REI Marketing Tips

We just added a HUGE new bonus when you claim a copy of the SMP version of SIMS 2.0 through my special link.  A BONUS 1 day Mastermind session in our office in San Diego.  Watch this very brief video for all of the details:

Ready to be one of the 10?  Get your copy of SIMS here!

PS- Don’t forget about the ORIGINAL insane bonus package, which you can see by just scrolling down the page…

SIMS is being offered starting tomorrow, Tuesday July 13th at 12pm EST. If you order SIMS through my special link you get access to the following insane bonus package:

1. Waived set-up fee for your very own official SaveMeFromForeclosure.com territory. No longer have branding or credibility issues when you can tell a homeowner that your company has a perfect track record with the Better Business Bureau. Plus so much more like:

- Done for you short sale negotiations, debt settlement & loan modifications
- Exclusive Marketing, Branding & Licensing rights
- Marketing tools like advertorials, direct mail letters, free reports & much more
- Door knocker scripts AND objection replies

Plus, MUCH, MUCH more that you can check out in detail here (Value $2,497).

2. Press Releases are a HUGE part of our Internet strategy. Press Releases are a component of SIMS, although quite honestly, there’s not enough time spent on them in the course (I went through SIMS with great detail, and found that this was one area that wasn’t as good as it could have been). Fortunately for you, Dreama and I recorded 2 separate audios EXCLUSIVELY on using Press Releases in your real estate investing business. These 2 audios will be made available to you for download after you order SIMS through our special link (Value $97)

3. As many of you know, Dreama used to do PR for the White House. When you order SIMS through our special link, Dreama will PERSONALLY write 2 press releases for you for any aspect of your business. This could be for a Property Launch, announcement of a new website, sale of a property, you name it, we’ll write it for you! (value $497)

4. Submission of Press Releases to all of the major Internet press release sites. Look, just because you’ve written your Press Releases, you’re only halfway done. Now you need to distribute them. Don’t know where to start, or don’t want to spend the time manually inputting them? No problem, not only will my team put them on a webpage for you, but we’ll submit them to all of the major free press release sites. Plus, we’ll show you exactly where and how we submit our Press Releases for any future ones that you do (Value $97)

5. Two (2) hours of FREE web development services from my own personal web developer! If you need any web pages created, blog plugins set up, or anything else web related, you can use my personal web developer (based in North America) for you needs. Work with someone who ONLY speaks English, so there’s no language barriers or confusion (Value $50)

6. Ability to use my wed developer for ongoing projects (after you use your first 2 free hours) at the insanely low reduced rate of $25 per hour! Finally, get any web work you need done so you can focus on your real estate investing. My developer understands all of the needs to be successful online. Don’t waste your time interviewing someone or hiring overseas, when you can use my developer (Value: priceless)

7. A free audio recorded about how I sold a house in 5 days in a snowstorm. Take what I did, learn from it, and apply it to the Property Launch Formula (Value: $27)

That’s $3,265 in bonuses in addition to finally getting an English speaking web developer who “gets” our business immediately added to your team.

Lots of other people are offering bonuses with big boxes of more “STUFF” that many of you don’t need. What many of you need is to take action and to implement. My bonuses, including writing by Dreama, web development work, and coaching and consulting from me, are worth FAR MORE than getting another big box of “STUFF” that’s going to sit on your shelf. My bonuses help you in 2 ways:

FIRST they get COMPLEMENT exactly what you get when you order SIMS through my special link.
SECOND they include work done by me, my developer, and Dreama that are tangible assets to your business, not more “STUFF” sitting on your bookshelf.

Remember that you can claim your bonus package when SIMS goes LIVE on Tuesday, July 13th at 9am PST/12pm EST and you order through my special link.

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS BONUS, YOU MUST ORDER THROUGH MY SPECIAL LINK.

After you order, simply forward me an email with your receipt and we’ll verify your order.

IF YOU ORDER THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE’S LINK, YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR MY BONUSES!

I know that I’ve been promising you all week that I’d have a new video sharing the biggest “Takeaways” from my marketing seminar this past weekend.

