The Land Investing Business Secrets

NOTE: This is episode 3 part of a 4-part mini series. Derek Schlieps is a Facebook Ads expert working with other house and land wholesalers, rehabbers, and flippers. He’s helped many investors pull in leads for a fraction of what it would typically cost per lead with mail outs.  In this third episode of a 4-part mini series, Derek breaks down how you should capture and be following up with Motivated Seller leads through a Facebook Ad campaign. Listen to this episode: Types of Forms to Get Property Submitted via FacebookDrip Campaigns and Followup SystemsHow Often to be Following Up with Leads. To learn more or to have Derek help you with generating motivated seller leads head over to www.reiconversion.com/facebookleads

In Episode #27, we bring on Holly Thomas who has worked with a lot of real estate investors. From all the knowledge she's gathered working with investors, she's become a land investing expert. We brought on Holly to really share with us the sauce that makes a virtual investing business run smoothly. At one point she was working with 10 other investors and that means she's got a broad view on how successful real estate investors are running their business. Not only that, Holly sheds light on the challenges of working with investors and how you can smoothen out those challenges to run a more efficient operation for your investing business Listen to this episode: How to hire the right VATop difficulties for VA's that slow your business downTools that Holly uses when she was a VA

In Episode #26, Facebook land marketing specialist, Justin Melquist, comes onto our show to share the top 3 questions he's been receiving when it comes to the process of marketing land on Facebook. Justin answers these questions to put to ease some of your concerns you may have that may limit you from posting more.  In this episode we also talk about our upcoming AMA (Ask Me Anything) Facebook Live event inside of the REI Conversion Community Facebook Group on March 11th (at 5:30pm Pacific, 7:30pm Central, and 8:30pm Eastern).  Please join us inside of this group for our AMA: https://www.facebook.com/groups/reiconversion/ Listen to this episode: Top 3 Facebook marketing questionsHow to deal with the issues of FB postings in generalUpcoming AMA Live Session on Facebook Show notes: Landtrainer - Marketing Land on Facebook 2.0 Course

In Episode #25, we talk about one technical thing that is confusing and turning away your leads - your site's security. Google and browsers are making it known since last year to your visitors if site's are insecure, and more and more Real Estate investing websites are affected by this because they have yet to even learn about this issue. Listen to this episode: What's causing thisWhy is it important for your business and ladsHow this turns away your leadsHow to check and fix this issue

Vacant land investor, Jon Burnette, shares his insights on his acquisitions process. He's a firm believer in taking action and learning the process first before getting your entire system perfected. See what systems, software, and steps Jon takes to build his investing machine. Listen to this episode as Jon explains: Overview of Acquisition processWorking with an acquisitions managerHow a lead enters his system and where they goCore tools to manage, automate and delegate workCRM options that are not too complicated

Dustin Heiner is a buy and hold expert. He's on the other side of the fence, buying properties from flippers and wholesalers so he can rent them out. So he knows exactly what he wants from investors who offload properties. Listen to this episode as Dustin explains: what we need to continue doing as flippers/wholesalers with our buyers listwhat can turn away cash buyers like Dustinhow important it is to build your list and regular emails of new properties are Get into the mind of a cash buyer and understand exactly what they want and need in this episode so you can offload more properties.

What do you do after a buyer lead submits their information to you? A lot of us just leave it at that. Thing is that, leads need time before they make a purchase. Most buyers are never typically ready to pull the trigger. Listen to how Luke Harris builds a relationship with his leads, familiarizing himself with that lead, nurturing that lead, and it's all done without him having to even lift a finger. All automated. Luke has an automated email sequence that he delivers, and in this episode, Luke shares his strategy. Luke shares: how he organizes and tags his leads by areawhat system he useswhat kind of emails he sendsand how he keeps himself at the top of his buyer leads minds Follow these strategies in order to nurture your leads making it easier for your buyers to purchase properties from you.

NOTE: This is episode 2 part of a 4-part mini series.Derek Schlieps is a Facebook Ads expert working with other house wholesalers, rehabbers, and flippers. He's helped many investors pull in leads for a fraction of what it would typically cost per lead with mail outs. In this second episode of a 4-part mini series, Derek breaks down the parts to a Facebook Ad campaign, effective copy writing, and imagery to use to grab the attention of motivated seller leads.Derek shares his very specific experience from ad buttons that perform well to type of creative/imagery for grabbing attention of property owners.To learn more or to have Derek help you with generating motivated seller leads (with a discounted first month) www.reiconversion.com/facebookleads

I am joined by Seth Williams, who runs a real estate investing business, a real estate investing blog and podcast, and a land investing education site. He absolutely cannot do this on his own and has been through the ropes of hiring help for one off projects to a permanent virtual assistant. Listen to this episode as Seth Williams of REtipster shares his thoughts of what business operations was like before and after a VA (good and bad) and the new challenges that present itself when having a VA. Seth also answers the most common questions of how much he pays his Virtual Assistants all the way to a very interesting hiring process to hiring the perfect VA Show Notes:Zoom.us - a great video and meeting application for teamsSlack - easy to use application for team communicationUpwork - great place to find virtual assistants and other freelance workers for projects.

2 best friends from up in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, Josh Alter and Steve Enns run a successful and growing Virtual Wholesaling business. Working out of both Texas and Atlanta, the two believes that running a virtual business has forced them in to a position to systemize with precision in order to succeed. Listen to this episode as the duo shares their thoughts on how running a business is an expereince of trial and errors and sometimes that even means going against conventional thinking like having boots on the ground, which was being outperformed by them closing on the phone rather than someone in the market locally. Not only that the two share some of the tools that allow them to automate and scale, and how they have structured their team to win in these markets virtually.