Websites You can Use in Your Real Estate Investing

Websites you can use

This month I want to share with you a few of the websites and strategies that we use for classified ad posting. You might be thinking what in the world is classified ad posting and why do I need to do it?

There are a ton of sites out there that have free online classifieds: Craig’s List, BackPage.com, Postlets.com, BuySellCommunity.com, USFreeAds.com, etc. There are all these different sites that you can use to advertise your houses for sale or build your buyers lists.

Say you are wholesaling properties and trying to build your list posting to all these lists with an ad such as: “Handyman specials! Fixer uppers. Cheap Cash.” With you phone number or your website address.

It could take you all day and all night to post your ads and keep them generating leads. You might not realize that on these sites every time an ad is posted, your ad drops down on the list. You can very rapidly move from page one to page two to page ten to nowhere to be found. So you need to continue to post your ads weekly if not daily. It can take you hours and hours if you do it manually. But manual posting is the only posting that is effective.

You need to be able to use some ad positing services. Before we get into that I want to share with you some things to be on the lookout for. Some ad posting services have software. But with ad posting you need to find somebody that will manually post your ads. If you just use a software or a service that uses a software those ads usually get flagged and shut down, never appearing on the classified ad site at all.

You know that I am all about automation in the real estate business. But you don’t want to automate anything that gets blocked, such as ad posting. You want to find someone that will manually post your ads.

If you just use a software or a service that uses a software, you are wasting your time and your ads get flagged and shut down. A lot of places refer to this as spamming software.

You don’t want to start out purchasing 1000 ads per month, either. Start small, ten or twenty ads per month. Don’t risk ordering a big order with a service that you don’t know or have experience with. You might not get a good return on your investment. Or you might even get such a good response that you cannot handle the influx of inquiries.

One place that you can look for somebody to manually post your ads is ELance.com. You can find an individual who will manually post your ads such as the one above to build your buyers list. Just search for a provider with the keywords “manual ad posting service”.

Another place that you can find somebody like that is RentACoder.com. Often RAC folks are writing programs or software to automate the posting. But you can also find manually posters. Just check the listings carefully.

Two other good sites to look at are ODesk.com or VA4U.com. These also have outsourced ad posters.

There are also some individuals that I have worked with in the past who I highly recommend that are dependable and very good at what they do.

This first guy is ENAMUL.info. If you Google the words “ad posting services” he comes up at the very top. I figure if he can get to the top of Google he’s very good at marketing and I want to use him. And I have in the past with very good results.

Another one is Sunny-Pages.net. That is another good ad posting service. Another one that is real estate specific that a lot of real estate agents use is a website called TheRealEstateMarketingService.com. They do a lot of work with realtors and it would be worth checking out.

Another good one is OnlinemMrketingGrp.com. There is also a young guy that has written some great articles about how to choose an ad posting service. If you check him out you might want to give him a try, even though I haven’t used him yet. You can find him on Squidoo.com/CraigsList-Ad-Posting-Service which is his Squidoo lens, as they call it. He has videos about Craig’s List secrets, all kind of stories about what he’s done and how he’s done it. I haven’t talked to him and I don’t know him. But when I found him online I added him to my favorites and I think you all might want to try him out.

I hope you find this month’s Web Sites You Can Use helpful as you build your super targeted list of home buyers on your way to becoming and Ultimate Buying and Selling Machine.

Larry