All posts by Duncan Wierman

List Building

How to Build Your Prospect List

The Role Of Building Lists In Real Estate Internet Marketing

One of the most important things in your Real Estate Investing business is to build a list of contacts of hungry buyers (retail and wholesale) and private lenders. Just as in any other business, running an online real estate business you need to build the relationship potential. Subscribers are the contacts on your lists that are the most valuable asset of your online business. Therefore, list building leads to building relationships, which in turn encourages prospects to visit your website, sign up and get closer to buying your offer. But people are not just going to flock to a website and leave their contact information! To attract them, they must perceive some value. The first thing they are going to think about is how they will benefit from giving you their contact details. That’s why every business that does online marketing must build its own lists, targeted at specific prospects. It is time consuming. You have to work really hard. But in the end, you will directly enjoy the fruits of your efforts.

 

Lists – The Golden Treasure Box

Everyone talks about his or her ‘optin’ lists. It’s their treasure. They are always looking for new and innovative ways to build their lists to keep visitors coming to heir sites continuously. They offer various things to the prospective customer like free reports, ebooks, services etc. just to get their email address and other identifiable information. It is essential to keep following up with people who might be interested in what you are offering.

Why Have A Growing List? Is it not sufficient to have a few hundred contacts? In online marketing, not every visitor buys from the site he or she is visiting. Sure you may have built a huge database of contacts, but unless each one is a qualified contact, there is no guarantee that they will take any action when they visit. Even in the off line world, you usually cannot get a buying decision out of your prospect right away – it takes not less than five visits unless they are desperately in need. That is why you have to get your visitor’s email id and name a. This will let you plan a frequency at which you can remind them and keep them updated about your services and offers You just use ethical methods to build your lists. The worst thing in Real Estate Internet marketing is acquiring a bad reputation, because that will ensure that you can never do business again.

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Search Engine Optimization

Advanced SEO Techniques

This e-book is a hard-hitting guide that gives you the information you need to make the adjustments to your site right away to help improve your search rankings and benefit from the increase in organic search traffic. Search Engine Optimization or SEO is simply the act of manipulating the pages of your website to be easily accessible by search engine spiders so they can be easily spidered and indexed. A spider is a robot that search engines use to check millions of web pages very quickly and sort them by relevance. A page is indexed when it is spidered and deemed appropriate content to be placed in the search engines results for people to click on.

The art and science of understanding how search engines identify pages that are relevant to a query made by a visitor and designing marketing strategies based on this is called search engine optimization. Search engines offer the most cost effective mechanism to acquire “real” and “live” business leads. It is found that in most cases, search engine optimization delivers a better ROI than other forms such as online advertisements, e-mail marketing and newsletters, affiliate and pay per click advertising, and digital campaigns and promotions.
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Probate

Probate Investing – Fast Start Guide

The Fast, Easy, Simple and Profitable Way to Wealth

Do you want a ready-made market of motivated sellers who often sell at a deep discount — a market where you’ll have little to no competition at all? Probate real estate investing is the easiest and fastest way to find deals and a get check. I think it’s an ideal way for the beginning investor to make money when you combine this with the concept of “quick turning.”

WHAT IS PROBATE?

Probate: is the official proving of a will authentic or valid in a probate court

When a person dies, their estate – all their worldly belongings – often goes into probate court, where a judge appoints a Personal Representative (a.k.a PR ( Executor)) to oversee its administration. It is the PR’s job to make sure that the belongings are divided fairly and according to the decedent’s wishes. Depending on the state, the judge may also give the PR different levels of power.

Probate is the process of distributing the assets of an estate after the creditors have been satisfied. One of the primary functions of probate is to transfer the title of the decedent’s property to its proper heirs. Of course, the government wants the estate to pay any taxes that the deceased still owes first.

After the expenses are paid once all the decedent’s property is sold, the people who have inherited anything from the person who died, divide up the remaining money.

However, what often happens is attorneys get involved and then the process becomes complicated and expensive.

Why Are The Owners Of Probate Property So Motivated?

In many cases, when an heir inherits property, they inherit a burden. There are estate taxes to be paid, repairs that must be made, in some cases, a mortgage or second mortgage must be kept up to date. Add in the fact that there are often multiple ‘owners’, and many of them may live far away, and you have a situation where selling the house is the best, and sometimes the only option to make sure that everyone gets their fair share of the estate. Ready cash may be more important to them than any other factor. People who inherit the estate want the money and not the house, they will often take a quick sale at a discounted price.

There are some other reasons why I love probate investing…

It’s one of the easiest ways to find properties at less than 70% of market value, do a little fix-up and sell at market value; you will make lots of money.

The other reasons:

Little Competition

Little Seller Resistance Very Easy and Simple High Response Rate

Are you starting to see why probate properties are so attractive?

