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60+ Hours as a CPA and Still Doing REI! by Austin Hendrickson January brings us a new year – 2018! Time to hustle and work towards some goals – hopefully everyone has their most important goals written down! Time is super important, especially for me as I am a CPA in busy season or “tax […]

What are you going to do to guarantee your success? This was the question I was being asked over the phone by a mentor of mine sometime in the late summer of 2016. I didn’t have an answer. I wasn’t even sure I understood the question. We were towards the tail-end of a 50,000-piece mailing […]

Design and Results of Sharad’s First Postcard Campaign Now that the first set of direct mailing to my two lists is over, I wanted to share the design we used and what the results were. It’s a text only postcard. Very straightforward about who we are what we are looking to do. Overall, this card […]

How to Scale with Direct Mail Marketing The beautiful thing about Direct Mail Marketing is it can be incredibly easy to scale.  You’ll need a few things to get to that point, but once you’re there, scaling can happen almost overnight.  Here are 5 tips to get set up. 1. Don’t Lick and Stamp When […]

I started my real estate business last year in 2017 and it has been paying big dividends. When starting off I was unsure of how everything worked, it seemed a bit overwhelming. I began to break it down piece by piece and dived in, figuring I would learn most by action and gain valuable experience […]

Sharad Mehta’s Call Back Rate on Jan 24, 2018 This is the list that I used for my 2nd set of mailings: City Hammond, INGriffith, INCrown Point, INHighland, INSchererville, INMunster, INHobart, INMerrillville, IN Property TypeResidential: TownhouseResidential: TriplexResidential: QuadResidential: SfrResidential: CondominiumResidential: PudResidential: Duplex Equity(%)51 To 60 %61 To 70 %71 To 80 %81 To 90 %91 […]

“56 yr Old Direct Mail Rookie: WHO SAYS YOU CAN’T TEACH AN OLD DOG?” Ok let me rephrase the above heading. I am a rookie to effective direct mail. First a little about myself. I am Joe Davalos I have been in real estate since 1981. Investing off and on since 1987 I’ve been a […]

The Mind-Shift A fascinating, gradual mind-shift starts to happen after a spectacular failure in your first big direct mail marketing campaign; especially if you are a brand new full-time flipper with a stay-at-home wife and two toddlers under 3 years old. This was my experience towards the end of 2015 after sending 16,000 pieces of […]

Sharad Mehta’s High Equity List Below is the criteria for my 2nd list that I mailed to. For the list below, I came up with 5,450 records so rather than doing all the mailing at once, I am splitting the mailing in 3 parts to make the calls more manageable. Each week I will be […]