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Unlock the power of SEO for real estate investing! Jerryll Noorden reveals game-changing strategies to avoid costly mistakes and attract motivated sellers. Learn why traditional lead generation methods fall short and how to leverage search engine optimization for maximum ROI.

Key insights:

• The true meaning of motivation in real estate

• Why circumstance doesn't equal willingness to sell

• How to outperform competitors with personality-driven websites

• The 3 pillars of conversion: Competence, Personality, and Credibility


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00:26 - What is SEO

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17:04 - Time Investment for SEO

21:50 - Final Thoughts on SEO

27:20 - Key Takeaways

27:43 - Self-Reflection in SEO

28:37 - Advice to Your Younger Self

28:57 - Recommended Reading for SEO

29:18 - Time-Saving SEO Tools

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Gerald Norton joins me and you could learn what his company is up

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to by going over to grumpy hair.

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com.

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That's grumpy hair.

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com.

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And, you can imagine this is going to be around search engine

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optimization and building that online presence, a grumpy hair.

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com.

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I really appreciate your time, Gerald.

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This is going to be a great conversation.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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pleasure to be here.

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So we're going to just kind of jump right in, Search engine optimization is kind of

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a buzzword and frankly as a real estate investor Doing this for a while now.

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I'm getting hit up a lot from kids on fiverr To everything else under the sun.

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Can you kind of explain a little bit what search engine optimization

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is and the importance of it when you have this online presence?

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Yeah.

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So we, as investors, what do we want?

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We want to find people that are willing to sell their house below market value, which

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is the definition of a motivated seller.

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when it comes to search engine optimization, it's pretty much how to

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rank your website number one on Google.

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What people don't understand is not just ranking your website number one on

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Google, but ranking your website number one on Google for the right people.

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People that are willing to sell their house below market value.

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That is the part that nobody literally gets.

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so what most people then do is trick and manipulate Google into

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thinking they should rank number one.

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Well, instead, Search Engine Machine is all about showing Google

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that your website provides the most value to Google's traffic.

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And their main principle about the entire ranking on Google is simply this.

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Imagine if Google always gives you something random when

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you do a search on Google.

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Every time you do a search, it's a completely random result.

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And on the other hand, imagine if you do a search on Yahoo.

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You get exactly what you're looking for.

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Which website do you think you will use?

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Google or Yahoo?

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Obviously Yahoo, right?

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If they get you what you want.

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So, what happens if everybody goes to Yahoo and nobody goes to Google?

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Google goes bankrupt.

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So you start to see what Google, and when I say Google, I'm

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talking about all search engines.

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You start to realize what Google truly is all about.

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Google is all about ranking the website number one that provides

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its users with the most value.

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So that is where you really need to focus on when you're talking about Google.

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SEO.

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It's not about the ranking.

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It's about the ranking for the right people.

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So as long as you can do that, you will actually have people that are willing

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to sell their house with a market value to specifically look for you, find

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you, and ask you to make them an offer.

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So the end result is, instead of us chasing leads, the leads literally

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chase us, if you do it correctly.

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And that is the whole premise of SEO.

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Yeah.

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I really appreciate you bringing that up.

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And one of those things that, you know, I happen to be reading a book right

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now, a hundred million dollar leads.

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I don't know if you've read that one.

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and he's talks about the riches in the niches, of course.

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we have this tendency of throwing a blanket into our market and hoping for the

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best when it comes to this type of thing.

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what you're suggesting is that we even have to niche down and become relevant

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and valuable In our markets for the terms and stuff we're searching for.

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Yeah.

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Think about what you just said today.

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Blanket.

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So what does everybody do?

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They buy up foreclosure lists, absentee only lists, probate

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lists, texting lists, right?

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That's what everybody does.

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And they think, okay, I have a set of, list of leads.

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I'm going to blank mail that, that audience and see what hits.

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You need to send between 3, 000 and 5, 000 mails to the foreclosure list,

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absent owner list, probate list, any list you can take off to get one deal.

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Okay?

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Think about it.

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Take 10 random people on your foreclosure list and ask them,

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Do you want to sell your house or do you want to keep your house?

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What do you think they're going to say?

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They want to keep my house.

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Ask ten random people on your texting list, ask them the same question.

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Do you want to sell your house or do you want to keep your house?

