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Is Real Estate Investing Going Virtual? Can The Internet Be Your Real Estate Marketing Goldmine?
Believe it or not, internet is by far, one of the most powerful tools you can use in your real estate marketing efforts. Flipping real estate, looking for your next property online, and building your real estate investor business are just a few things you can do on the internet.
Don't believe me? Just read this lens and you'll see what I am talking about here.
How You can start using the Internet for Your Real Estate Investing Business.
Here's a little fact for to start those juice flowing.A recent survey conducted by National Associates of Realtors has found that 80% of buyers have used the internet to buy their home. That's 8 out of 10 people buying their house using the internet.
I hope you see the potential here for your real estate investing business. Not only can you find retail buyers for your property, but you can find motivated sellers, comparable sales in your area, distressed properties, and REO properties that you can steal before other investors in your area.
But that's just the icing on the cake. Internet can give you the power to automate your real estate investing business. How do you ask? Let me give you a short example...
Internet is a lead capture goldmine. You can set up a website to capture motivated sellers that search for certain terms in the search engine. Let's say they search for "sell my house in Las Vegas."
By optimizing your site for search engines, your site can be one of the top searches to come up in Google. People will go to your site from there. Once they are at your site, they can be presented with an "ethical bribe."
That "ethical bribe" can be a free report that talks about how they can sell their house at fair price, avoid foreclosure and so on. In return, they will give you their name and email address. Once they do that, your email service will automatically email them the report, you get their contact info and begin helping them with their problem.
You can set up autoresponder messages that can go out to their email at any interval, few hours after they sign up, one day later, one week later or whatever you choose.
Obviously, there is more to it but you can see the power the internet will give you in your real estate investing business.
I will be creating more squidoo pages in the future that describe different strategies of how you can use the internet for your real estate investing business.
You can also visit 'Real Estate Investing- 2 ways to Start Now' to read an article on 2 fast ways to start your real estate investing career. Those 2 ways described there are the easiest to learn when starting out in the real estate business.
Also, below you will see my top 10 free internet resources that you can use for your real estate investing business. Good luck and if you have any questions or comments, please leave them here and I'll try to address them in the future lenses.
To Your Success,
Peter K.
Real Estate Investing on Youtube!
Secret strategies to use on the Internet for your Real Estate Investing business.
This video will show you how you can post your "I buy Houses" ads on one of the biggest websites on the internet for less than a large pizza.
Top 10 list of Real Estate Investing Internet Resources
(not in any particular order)
- Ebay
- Ebay is a great site to find investment properties and leads. You can check out one of the videos above to find out how you can use Ebay for your real estate investing business.
- Dinkytown
- 300 Financial Calculators pretty much for everything including Mortgage and Loans.
- Real Estate Investing Internet Resource Guide
- This 56 page free guide will give you all of the internet resources that you would need in your real estate investing business.
- NameCheap
- Domain Registrar to get your website name. I know that this one isn't free but it's less than $10 per year to get your domain.
- Trulia
- Based on your search criteria, you can see how many homes sold in the past week, what the average price was, and the heat map on the selected area.
- Real Estate Investment Clubs
- This link will provide you a list of real estate investment club in your area. You have probably heard it before but going to R.E.I. meetings can help you in your real estate investing in many ways.
- Google Keyword Tool
- In order for your site to show up in google and other search engines, you need to optimize it with the right keywords. Google Keyword Tool will help you do just that.
- Elance.com
- Great website to find quality professionals to outsource your internet tasks such as website design, writing articles, coding, and more.
- Craigslist
- Craigslist is great advertising website for your business. You can post your ads for free in your local market. Beats spending money on newspapers, doesn't it?
- Bank of American Comparable Sales Tool
- Bank of American Comparable Sales Tool. Just click on the "Home Value Search Link."
Reader Feedback
Do you use the internet for your real estate business?
If so, share it here with others. Better yet, what would you like to know about this topic. Write it down here and I'll try to incorporate it in my next lens.
Mr_Virtual_Real_Estate wrote...
in reply to MillionaireME
Thanks David. I appreciate your comments and everyone else who has posted here before. I love sharing my strategies. In fact, my blog http://RealEstateBlackBook.com/blog is full of them.
To Your Success,
Peter Kolat
Posted July 06, 2009
MillionaireME wrote...
Peter Kolat is The Real Estate Internet Marketing Guru...Just a great resource
...finally a one-stop-shop for my real estate investing tips.
Thank you!
Posted July 05, 2009
brokeragentspeakers wrote...
Thanks for your helpful information.
5 stars1 ;)
Broker Agent Speakers Bureau
Posted September 19, 2008
DayTradersWin wrote...
I suggest you shorten your title to have more punch.
John McLaughlin, Day Traders - Consultant / Coach
www.DayTradersWin.com
Posted March 07, 2008
layhandy wrote...
This is a great lens and helpful for me to learn more about real estate investing. I'm new on squido and my lense about home loan and mortgages: My lens http://www.squidoo.com/home-loan-info
Please check out my website at http://home-loan-rate.blogspot.com
Posted March 01, 2008
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Real Estate Investing Books
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FLIP: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit
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Defensive Real Estate Investing: 10 Principles for Succeeding Whether Your Market is Up or Down
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The Most Important Thing that I can tell you...
Is to take ACTION! Forget that...
Take MASSIVE ACTION!
You can have all the resources, all the links and all the necessary information but without massive action, nothing happens. Believe me, I've been there.
I think that everyone has been there. Even all those gurus that you see on TV infomercials, internet, teleseminars and webinars.
They finally decided to take massive action and it payed off for them, BIG TIME! In short, don't waste your knowledge, apply it and take massive action.
