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Marketing Monday: The Results Are….

November 29, 2011 by Scott Costello Leave a Comment
Direct Marketing plans

Sorry for the tease people, I am just in that sort of mood.  I can’t report any results just yet as it’s too early, but the last round of colored envelopes are going out today.  In total I sent out about 200 direct mail letters in this test.  We have definitely gotten some responses  but [...]

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Turducken – What The Hell Is It?

November 23, 2011 by Scott Costello 4 Comments
real estate investor deal

The word Turducken is becoming so popular these days that you can barely find anyone who doesn’t know what the heck it is.  I even saw one in the food store the other day.  To me it sounds gross and I doubt I’ll ever try one.  Has anyone given it a taste? Deal #2 update [...]

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Deal #2 Update: Putting The Pressure On

November 18, 2011 by Scott Costello 7 Comments
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The saga continues with Deal #2.  We sent the addendums to the attorney to review early last week and got word 5 days  later that he had forwarded it to the seller to take a look.   It’s amazing how long each and every step is with an attorney involved.  You try and be patient, but after [...]

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Marketing Monday: See My New Envelope

November 15, 2011 by Scott Costello 15 Comments
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I think I’m going to have to start calling the Marketing Monday series of posts Marketing Tuesday because it seems that’s when I have time to post it, haha.  I would, but it sounds better the first way.  After completing my 400 letters in 10 days challenge (I’ve still yet to get Aaron’s mailing info so I [...]

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Another Year Older And Another Year Wiser

November 10, 2011 by Scott Costello 3 Comments
Real Estate investor Birthday

I celebrating my 35th birthday this past week by taking off Monday and Tuesday from work to hang out with my wife and get some shelves built in my garage (I’ll take a picture of them when I’m done).  I also needed to buy a car because my BMW was about to run out of [...]

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2 Week Challenge Update: Did I Do It?

November 4, 2011 by Scott Costello 8 Comments
400 Challenge

Over the past 10 days I challenged myself to complete 400 mailers.  At the time I wasn’t aware of all the obstacles and time sucks that awaiting me these past two weeks or I might have put off the challenge for another time.   If you have been following along the last few updates you know [...]

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2 Week Challenge Update: 124 More Completed

November 1, 2011 by Scott Costello 2 Comments
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I wish I would have picked another 10 day period to challenge myself!  I’ve had so much go on this past week and a half it has been crazy.  Here is a quick recap of what had to get done in these 10 days… I’ve had 1 real estate meeting Snow storm that knocked out [...]

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2 Week Challenge Update: 135 Down and a lot to go

October 28, 2011 by Scott Costello 4 Comments
Direct Mail

Well I got off to a rough start this week on my 12 day challenge to reach 400 mailers.   I got put behind right from the beginning on Monday when I’m not sure what the hell happened and got nothing done.  Tuesday and Wednesday I put together the 135 Mailers with great speed.  Here [...]

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Marketing Monday: 400 Mailers in 12 days

October 24, 2011 by Scott Costello 16 Comments
Direct Marketing plans

The best way to keep your momentum going is to increase the amount of mailers you are sending out.  That will lead to more phone calls and more possible deals.  Once March 31st comes, my free time will change severely so I must step it up now.  I’ve got the will and I’m setting up [...]

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Deal #2 is Progressing Slowly

October 20, 2011 by Scott Costello 5 Comments
real estate investor contract addendum

About a month ago we came to a verbal agreement with a seller to buy a house.   Since that moment everything has been going at a snails pace.  This of course is because there is a lawyer involved who seems to not be making this a priority.  Besides taking a week to respond to [...]

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