but can be very effective in the long term.The key to being successful with Real Estate Marketing is consistency and the only way to find what marketing strategy works for your market is by trial and error.Good Luck to you!

In my uneducated opinion it seems like there are a hundred different ibuy.... domain variations in every market and they seem a little "spammy" to me. 

So far, I've been saying "ah man I don't know how I can pay that much for this property"  or some variation.

A BPO from a mill is much closer to a full blown appraisal these days.If you are asking the agent to look up a few solds,actives,and expired's and print out a one page form from the MLS then that does not take much time.If you are wanting an interior evaluation with repair estimates and making adjustments for variations in comps to arrive at a more accurate number doing as-is versus arv analysis then that is more like a BPO.In that case the agent should be compensated.

I look the property up by address, then by different variations of the name.

Just a lot of trial and error to get everything lined up properly.

It takes some time and some trial-and-error to figure out the spacing.

They have a free trial too...www.simplecrew.comLet me know if any of you end up using this!