http://www.realestateinvesting360.com/blog Free Real Estate Training Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:20:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en © steve@RealEstateInvesting360.com () steve@RealEstateInvesting360.com Real Estate Investing 1440 Free Real Estate Training steve@RealEstateInvesting360.com No no http://www.realestateinvesting360.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://www.realestateinvesting360.com/blog 144 144 http://www.realestateinvesting360.com/blog/?p=6 http://www.realestateinvesting360.com/blog/?p=6#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:38:41 +0000 admin http://www.realestateinvesting360.com/blog/?p=6 http://www.realestateinvesting360.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=6 12:15 Ok, so you have decided you want to invest in real estatehellip; what now? Want to know a secret?hellip; ready?hellip; here it comeshellip; The fact that there ... Ok, so you have decided you want to invest in real estatehellip; what now? Want to know a secret?hellip; ready?hellip; here it comeshellip; The fact that there are no real secrets anymore is fairly evident - if you want to know pretty much anything, all you need to do is log on, Google it, and download whatever you are looking for. "There are no secrets." So, there. Now you know. "Secret" is a great word for marketers (like mehellip; and eventually you) to get your attention, which is becoming increasingly harder and harder every day because of all the crap out there demanding your time and focus. That being said, why would I tell you that? Because I want you to start out heading in the right direction. Trust me here, in the end, you will thank me for telling it to you straight. Irsquo;m on your side and that means we have to start on the same page together - or I cannot help you. But, how do you know if what you discover is accurate? How can you smell out the Bad Stuff (uhm "B.S." ;-) and sort out the valuable information that will put money in your pocket, free up your time, help you quit your J.O.B., allow you to travel the world, buy that expensive car for cash, orhellip; whatever your goals are?First, consider thishellip; hellip;and you may not like to hear it, but Irsquo;m gonna tell you anyway, because Irsquo;m on your side, remember? "If it sounds easyhellip; if it requires you to do nothinghellip; know nothinghellip; learn nothinghellip; change nothinghellip; and if what you find or who you find selling it - tells you that "all you need to do is plug it in and make your fortune" - I have some bad newshellip; hellip; you have probably come across some B.S. Tell yarsquo; whathellip; if you feel compelled to spend your money on a one of these "lottery tickets" - give it to me, Irsquo;ll keep a tab running for you and apply what you give me to your next lesson, course, software purchase, or monthly RealEstateInvesting360.com membership. The money will go a lot further that way and although you may not win a lottery, you will know how to create your own windfall eventually. Folks - you may not like to hear this, but Irsquo;ve gotta let you know, itrsquo;s my responsibility and will save you years of time, buckets of tears, and mounds of money. Yoursquo;ll start where you are and together, wersquo;ll move you forward. As we do, you will find new facts hidden in those old books you put on the bookshelves and forgot all about. "There ainrsquo;t no easy pathhellip; only easier ones. Because to build a truly successful business takes knowledge, time, effort, a little luck, and a whole lot of persistence, patience, and perseverencehellip; among a myriad of other things." I hope you are still with me - that is marketing suicide to tell you that I donrsquo;t have the magic bullet or the geniersquo;s lamp to sell you. I can promise you this however - what I do have works. What I offer you is experiencehellip; years of ithellip; in the trenches. That is not all I offer you howeverhellip; how rsquo;bout the truth? Irsquo;ll give it to you straighthellip; and those "secrets" others tell you about? Yoursquo;ll discover them in timehellip; be patient, you donrsquo;t need to open to every page of the book at once. nbsp;Irsquo;m eventually going to ask you to invest in me and my programs, letrsquo;s go ahead and get that out of the way. For now, howeverhellip; and maybe indefinately, just take advantage of what I can provide to you in this blog and e-mails Irsquo;ll send to you. Let me show you why itrsquo;s worth your time to hang around our community and prove to you that I can help you grow your business so it lastshellip; and creates for you the lifestyle you are looking for and that I know for a fact, if done correctly, real estate investing and being a successful entrepreneur can provide. If you want to "Invest in Real Estate" okhellip; but if you want to... Getting,Started,,Planning,,Preparation,,Real,Estate,Investing steve@RealEstateInvesting360.com no No http://www.realestateinvesting360.com/blog/?p=5 http://www.realestateinvesting360.com/blog/?p=5#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:27:07 +0000 admin http://www.realestateinvesting360.com/blog/?p=5 http://www.realestateinvesting360.