Well not only did I attend a marketing seminar, by my business colleague Miguel attending Ron Ballard’s short sale investing seminar this past weekend as well. For those of you who don’t know Ron, he’s California’s #1 short sale attorney.

We decided to divide and conquer, so I did the 3 day marketing seminar in San Diego, and Miguel drove up to Ron’s all day event this past Saturday in Newport Beach.

We recorded a very brief video where we each share our 2 biggest “Takeaways” from the weekend, and correlate them directly to real estate investing:

Also, I have sent you a couple of emails about posting properties to Sellpoint, the easiest way to distribute your property listings to boatloads of sites across the internet, all with a push of a button. You simply MUST sign up a for a free account here. Also, tell 3 friends and well….you’ll just have to visit the page to find out what cool FREE goodies you get.

Oh yes, and one other thing: add me as a friend on Facebook if you’re on it!

Last month I wrote a blog post about how Chase Home Finance had opened 51 “Home Ownership” centers across the country. These centers were to provide free foreclosure and loan modification counseling for anyone who was behind on a Chase mortgage.

I mentioned this and asked people to find creative ways on how they could use this information to grow their business. I actually went out to one of the Chase Home Ownership centers here in San Diego, but discovered that they don’t refer any business out. Even if the homeowner is denied a loan modification!

But I knew that these were high traffic areas with highly targeted prospects: people behind on their mortgages. I recorded a quick video to show you how we ended up targeting these homeowners:

After you watch the video below, please leave a comment. I installed a new plug-in on my blog, and it automatically gives anyone who lives a comment on my blog high ranking, one-way back link to their site just for a leaving a comment.

Now why would you want to do that, you ask? Well, one of the best ways to get your sites to rank higher in the search engines is to get lots of ONE WAY links coming to your site. That’s because Google sees each link as a “vote” in terms of relevance and popularity for your site.

Normally this is very time consuming, but I found a new Wordpress plugin called “Top Commentators”.

The Top Commentators plugin actually lists the top 10 commentators on EVERY PAGE of the bloggers blog WITH a one-way link back to the commentators website! Do you see how big this can be? If you are ranked as one of the top 10 commentators on a blog with 50 pages you’ll instantly get 50 one-way links pointing back to YOUR website! How cool is that? What if the blog had 100,000 webpages?

So here’s how this works…

You need to find blogs that are using the Top Commentator plugin (do a Google search) and you need to leave RELEVANT, USEFUL comments on those blogs.

So where do you start??? Here’s where you can help me, help you…

If you look on the right side bar you’ll see that I have the Top Commentators plugin installed. And because I have only a few comments at this time, YOU can easily become a Top Commentator listed on this blog with a one-way link back to your site! And yes, my blog will be is continually growing, which means more and more links and free traffic back to your website over time.

So there you have it…a free way to get quality traffic. All you need to do is post a USEFUL comment here on the blog. I figured that this post was the perfect start, because there’s a great video on here.

So happy investing, let me know how you enjoyed the video, and leave a comment and start getting MORE traffic back you to YOUR website!

For everyone who is going to make an investment in Karen Hanover & DC Fawcett’s incredible Commercial Foreclosure Goldrush system, I want to be sure that when you purchase through my link, you are eligible for the following bonuses. Please note that to qualify for these bonuses, you MUST purchase the ELITE level of Karen & DC’s system.  I recorded a quick video for you to watch to see all of the bonuses and how they work perfectly with DC & Karen’s system:

BONUS #1- Waived Set-up Fee for your very own SaveMeFromForeclosure.com county (Value: $2,497)

Instantly have a page 1 Google ranked website, instant credibility, a perfect track record with the Better Business Bureau and SO MUCH MORE with this bonus.  What you get is too lengthy to list here, so check out this link.

