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Speaker:to by going over to grumpy hair.
Speaker:com.
Speaker:That's grumpy hair.
Speaker:com.
Speaker:And, you can imagine this is going to be around search engine
Speaker:optimization and building that online presence, a grumpy hair.
Speaker:com.
Speaker:I really appreciate your time, Gerald.
Speaker:This is going to be a great conversation.
Speaker:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker:pleasure to be here.
Speaker:So we're going to just kind of jump right in, Search engine optimization is kind of
Speaker:a buzzword and frankly as a real estate investor Doing this for a while now.
Speaker:I'm getting hit up a lot from kids on fiverr To everything else under the sun.
Speaker:Can you kind of explain a little bit what search engine optimization
Speaker:is and the importance of it when you have this online presence?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So we, as investors, what do we want?
Speaker:We want to find people that are willing to sell their house below market value, which
Speaker:is the definition of a motivated seller.
Speaker:when it comes to search engine optimization, it's pretty much how to
Speaker:rank your website number one on Google.
Speaker:What people don't understand is not just ranking your website number one on
Speaker:Google, but ranking your website number one on Google for the right people.
Speaker:People that are willing to sell their house below market value.
Speaker:That is the part that nobody literally gets.
Speaker:so what most people then do is trick and manipulate Google into
Speaker:thinking they should rank number one.
Speaker:Well, instead, Search Engine Machine is all about showing Google
Speaker:that your website provides the most value to Google's traffic.
Speaker:And their main principle about the entire ranking on Google is simply this.
Speaker:Imagine if Google always gives you something random when
Speaker:you do a search on Google.
Speaker:Every time you do a search, it's a completely random result.
Speaker:And on the other hand, imagine if you do a search on Yahoo.
Speaker:You get exactly what you're looking for.
Speaker:Which website do you think you will use?
Speaker:Google or Yahoo?
Speaker:Obviously Yahoo, right?
Speaker:If they get you what you want.
Speaker:So, what happens if everybody goes to Yahoo and nobody goes to Google?
Speaker:Google goes bankrupt.
Speaker:So you start to see what Google, and when I say Google, I'm
Speaker:talking about all search engines.
Speaker:You start to realize what Google truly is all about.
Speaker:Google is all about ranking the website number one that provides
Speaker:its users with the most value.
Speaker:So that is where you really need to focus on when you're talking about Google.
Speaker:SEO.
Speaker:It's not about the ranking.
Speaker:It's about the ranking for the right people.
Speaker:So as long as you can do that, you will actually have people that are willing
Speaker:to sell their house with a market value to specifically look for you, find
Speaker:you, and ask you to make them an offer.
Speaker:So the end result is, instead of us chasing leads, the leads literally
Speaker:chase us, if you do it correctly.
Speaker:And that is the whole premise of SEO.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I really appreciate you bringing that up.
Speaker:And one of those things that, you know, I happen to be reading a book right
Speaker:now, a hundred million dollar leads.
Speaker:I don't know if you've read that one.
Speaker:and he's talks about the riches in the niches, of course.
Speaker:we have this tendency of throwing a blanket into our market and hoping for the
Speaker:best when it comes to this type of thing.
Speaker:what you're suggesting is that we even have to niche down and become relevant
Speaker:and valuable In our markets for the terms and stuff we're searching for.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Think about what you just said today.
Speaker:Blanket.
Speaker:So what does everybody do?
Speaker:They buy up foreclosure lists, absentee only lists, probate
Speaker:lists, texting lists, right?
Speaker:That's what everybody does.
Speaker:And they think, okay, I have a set of, list of leads.
Speaker:I'm going to blank mail that, that audience and see what hits.
Speaker:You need to send between 3, 000 and 5, 000 mails to the foreclosure list,
Speaker:absent owner list, probate list, any list you can take off to get one deal.
Speaker:Okay?
Speaker:Think about it.
Speaker:Take 10 random people on your foreclosure list and ask them,
Speaker:Do you want to sell your house or do you want to keep your house?
Speaker:What do you think they're going to say?
Speaker:They want to keep my house.
Speaker:Ask ten random people on your texting list, ask them the same question.
Speaker:Do you want to sell your house or do you want to keep your house?
Speaker:They're going to say, I want to keep my house.
Speaker:Ask ten people on any list, ask them, do you want to sell your house
Speaker:or do you want to keep your house?
