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Your Brand is Your Business’s Promise to Your Customer
Posted on April 5, 2013 byBranding is the marketing practice of creating a name, symbol or design that identifies and differentiates your business, product or service from any and all other competitors. Put another way… your brand is your business’s promise to your customer.
Your brand tells your customer what they can expect from your company, products and services. Your brand should uniquely differentiate your business and what you are offering from that of all your competitors. Your brand is derived from who you are, who you want to be and who you’re your prospects and customers perceive you to be.
In the real estate investing industry, Homevestors® is the number one home buying brand in America. They have embraced the “ugly home buyer” concept and made “We Buy Ugly Houses®” their registered trademark, identity and brand. Their mascot is “Ug” the ugly little caveman that helps owners of “ugly houses” out of “ugly situations”. Homevestors® is a great example of the power of branding for any real estate investing company, large or small.
Like Homevestors, I too appreciate the power of branding and have attempted to do some branding of my own at a local level with my real estate investment company, One Hour Homebuyers. We have embraced the “pretty home buyer” concept and have made “We Buy Pretty Houses®”, “Sell Your Houses in One Hour®” and “We Can Buy Your House in One Hour or Less, Guaranteed™” part of our trademarks, identity and brand. Our mascot is the “One Hour Man”, a handsome “super homebuyer” hero who “rescues” home owners from “unwanted houses” and “unwanted situations” fast, one hour fast. Read More→
800 Pound Guerilla Marketing Workshop
Posted on April 1, 2013 byA Full Day Workshop with Dustin Griffin on April 13th
From 8:30AM – 5PM at the Doubletree Suites
Part of the 800 Pound Guerilla Marketing Training Series
When it comes to making money as a real estate investor few things are as important as the ability to generate high-quality buyer and seller leads – and it turns out generating those leads is easy with a little effort and the right methods.
In this special one-of-a-kind workshop, respected real estate investor Dustin Griffin will show you those proven effective methods you can use for little to no cost to generate waves of valuable leads day after day and month after month to achieve your financial goals.
You’ll learn:
- Which traditional marketing methods really work and which are a complete waste of time and money!
- How to generate all the motivated buyer and seller leads you need to run a successful home buying business without spending a fortune!
- How to determine exactly how many seller leads you need to achieve your short term cash flow needs and meet your long term financial goals… and then go out and get them!
- How to tap into the power of the Internet and social media to generate tons of new leads … plus, how to turn any website into a lead-generating machine!
- The most affordable and most effective direct and mass marketing techniques to reach motivated sellers who need to sell and tenant/buyers who want to buy or rent, regardless of their credit!
- How to triple your current seller response rate by using a proven 2-Step Marketing Approach that will educate your buyers and sellers about your services in a non-threatening manner!
- How to use little known marketing secrets to flood ANY business with leads!
- How to gain instant credibility and establish your company as trusted experts who can solve problems and help prospects buy, rent or sell their home quickly!
- How to market to the widest possible audience of buyers and sellers even on a shoestring budget!
- And much more…
Please Note: Registrants may bring a spouse, parent or adult child for 1/2 off. Guests who Join Tampa REIA now for $100/yr and attend the 101 Plus Ways Workshop for FREE! This offer is good for new members only. See Tampa REIA Membership for more details. Read More→
The Profit March 2013 Edition
Posted on March 11, 2013 by
The March 2013 edition of The Profit Newsletter for Tampa REIA is now ready for download as a High Quality PDF or Low Res PDF format. The Profit Newsletter is a digitally delivered, interactive newsletter for real estate investors to read and use with your PC, Mac, Smart Phone, iPad or other mobile ready device. Many of the articles and ads in The Profit contain hyperlinks you can click or tap to visit websites, watch videos, listen to audios, download content, send emails, comment on articles, share socially and much more! And “Yes”, The Profit is “print ready” and prints out beautifully on your black and white or color printer. Be sure to Subscribe to The Profit so you don’t miss a single monthly issue.
