Skip to content
Categories:

Real Estate Investing Ideas For Today’s Market

It is likely that you think of a number of things when you hear the words virtual real estate investing. You might immediately leap to real estate investing being real estate portfolios and real estate retirement plans and hard money lenders or you may think instead of short sales, bulk reo investing and virtual real estate investing. You may also wonder what type of role these things can play in your life as a real estate investor in different types of economy.

There is a great deal to know about real estate investing. The best way to optimize your real estate investing education is to know the basics ahead of time. Short sales, bulk reo sales, virtual real estate and general real estate investor abilities all are improved by knowing some basics of real estate investing. Review these three real estate investing basics that even some experts don’t yet know:

1. You will always end up with a positive yield when you invest in real estate investing education. Every real estate deal has the potential to create thousands of dollars in potential wealth. The knowledge of how to get that wealth is the key to your success. Learning about real estate increases your chances of success when you do a real estate deal. Small investments in education yield big results upon implementation.

2. Any economy allows for success in real estate investing. Many people are under the misconception that success is possible in real estate only when the economy is good. You should remember that a bad economic situation is not usually bad for real estate investors. You frequently can get properties at deep discounts. You might also find deals that simply would not exist in a booming economy. Poor economies can turn based on active real estate investing. When the economy is not thriving, short sales, bulk reo sales and virtual real estate can all thrive. Knowing how to do these deals can create wealth for you and save others from major financial difficulties.

3. You do not need lots of your own cash to be a successful real estate investor. You can succeed in the real estate investing arena no matter how much money you are working with. There are many deals that will let you use other people’s money to do them. Private lenders will let you use their money if they know that you are a good investment. An investor who is a good investment knows as much as they can when it comes to real estate investing. Then you will represent a good investment to other people who have money for real estate investing but do not know how to use it.

Real estate investing is a great way to generate wealth. You can create a good income no matter what the state of the economy. Using a knowledge base of real estate investing, short sales, bulk reo sales and virtual real estate you will be able to make success for yourself. Knowing the basics of real estate investing will help you succeed as a real estate investor. Knowing some real estate investing basics (beyond what older gurus like Robert Allen teach) and applying them will help you succeed as a real estate investor.

Great real estate investing resources are available at RealEstate.BryanEllis.com.

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Twitter
  • Technorati
  • Live
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • MySpace

Posted in How To Sell.

Tagged with , , , .

No comments

By James Savage – March 9, 2010

Real Estate Investing In The Age Of Government Intervention

It is likely that you think of a number of things when you hear the words virtual real estate investing. If you are already familiar with real estate investing you may think of short sales, bulk reo investing and virtual real estate investing or you may think of it in terms of real estate portfolios and real estate retirement plans or even hard money lenders. You probably also wonder how these things play out in real estate investors life in the current economy.

You can learn a lot about real estate investing. The best way to optimize your real estate investing education is to know the basics ahead of time. Whether your target is short sales, bulk reo sales, virtual real estate or improving real estate investor abilities, you need to know some real estate investing basics. You should review these three real estate investing basics to learn things even some experts do not know:

1. You will always get a positive yield with real estate investing education. Each real estate deal can represent thousands of dollars in potential wealth. Understanding how to get that wealth will be the key to your success. Knowing more about real estate betters your odds of success when you do a real estate deal. A small investment in your education can yield big results when you implement your learning.

2. Any economy allows for success in real estate investing. Lots of people believe that real estate success is only possible in a booming economy. You should remember that a bad economic situation is not usually bad for real estate investors. You can often buy properties at deep discounts. You might also find deals that simply would not exist in a booming economy. Real estate investing may also turn the tide for a poor economy. When the economy is not so good, short sales, bulk reo sales and virtual real estate are great. You will be able to save yourself and others from serious financial difficulties if you know how to do these deals.

3. You do not need lots of your own cash to be a successful real estate investor. You can succeed in real estate investing no matter how much money you have. There are lots of deals that you can use other people’s money to do. If you appear to be a solid investment you may be able to use a private lender’s money. The best way to look like a solid investment is to have an in-depth knowledge of real estate investing. This will help you represent yourself as a good investment to private lenders who do not know how to make money in real estate investing.