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They're going to say, I want to keep my house.

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Ask ten people on any list, ask them, do you want to sell your house

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or do you want to keep your house?

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They will all say, I want to keep my house.

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So, in other words, people are specifically and explicitly

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Targeting people that do not want to sell their house to try

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to make them sell their house.

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So that is all nice and thoughtful in theory, right?

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Let's look at data.

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You need to send between 5, 000, mailers to get one contract signed,

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that is a success rate of 0.

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03%, which means your failure rate is 99.

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97%.

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What that means Is 99.

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97 percent of the people that you are chasing are not

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interested in your message.

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then everybody sends mailers out and they are not successful with the 99.

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9 percent They are complaining to their favorite guru and they

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tell them, it's not working.

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What do you think the favorite guru will tell you?

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if you're not successful doing mailers, you didn't do enough.

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Do more.

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So now, here you are in a Fargo on the road.

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You go left.

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You chase foreclosures as they were some probates.

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You go right and you find people that are willing to subject market value.

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Everybody takes hard left and when they realize they make

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a mistake, they turn left.

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What do the experts tell you to fix it?

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Hit the gas pedal, go harder, go faster, do more.

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that is the whole premise of lead generation.

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the entire concept of getting a lead is all about Targeting the right

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audience with the right message.

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So if you need to target 3, 000 people with a message of are you in

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foreclosure to get a deal, obviously you're not targeting the right

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audience with the right message, right?

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So things need to change.

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And that is where SEO comes into play.

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The point here is you cannot target motivated sellers, can't.

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Here is why.

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No,

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Yeah, so here's why.

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Everybody thinks that a circumstance like foreclosure, as the owner

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approves it, implies Motivation.

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Everything is that.

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But that is wrong.

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Circumstance does not imply motivation.

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Motivation is an emotional response to a circumstance, not the circumstance itself.

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So now, check this out.

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Although the sensible solution to the circumstance of being in foreclosure

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is to sell your house, the emotional response, however, is to sell.

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It's trying to find ways to keep their house.

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So the emotional response and the circumstance, they do not

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fit the characteristic of a motivated seller of willingness

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to sell the hospital market value.

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So the moment people understand that, only then can you start

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to even begin looking for leads.

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Luck is a coin, a cost coin, 50 50.

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What are you doing when you send mailers outfit for closeness and all

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these blanket mail, mass mails, right?

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You have a 0.

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03 versus 99.

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97.

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That is not luck.

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That is suicide.

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Luck is 50 50.

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You would have better luck randomly closing your eyes, go to downtown

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somewhere and pick random people and ask them to sell their house.

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You will have more luck getting a yes, then actually targeting a list.

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That is comprised specifically of people that do not want to sell their house.

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So the reason why we are so successful is because we understand that

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concept, But those that can listen to data, they are the ones extremely

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successful and that's how it works.

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I think this is really interesting in the fact that you

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brought up the floor closure.

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we've had a notorious bad record.

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And I'm just going to be transparent here regarding dealing with people that are in.

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Pre foreclosure.

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and we've even asked them, well, if we have put you in a position that you're

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actually leaving with something in your pocket, why wouldn't you take this?

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And they, they're typically agreeable, but we have yet to get one of

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these properties under contract.

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In fact, more times than not, these properties People that are in pending

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for foreclosure, they have lost the property overselling to us.

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And the reason why it's because it's an emotional thing.

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It's not a logical thing.

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motivation is an emotional response to a logical concept.

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Right?

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Foreclosure is a logical concept.

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If you, if you, if you exhibit this and this and this characteristic,

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you are in foreclosure.

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It's a logical concept.

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But motivation is not a checklist to say, Oh, tall grass, boarded up windows,

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mirrors on the floor, foreclosure.

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Therefore, there's a higher chance of being motivated.

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No.

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emotion cannot be predicted.

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Two people in the same situation will act completely different.

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So there is no metric where you can target foreclosure.

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It doesn't make sense.

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And the sooner people realize that, the sooner they can actually

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do something about getting actual success, getting deals.

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Because that's what it's all about, right?

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Any business, any business can only operate if they find the right leads.

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And for our businesses, sadly, leads are very difficult because our

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leads are people that are willing to sell for pennies a dollar.

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That's very difficult.

