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How to Sell Real Estate on eBay the right way

There are a lot of advantages to enjoy if you decide to sell real estate on Ebay. For one thing, selling on Ebay allows you to be in contact with millions of unique individuals from all walks of life and different parts of the world. It also facilitates the whole process because you can simply list all the rules you want followed regarding the transaction. No need to entertain the same inquiries one after another. Indeed, there’s virtually little to lose and everything to gain if you sell real estate on Ebay.

Tips on How to Successfully Sell Real Estate on eBay

Although many people assert that success is guaranteed when you sell real estate on Ebay, here are a few steps on how to sell real estate on Ebay for the highest value at the quickest time possible.

Below is a what you will find in my course.

  • Why Auction My Home?
  • When to Market Your Property with an eBay Real Estate Auction
  • How to Successfully Market Your Property using eBay Real Estate
  • How to Register with eBay
  • How Long to Run Your eBay Real Estate Listing
  • Reserve Auctions…Absolute Auctions…Huh?
  • Other Options to Market Your Property on and off eBay
  • Are You Ready? Prepare Your Property to Sell
  • Your Title Can Make or Break Your Auction
  • Create a Dynamic eBay Listing with FREE (or almost free), Easy to Use, Design Tools
  • What Auction Listing Items Must Your Listing Include to be a for a Success?
  • How to Take Great Real Estate Pictures
  • Promote Your Auction!
  • How to Get Realtors to Sell Your Property Without the Big Commission!
  • What do I do With All These Questions?
  • Closing Your eBay Real Estate Deal.
  • eBay Commercial Real Estate
  • Land…
  • A Few Words for eBay Realtors (or Those Who Want to Be.)

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Finding Private Money to Fund Your Deals

Having access to money to make offers, takes away the fear of making offers. The more money you have available to do deals, the more deals you will want to do.  If you invest in real estate, you need cash to buy houses. Even if you have a full bank account and great credit, you’ll eventually run short on funds – or short on time to obtain a loan – for the next deal. Private lending is the answer. It is a bottomless pool of readily accessible funds: whether you have great credit or poor; whether you have cash reserves or not.

‘Private Lending’ refers to the process of borrowing real estate investment funds from private individuals at rates higher than these lenders can normally achieve in the marketplace. The attraction of private lending is the speed and ease of funding deal.

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Tweaking Traditional Marketing and How to Save a Fortune

Real Estate Postcard Marketing: Postcards + Website = Leads

These days an internet marketing strategy plays a vital part of small business marketing strategies (or any size business marketing strategies for that matter). Web site marketing is an important part of just about any business, small or large.

You can’t put up a beautiful (or any) web site and hope that people will just arrive. You have to let them know, IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY, that your web site is there. This HAS to be part of any Internet marketing strategy you develop. This is actually a basic marketing principle. Customers are not going to look for you, you have to look for them.

Promoting your web site on-line and building traffic is the subject of thousands of web sites, e-zines, books, courses and seminars. Using the web to promote your site, however, assumes that your customers are surfers. But there is a large percentage of our population that is not as savvy with the internet as we would like them to be.

So, what about the large percentages of the population who are not? They will only find out about you through traditional marketing and public relations media. This is particularly true if you serve a fairly local market. Fortunately these are the easiest and cheapest prospects for you to reach off-line.

Key Off-Line Internet Marketing Strategies
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Search Engine Optimization For More For First Page Listings

How your website is ranked by the search engines is very dependent on how many sites link to you.   Online links are like an Online Recommendation or Endorsement.  The way to think about link is similar to someone give you a recommendation or an endorsement. In the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) this is very important. Search Engines rely on “recommendations” to evaluate the quality and the legitimacy of your website.. A “recommendation” by a well known person carries a lot more weight then by lots of unknown people. The same rule applies with search engines.

When well known and trusted websites , the industry leaders, link to you ( thus giving you the recommendation)

It shows in the Search Engine indexes that you are a respected in your industry. The more of these types of quality back links, the greater the respect your website will receive in the eyes of the Search Engines. I am sure you can see that the internet is one big popularity contest.

Its not just who says it, but also about what they say.  You already know that both Search Engines and Web Visitors have a high level of trust in specific websites. We have been teaching how to  work with sites that people easily recognize such as Twitter, Linkedin, Ebay, YouTube, etc. People flock to these sites everyday because of the information they provide.  When you continue to add information to these sites so you will get a instant boost in both visibility and credibility.