Tampa REIA Meeting March 14 with on Guerilla Marketing
Posted on March 11, 2013 bywith Dustin Griffin
Are you generating enough motivated buyer and seller leads each month to survive and thrive in today’s competitive real estate market? Are you generating at least 30-50 leads per month from your marketing efforts? If not generating this many leads or more, you should join us for our next Tampa REIA Meeting to learn how to generate all the leads you can handle. Dustin Griffin will be speaking at Tampa REIA on Thursday, March 14th at 6:00PM at the Doubletree Suites located at 3050 N Rocky Point Drive West in Tampa, FL on many of the “800 Pound Guerilla Marketing Strategies and Techniques” he uses to generate leads for his real estate investing businesses.
Come join us and learn how you too can totally dominate your local competition with little effort and a relatively low budget using new and traditional marketing techniques, a little creativity and the power of the Internet. And if you want even more marketing training, Dustin will be back on Saturday, April 13th for a full day workshop on “101 Plus Ways to Generate Buyer & Seller Leads”.
WIN A CRUISE: All participants who attend the Tampa REIA Meeting on March 14th will entered into a drawing for a chance to win a *Complimentary 2 Day Cruise to the Bahamas with Caribbean Cruise Line! *You must be present at the meeting to win. The 2 day Cruise does not include port fees, transportation and taxes.
After the conclusion of the Tampa REIA Main Meeting (after 9PM), we will be reconvening at Whiskey Joe’s Bar & Grill located at 7720 West Courtney Campbell Causeway in Tampa for the “Meeting after the Meeting”. Come eat, drink, network and have fun with us as hang out late into the night on Tampa Bay!
101 Plus Ways to Generate Buyer & Seller Leads Workshop
Posted on March 11, 2013 byA Full Day Workshop with Dustin Griffin on April 13th
From 8:30AM – 5PM at the Doubletree Suites
Part of the 800 Pound Guerilla Marketing Training Series
Join us in Tampa on Saturday, April 13th at 9:00 AM at the Doubletree Suites located at 3050 N Rocky Point Drive West in Tampa, FL for to learn “101 Plus Ways to Generate Buyer & Seller Leads” for your real estate investing business.
Dustin Griffin is going to teach you many of the 800 Pound Guerilla Marketing Strategies and Techniques he and other successful investors use to generate all the buyer and seller leads they can handle on a low budget and how you can too.
He is going to teach you how you can totally dominate your local competition with little effort and a relatively low budget using new and traditional marketing techniques, a little creativity and the power of the Internet. Sign up now before the early registration special expires and save.
Be sure to bring a pen and paper to take lots of notes as well as at least 5 to 10 examples of what you are currently doing to market your business to share with the class. The more examples we have to share, the better!
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Please Note: Registrants may bring a spouse, parent or adult child for 1/2 off. Guests who Join Tampa REIA now for $100/yr and attend the 101 Plus Ways Workshop for FREE! This offer is good for new members only. See Tampa REIA Membership for more details.
800 Pound Guerilla Marketing
Posted on March 11, 2013 byWhat is the first thing you need to do for your first or next successful real estate deal? You need leads of course. How many leads do you need to do one single deal? If you are a new investor or even a seasoned one, you may need to go through as many as 10 leads to get one solid, profitable deal.
So how many leads are you generating each month? Are you generating 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 or 50 leads per month? If you are not generating at least 50 leads per month, you are not alone. Most investors don’t generate anywhere near 50 leads per month. In fact, it has been said that only the top 5% of all real estate investors generate and capture 80% of all the leads floating around out there. So what do these top investors know that the average investor doesn’t know?
The answer is simple… the top 5% of all investors know how to generate all the leads they can handle and more. Perhaps you know some of the top lead generating real estate investors in your area. Chances are you see their marketing efforts every time you turn around.
One such investing company that you should all be familiar with is HomeVestors®, the nice folks with the “We Buy Ugly Houses®” signs all over town. HomeVestors® used to be a huge 800 Pound Gorilla before the housing market crash, but as of mid-2012, they are back in force and are quickly regaining their marketing dominance once more.
An “800 Pound Gorilla” is “One that is dominating or uncontrollable because of its great size and power” or “An overbearing entity in a specific industry or sphere of activity”. An 800 Pound Gorilla is “A seemingly unbeatable presence always to be reckoned with, whose experience, influence, and skill threatens to defeat competitors with little effort.” As the number one home buying franchise in the country, you can see how HomeVestors® definitely fits the description of an 800 Pound Gorilla Marketer. Read More→
The Profit January 2013 Edition
Posted on January 6, 2013 by
The January 2013 edition of The Profit Newsletter for Tampa REIA is now ready for download as a High Quality PDF or Low Res PDF format. In cash you didn’t notice by now, The Profit Newsletter is a digitally delivered, interactive newsletter for real estate investors to read and use with your PC, Mac, Smart Phone, iPad or other mobile ready device. Many of the articles and ads in The Profit contain hyperlinks you can click or tap to visit websites, watch videos, listen to audios, download content, send emails, comment on articles, share socially and much more!