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so it is very important that you really, really understand the concepts

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before you dive in and become an investor and expect to get deals.

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So, you know, one of those things that I think is interesting, and

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I'm going to eventually bring up the elephant in the room, which is carrot.

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We started a website here through carrot.

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and frankly, one thing leads to another.

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And now everybody in my market.

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Is using the exact same thing.

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let's say they've kind of followed the lead.

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Now ours isn't performing nearly as well as when we started.

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Can you talk a little bit about that and the amount of work that's actually

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needed on the investor side of things to make sure the site stays relevant?

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Yeah.

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So a lot of these website providers, they are, again, they

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are basing SEO and lead generation on the completely wrong concept.

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Lemme give you an example.

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The conversion.

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Now, if conversion happens, when you successfully can convey to your traffic

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through your website, who you are, what you are like, and what would be

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like to work with you, all of which needs to align with the perfect image

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idea of their ideal cash buyer to work with is, lemme give you an example.

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Don't you agree that when you do a Google search, you already

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know what you're looking for?

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So a motivated seller, they have in their mind already a set of ideal

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personality and character traits they're looking for in a cash buyer.

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Fair, honest, have a personality, good energy.

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And when they go to Google, they are actually skimming and skipping websites

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until they find one website they like.

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That matches that Tracer looking for, right?

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So only then will you get the conversion.

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But now, what is Scarlet?

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And, and, a lot of, all the, all the website providers, what, what

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are their basic SEO, strategies?

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The moment you land on a current job site, the first thing you will

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see is are you in foreclosure?

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Are you in job loss?

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Are you relocating?

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that was the basic template.

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So this is what I call topic based conversions.

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Wrong.

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Doesn't work.

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While we at Grumpy Hare, we do the conversion psychology

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of motivated sellers.

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that is our conversion principle.

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Let me tell you the difference.

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A topic based conversion is when you pretty much repeat The pain points of the

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seller and expect the seller to choose you because you repeated their pain points.

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Oh, are you foreclosure?

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Are you jobloss?

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Trust me.

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They know they're in foreclosure.

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You don't have to tell them that.

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Not because you repeat their problems will they automatically jump to you.

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But on the Grumpy Hair websites, the first thing you'll see when you land

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on it, It's a big picture of the person smiling with a very welcoming vibe and

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energy that instantly within the first two seconds of landing, they will know, Oh,

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I'm going to be dealing with that person.

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So they instantly know who they're working with.

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Obviously, that is what they want.

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if the other, providers, the topic based providers strategy worked, all

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you would have to do is say, Hey, I buy houses, I buy in, I help people

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with foreclosure, come with me.

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That would have worked, but obviously, a direct marketing

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piece would have worked then.

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But it doesn't.

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Do you know how many times after I do walkthroughs, and I see a stack of mailers

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on their counter, and they picked me, and I didn't send them a single mailer?

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If just mentioning their problems, or just mentioning you buy houses was

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enough, their marketing would have worked.

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The ranking number one would have worked, but it doesn't.

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Not because you're number one, it doesn't mean you're going to get leads.

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Not at all.

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You still need to make sure that what you present yourself to be fits

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what a motive seller is looking for.

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And once you can show these two fits.

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You will get a lead.

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Everybody thinks that just adding a picture is enough.

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No.

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The difference between telling people that you are amazing versus making

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people feel like you're amazing are two completely different animals.

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So while everybody is just telling them on the website with reviews and testimonials

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and all that stuff, you are pretty much telling them that you are credible.

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You are not making them feel like you are.

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the Grumpy Heart premise, that's why it outperforms Carrot and

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all the others by a landslide.

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It's because we need to focus on the conversion psychology of

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motivated sellers out of the box.

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So that's what we need to focus on, okay?

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whatever works that you have, character or otherwise, you can still salvage that.

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Just focus on the conversion psychology of motivated sellers.

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Don't focus on the pain points.

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I've developed the three pillars of a conversion.

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Competence, personality, and credibility.

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Okay?

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You need to show all three.

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Before you can even expect to get a lead.

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Now, I'm not going to dive into the details because it's a whole book.

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But here is what I am trying to tell you.

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A lot of people focus on credibility.

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They have no idea about personality strategies.

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And they have no idea about competence strategies.

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I wanted to just mention that focus on personality more than anything else.

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Here's why.

