2. Jake shares his secret.

Jake took a seat beside Joe at the ice cream parlor. He had in his hand a mini scoop of orange sherbet ice cream. “Joe… I didn’t want to tell you that I’ve been doing other things besides diet and exercise because it made me feel silly. I’m only telling you now because it’s actually working! You see we’ve been through so many fad diets and we’ve lost weight together but we always ended up gaining it back. I just took an honest look at things and I realized that there are people out there that eat right and excercise on a regular basis that don’t use fad diets but they are in shape. They are healthy. If they aren’t using fad diets then why should I? ”

“Those people that you are talking about, they have better will power than us. I could never eat what they eat all the time. That’s impossible. I like food too much. So do you. Eventually you’ll break down and you’ll start eating like you used to. It’s happened before. Look at me. Just about 6 months ago when we were dieting I would have never had this ice cream but look. I ‘m having one now. I had one yesterday and I’ll probably have one tomorrow. It’s just a matter of time.”

“Joe do you remember Frank?”

“You mean Fat Frank? He moved away. I heard that he’s a Yoga trainer or something. I heard that he lost a lot of weight. Some people say that he had liposuction or that he had his stomach stapled or something. Is that what you did? I heard that surgeries are expensive and I can’t afford that.”

“No Joe it’s nothing like that. Frank did lose the weight. He looks great now. I had a talk with him just before we started our last diet and he’s been working with me ever since. He hasn’t gained the weight back and neither will I. It has nothing to do with will power or surgery.”

“Then what is it!?” wonder Joe a loud.

“I changed my mind.”

What?

I changed my mind. All of those fad diets that we were on. They were unrealistic. Could you imagine never eating carbs again? Or that cabbage soup?

Ya you’re right. That soup was terrible. To think that’s all I ate for a week! So how do I get on realistic diet and stay on it?

Good question.

You see it’s easy to get on a diet. I know that you know that. We’ve been on dozens of diets through out the years. The problems is, not matter how much will power you have, you can’t stay on a diet. Here is the key, it’s not about diets… it’s about lifestyle.”

But we’ve both tried that in the past. Eat right and exercise. That’s what we did this time. How come it worked for you and not for me?

The reason why it worked for me is because I now believe that I’m a thinner and healthier person and that I deserve to stay that way. I changed my mind!

What are you talking about?

We should call Frank. He’s been helping me lose and keep the weight off. Why don’t I drop by your place tomorrow and we can give him a call.

Start Your Real Estate Investing Career Off Right With Smart Marketing

Sure, it would be easy for you to step into your new real estate investing career with a pocket full of cash ready to plug every marketing avenue and make money hand over fist. However, it is not this easy for everybody involved, most of the people entering the real estate investing arena looking for the big bucks are forced to start by being frugal and intelligent. Don?t spend money in the areas where it is not going to come back to you in a big way, but how is this done? Read on and take a few tips back to the bank with you!

Use the charm and hard work approach by walking door-to-door in the neighborhoods that either resemble the houses you are trying to sell or are in the same area as the houses you are trying to sell. You don?t have to talk to someone or even introduce yourself to a single soul, just put flyers on doors with your message to get your name in the right place. Sure, this may take a little bit of work and you may get a little bit of exercise, but worse things have happened! You might just find some properties that make sense for you!

Take out page ads in every paper that is used in the area where you are trying to buy or sell in your real estate investing career. Don?t put something simple like your name and a brief message, but take a bold stand that will make people want to buy from or sell to you. Tell them that you buy houses with cash or you have something to offer that can make this process much easier for you. Continue to tweak your messages in each publication until you find something that works, but when it works ? stick with it! Don?t fix the unbroken tool!

These are two inexpensive, but effective ways to get your name out and in the area where you are hoping to begin your real estate investing venture. Neither will break the bank, but neither will get you the results you want if you don?t put the required work out front in the interim. Work hard with these two strategies and you can achieve everything you hope to in this lucrative real estate investing world!

Start Your Real Estate Investing Career Off Right With Smart Marketing

Sure, it would be easy for you to step into your new real estate investing career with a pocket full of cash ready to plug every marketing avenue and make money hand over fist. However, it is not this easy for everybody involved, most of the people entering the real estate investing arena looking for the big bucks are forced to start by being frugal and intelligent. Don?t spend money in the areas where it is not going to come back to you in a big way, but how is this done? Read on and take a few tips back to the bank with you!

Use the charm and hard work approach by walking door-to-door in the neighborhoods that either resemble the houses you are trying to sell or are in the same area as the houses you are trying to sell. You don?t have to talk to someone or even introduce yourself to a single soul, just put flyers on doors with your message to get your name in the right place. Sure, this may take a little bit of work and you may get a little bit of exercise, but worse things have happened! You might just find some properties that make sense for you!

Take out page ads in every paper that is used in the area where you are trying to buy or sell in your real estate investing career. Don?t put something simple like your name and a brief message, but take a bold stand that will make people want to buy from or sell to you. Tell them that you buy houses with cash or you have something to offer that can make this process much easier for you. Continue to tweak your messages in each publication until you find something that works, but when it works ? stick with it! Don?t fix the unbroken tool!