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Virtual Wholesaling

Virtual Wholesaling and Investing Business Processes

What is virtual real estate investing?

Many people don’t believe that you can actually invest virtually. My definition of virtual investing is “Property that is purchased and added to your portfolio and that is never physically touched”. I combine this strategy with pure internet marketing to find leads, and also find hungry buyers to wholesale to for quick cash.

I do think it is important for everybody to beware of the fact quick turning real estate is a strategy that solves your short term cash flow needs, I also would advise that look forward in the future and develop a long term strategy for buying and holding after you have cash reserves so you don’t have to constantly be working.

I wholesaled 45 houses last year all without any credit and without putting down more than 10 dollars as a binder fee. Wholesaling or “Quick-turning” is the best way into the real estate investing business. Doing it online at home in your pajamas makes it ideal! My goal is to share with you how to do this simple, easy, duplicable system.

When I first got started, I used to invest only my area. But for many people their backyard economics don’t make any sense or they can’t find deals. My personal portfolio is spread out over 18 states, and I don’t have a one property that doesn’t produce a positive cash flow. I started with nothing, and I really understand that the biggest challenge for people is that they don’t have money or credit available to do deals.

I am going to show, how you can get big chunks of cash when you wholesale. I have never seen a business, where I have been rewarded in the way I have financially as this one. In this business, if you are willing to put in the time, the money that comes back to compensate your time is unbelievable. My goal is to deliver the plan in this manual that can do 5 – 10 thousand dollars easily every month. This is a very easy duplicitable system and I you can follow along exactly what we do on daily basis, to make money. Continue reading Virtual Wholesaling and Investing Business Processes →

Email Marketing

How To Get Around Spam Filters PLUS Free Software

As you are growing your buyers list, you will find that email deliverability gets harder and harder. With that in mind, you are going to love this bonus email spam filter checking tool. Simply run your email through this software, to let you know how to analyze your email chances against a spam filter. I also have put together the most common words that get your mail stuck.. Solve your email sending problems today. Continue reading How To Get Around Spam Filters PLUS Free Software →

Uncategorized

Panama Rocks! Tax Exemption law is back!

One of the main incentives to buy property in Panama was the 20-year property tax exemption law, first passed in 1990 to encourage economic development and investment. The exemption freed buyers of new homes or condos from paying property tax for up to 20 years.

The exemption had been extended several times, but finally expired Aug. 31, 2007. The government introduced new exemptions of five to 15 years, depending on the value of the property. Though real estate companies, construction companies, and developers lobbied for the return of the 20-year blanket exemption, the government refused. Until now…

The government of Panama had a change of heart. On Saturday, December 22, Housing Minister Balbina Herrera extended the 20-year tax exemption until December 31, 2009. “We are doing this not only because the construction sector is important to the national economy, but also because 95% of the new construction is for nationals and only 5% for foreigners,” said the Minister, seemingly in response to critics claiming the exemption benefits wealthy expats rather than the struggling Panamanians it was intended to help.

Bottom line: if construction on your new residential property is complete by December 31, 2009, you won’t pay property tax for 20 years from the date of completion.

Even if you buy a resale, the remaining exemption time is transferred to you. For example, if you buy a residential property that was built in 2000, you won’t pay property tax on it until 2020.

Just remember, land itself is not exempted and will continue to incur property taxes if its value is above $30,000.

P.S. If you’ve been planning to buy property in Panama, this new exemption extension is reason enough to get moving and make it happen. Start the new year with concrete plans to finally visit Panama and see for yourself why we’re so keen on it.

Recommended Resources

Nationwide Hard Money Lender Directory

A hard money lender is a loan broker who specializes in placing private funds into loans. Typically, a hard money lender is an individual with a small staff that performs this service. There are larger companies that operate as hard money lenders as well. The hard money lender has a database of private lenders, individuals with money to lend (or invest). Most of these individuals are retired people who use their IRAs or lines of credit to invest.

HARD MONEY LENDER = SPECIALIZED LOAN BROKER PRIVATE LENDER = INDIVIDUAL WITH MONEY TO LEND

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Seized Government Homes

Seized Government Homes You Can Flip Easily

Thousands of homes from all over the county are seized by the government daily and this property needs to be offered to the public by means of public auctions. The advent of technology makes the US Government seized homes and property auction available online.

You can buy houses up to 90% off. Properties include multifamily and single homes, land for sale, real estate investment property, condos, commercial property for sale & more. Not just luxury homes or US Government seized homes and properties. The government has available commercial property for sale for you to start up or expand your business ventures.

You can bid on seized properties from the Government, Police State Auctions and I’ll show you where and when the Government Auctions will be held.  Everyday thousands of houses are seized by the government. These properties are offered to the public by means of public auctions. The advent of technology makes the US Government seized homes and property auction available online.  With property listings in almost every state of the US, we provide you with a comprehensive real estate database online

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