Speaker:They will all say, I want to keep my house.
Speaker:So, in other words, people are specifically and explicitly
Speaker:Targeting people that do not want to sell their house to try
Speaker:to make them sell their house.
Speaker:So that is all nice and thoughtful in theory, right?
Speaker:Let's look at data.
Speaker:You need to send between 5, 000, mailers to get one contract signed,
Speaker:that is a success rate of 0.
Speaker:03%, which means your failure rate is 99.
Speaker:97%.
Speaker:What that means Is 99.
Speaker:97 percent of the people that you are chasing are not
Speaker:interested in your message.
Speaker:then everybody sends mailers out and they are not successful with the 99.
Speaker:9 percent They are complaining to their favorite guru and they
Speaker:tell them, it's not working.
Speaker:What do you think the favorite guru will tell you?
Speaker:if you're not successful doing mailers, you didn't do enough.
Speaker:Do more.
Speaker:So now, here you are in a Fargo on the road.
Speaker:You go left.
Speaker:You chase foreclosures as they were some probates.
Speaker:You go right and you find people that are willing to subject market value.
Speaker:Everybody takes hard left and when they realize they make
Speaker:a mistake, they turn left.
Speaker:What do the experts tell you to fix it?
Speaker:Hit the gas pedal, go harder, go faster, do more.
Speaker:that is the whole premise of lead generation.
Speaker:the entire concept of getting a lead is all about Targeting the right
Speaker:audience with the right message.
Speaker:So if you need to target 3, 000 people with a message of are you in
Speaker:foreclosure to get a deal, obviously you're not targeting the right
Speaker:audience with the right message, right?
Speaker:So things need to change.
Speaker:And that is where SEO comes into play.
Speaker:The point here is you cannot target motivated sellers, can't.
Speaker:Here is why.
Speaker:No,
Speaker:Yeah, so here's why.
Speaker:Everybody thinks that a circumstance like foreclosure, as the owner
Speaker:approves it, implies Motivation.
Speaker:Everything is that.
Speaker:But that is wrong.
Speaker:Circumstance does not imply motivation.
Speaker:Motivation is an emotional response to a circumstance, not the circumstance itself.
Speaker:So now, check this out.
Speaker:Although the sensible solution to the circumstance of being in foreclosure
Speaker:is to sell your house, the emotional response, however, is to sell.
Speaker:It's trying to find ways to keep their house.
Speaker:So the emotional response and the circumstance, they do not
Speaker:fit the characteristic of a motivated seller of willingness
Speaker:to sell the hospital market value.
Speaker:So the moment people understand that, only then can you start
Speaker:to even begin looking for leads.
Speaker:Luck is a coin, a cost coin, 50 50.
Speaker:What are you doing when you send mailers outfit for closeness and all
Speaker:these blanket mail, mass mails, right?
Speaker:You have a 0.
Speaker:03 versus 99.
Speaker:97.
Speaker:That is not luck.
Speaker:That is suicide.
Speaker:Luck is 50 50.
Speaker:You would have better luck randomly closing your eyes, go to downtown
Speaker:somewhere and pick random people and ask them to sell their house.
Speaker:You will have more luck getting a yes, then actually targeting a list.
Speaker:That is comprised specifically of people that do not want to sell their house.
Speaker:So the reason why we are so successful is because we understand that
Speaker:concept, But those that can listen to data, they are the ones extremely
Speaker:successful and that's how it works.
Speaker:I think this is really interesting in the fact that you
Speaker:brought up the floor closure.
Speaker:we've had a notorious bad record.
Speaker:And I'm just going to be transparent here regarding dealing with people that are in.
Speaker:Pre foreclosure.
Speaker:and we've even asked them, well, if we have put you in a position that you're
Speaker:actually leaving with something in your pocket, why wouldn't you take this?
Speaker:And they, they're typically agreeable, but we have yet to get one of
Speaker:these properties under contract.
Speaker:In fact, more times than not, these properties People that are in pending
Speaker:for foreclosure, they have lost the property overselling to us.
Speaker:And the reason why it's because it's an emotional thing.
Speaker:It's not a logical thing.
Speaker:motivation is an emotional response to a logical concept.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Foreclosure is a logical concept.
Speaker:If you, if you, if you exhibit this and this and this characteristic,
Speaker:you are in foreclosure.