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People will work with people they like.

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If you are an amazing person to work with, people will try to find reasons

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and excuses to work with you, even if you're not an expert in the space.

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On the other hand, if you're a complete douchebag to work with,

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people will try to find reasons and excuses not to work with you, despite

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you being an expert in the space.

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Why am I telling you this?

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We get our deals accepted for way below market value because

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of our personality and character.

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So it's personality that makes people pick you while it is

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credibility and competence.

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that validate that they picked the right person.

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So that's why I say that is what you need to focus on the person behind

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the website, not the website itself.

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Okay.

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So that is the biggest difference between carrot and all the other platforms.

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And that is why I developed Grumpy Hare.

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We had to literally clean, I was on carrot too.

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And we had to literally clean everything on carrot, put in our

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own CSS coding to fix everything.

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And the funny thing is when we did that, they stopped offering support to us.

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While we made our students rank higher, they thanked us

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by removing support from us.

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So that's why we said, you know what, we're going to create

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our own Grumpy Hair website.

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And out of the box, we put in all the fixes that we implement on Tarot.

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We put all the bugs in there and People just switching over see

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pretty much overnight results.

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It's incredible.

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So yeah, we're very happy.

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Very proud of.

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Yeah.

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So one of the things that, we learned in, in any kind of sales train training

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is You know, that first connection is important in the personality counts,

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but more times than not, especially early on in our investing, we would

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lose out just because they liked us.

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Doesn't mean it's going to close the deal.

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And what I think is important is what you pointed out.

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It's the credibility and confidence that actually in the end.

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Helps with that piece of it.

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Yeah.

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it's credibility, personality, and competence.

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It's you to show the competence.

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It's not just confidence, but confidence is part of the competence equation.

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Yes,

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sure.

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So, one of those things that I would like to spend a little time

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with is regarding the amount of time that this type of activity.

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We'll consume because this is, this isn't an easy thing.

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so I just want to remind everybody again to head over to grumpy hair.

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com and learn a little bit more about this product and what we're talking about here.

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It's grumpy hair.

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com.

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That's going to be a clickable link in the show notes.

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If you found some value in what we're talking about so far, do

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us a quick favor, share this with one of your investor friends.

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And if you're watching us on YouTube, give us a quick like and subscribe.

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So Gerald, can you talk briefly about what people should expect?

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Cause real estate investing, when people get into this, I think we're

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sold a bill of goods that this is easy This isn't easy and it requires a lot

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of activity in order to stay relevant.

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What kind of work is needed here?

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Okay, so that's a bit of an old question.

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Let me answer it the best way I can.

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My website, personally, I haven't even touched my website in over four years.

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But that is just because the way SEO works.

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Google is not going to rank a website number one just because

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it's updated twice a day.

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Google's going to rank number one because it gives Google's traffic the most value.

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It doesn't matter if another asset is updated most of the day, right?

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but then I already have accumulated a lot of Google trust.

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And I'm already established.

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And people already know me and like me and they click on my website and get leads.

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So that is why I don't do anything anymore.

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But if you're brand new, you don't have reputation and Google doesn't know about

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you, you need to have your work cut out for you because you need to prove

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to Google That you are better than the other guy that's number one, right?

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But here is the thing that people don't really understand.

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When you are just brand new and you have a brand new website, you

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do not have to be better than the number one ranking website, right?

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If you rank number 99 on Google, you just need to be better than the

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guy that ranks number 98 on Google.

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That is how you start progressing.

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And the more value you provide to your users, and it could mean anything, it

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could mean content, it could mean website speed, anything that provides a good

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user experience on your website, you will start to outrank your competitors.

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Now, here is why it is quite easy if you do it right.

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What is 90 percent plus of your competitors doing?

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They are doing topic based conversions.

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They talk about foreclosure and as the owners, if you connect with your

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seller on a personal level through your website, you are providing far more

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value out of the box than most other websites you can climb very quickly.

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And then once you hit page one, that's where things get tough because

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now traffic actually sees you.

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And that's where you can start to get a lead.

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So now the more leads you get, which means the more value you have offered.

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You will start to rank.

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So, here is where a lot of the SEO experts go wrong.

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Everybody thinks it's all about backlinking and time on page and click

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through rate and balances and all these technical SEO aspects, right?

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It's not.