The Profit is a “new” Newsletter and were just getting started, so be sure to Subscribe to The Profit Here so you don’t miss a single monthly issue. And please be sure to tell your real estate investor friends to subscribe as well. This newsletter is for sharing.
This month you can read, interact and enjoy a variety of articles on real estate investing and more from Don DeRosa, Bill Cook, Bob Massey, Larry Harbolt, Kimberlee Frank, Dustin Griffin, Kathy Kennebrook, Ron LeGrand, Jim Hitt, Tony Pearl, Russ Hiner and Erven Kimble. And don’t forget, Tampa REIA Business Members can advertise in The Profit at deeply discounted rates. Enjoy!
Your Ground Game for Generating Leads
Posted on January 6, 2013 byAre you tired of making offers on houses listed in the MLS only to have the price bid up by other investors and hedge funds? Well, that’s what happens when there is an inventory shortage and everyone is chasing the same leads. The minute a new listing hits the MLS, there are often multiple offers on the home by the end of the day.
Instead of competing for the same small pool of leads, you need to generate your own leads… leads no one else knows about but you. You can do this by using many of the same methods and techniques that have been working for years such as…
- Bandit Signs – Putting out we buy houses signs with your phone number and web address in and around the neighborhoods where you want to purchase will get the leads coming in almost instantly. Be sure to be aware of the sign ordinances in your area to avoid fines.
- Flyers – You can distribute we buy houses flyers virtually anywhere to get the leads pouring in almost as soon as you put them out. You can flyer parking lots, neighborhoods and houses for sale. You can also have your flyers distributed with the local paper, on pizza boxes or by the postal service for about 14 cents each. Read More→
The Real Estate Game Changer Event in Atlanta, GA on Nov 16th – 18th, 2012
Posted on November 1, 2012 byThe Real Estate Game Changer Event
We would like to invite you to join us in Atlanta, Georgia in November to learn how you can take your real estate business to the next level and beyond. “The Real Estate Game Changer Event” will blow you away on how easy it is to make fast money and long-term financial security for you and your family.
You need to attend this powerful event in Atlanta on November 16th – 18th at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel located at 4355 Ashford Dunwoody Rd in Atlanta, GA. The tuition for this 3 day event is Only $29.95 for the first person and only $10 extra to add a spouse, significant other, parent or child. Registration starts at 8:00 AM on Friday, November 16th and the event begins at 8:30 AM.
The speakers and education presented at this event are top notch. We’ve invited several of the best and most successful trainers in their chosen fields to teach you how to put your real estate business on the fast track to financial freedom. The trainers include Robert Shemin, Dr. Albert Lowry, Chris Johnson, Andrew Cordle, Chris Bowser, Duncan Wierman and Dustin Griffin.
We’ll show you step-by-step how to make huge profits fast using the Internet as well as powerful new real estate investing techniques and strategies you’ve probably never heard of before. Just one strategy learned at this event could make you an extra $10,000 in the next 30 days!
Attending The Real Estate Game Changer Event is the best thing you can do for yourself! You are going to learn cutting-edge real estate investing and marketing techniques. The strategies you learn at this event will give you the tools you need to go out and make more money with far less effort!
Other investors are making a fortune using the powerful marketing and investing strategies and techniques that will be revealed at this event. This is your opportunity to do the same thing and dominate your market right in your very own backyard!
There are many ways to make money in real estate, and there will be something for everyone at the event, so REGISTER NOW for only $29.95 and come join us and many other like-minded real estate investors and entrepreneurs at this life changing event. Read More→
The Profit October 2012 Edition
Posted on October 3, 2012 by
The October 2012 edition of The Profit, the official newsletter of the Tampa Real Estate Investors Alliance (Tampa REIA), is now ready for download in high or low resolution format. Read and enjoy a variety of articles on real estate investing and more from Kathy Kennebrook, Robyn Thompson, Dustin Griffin, Larry Harbolt, Bob Massey, Erven Kimble, Don DeRosa, Jim Hitt, Mike Barnes, Tony Pearl and Russ Hiner. And don’t forget, Tampa REIA Business Members can advertise in The Profit at deeply discounted rates.