Real estate investing is a good way to generate a great deal of wealth. You will have the ability to create income in any economy. Using a knowledge base of real estate investing, short sales, bulk reo sales and virtual real estate you will be able to make success for yourself. Knowing the basics of real estate investing will help you succeed as a real estate investor. Knowing some real estate investing basics (beyond what older gurus like Robert Allen teach) and applying them will help you succeed as a real estate investor.

Great real estate investing resources are available at RealEstate.BryanEllis.com.

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Twitter
  • Technorati
  • Live
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • MySpace

Posted in How To Sell.

Tagged with , , , .

No comments

By James Savage – March 9, 2010

Jump Start Internet Marketing Strategies Through P.T.A.

It is next to impossible for a business, speaker or author to operate at their full potential without using Internet marketing strategies as part of their overall plan.  Despite this, while many people use the Internet for their own personal needs, they are confused how they can actually use it to benefit the sales of their own products or services. 

You may share the confusion of others as to how Internet marketing strategies can work for you and where to begin. 

Regardless of what business you are in, the steps to Internet marketing success are very similar, and it might surprise you to learn they haven’t changed much in over a decade!  The problem is that most educational resources on Internet marketing tell you a piece of the process without identifying where on the timeline it falls or how it fits into the rest of the process. 

Try to avoid getting hung up on any particular strategy until you fully understand your P.T.A., which is the foundation for success on the Internet:

P:  Plug-In

Identify where you are in the Internet marketing process and “plug-in” to the process.  Is this your first experience with Internet marketing?  Or maybe you have some experience, but haven’t pulled it all together yet?  Identify where you are, then plug-in to the tools and resources available to you to meet your particular needs. 

T: Team-Up

The next and most important step for any small business owner, author or speaker is to team up with those that can help implement the process.  Unless your profession is actually Internet marketer, you are better suited working at what you do best, not sitting at the computer trying to get a degree in Internet marketing.  And, contrary to popular belief, just having a website designed by someone you find on Craig’s List or overseas won’t get you the success you want from your Internet marketing. 

What you are looking for in outsourced help is someone (or a group of someones) who are interested and sensitive to your unique business and concerns, and who has a wide range of expertise in Internet marketing.  Since your business is always changing, you will benefit from forming a dedicated team now that will grow with you over the years and has the technical expertise to plan your business strategies for now and into the future. 

A:  Accelerate

If you get a website for your business or service without fully understanding the entire Internet marketing process, you will never be able to fully implement the last step, and accelerate your Internet marketing plans to success.  Learning a few strategies or techniques will only cause to confuse you until you have plugged into where you are in the overall process, and found resources and team members able to lead you to success.  Once you have done that, your business success from the Internet will start to fly. 

Marty Dickinson is an entrepreneur and the founder of HereNextYear, Inc., a full service Internet marketing company in business for 15 years.  He specializes in Internet marketing solutions for the small business owner, speakers and authors.  Visit to see what HereNextYear has to offer and to learn more about their innovative new website packages fully integrated for ease with social networking and other Internet marketing strategies.

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Twitter
  • Technorati
  • Live
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • MySpace

Posted in How To Sell.

Tagged with , , , , , , .

No comments

By James Savage – March 9, 2010

The Basics Of Investing In Bulk REO

With more foreclosures now than ever before, America’s weak real estate market seems to set new dismal records each month. Yet as always, this challenge has given rise to a huge new opportunity for alert real estate investors.

The real estate investing strategy du jour is called ‘Bulk REO Investing‘ and is a real monster.

The basis of the Bulk REO business is foreclosures, so let’s analyze the foreclosure process now.

To understand Bulk REO investing is to understand the foreclosure process.

Mortgage lenders faced with a non-paying home owner send a large volume of threats, warnings and documentation to the borrower who is late. Following a period of time determined by the lender, formal foreclosure proceedings begin. The ‘pre-foreclosure’ time starts with filing of foreclosure paperwork and concludes at public auction.

To complete the foreclosure process, the property is auction to the public. If there are no buyers for the property at auction, the property is returned to the lender. This property is then considered to be ‘Real Estate Owned’ by the lender, also known as an ‘REO’ property.