Speaker:It's a logical concept.
Speaker:But motivation is not a checklist to say, Oh, tall grass, boarded up windows,
Speaker:mirrors on the floor, foreclosure.
Speaker:Therefore, there's a higher chance of being motivated.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:emotion cannot be predicted.
Speaker:Two people in the same situation will act completely different.
Speaker:So there is no metric where you can target foreclosure.
Speaker:It doesn't make sense.
Speaker:And the sooner people realize that, the sooner they can actually
Speaker:do something about getting actual success, getting deals.
Speaker:Because that's what it's all about, right?
Speaker:Any business, any business can only operate if they find the right leads.
Speaker:And for our businesses, sadly, leads are very difficult because our
Speaker:leads are people that are willing to sell for pennies a dollar.
Speaker:That's very difficult.
Speaker:so it is very important that you really, really understand the concepts
Speaker:before you dive in and become an investor and expect to get deals.
Speaker:So, you know, one of those things that I think is interesting, and
Speaker:I'm going to eventually bring up the elephant in the room, which is carrot.
Speaker:We started a website here through carrot.
Speaker:and frankly, one thing leads to another.
Speaker:And now everybody in my market.
Speaker:Is using the exact same thing.
Speaker:let's say they've kind of followed the lead.
Speaker:Now ours isn't performing nearly as well as when we started.
Speaker:Can you talk a little bit about that and the amount of work that's actually
Speaker:needed on the investor side of things to make sure the site stays relevant?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So a lot of these website providers, they are, again, they
Speaker:are basing SEO and lead generation on the completely wrong concept.
Speaker:Lemme give you an example.
Speaker:The conversion.
Speaker:Now, if conversion happens, when you successfully can convey to your traffic
Speaker:through your website, who you are, what you are like, and what would be
Speaker:like to work with you, all of which needs to align with the perfect image
Speaker:idea of their ideal cash buyer to work with is, lemme give you an example.
Speaker:Don't you agree that when you do a Google search, you already
Speaker:know what you're looking for?
Speaker:So a motivated seller, they have in their mind already a set of ideal
Speaker:personality and character traits they're looking for in a cash buyer.
Speaker:Fair, honest, have a personality, good energy.
Speaker:And when they go to Google, they are actually skimming and skipping websites
Speaker:until they find one website they like.
Speaker:That matches that Tracer looking for, right?
Speaker:So only then will you get the conversion.
Speaker:But now, what is Scarlet?
Speaker:And, and, a lot of, all the, all the website providers, what, what
Speaker:are their basic SEO, strategies?
Speaker:The moment you land on a current job site, the first thing you will
Speaker:see is are you in foreclosure?
Speaker:Are you in job loss?
Speaker:Are you relocating?
Speaker:that was the basic template.
Speaker:So this is what I call topic based conversions.
Speaker:Wrong.
Speaker:Doesn't work.
Speaker:While we at Grumpy Hare, we do the conversion psychology
Speaker:of motivated sellers.
Speaker:that is our conversion principle.
Speaker:Let me tell you the difference.
Speaker:A topic based conversion is when you pretty much repeat The pain points of the
Speaker:seller and expect the seller to choose you because you repeated their pain points.
Speaker:Oh, are you foreclosure?
Speaker:Are you jobloss?
Speaker:Trust me.
Speaker:They know they're in foreclosure.
Speaker:You don't have to tell them that.
Speaker:Not because you repeat their problems will they automatically jump to you.
Speaker:But on the Grumpy Hair websites, the first thing you'll see when you land
Speaker:on it, It's a big picture of the person smiling with a very welcoming vibe and
Speaker:energy that instantly within the first two seconds of landing, they will know, Oh,
Speaker:I'm going to be dealing with that person.
Speaker:So they instantly know who they're working with.
Speaker:Obviously, that is what they want.
Speaker:if the other, providers, the topic based providers strategy worked, all
Speaker:you would have to do is say, Hey, I buy houses, I buy in, I help people
Speaker:with foreclosure, come with me.
Speaker:That would have worked, but obviously, a direct marketing
Speaker:piece would have worked then.
Speaker:But it doesn't.
Speaker:Do you know how many times after I do walkthroughs, and I see a stack of mailers
Speaker:on their counter, and they picked me, and I didn't send them a single mailer?