Dominate Your Competition Online by Building a Strong Internet Presence
Posted on October 3, 2012 byPerhaps you’ve heard, that as a modern day, mobile real estate investor, you need to have a strong Internet presence and the ability to generate online traffic and convert that traffic into leads and those leads into deeds in order to survive and thrive in this new economy and real estate market in which we now live and operate. Just a few short years ago, if you had a real estate investor website and could be easily found on Google, you were far ahead of most investors out there and likely got your fair share of the online leads. These days, a good website alone is no longer enough to adequately compete for leads online.
In order to compete for the coveted top 5 listings on any Google search, we must now use a variety of other Internet and mobile websites, pages and profiles such as blogs, social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and others, videos sites, photos sites, RSS feeds, squeeze pages, classified ad sites, article sites, press releases, social bookmarking and other sites too numerous to mention. You’re probably bombarded with emails on a daily basis about search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing, Internet marketing, social networking, text message marketing and gurus claiming to have systems to do it all for you with no effort on your part. With so many choices and so many gurus telling you what to do and how and where to spend your hard earned money, perhaps you’re confused and just don’t know where to start. If you are, you’re definitely not alone and should keep reading. Read More→
Internet Marketing Workshop on October 13, 2012
Posted on October 1, 2012 byfor Mobile Real Estate Investors
Doubletree Suites Tampa Bay
3050 North Rocky Pint Dr West, Tampa, FL
(CANCELLED. Will Be Rescheduled)
On Saturday, October 13th from 9 AM to 5 PM (registration starts at 8:30 AM), Dustin Griffin, Executive Director of Tampa REIA, real estate investor, website developer and Internet Marketing enthusiast, will be teaching an Internet Marketing Workshop for real estate investors and small business owners at the Doubletree Suites located at 3050 North Rocky Point Dr West in Tampa, FL.
Dustin will be teaching you how to establish a strong Internet presence, get your websites, pages and profile to the top of the major search engines quickly and to generate all the leads you can handle using the power of the Internet.
Dustin is going to cover…
- An introduction to Internet Marketing
- Necessary online accounts, pages and profiles
- Building a consistent brand
- What makes a good website vs a good mobile website?
- Why you should consider setting up a WordPress Blog
- Search Engine Optimization vs Search Engine Marketing
- Social Media Marketing with Facebook & Twitter
- Marketing with Online Articles and Advertisements
- Marketing with Online Videos
- Social Bookmarking & RSS Feeds
- Email Marketing vs Text Message Marketing
- Mobile Media Marketing
- Putting it all together and developing an Internet Marketing Plan
- All this and much more!
Robyn Thompson’s 5th Annual Millionaire Mastermind Convention
Posted on August 30, 2012 by
Robyn Thompson Wants You To Be A Multi Millionaire or At Least Drive Like One!!
Dear Real Estate Investor,
My good friend, Robyn Thompson, wants you to be a multi millionaire or at least drive like one! In fact, she is giving away a brand new 2013 Mercedes Benz at her Fifth Annual Millionaire Mastermind Convention on October 25th – 28th, 2012 in Tampa, FL and you could be the lucky winner for ABSOLUTELY FREE!
This gorgeous state of the art fully loaded car will be a 2013 Jet Black Mercedes C Class. You could be driving home this sweet ride after the event in October 2012!
Let me make myself clear for all of you that are in shock. Yes, Robyn is paying the sticker price for the car plus all the sales tax and fees. Let me remind you, this is not a lease. The winner will own it outright with no payments. All the lucky winner will need to do is to get their own car insurance.
So what’s the catch, you may be asking? Nothing except you must be present at Robyn’s Fifth Annual Millionaire Mastermind Convention at the Hilton Tampa West Shore in Tampa, FL on October 25th- 28th to win. We are announcing this event now, well in advance of the October date, because this event will be sold out long before it happens, especially since Robyn is offering Atlanta REIA Members a limited number of FREE Tickets and VIP Tickets for only $250 each.