BONUS #2- New 4 week coaching program showing you how to get FREE labor for your business (Value: Priceless)

Dreama and I have been working on a super secret project that shows you exactly how you can get FREE labor, from college educated people, without having to spend a penny on payroll.  This is part of a super-secret new project we’re working on, but you’ll get instant, immediate access to a 4 week coaching program revealing EXACTLY what we’re doing with this.  That’s all I can say about this, but if you realize that you need more resources to help your business grow, but you’re sick of Virtual Assistants, this is one bonus you simply must claim.

BONUS #3- Access Justin & Dreama’s Private Money For Your Commercial Deals (Value: Priceless)

If you have been following Dreama & I for a while you know that we recently sold our million dollar home in Vancouver to move to San Diego (because it’s cheaper here…seriously).  We have set aside some of our funds for great commercial deals.  In fact, we found one in February that pays us a net cash flow of $4,432.19 per month.  But we’re looking for more.  Purchase Karen & DC’s elite level program through our link, and be assured that we’ll personally review any deal that you’re working on and be able to help be private lenders on good deals that you find.  These are our own personal private funds, not someone else’s. Sure no money down deals are possible, but when you have cash to bring to the table, the number (and quality) of deals available to you really opens up.  (Please note that Dreama and I reserve the right to review and inspect all deals before we agree to lend on them).

BONUS #4- Be entered into the following prize drawings (Value: $1,000+)

Buy through our special link and you’ll instantly be entered into a draw for the following items:

Raffle Item #1- Free roundtrip airfare to Karen & DC’s 4 day bootcamp (so you don’t have to pay to attend, you can just show up)

Raffle Item #2- New flip cam

Raffle Item #3- New Ipod Nano

There you have it. Four incredible bonuses available for you by purchasing DC & Karen’s system through my special link. Remember that you must purchase the ELITE level of their system, and also use my link. After you do that, just forward me your receipt and we’ll take care of you.

I often get feedback not only in my own investing business, but also from students around the country, who get frustrated because other people, (often times realtors with whom they’re trying to network with) tell them that flipping short sales “illegal”.

This actually happened to one of my door knockers very recently. He was calling a home that was listed for sale (evident by the sign out front). After speaking with the owners and getting the agents contact info, he called the agent to let him know that we would like to write an offer on the property (tomorrow).

The agent said that his father had recently been to a DRE seminar here in California, and apparently a CAR attorney had told his father to “steer clear of double escrows”. (Important note: this is 100% hearsay, but let’s assume for the purpose of this blog post that the information is correct).

The agent asked us if we could “send him something” in advance of our meeting. I figured that this might be happening to other people out there as well, so I have included some of the email that we used, so you can use it in your own marketing as well.

Please note that the information below is meant for an email (and NOT a flyer) simply because it contains links. Feel free to copy and paste and use as you see fit:

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Recently, Freddie Mac, FHA and Wells Fargo have all made major changes to their business models to allow for short sale properties to be flipped, legally and ethically. In fact, that’s what me and my company, www.SaveMeFromForeclosure.com do.

Now before you get worried about thinking that we’re doing something “illegal”, I want to point you to 3 specific bulletins from these three major financial institutions that have been issued in the last 6 months:

First, in October of 2009, Freddie Mac released a bulletin that you can download here: http://www.freddiemac.com/sell/guide/bulletins/pdf/bll0924.pdf. On the first page of this bulletin is link to Freddie Mac’s Best Practices for Loans Involving Possible Property Flips, which can be found here: http://www.freddiemac.com/sell/guide/bulletins/pdf/bll0924xA.pdf. Most interesting to note is that Freddie Mac says that

“A property involved in a flip may be resold on the same day or within days, weeks, or months of the purchase. In some cases, the seller of a property flip never holds title to the property, but instead sells or assigns their interest in a contract to purchase the property to a third party.”

Freddie Mac then goes on to say that:

“Property flips are not inherently illegal and not all transactions involving a rapid purchase and resale are improper. Legitimate property flips are acceptable transactions in connection with loans purchased by Freddie Mac.”