Speaker:If just mentioning their problems, or just mentioning you buy houses was
Speaker:enough, their marketing would have worked.
Speaker:The ranking number one would have worked, but it doesn't.
Speaker:Not because you're number one, it doesn't mean you're going to get leads.
Speaker:Not at all.
Speaker:You still need to make sure that what you present yourself to be fits
Speaker:what a motive seller is looking for.
Speaker:And once you can show these two fits.
Speaker:You will get a lead.
Speaker:Everybody thinks that just adding a picture is enough.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:The difference between telling people that you are amazing versus making
Speaker:people feel like you're amazing are two completely different animals.
Speaker:So while everybody is just telling them on the website with reviews and testimonials
Speaker:and all that stuff, you are pretty much telling them that you are credible.
Speaker:You are not making them feel like you are.
Speaker:the Grumpy Heart premise, that's why it outperforms Carrot and
Speaker:all the others by a landslide.
Speaker:It's because we need to focus on the conversion psychology of
Speaker:motivated sellers out of the box.
Speaker:So that's what we need to focus on, okay?
Speaker:whatever works that you have, character or otherwise, you can still salvage that.
Speaker:Just focus on the conversion psychology of motivated sellers.
Speaker:Don't focus on the pain points.
Speaker:I've developed the three pillars of a conversion.
Speaker:Competence, personality, and credibility.
Speaker:Okay?
Speaker:You need to show all three.
Speaker:Before you can even expect to get a lead.
Speaker:Now, I'm not going to dive into the details because it's a whole book.
Speaker:But here is what I am trying to tell you.
Speaker:A lot of people focus on credibility.
Speaker:They have no idea about personality strategies.
Speaker:And they have no idea about competence strategies.
Speaker:I wanted to just mention that focus on personality more than anything else.
Speaker:Here's why.
Speaker:People will work with people they like.
Speaker:If you are an amazing person to work with, people will try to find reasons
Speaker:and excuses to work with you, even if you're not an expert in the space.
Speaker:On the other hand, if you're a complete douchebag to work with,
Speaker:people will try to find reasons and excuses not to work with you, despite
Speaker:you being an expert in the space.
Speaker:Why am I telling you this?
Speaker:We get our deals accepted for way below market value because
Speaker:of our personality and character.
Speaker:So it's personality that makes people pick you while it is
Speaker:credibility and competence.
Speaker:that validate that they picked the right person.
Speaker:So that's why I say that is what you need to focus on the person behind
Speaker:the website, not the website itself.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So that is the biggest difference between carrot and all the other platforms.
Speaker:And that is why I developed Grumpy Hare.
Speaker:We had to literally clean, I was on carrot too.
Speaker:And we had to literally clean everything on carrot, put in our
Speaker:own CSS coding to fix everything.
Speaker:And the funny thing is when we did that, they stopped offering support to us.
Speaker:While we made our students rank higher, they thanked us
Speaker:by removing support from us.
Speaker:So that's why we said, you know what, we're going to create
Speaker:our own Grumpy Hair website.
Speaker:And out of the box, we put in all the fixes that we implement on Tarot.
Speaker:We put all the bugs in there and People just switching over see
Speaker:pretty much overnight results.
Speaker:It's incredible.
Speaker:So yeah, we're very happy.
Speaker:Very proud of.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So one of the things that, we learned in, in any kind of sales train training
Speaker:is You know, that first connection is important in the personality counts,
Speaker:but more times than not, especially early on in our investing, we would
Speaker:lose out just because they liked us.
Speaker:Doesn't mean it's going to close the deal.
Speaker:And what I think is important is what you pointed out.
Speaker:It's the credibility and confidence that actually in the end.
Speaker:Helps with that piece of it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:it's credibility, personality, and competence.
Speaker:It's you to show the competence.
Speaker:It's not just confidence, but confidence is part of the competence equation.
Speaker:Yes,
Speaker:sure.
Speaker:So, one of those things that I would like to spend a little time
Speaker:with is regarding the amount of time that this type of activity.
Speaker:We'll consume because this is, this isn't an easy thing.
Speaker:so I just want to remind everybody again to head over to grumpy hair.
Speaker:com and learn a little bit more about this product and what we're talking about here.
Speaker:It's grumpy hair.
Speaker:com.
Speaker:That's going to be a clickable link in the show notes.