As if the car was not enough of an incentive to get you to attend event with many of your fellow Atlanta REIA, Tampa REIA and Savannah REIA members, the education presented at his convention will be top notch. Here is just a partial list of the topics… Read More→
The Profit – August 2012
Posted on August 6, 2012 byDownload The Profit August 2012 Edition
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The Profit Articles for August 2012 on TampaREIA.com
- Our Thumbs are Moving 8 Times Faster! Taking Advantage of the Mobile Internet Boom. by Mike Barnes
- Secret Marketing Weapon: Text Message Marketing by Dustin Griffin
- 98% of ALL Real Estate Investors Will Be Denied Bank Financing This Year! by Larry Harbolt
- The High Price of Hope by Russ Hiner
- Eight Strategies For Growing Your Rehabbing Business by Robyn Thompson
- Just How Smart is Co-signing a Debt? by Erven Kimble
- You Don’t Need a Test Kit for This Water Test! Testing the Water with Land Banking?! by Jim Hitt
- Did Your Lender Discriminate? by Bob Massey
- Real Estate + The Internet = The Perfect Marriage – Part 2 by Tony Pearl
- Women Who Behave Never Get Rich!! by Kathy Kennebrook
- Want an Estimate on that House? It’s a Snap! by Don DeRosa
The Profit August 2012 Edition
Posted on August 6, 2012 by
The 2nd edition of The Profit, the official newsletter of the Tampa Real Estate Investors Alliance (Tampa REIA), is out for the month August 2012! Read and enjoy a variety of articles on real estate investing from Mike Barnes, Dustin Griffin, Larry Harbolt, Russ Hiner, Robyn Thompson, Erven Kimble, Jim Hitt, Bob Massey, Tony Pearl, Kathy Kennebrook, Don DeRosa and more. Don’t forget, Tampa REIA Business Members can advertise in The Profit at discounted rates.
Secret Marketing Weapon: Text Message Marketing
Posted on August 6, 2012 byIf you’ve ever wanted to have a ‘leg up’ or an unfair advantage over the competition, there’s a secret weapon that is available now for you to use… It’s called ‘SMS Marketing,’ otherwise known as ‘Text Message Marketing.’
Those few who have it and know how to use it properly are absolutely killing it, while those who have yet to discover its power are totally missing out, and losing business to their competitors who have embraced this new way to use an old technology to promote their businesses.
It’s no secret that most people have a smartphone these days. You can’t leave home without it. Even those who don’t have a smartphone still have a “dumb phone” (a simple cell phone) that can send and receive Text Messages. Everyone from teenagers to senior citizens seems to carry one, either hidden away in their pockets or firmly strapped to their hip.
And while most people still have and use email, the open rate for the messages you send out now are pathetic… and declining rapidly.
So how can you reach out to your prospects to get their attention and put your offers in front of them? Simple: Send them a brief, well-written Text Message! Read More→
Our Thumbs are Moving 8 Times Faster! Taking Advantage of the Mobile Boom.
Posted on August 6, 2012 byIt is no wonder that the biggest marketing rage right now is the idea of having a website that is “thumb friendly”. According to Google, the mobile marketing revolution is growing 8x’s faster than the original web boom!
Of course, with any new wave, you will have your early adopters and the “it’s just a fad” naysayers. This wave is going to be bad news for the people who don’t get on it, because if you do not adapt to it now, your competition will pass you by very quickly. Some of these statistics should be frightening to any business that at the very least does not have a mobile friendly website.
- By 2013 more people will use their mobile phones than PC’s to get online (Gartner 2012)
- 61% of local searches on a mobile phone result in a phone call (Google 2012)
- Smartphone Shipments Surpass PCs for First Time (PC Magazine Feb 8, 2011)
- 44% of Facebook’s 900 million monthly users access Facebook on their phones. These people are twice as active on Facebook as non-mobile users (Facebook 2012)
Let’s look at it from a different global perspective… Of the 6.8 billion people on the planet, 4 billion of them own a mobile phone… that’s almost 60%! Consider globally, that there only slightly over 1.4 billion television sets. Of those 4 billion mobile phone owners, 1 billion of them own a smartphone. That is 15% of the world’s population owning a smartphone, making them completely “mobile ready”. Read More→
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