Finally, Wells Fargo, who issued more mortgage loans that any other company in 2009, has now allowed their borrowers to buy properties that are being flipped by others. You can see this internal document that Wells Fargo mortgage lending released at the beginning of 2010 here: http://www.macedesigns.com/clients/srec/WellsFargo.pdf

So why is this significant? Three MAJOR players in the United States housing industry are changing their policies and business practices to allow for short sale flips and for homeowners to get mortgages where the seller is “flipping” the property to the buyer.

I’m sure you’ll agree with me that if 3 big time banking giants like HUD, Freddie Mac and Wells Fargo are making these changes, they’re accepting the legitimacy of short sale flips and them as a viable way to help eliminate foreclosures and help rebuild and stabilize the housing market.

In fact, last fall, before 2 of the 3 major announcements were even released, Mr. Lem Marshall, Special Counsel to VAR (the Virginia Association of Realtors) posted an article in their Commonwealth Magazine, a publication that is “A journal for real estate professionals published by the Virginia Association of REALTORS®”

You can read the entire article here.  (The main article is on page 12 of the publication, which is page 14 of the PDF), or, if you prefer a quick 2 page PDF document extracted from the magazine covering this very specific topic, you can download it here. What’s important to note, however, is how Lem ends the article, and his analysis of short sale flips, with the following paragraph:

So who loses? Nobody. Even the tax collectors and insurance folks come out ahead, as they get payments from owners making productive use of the asset. We all gain when inefficiency, uncertainty, and waste are squeezed out of the system. And we help hasten the return of reasonable market valuations, something of great benefit to our communities at large.

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Hopefully that the information can help you in your business.  I would recommend writing the email in your own voice, or even taking the information above and making a 2 or 4 page flyer that you can use to market to agents with short sale listings.  I’m actually in the process of doing that myself, and it will be made available to our community of exclusive SaveMeFromForeclosure.com local representatives.

However feel free to copy and paste any of the information (and links) in this email and use it in your marketing.  I would love get your opinion on what we’ve included here, and how you’re using it in your business, if at all.

Also, if you have any success stories (or challenges) using this information please feel free to post them here in the comments section.  We love hearing success stories, but if you have any challenges using this hopefully as a community we can help you further.

Happy Investing!

Ever heard of “Ning”. It’s social networking site.

The difference however? It can be VERY niche specific.

And that’s what I’ve done with it (or at least hope to do with it).

You see, I get asked ALL of the time, from investors, “Justin, where can I find an agent who is investor friendly? One who “gets” short sales, and back-to-back closings?”

Well, since we have a pretty decent sized community here at REIMarketingTips I’m guessing that I have a bunch of people who are both realtors AND investors, and who “get” the way we do short sales. I set up a Ning so that whether you’re an investor, or an agent, you can set up a profile, and hopefully find someone in your geographic area to work with.

I also figured that the Ning could be PARTICULARLY effective for those of you who get out of state deals, and need a local realtor to help you get a property re-listed and sold.

Anyway, if you’re an investor looking for more realtors to help you with your deals, or you’re an investor-friendly realtor looking to get more listings, head on over and create a profile, and may we all network and profit together.

If you’re a realtor, head over, create a profile (takes 3-4 minutes) and then let people know what areas you can pull comps for and set up listings for.

If you’re an investor, post what areas you’re investing in, and where you’re looking for realtors to help you with your listings.

Last month I said that I would be writing updates as to how exactly I was rebuilding my preforeclosure business for scratch in a brand new market, San Diego, CA.

Well I have been more on the “taking action” side of things rather than writing blog posts with updates (sorry).

But this Thursday night, I’m going to reveal exactly what I’ve been working on since I arrived here 1 month ago, and show you exactly how you can put the very same things into your business.

I’m hosting  a very special webinar training (with NO outside guests) revealing exactly what I’ve been doing in my business over the past 30 days, and how it’s already generating leads for me.  This special training will take place this Thursday evening, February 11th, at 5pm PST/8pm EST, and you’ll need to register for it right here.