Speaker:If you found some value in what we're talking about so far, do
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Speaker:So Gerald, can you talk briefly about what people should expect?
Speaker:Cause real estate investing, when people get into this, I think we're
Speaker:sold a bill of goods that this is easy This isn't easy and it requires a lot
Speaker:of activity in order to stay relevant.
Speaker:What kind of work is needed here?
Speaker:Okay, so that's a bit of an old question.
Speaker:Let me answer it the best way I can.
Speaker:My website, personally, I haven't even touched my website in over four years.
Speaker:But that is just because the way SEO works.
Speaker:Google is not going to rank a website number one just because
Speaker:it's updated twice a day.
Speaker:Google's going to rank number one because it gives Google's traffic the most value.
Speaker:It doesn't matter if another asset is updated most of the day, right?
Speaker:but then I already have accumulated a lot of Google trust.
Speaker:And I'm already established.
Speaker:And people already know me and like me and they click on my website and get leads.
Speaker:So that is why I don't do anything anymore.
Speaker:But if you're brand new, you don't have reputation and Google doesn't know about
Speaker:you, you need to have your work cut out for you because you need to prove
Speaker:to Google That you are better than the other guy that's number one, right?
Speaker:But here is the thing that people don't really understand.
Speaker:When you are just brand new and you have a brand new website, you
Speaker:do not have to be better than the number one ranking website, right?
Speaker:If you rank number 99 on Google, you just need to be better than the
Speaker:guy that ranks number 98 on Google.
Speaker:That is how you start progressing.
Speaker:And the more value you provide to your users, and it could mean anything, it
Speaker:could mean content, it could mean website speed, anything that provides a good
Speaker:user experience on your website, you will start to outrank your competitors.
Speaker:Now, here is why it is quite easy if you do it right.
Speaker:What is 90 percent plus of your competitors doing?
Speaker:They are doing topic based conversions.
Speaker:They talk about foreclosure and as the owners, if you connect with your
Speaker:seller on a personal level through your website, you are providing far more
Speaker:value out of the box than most other websites you can climb very quickly.
Speaker:And then once you hit page one, that's where things get tough because
Speaker:now traffic actually sees you.
Speaker:And that's where you can start to get a lead.
Speaker:So now the more leads you get, which means the more value you have offered.
Speaker:You will start to rank.
Speaker:So, here is where a lot of the SEO experts go wrong.
Speaker:Everybody thinks it's all about backlinking and time on page and click
Speaker:through rate and balances and all these technical SEO aspects, right?
Speaker:It's not.
Speaker:SEO is all about showing to Google that you offer more value.
Speaker:That's all it is.
Speaker:So, how does Google know which website offers more value?
Speaker:That's the question.
Speaker:Backlink is the key.
Speaker:But it's a very, even Google will say focus on backlinks, but
Speaker:then again, Google's not going to give you their secret, right?
Speaker:So what we do is we don't focus on backlinks.
Speaker:We focus on conversions.
Speaker:Imagine you have two websites.
Speaker:One site is a really good website and the other one's a crappy website.
Speaker:Which do you think is going to get more leads?
Speaker:The website offers a lot of value, or the crappy website?
Speaker:The valuable one, obviously.
Speaker:the website that gets the most leads was the website that offered the most value.
Speaker:So Google, the way we reverse engineered the Google algorithm, what we came
Speaker:to find is, the better the website converts traffic into leads, the
Speaker:more value to Google, the website is providing, so you will rank number one.
Speaker:So, does it take time?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:If you're brand new, if you have no idea what websites, it takes time.
Speaker:But that is why, what we have done, out of the box, with the Grumpy
Speaker:Hat, for example, we have all these metrics, these personality
Speaker:metrics, included out of the box.
Speaker:So all you have to do is just swap the pictures.
Speaker:We have placed all the pictures of AI personalities.
Speaker:Everywhere on the website and all you have to do is swap them and then
Speaker:make the content of your original content that provides your traffic
Speaker:to see who you really are inside.
Speaker:If you can't do that, do not look at your rankings.
Speaker:just focus on the website and by the time you look up to see how
Speaker:your website is doing, you will be very high in the rankings.
Speaker:So that is a trick.
Speaker:Do not focus on the time it takes.
Speaker:Focus on how effectively you can portray who you really are.
Speaker:convey to your audience who you are and what kind of person you are.
Speaker:As long as you do that, it will be quite fast.