These are two inexpensive, but effective ways to get your name out and in the area where you are hoping to begin your real estate investing venture. Neither will break the bank, but neither will get you the results you want if you don?t put the required work out front in the interim. Work hard with these two strategies and you can achieve everything you hope to in this lucrative real estate investing world!

Start Your Real Estate Investing Career Off Right With Smart Marketing

Sure, it would be easy for you to step into your new real estate investing career with a pocket full of cash ready to plug every marketing avenue and make money hand over fist. However, it is not this easy for everybody involved, most of the people entering the real estate investing arena looking for the big bucks are forced to start by being frugal and intelligent. Don?t spend money in the areas where it is not going to come back to you in a big way, but how is this done? Read on and take a few tips back to the bank with you!

Use the charm and hard work approach by walking door-to-door in the neighborhoods that either resemble the houses you are trying to sell or are in the same area as the houses you are trying to sell. You don?t have to talk to someone or even introduce yourself to a single soul, just put flyers on doors with your message to get your name in the right place. Sure, this may take a little bit of work and you may get a little bit of exercise, but worse things have happened! You might just find some properties that make sense for you!

Take out page ads in every paper that is used in the area where you are trying to buy or sell in your real estate investing career. Don?t put something simple like your name and a brief message, but take a bold stand that will make people want to buy from or sell to you. Tell them that you buy houses with cash or you have something to offer that can make this process much easier for you. Continue to tweak your messages in each publication until you find something that works, but when it works ? stick with it! Don?t fix the unbroken tool!

These are two inexpensive, but effective ways to get your name out and in the area where you are hoping to begin your real estate investing venture. Neither will break the bank, but neither will get you the results you want if you don?t put the required work out front in the interim. Work hard with these two strategies and you can achieve everything you hope to in this lucrative real estate investing world!

Real Estate Investing Spy Secrets

I bet your wasting a lot of time and money on your real estate advertising that could be better utilized. What if I told you of a way to know exactly how to spy to see what you’re competitors are doing so you can outshine them every day of the week? What if I told you there was a way that you could position yourself totally different from all the other ‘We Buy Houses’ crap that you see out there?

See, here’s the deal: when I think of these guys, the first thing that pops in my mind is the investor handyman with a beat up crappy truck with all types of garbage in the back. No offense if this is you, it just happens to not be what I want for my life or my business.

These guys are in love with their work and most don’t have the slightest clue how to work a deal creatively. So what makes you different from all the other goons out there? I’ll tell you in just a moment, but first I have an exercise for you.

If you already have a property that you have control of or that you’re trying to sell, then call up every “We Buy Houses” ad that you see. Now, I want you to play dumb (I know that’s not to hard for some but amuse yourself- OK?) when you talk to the “We Buy Houses” guys. Act like a homeowner would that is trying to sell their house. Don’t let them in on your little experiment, just do it and play the role of the motivated seller- OK?

Also, call any of the people that are offering a Free Report on “How to sell your house”.

Now, I want you to document everything they did during the appointment. Document if they were late, if they didn’t show up, or if they didn’t even call. For those that are offering a Free Report, document everything they send you, the time period it takes for them to send you and any follow up they have with you. Keep up with all this in a binder, under each company’s information that you called.

I can here you screaming through the internet right now - “Wow, Derek, that sure sounds like a lot of busy work. Why in the heck do you want me to do all that nonsense?”

You’ll thank me when you’ve completed this little task because it’s one of the most down and dirty tricks that I’ll ever teach you. As a matter of fact, I don’t know anyone that has this clear type instruction for you to attack and spy on your market’s competitors.

So, what’s the freakin use?

Ok, Sherlock. First you’ve got to realize that many of the “real deal” investors in this business are not going to share with you openly what they know. They want to protect their market and many will flat out lie to you or will fabricate the truth just to keep you out of their market. Well, this little technique will show you exactly what their marketing approach is and how they conduct business with their entire marketing campaign at your fingertips.

Imagine knowing how to tap into their mindset knowing exactly what approach they take to real estate deal making.

What would you give to know exactly what your soon to be competition is doing?

Well, now you can because I’ve given you the exact steps to go about spying on other real estate investors. That’s powerful to be able to know exactly what your competitors are doing in terms of their marketing approach. As a matter of fact, you can sit back and watch what they do for several months to see who remains in business and who doesn’t.

Now, I’ve done this little task and the results are simply amazing.

Here’s what you’ll find: That most investors that are pouring in their hard earned money for advertising do one thing: Nothing.

They’ll fail to call you back, they’ll fail to keep the appointment, or they’ll be late.

Here’s what else you’ll notice:

They always take phone calls during meeting with the sellers; they fail to build any type of rapport, simply going in for the kill by immediately talking about the numbers. They appear more desperate than a high school boy on prom night.