Here are just a FEW of things that I’ll be covering on this very special training:

- The new Free Report that we just wrote that pre-sells your prospects for you (you actually overcome all of their objections by getting this free report in their hands)
- The “advertorial” style ad we use to get homeowners to download this free report in droves
- The simple 1 page website that we use to get the homeowners to download the free report (you can rip mine off, please!)
- How we use the telephone to screen out the tire kickers and lookie-lous (to get only the most qualified leads calling)
- The secret “door knocker” leave behind I’m using to get more eyeballs on this ad
- The press release template that we use in our local market to get more eyeballs on this ad and simple 1 page website

- The new sales letter I wrote for homeowners who are facing foreclosure (and why it’s my “best yet”)
- The two golden bonuses I am using to help me close the deal
- The secret way that I am delivering this letter (without paying for postage)

- The fax cover page I am using to blast realtors and get them to send me their short sale deals
- The “Guarantee” I put in this fax to skyrocket the response rates (and weed out the “you can’t do that” realtors)

Register right now for this training at 5pm PST/8pm EST this Thursday night, February 11th:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/354124146

On this special training on Thursday night at 5pm PST/8pm EST I’ll also reveal:

- The new integrated web submission form and telemarketing script I created for my telemarketer (all online)
- The phone number retrieval AND “Do Not Call” tool I’m using to get phone numbers for prospects in a matter of minutes
- The place where I found an EXPERIENCED telemarketer for only $3/hr

- The door knocking script I’ve given my door knocker (chock full of the most common objections and how to overcome them)
- The best place to find your door knockers (so you don’t have to do it yourself)
- The one thing that your door knockers simply MUST do each time they go out for you (to maximize efficiency)

All of these tools have ALREADY helped drop short sale deals into my pipeline, and I’ve only been living in San Diego for 4 weeks now

Join me as I reveal all of the juicy information LIVE this Thursday night at 5pm PST/8pm EST on a very special training
call.  I invite you to join me and rip off, copy and steal all of my best stuff on this special training!

I’ll “see” you on call this Thursday night!

I just realized earlier today that I am basically rebuilding my preforeclosure investing business from scratch, because I’ve moved from Vancouver, BC to Encinitas, CA. (For those of you unfamiliar with Southern California geography, Encinitas is about 25 miles north of San Diego, up the I5).

I arrived here on Tuesday, January 5th, and we met our new landlord at our rental place at 4pm. Needless to say, that day was pretty much shot just moving in our stuff into our new place. We actually didn’t have that much stuff to move in, as we are renting a furnished home until we figure out where we want to live exactly.

The rest of the week was spent getting settled. Getting things like a phone line, internet, and directv set up, buying groceries, learning the neighborhood, finding a new crossfit gym, etc.

One interesting thing that happened was that I was contacted by local investor who had seen a bunch of my videos on YouTube. He wants to “learn the business” from me, so it’s an opportunity for me to find someone to help me increase my lead flow quickly. I’m willing to teach him all that I know about marketing and finding deals, in exchange for him doing the actual work. I have no problem paying him (well) for bringing me deals.

Two important lessons here:

1. Don’t underestimate the power of video marketing. Do you know that YouTube is the 2nd biggest search engine in the world (after Google)? That’s right, YouTube gets more searches on a daily basis than either Yahoo or MSN. Amazing, isn’t it? If you need what I feel to be the best primer on YouTube and video marketing, check out YouTubeSecretWeapon. It’s where I learned pretty much all of my video marketing strategies.

2. Pay referrals well. I actually learned this from watching a video from my friend Preston Ely. In this video, he outlines his entire business model. One thing that he said that really resonated with me when I watched it (yes, I watch the videos that I email you about, before I tell you to watch them), is, (and I’m paraphrasing here), “don’t be a chump and offer weak referrals like $500 or $1,000, man up and pay 25% of the profit of each deal”. Now I haven’t met this new person yet (we have a meeting tomorrow for the first time, we’ve only spoken on the phone) but whenever I enter into a partnership, I have a standard speech that I pretty much give everyone: “Both sides need to be EXCITED and MOTIVATED about the partnership. If you ever get to the point where 1 side feels like they’re being screwed (like doing all of the work, or not getting enough of the profits), then the partnership will NEVER work.”