Lenders have no interest in owning property, and thus usually opt to list their REO properties with a local real estate broker in hopes of a retail sale. However, REO properties are now frequently sold for far less than their ‘book value’. But the price of receiving such great pricing is the need to purchase multiple REO properties (a ‘package’) rather than individual properties.

These REO packages represent the potential to acquire huge amounts of equity for savvy real estate investors. REO packages are easiest to buy and sell with a well regarded source of financing in place. There are many sources of funding for these transasactions including: hard money and commercial financing, as well as non conventional sources such as hedge funds and private investors. Additionally, one man is becoming very well known in the field of bulk REO investing, and his name is Salvatore Bushemi of Dandrew Capital Partners, a New-York based hedge fund.

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Twitter
  • Technorati
  • Live
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • MySpace

Posted in How To Sell.

Tagged with , , , , .

No comments

By James Savage – March 9, 2010

Grow Rich Buying Clients

Are you buying your clients?

If not, you should be…

That’s the goal of your “small business advertising” – purchasing customers…

Then they pay out more than the cost to get them…

So it’s an investment…

We all agree on that, so how much are you really spending on your customers?

And are you tracking your ROI (Return on Investment) from your investment?

If you don’t know these answers, you’re in great company…

Many small business owners don’t know the answers to these questions using actual hard data…

But they’re still in business right?

Sounds like it’s not that important then right?

Well… That depends – on what you want to get out of your business??

Some large and medium businesses pay more to their mid-level management than a small business owner makes.

And many end up working a lot longer hours…

A few have risen into the 6-figure net income arena…

And some have even achieved actual wealth…

I consider true wealth as financial and business success…

Why would you work 80 hour weeks for 40 hour pay…because you love what you do?

Didn’t we all start out trying to better our lives with our business?

If so, then maybe we should rethink how we spend money on advertising…

Get an answer to how much it costs you to get a customer, because if you knew you could double your money every time…. How much would you spend??

Well, that’s the name of the game in small biz advertising…

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush…

Rinse and repeat… and repeat… and repeat…

Until it stops working… Don’t quit while you’re ahead with your advertisement… Keep on using it while it works and measuring its response…

But I’m getting side-tracked now…

We have questions to answer…

Like: What’s the ROI on your client acquisition cost??

There’s a couple points in your business where you need to measure your ROI…

First is your break even point…

You could hurt your businesses cash flow if you don’t find this out…

But if you get that ROI of 1 after learning your break even point within 7 days, then you can begin to plan ahead…

If it takes you 7 weeks to get to that break even point, then you need to plan in a different direction…

You get it…

So let’s start to improve on your ROI once you’ve learned of the time between your getting-client costs, and your current ROI…

Improving your ROI on your marketing takes two steps…

Incidentally, the two steps towards growing your businesses profits is to either lower costs or increase income…

Lower costs can be done by getting cheaper client acquisition costs by doing things like getting better rates on advertising, moving to lower cost media, etc.

It could lead to improving your ROI, but not by much…

Because at some point along lowering your front end costs, you’re going to reach zero…

But who cares if you’re gaining an ROI of 1,000% on every dollar?

Well what matters to us as small business owners, is what do I get to keep at the end of the day?

All this boils down to is this – don’t focus on your ROI and throw out your worry about net profit…

If you go the second route towards improving your ROI, then you kill two birds with one stone – improved ROI and increased net profit…

And that’s increased income out of every new client…

There’s two ways:

# Increase the transaction size for each client
# Increase the frequency of client purchases

Raising prices, new or upgraded products, or cross-sells of loosely associated items with your original product purchase.  Any of these can increase transaction size…

To increase the frequency of buys, you can throw in subscriptions or memberships with your business, make new products to pitch to your clients, or use other company’s products through a joint venture…

Using just one of these steps within the next month you’ll see an immediate increase in profits…

Don’t forget, there’s a differences between having a good plan, and executing a good plan, either of which decides success or failure for a small business…

Many failing small businesses are run by business owners with brilliant ideas, who fail to implement them…

Don’t be that business owner…

Take what you are learning here and implement it – then share your success story with me so I can publish it on the blog…

Feel free to leave any questions or comments as always…

Here’s to always improving small business advertising!!!

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Twitter
  • Technorati
  • Live
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • MySpace

Posted in How To Sell.

Tagged with , .

No comments

By James Savage – March 9, 2010