As you sit back watching this dog and pony show, ask yourself if you’d be willing to sell your home to this idiot or would you be skeptical. You will quickly realize there is not as much competition as you initially thought. The only competition you have is yourself.

Let me ask you this, if your competition was doing this, then how hard do you believe it would be to smoke them, leaving them eating your dust?

The fact is that it’s the same way in all businesses. You only have a handful that seems to use their brain. You’ve probably been to numerous businesses or restaurants in the past few months or even weeks where you noticed the service wasn’t up to par. The same is true with investors as most piddle, waste time, and appear to be un-caring about the seller’s situation. Therefore, they don’t do deals, which in turn makes it easy for you to outshine the others.

Take time out to spy on your competitors and you’ll see exactly how you can bring more to the market than any one else.

About the Author

Derek Pierce, full time Real Estate Investor, shows
you the exact strategies to his success in his Free Book: “How I
Went From Corporate Guinea Pig To Real Estate Success”. Get
your copy and Real Estate Investing Tips by going to http://www.thereisecrets.com

Real Estate Investing Spy Secrets

I bet your wasting a lot of time and money on your real estate advertising that could be better utilized. What if I told you of a way to know exactly how to spy to see what you’re competitors are doing so you can outshine them every day of the week? What if I told you there was a way that you could position yourself totally different from all the other ‘We Buy Houses’ crap that you see out there?

See, here’s the deal: when I think of these guys, the first thing that pops in my mind is the investor handyman with a beat up crappy truck with all types of garbage in the back. No offense if this is you, it just happens to not be what I want for my life or my business.

These guys are in love with their work and most don’t have the slightest clue how to work a deal creatively. So what makes you different from all the other goons out there? I’ll tell you in just a moment, but first I have an exercise for you.

If you already have a property that you have control of or that you’re trying to sell, then call up every “We Buy Houses” ad that you see. Now, I want you to play dumb (I know that’s not to hard for some but amuse yourself- OK?) when you talk to the “We Buy Houses” guys. Act like a homeowner would that is trying to sell their house. Don’t let them in on your little experiment, just do it and play the role of the motivated seller- OK?

Also, call any of the people that are offering a Free Report on “How to sell your house”.

Now, I want you to document everything they did during the appointment. Document if they were late, if they didn’t show up, or if they didn’t even call. For those that are offering a Free Report, document everything they send you, the time period it takes for them to send you and any follow up they have with you. Keep up with all this in a binder, under each company’s information that you called.

I can here you screaming through the internet right now - “Wow, Derek, that sure sounds like a lot of busy work. Why in the heck do you want me to do all that nonsense?”

You’ll thank me when you’ve completed this little task because it’s one of the most down and dirty tricks that I’ll ever teach you. As a matter of fact, I don’t know anyone that has this clear type instruction for you to attack and spy on your market’s competitors.

So, what’s the freakin use?

Ok, Sherlock. First you’ve got to realize that many of the “real deal” investors in this business are not going to share with you openly what they know. They want to protect their market and many will flat out lie to you or will fabricate the truth just to keep you out of their market. Well, this little technique will show you exactly what their marketing approach is and how they conduct business with their entire marketing campaign at your fingertips.

Imagine knowing how to tap into their mindset knowing exactly what approach they take to real estate deal making.

What would you give to know exactly what your soon to be competition is doing?

Well, now you can because I’ve given you the exact steps to go about spying on other real estate investors. That’s powerful to be able to know exactly what your competitors are doing in terms of their marketing approach. As a matter of fact, you can sit back and watch what they do for several months to see who remains in business and who doesn’t.

Now, I’ve done this little task and the results are simply amazing.

Here’s what you’ll find: That most investors that are pouring in their hard earned money for advertising do one thing: Nothing.

They’ll fail to call you back, they’ll fail to keep the appointment, or they’ll be late.

Here’s what else you’ll notice:

They always take phone calls during meeting with the sellers; they fail to build any type of rapport, simply going in for the kill by immediately talking about the numbers. They appear more desperate than a high school boy on prom night.

As you sit back watching this dog and pony show, ask yourself if you’d be willing to sell your home to this idiot or would you be skeptical. You will quickly realize there is not as much competition as you initially thought. The only competition you have is yourself.

Let me ask you this, if your competition was doing this, then how hard do you believe it would be to smoke them, leaving them eating your dust?

The fact is that it’s the same way in all businesses. You only have a handful that seems to use their brain. You’ve probably been to numerous businesses or restaurants in the past few months or even weeks where you noticed the service wasn’t up to par. The same is true with investors as most piddle, waste time, and appear to be un-caring about the seller’s situation. Therefore, they don’t do deals, which in turn makes it easy for you to outshine the others.

Take time out to spy on your competitors and you’ll see exactly how you can bring more to the market than any one else.

About the Author

Derek Pierce, full time Real Estate Investor, shows
you the exact strategies to his success in his Free Book: “How I
Went From Corporate Guinea Pig To Real Estate Success”. Get
your copy and Real Estate Investing Tips by going to http://www.thereisecrets.com

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