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SEO is all about showing to Google that you offer more value.

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That's all it is.

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So, how does Google know which website offers more value?

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That's the question.

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Backlink is the key.

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But it's a very, even Google will say focus on backlinks, but

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then again, Google's not going to give you their secret, right?

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So what we do is we don't focus on backlinks.

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We focus on conversions.

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Imagine you have two websites.

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One site is a really good website and the other one's a crappy website.

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Which do you think is going to get more leads?

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The website offers a lot of value, or the crappy website?

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The valuable one, obviously.

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the website that gets the most leads was the website that offered the most value.

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So Google, the way we reverse engineered the Google algorithm, what we came

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to find is, the better the website converts traffic into leads, the

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more value to Google, the website is providing, so you will rank number one.

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So, does it take time?

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Yes.

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If you're brand new, if you have no idea what websites, it takes time.

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But that is why, what we have done, out of the box, with the Grumpy

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Hat, for example, we have all these metrics, these personality

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metrics, included out of the box.

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So all you have to do is just swap the pictures.

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We have placed all the pictures of AI personalities.

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Everywhere on the website and all you have to do is swap them and then

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make the content of your original content that provides your traffic

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to see who you really are inside.

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If you can't do that, do not look at your rankings.

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just focus on the website and by the time you look up to see how

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your website is doing, you will be very high in the rankings.

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So that is a trick.

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Do not focus on the time it takes.

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Focus on how effectively you can portray who you really are.

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convey to your audience who you are and what kind of person you are.

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As long as you do that, it will be quite fast.

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Let's say somebody does decide to take advantage what you're offering here.

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And you said, no, don't, don't be concerned about how long it takes to rank,

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but could you kind of give an idea of how long it would take to become relevant?

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Yeah.

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so I can, I'm going to give you the previous results from our students.

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That can be a good indication.

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But the fine print is, it depends on your market, it depends on how well you

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do the work, and it depends on how your competition is doing their own SEO.

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But from our experience, we have one of our students, he's one of

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our record students actually, he got number one in three weeks.

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I think it took him three months to become a millionaire because he ranked

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number one, so it's quite impressive.

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But the average is around between one month to three months where you start

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to see yourself climbing on the first place to the number one spot on Google.

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But then again, it depends on your market.

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Again, oddly enough, miles He did in California.

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It's a very competitive market.

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Right.

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No, I appreciate you giving us that example because, it sounds

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like the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that

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a lot of the traffic and the ranking that we had received was probably driven by the

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other marketing and that we were doing.

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Because like, for example, we were sending out thousands of mailings

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a month and More times than not, all of that was pointing back to

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the website to drive traffic there.

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Keep this in mind.

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Do you know how many calls and farm fields we're getting?

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And when we go to the appointments and we ask them, how'd you find us?

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Do you know what a lot of people say?

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They will either say, Hey, I received your mailer.

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We don't send any mailers.

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So what most people sending mailers and calls and texts don't realize is, more

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than half of your marketing goes to the guy that is number one in your market.

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You may not never know about it, but a lot of your mailers end up

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becoming leads to somebody else.

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so my advice to you, if you send mailers, make sure, absolutely sure, you put a

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picture of yourself on the mailer and you say, if you want to know why and

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how we found you, check out the website.

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That way, even though they are going to do a research anyways, they at least

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find out who you are on your website, but that's a double edged sword, right?

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Because now you give them a way to get in touch with you and more than 90 percent of

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the people are not really happy with you.

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When you send mailers and calls and texts, so they can also yell at you.

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But at least you give them a way to really track you.

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Because our website is called Weebahouses in Connecticut.

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It's one of our websites.

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and most people in the mailer will say Weebahouses in city state, right?

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So they think we send the mailer and they will type Weebahouses in Connecticut.

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Or let's say an abandoned sign.

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What does your abandoned sign usually say?

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We buy houses, right?

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So, so they're going to do a search.

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People are not familiar with people that buy houses in cash.

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That's unheard of.

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You buy houses in cash?

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Who does that, right?

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For the average person, that's unheard of.

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So they will do a search.

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And what does the sign say?

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We buy houses.

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So they will do the, we buy houses search.

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And obviously we dominate Google.

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So they will find us.

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So people that put abandoned signs, they give us their best leads.