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=5 10:47 This post will be a short(er) one today. You have a dilemma... a challenge of sorts... because if your like most real estate investors or entrepreneurs ... This post will be a short(er) one today. You have a dilemma... a challenge of sorts... because if your like most real estate investors or entrepreneurs you cannot ignore the importance of having a website (or three or four or...) for your business. "It's just the evolution of business, right? Now, more than ever, knowing how to capitalize on the available technology is as necessary as water, air, and food it seems." If you've recognized this need and understand the value... you've probably also realized that, like riding a bicycle for the first time, creating well crafted, direct marketing, highly responsive, websites looks a whole lot easier than it actually is. In fact, you may have already come to the conclusion that this technology thing, even with all of it's benefits and advantages, is downright daunting. Learning the technology, deciding on what the correct approach is, understanding all of the pitfalls to avoid, asking the right questions and getting the right answers is a challenge worth writing a book about (I may just do that someday, actually... the stories I could tell you, ARGH!). "Hey! I wanted to be a real estate investor, not a Web Master!" You say... trust me, I've heard it and said it myself a hundred times before. Understand this however, the internet, your websites, your autoresponders; Google AdWords, AdSense, Affiliate products and programs, etc. are NOT YOUR REAL ESTATE BUSINESS! "There really is no such thing as an "Internet Business" per say... only businesses that are run from the internet, which is a MARKETING TOOL." And, like any marketing tool, use it correctly... and you will see HUGE gains, use it incorrectly, and you will go broke, lose sleep, gain nothing, and waste a LOT of time (ask me how I know sometime... you buy the coffee or the beer though). There are so many options available - none of them seem to be right and they all cost you something, whether time, energy, or MONEY. Most of them, all of the above. The results? Usually, a look alike website sold to you for thousands of dollars with no support, no direction, no follow up, no help. "Here Mr. Smith... your nice and pretty website for your real estate business. Thank you for the $2,997 and your order. Good luck!" "Doh!" Can you believe? Yet, I see it all the time. The worst expect you to write all of the content yourself too. I remember the 1st time I hired a "Web Master" (yeah, right... master my **^#38;*!), I handed over my $900 for a complete website system for my real estate business (ok...nbsp;that was a LONG time ago, yes)nbsp;- all mapped out with links, pages, structure, names, concepts, etc. This thing took me half a year to research and create on paper. Know what happened? Not a month after he got all of my plans and specs, my $900 and hours of my time - he told me that I had to now... "Provide all of the content for the site, the shell is almost done, but you need to write all of the pages to plug in." Looking back, I was naive - I mean, certainly he could not create all of the content, what did he know about real estate? However, he could have told me that before I hired him! Finally, after fighting with him for two weeks about the issue, he charged me an additional $900 to have the content created for me. Right. Like that happened. After three months, he disappeared... money, site, and all. I had also hired him to create what I felt was going to be the most advanced on-line tutoring service model I believed was possible. I owned a tutoring service at the time and had, again, spent a year or so developing this model for on-line tutoring. A year after he disappeared with my money and without doing the job I had hired him for with my real estate websites, I found out that he had taken all of my notes and the volume of maps, models, ideas, etc. for the tutoring sites, and created a complete on-line tutoring system with a friend of his, which they own together and which, to m... Getting,Started,,Planning,,Preparation,,Promotion,,Real,Estate,Investing steve@RealEstateInvesting360.com no No