Speaker:Let's say somebody does decide to take advantage what you're offering here.
Speaker:And you said, no, don't, don't be concerned about how long it takes to rank,
Speaker:but could you kind of give an idea of how long it would take to become relevant?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:so I can, I'm going to give you the previous results from our students.
Speaker:That can be a good indication.
Speaker:But the fine print is, it depends on your market, it depends on how well you
Speaker:do the work, and it depends on how your competition is doing their own SEO.
Speaker:But from our experience, we have one of our students, he's one of
Speaker:our record students actually, he got number one in three weeks.
Speaker:I think it took him three months to become a millionaire because he ranked
Speaker:number one, so it's quite impressive.
Speaker:But the average is around between one month to three months where you start
Speaker:to see yourself climbing on the first place to the number one spot on Google.
Speaker:But then again, it depends on your market.
Speaker:Again, oddly enough, miles He did in California.
Speaker:It's a very competitive market.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:No, I appreciate you giving us that example because, it sounds
Speaker:like the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that
Speaker:a lot of the traffic and the ranking that we had received was probably driven by the
Speaker:other marketing and that we were doing.
Speaker:Because like, for example, we were sending out thousands of mailings
Speaker:a month and More times than not, all of that was pointing back to
Speaker:the website to drive traffic there.
Speaker:Keep this in mind.
Speaker:Do you know how many calls and farm fields we're getting?
Speaker:And when we go to the appointments and we ask them, how'd you find us?
Speaker:Do you know what a lot of people say?
Speaker:They will either say, Hey, I received your mailer.
Speaker:We don't send any mailers.
Speaker:So what most people sending mailers and calls and texts don't realize is, more
Speaker:than half of your marketing goes to the guy that is number one in your market.
Speaker:You may not never know about it, but a lot of your mailers end up
Speaker:becoming leads to somebody else.
Speaker:so my advice to you, if you send mailers, make sure, absolutely sure, you put a
Speaker:picture of yourself on the mailer and you say, if you want to know why and
Speaker:how we found you, check out the website.
Speaker:That way, even though they are going to do a research anyways, they at least
Speaker:find out who you are on your website, but that's a double edged sword, right?
Speaker:Because now you give them a way to get in touch with you and more than 90 percent of
Speaker:the people are not really happy with you.
Speaker:When you send mailers and calls and texts, so they can also yell at you.
Speaker:But at least you give them a way to really track you.
Speaker:Because our website is called Weebahouses in Connecticut.
Speaker:It's one of our websites.
Speaker:and most people in the mailer will say Weebahouses in city state, right?
Speaker:So they think we send the mailer and they will type Weebahouses in Connecticut.
Speaker:Or let's say an abandoned sign.
Speaker:What does your abandoned sign usually say?
Speaker:We buy houses, right?
Speaker:So, so they're going to do a search.
Speaker:People are not familiar with people that buy houses in cash.
Speaker:That's unheard of.
Speaker:You buy houses in cash?
Speaker:Who does that, right?
Speaker:For the average person, that's unheard of.
Speaker:So they will do a search.
Speaker:And what does the sign say?
Speaker:We buy houses.
Speaker:So they will do the, we buy houses search.
Speaker:And obviously we dominate Google.
Speaker:So they will find us.
Speaker:So people that put abandoned signs, they give us their best leads.
Speaker:Because it's the best leads to do a search on Google.
Speaker:They're, they're, they're interested.
Speaker:So just be, be mindful of that when you do that.
Speaker:So when you send mails, calls, whatever you do, always have a website
Speaker:ready to send them to your website.
Speaker:Always.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:what about those, that elderly population that actually just doesn't use Google?
Speaker:They, they're relying on the mail.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So you'll be surprised how many of the elderly do use Google and
Speaker:there are always those that don't.
Speaker:And do you know how many calls we get from the sons and daughters of
Speaker:the elderly people that ask their sons and daughters for help selling
Speaker:their house and you get them?
Speaker:So, yes.
Speaker:SEO is not a magic pill.
Speaker:You don't get everybody, absolutely.
Speaker:But, I'm willing to bet, when you send mailers out, it's probably 0.
Speaker:03 percent of the people that are going to be interested in your offer.
Speaker:Only 0.
Speaker:03% Of the 3, 000 people that are also elderly are going to be interested.