So that was the end of the week.  Nothing crazy, I was mostly focused on enjoying my new home, learning the neighborhood, and spending time with Dreama (my wife) and our children Stella (30 months old) and Sebastian (8 months old) by going for walks, taking them to the beach and the playground.  And of course, being the football junkie that I am, it was wildcard weekend.  Thanks to my DVR I can watch an NFL game much faster and don’t have to dedicate myself to setting aside 3.5 hours to watch a game.  (Side note, if you like to watch TV, and sports, like me, and you don’t have a DVR or a TIVO, you are literally wasting hours of your life each and every week.  Get one now.  Of course, if you don’t watch TV, you can ingnore this advice).

To start out this week I had a a meeting with my realtor.  This was a meeting that got me REALLY excited.  I “met” Brian online (via Craigslist) when I was shopping around for REOs and Short Sales in San Diego back in August, right after Dreama and I got a contract to sell our home.  Brian showed us a bunch of places back in September, including one short sale that we really like, but were outbid on it (someone submitted a higher offer than ours, literally the day before we wrote our offer).

Nonetheless, we kept in touch with Brian, and had our first meeting yesterday.  I was absolutely thrilled when Brian told me that right after we met, he started working with another investor doing “back to back” closings with short sales.  Brian was a realtor who completely “got it”.  I didn’t have to educate him on anything, but rather go an understanding of exactly how his process worked, vs what I had been used to doing in WA (for example, when was he listing the property?  Right away, or after the BPO was completed- if I have just confused you, don’t worry, more on that later).

Brian told me that his biggest challenge is finding more homeowners facing foreclosure, can you believe it!  My specialty.  We’re still working on the fine points of our arrangement, but suffice it to say that I’m working on lead generation and Brian is going to be going out, meeting with the homeowners, getting paperworked signed, listing the properties, meeting with BPO agents, and doing all of the rest of the work!

Yesterday afternoon I added a SaveMeFromForeclosure.com listing in Google local.  If you haven’ seen my free training yet on Google local, head over there right now.  It’s a fast, free and an easy way to quickly get listed on page 1 of Google!  My listing won’t appear yet, because I’ll have to verify it by mail rather than phone, but that task is now done.

Last night, I had a coaching call for our “Foreclosure Masters” coaching club.  (If you want to attend the next one for free, you can sign up here).  Anyway, the topic of “how did you find an investor friendly realtor” come up.  I must admit, it was pretty good luck that Brian really “gets” what we’re doing with back-to-back closings.  So the person asked me where to start looking.  If you’re looking for an investor friendly realtor, I would suggest starting out at your local REIA meeting.  Any agents who are there are going to either be investors themselves, or at least “investor friendly”.

So that’s what I’ve been up to since I have arrived.  I’ve got a lot more stuff planned for this week, and I’ll be sharing and blogging that information as the week progresses, so please check back here often.  As usual, if you have quesitons or comments, please leave them below!

I sincerely hope that everyone who reads my blog and my emails has a wonderful holiday season.

No matter what holiday you celebrate, whether it’s Christmas, Kwanza, Hannukah or anything else, I truly hope that you and your friends and family have a wonderful holiday.

What has become annual holiday tradition is a present from me to you. This year, it’s a training video and a PDF that I recently did titled “5 Ways To Get A Deal Without Spending A Penny”.

Many times I’m asked how someone can get started investing if they have no marketing budget. Well this PDF and video should get you on your way.

This training is exactly the type of stuff that comes to you in print and on a DVD in my Foreclosure Master’s Coaching club. It’s only $49.95 a month, but you can get a free trial in it by visiting this page, or clicking on the banner at the top of this page.

That’s all for now. Dreama, Stella, Sebastian and I are making the move, and we’ll be leaving Vancouver on December 31st and arriving in San Diego January 5th. To keep us with us, our move, and life and business in general, you can follow me on Twitter, friend me on Facebook, and you can also follow Dreama on Twitter and friend her on Facebook.

Here’s the links to the PDF and video again.

Happy Holidays!