We want to build on this strategy to get higher in the search engines for organic traffic.  Getting free leads by designing your site as “authority’ site is what makes this strategy  very effective. You are going to be in complete control of the information and how it flows. You will be the one who is behind the brand and trust of your business of how it appears to the online world.

How To Make Yourself the Authority Site

We are going to work with “parasite” sites to create even more links.  Just by having someone give you a recommendation ( a link) is not good enough. The most important aspect of the recommendation is going to be what they say about you. On the internet , this is referred to an “Anchor Text”. This Text is the clickable text within a link.  The best way to use Anchor Text should vary slightly from time to time. Search Engines will get suspicious if everybody keeps recommending you is saying the exact same thing.

Anchor text usually gives the user relevant descriptive or contextual information about the content of the link’s destination. The anchor text may or may not be related to the actual text of the URL of the link. For example, a hyperlink to the my SuperSmart Website  homepage might take this form:

<a href="http://www.easysellahouse.com">Sell House Fast Greenville SC</a>

The anchor text in this example is “Sell House Fast Greenville SC”; the URL http://www.easysellahouse.com displays on the web page as Sell House Fast Greenville SC, contributing to clean, easy-to-read text.

You must think about your entire website. I suggest that you do not have everybody link back to your homepage, but to point to specific pages within your site. When you only link to a page on your home page, it is referred to as “shallow Linking.” Too many of these types of links will raise a red flag to the search engines and eventually they will question the validity of your links.I know you are wondering … ok.. but “how am I going to get people to endorse me and my website”? The answer is very simple, YOU are going to do it for them! This is what makes this strategy course very effective. You are going to be in complete control of the information and how it flows. You will be the one who is behind the brand and trust of your business of how it appears to the online world.

The proper way to link is by a method referred to as “Deep Linking” or ” “Link Wheel”  . These deep links are pointing to your internal content pages. Let’s take a look at one example.

A review about your company may mention or refer to different aspects of your services on your website. When the reviewer is mentioning a specific service, they will link directly to that page. ( deep link) instead of just pointing to your home page (shallow link). Search Engines favor these types of links because they look more natural. So with this in mind, make sure your “recommendations” link to a variety of different pages on your website. This action is going to give your links a high effectiveness and it ensure maximum exposure to the number of website pages which will appear in the Search Engines.

The purpose of this course is not to make you a Search Engine Optimization Specialist. I only want you to have an overall understanding of how the Search Engines work. You will be following my system so that when you are building pages and linking them in a way that will reach thousands of web visitors. This is what makes this course so valuable. We will be guiding you to maximize your traffic by attracting both web visitors and Search Engines. You will find this is the most powerful combination in Online Marketing. You can applies these principals to any online business you may ever choose to do to beat your competition.

Fast Start For Getting Your Site “Recommended”

I do not want you to spend YOUR time doing this, when you can get it done for you at a very low cost. Check out the link below to use www.Fiverr.com to find a virtual worker who will do this for you for only FIVE dollars :

http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?query=linkwheel&x=17&y=16

NOTE : What about Returning Links?

DON’T DO IT…NO.. There is no need to do any reciprocal linking. You want notice all your “recommendation links” coming into your website and NONE are going out. Please don’t link back to any of these sites. If you do link back to any other website, it dilutes the power of this strategy. No “I will scratch your back if you scratch mine” allowed or needed!

This system is very effective because Google uses a system called Page Rank to analyze the amount of quality links pointing to your website.

Google states :  ” In general, webmaster can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high quality site that link to their pages “

If you read this sentence carefully, you will notice the phrase “high quality”. The trick is not to focus on the volume of links to your site, but to add HIGH QUALITY links referring back to your website. When you implement the strategies outlined in this course, you will be creating the back links that you for the most part CONTROL the quality of.

The other things to keep in mind is that when you implement my strategies, you will be looking at

Link Placement How is the link buried? Is it at the displayed at the bottom or is it PREDOMINATE in the first paragrapha?

Credibility Is the website or page credible that refers back to you?

Total Number of Links Is the link to your site on of the many or one of the few? You do not want to have your link competing against other links.