Speaker:And then those have cell phones too.
Speaker:They have ways to go to Google.
Speaker:And only when they don't, the mail will be useful.
Speaker:That is a super tiny, tiny, tiny little fraction.
Speaker:Of what you're sending.
Speaker:So that small portion that we do not get, yes, we understand
Speaker:SEO is not a magic pill.
Speaker:But other than that, it's very, very effective.
Speaker:The only thing is it takes time.
Speaker:SEO has its drawbacks.
Speaker:It takes time to write, but that's why you should be using
Speaker:strategies that offers both, right?
Speaker:So get a credible website for sure.
Speaker:Then work on your SEO and while you work on your SEO, do paid marketing.
Speaker:Paid marketing gives you instant results, instant deals.
Speaker:And SU is a long term one.
Speaker:SU kicks in, you can stop the paid marketing, but you
Speaker:can make money immediately.
Speaker:That's what we recommend.
Speaker:Well, just to remind
Speaker:everybody one more time, head over to grumpyhair.
Speaker:com and learn more about how Gerald's team can help you with this.
Speaker:Again, it's grumpyhair.
Speaker:com.
Speaker:That's going to be a clickable link in the show notes.
Speaker:Before we jump into the rapid fire questions, Gerald, is there
Speaker:a question or concept you wish we would have covered here so far?
Speaker:think you asked all the questions that we get asked all the time.
Speaker:So I think that's very relevant.
Speaker:Well, I appreciate that.
Speaker:so if you're ready, we'll jump into the rapid fire questions
Speaker:and close out this episode.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Number one, what lie do real estate investors sometimes tell themselves?
Speaker:all about the numbers.
Speaker:Send more.
Speaker:If something doesn't work, okay, I'm a former NASA robotic scientist.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:so numbers and data is all I do when something doesn't work.
Speaker:Believe me, as a scientist, you don't do more.
Speaker:It's not about consistency.
Speaker:Consistency only works.
Speaker:If the strategy you're doing is correct, then yes.
Speaker:But if you have a success rate of 0.
Speaker:03%, your strategy is not correct.
Speaker:So it's not about consistency, it's about adaptation, adapt, learn, and tweak.
Speaker:It's a, feedback loop that you have to output what's back in the
Speaker:input and you tweak and you keep on progressing, keep on tweaking.
Speaker:That's how it really works.
Speaker:If you could go back in time and give your younger self one piece
Speaker:of advice, what would it be?
Speaker:Start now.
Speaker:Don't listen to anybody.
Speaker:Well, listen to people, but verify.
Speaker:But 100 percent start now.
Speaker:Every day you waste.
Speaker:It's a day you will not become successful.
Speaker:It's just start now.
Speaker:What book do you recommend
Speaker:And actually I am, I have been in the university for like, for like, I have
Speaker:no many years, 17 years university.
Speaker:I have read way too many books.
Speaker:I hate books.
Speaker:I write books now.
Speaker:I don't read any.
Speaker:I've heard though, that, rich, that poor, that's a good one.
Speaker:But I, I honestly, I don't read books.
Speaker:What single strategy process or tool have you implemented that
Speaker:has had the biggest time saving impact to you or your business?
Speaker:Hiring a team, believe it or not.
Speaker:So it might not be a tool, but, we reinvent the wheel all the time
Speaker:and we do a piss poor job at it.
Speaker:so what you really should do is get a system in place that is proven to work.
Speaker:We had to build our own systems because Everything we do is
Speaker:so hacked behind the scenes.
Speaker:the thing that helped us most is hire a team and put them in the
Speaker:right place as quickly as possible.
Speaker:That gives you free time to actually grow your business as a
Speaker:sort of making a business survive.
Speaker:Well, Gerald, this has been a fantastic conversation.
Speaker:I really appreciate your time.
Speaker:This was just really great.
Speaker:Again, it is grumpy hair.
Speaker:com.
Speaker:That's going to be clickable, but I hope you'll consider
Speaker:coming back again sometime.
Speaker:I would love to pick your brain.
Speaker:Regarding just starting a business like you have building that team
Speaker:and the mindset associated with it.
Speaker:You have my email address.
Speaker:I give you my phone number.
Speaker:Anytime you have a slot, Just let me know.
Speaker:And I'll jump on.
Speaker:I appreciate it.
Speaker:You're welcome, Jack.