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Because it's the best leads to do a search on Google.

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They're, they're, they're interested.

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So just be, be mindful of that when you do that.

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So when you send mails, calls, whatever you do, always have a website

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ready to send them to your website.

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Always.

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Sure.

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what about those, that elderly population that actually just doesn't use Google?

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They, they're relying on the mail.

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Okay.

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So you'll be surprised how many of the elderly do use Google and

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there are always those that don't.

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And do you know how many calls we get from the sons and daughters of

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the elderly people that ask their sons and daughters for help selling

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their house and you get them?

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So, yes.

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SEO is not a magic pill.

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You don't get everybody, absolutely.

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But, I'm willing to bet, when you send mailers out, it's probably 0.

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03 percent of the people that are going to be interested in your offer.

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Only 0.

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03% Of the 3, 000 people that are also elderly are going to be interested.

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And then those have cell phones too.

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They have ways to go to Google.

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And only when they don't, the mail will be useful.

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That is a super tiny, tiny, tiny little fraction.

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Of what you're sending.

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So that small portion that we do not get, yes, we understand

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SEO is not a magic pill.

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But other than that, it's very, very effective.

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The only thing is it takes time.

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SEO has its drawbacks.

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It takes time to write, but that's why you should be using

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strategies that offers both, right?

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So get a credible website for sure.

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Then work on your SEO and while you work on your SEO, do paid marketing.

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Paid marketing gives you instant results, instant deals.

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And SU is a long term one.

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SU kicks in, you can stop the paid marketing, but you

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can make money immediately.

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That's what we recommend.

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Well, just to remind

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everybody one more time, head over to grumpyhair.

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com and learn more about how Gerald's team can help you with this.

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Again, it's grumpyhair.

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com.

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That's going to be a clickable link in the show notes.

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Before we jump into the rapid fire questions, Gerald, is there

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a question or concept you wish we would have covered here so far?

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think you asked all the questions that we get asked all the time.

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So I think that's very relevant.

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Well, I appreciate that.

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so if you're ready, we'll jump into the rapid fire questions

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and close out this episode.

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Awesome.

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Number one, what lie do real estate investors sometimes tell themselves?

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all about the numbers.

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Send more.

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If something doesn't work, okay, I'm a former NASA robotic scientist.

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Okay.

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so numbers and data is all I do when something doesn't work.

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Believe me, as a scientist, you don't do more.

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It's not about consistency.

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Consistency only works.

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If the strategy you're doing is correct, then yes.

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But if you have a success rate of 0.

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03%, your strategy is not correct.

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So it's not about consistency, it's about adaptation, adapt, learn, and tweak.

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It's a, feedback loop that you have to output what's back in the

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input and you tweak and you keep on progressing, keep on tweaking.

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That's how it really works.

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If you could go back in time and give your younger self one piece

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of advice, what would it be?

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Start now.

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Don't listen to anybody.

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Well, listen to people, but verify.

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But 100 percent start now.

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Every day you waste.

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It's a day you will not become successful.

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It's just start now.

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What book do you recommend

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And actually I am, I have been in the university for like, for like, I have

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no many years, 17 years university.

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I have read way too many books.

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I hate books.

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I write books now.

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I don't read any.

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I've heard though, that, rich, that poor, that's a good one.

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But I, I honestly, I don't read books.

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What single strategy process or tool have you implemented that

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has had the biggest time saving impact to you or your business?

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Hiring a team, believe it or not.

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So it might not be a tool, but, we reinvent the wheel all the time

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and we do a piss poor job at it.

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so what you really should do is get a system in place that is proven to work.

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We had to build our own systems because Everything we do is

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so hacked behind the scenes.

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the thing that helped us most is hire a team and put them in the

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right place as quickly as possible.

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That gives you free time to actually grow your business as a

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sort of making a business survive.

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Well, Gerald, this has been a fantastic conversation.

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I really appreciate your time.

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This was just really great.

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Again, it is grumpy hair.

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com.

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That's going to be clickable, but I hope you'll consider

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coming back again sometime.

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I would love to pick your brain.

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Regarding just starting a business like you have building that team

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and the mindset associated with it.

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You have my email address.

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I give you my phone number.

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Anytime you have a slot, Just let me know.

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And I'll jump on.

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I appreciate it.

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You're welcome, Jack.

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