I have given each strategy a rank in regards to importance. If your time is limited, do the techniques with the higher point value first. Then you can come back at any time and do the others. This way, it looks more natural to the search engines. Remember it the quality of the links NOT Quantity.

TIP:  When signing up for these online resources do not just choose ANY USERNAME. The trick here instead is to use KEYWORDS that relate to your website (such as City,NameRealEstate)

4 Steps to a Deal in 30 days – Direct Mail and Great Leads

Today’s post purpose is to take you through the process of getting a wholesale deal from start to finish. The dream to “flip” (quick-turn) houses full time has become a reality! To the chosen few who understand that to be successful, they must take four steps to make this business work. I will reveal you how easy real estate investing is by following this 4-step “recipe” . My strategy has been proven to work time and time again. Please follow the recipe exactly as outlined below: The trick to the business of real estate investing is two-fold:

 

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More than Subprime Resets: The Real Meaning of Two Waves

“Excerpts below from a WSJ article discuss some of the basics of the SIV market and whether or not the bank bail-out (MLEC) will arrive in time. Stay tuned, this is a good one to be a spectator at, especially if you really want to see how things are handled under stress.”

“We responded quickly by adjusting home prices in many of our neighborhoods to levels that would enable buyers to qualify for FHA mortgages…” “Centex said the average price of its homes sold in the latest quarter fell 8% as it also offered more incentives to lure buyers nervous that the housing market has not yet reached bottom. Discounts and incentives totaled 11% of housing revenue, the company said.” [Ed. Note: of course the incentives don’t show up in price; just negatively in profits. Part of the reason the decline is worse than popularly reported.]

“Troubled home builder Beazer Homes USA Inc. Thursday said it will be required to restate financial results due to an independent internal investigation into its mortgage origination business and other practices.”

“Issuance of securities backed by subprime mortgages and home equity loans remains weak compared to recent history, as rising delinquencies and defaults among the loans continue to drag down the market.”

“Yeah, the idea’s probably overly-simplistic, but it seems to me that it’s better to get a 9% interest rate on a note that’s being repaid than to get a 12% rate on one that’s in foreclosure.”

How long does it take until a new site ranks in Google, Yahoo and MSN?

In a recent test, a webmaster optimized his site for a four word keyword. After about three weeks, Yahoo and MSN showed the website in the top 10 results.
Even after several weeks, the same website was nowhere to be seen in Google’s top 10 results. The highest result that the website could obtain on Google was position 30!

ranking time

What does this mean for the new real estate investor?

It looks like Yahoo and MSN are much faster to list new websites in their result pages. The test confirmed that Google has filters for new websites.

For webmasters, the results of this test mean that they have to overcome Google’s filters for new sites if they want to have top 10 rankings. It’s difficult for new websites to get high rankings on Google but it is possible. You have to make sure that Google trusts your site. For searchers, the results of this little test mean that Google might not always have the best search results, particularly when it’s a search for new content. Yahoo and MSN might be the better choice for some searches.

Is your website still not listed in Google’s top 10 results although your site is several months old?

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6 Easy-To-Do Action Steps to Get Increased Response from Your Direct Marketing Campaigns

I think it really goes without saying that direct mail marketing is a powerful marketing tool for finding sellers who are motivated. When you combine direct mail marketing with the internet, response rates increase significantly. It’s important to provide quality information in the content of your marketing material, rather than just a simple “I buy houses” approach. Especially if you’re targeting pre-foreclosure, tax liens or any other type of list that will likely have sellers getting barraged with “we buy houses” letters. Offer them exclusive time sensitive information on your website to start sorting the leads.

Try sending frequent mailings to your prospects that provide your website links to quality information that is beneficial to the seller, and provides information on how they can find help out of their situation.

Sending repeat mailings with this type if information will help you to.…

  1. Establish your credibility
  2. Develop a reputation as an industry expert

  3. Cultivate a relationship with your prospects

  4. Inspire loyalty

  5. And maintain regular contact

The big mistake I see a lot of investors making is thinking that simply sending a single letter to a list of prospects — and then forgetting about it — is going to attract sellers by the thousands. Even if your list is highly targeted, this is going to produce disappointing results.

You need to be prepared to send a minimum of three mailings to each list. You will get much better results sending multiple letters to a smaller list, than a single letter to a larger list. If budget is an issue, then sending three post cards to a list is better than sending one letter.

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