The Science of Flipping - Episode 76: Want more seller leads?

Episode Date: August 6, 2016

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Welcome to the Science of Flipping Podcast. I'm your host, Justin Colby. What is up, guys? Welcome to the Science of Flipping Podcast. I'm your host, Justin Colby. If this is your first time to the podcast, I want you to get over to thescienceofflipping.com. Make sure to just download our free ebook. It is the 15 most costly mistakes a real estate investor can make in today's market. It's a ebook that myself and other of my close investor friends have put together as simple mistakes that you can make that we want you to not make, right? And so get to thescienceofflipping.com, download the ebook so that you can not make the mistakes that we've all made. Guys, today is actually just going to

be a shorter podcast episode. This is a quick tip, so to speak. So I just, you know, I was teaching some of our students how to do this and I thought it'd be something, So I, I just, you know, I was teaching some of our students how to do this and I thought it'd be something, you know, I have, you know, tens of thousands of people listening to my podcast episodes every single week. And I thought, you know, why not get this out there? If you don't know about this, this is a great tip. Um, and one of the things that, um, if, if you're a new real estate investor, a lot of people are always asking, how do I get more leads? How do I get free leads? So on and so forth. And there's always the ways, right? Whether it's working with realtors, cold calling realtors, cold calling for sale by owners,

going for rentbyowner.com, for salebyowner.com, Craigslist, you name it, right? So those are the avenues. But one of the things, the tip that I want to give you guys is how to effectively work at very minimum Craigslist. And there's a website out there. Some of you may know this, some of you may not, but the domain name is ifttt.com. If this, then that.com. And what that does is it helps automate your, um, systems so that you can automatically be receiving, uh, motivated sellers leads from Craigslist. There are other applications on there that work. Typically, IFTTT works with application-based software or websites, right? So because Craigslist has a great application, what IFTTT does, it goes in and you put in the parameters, meaning if this, meaning if someone posts a for sale by owner home on Craigslist, then I will receive an email

to my Gmail account to follow up with that seller, right? And so it will happen every 15 to 30 minutes. If this, then that scrapes the data that you're looking for. You can do this for a lot of different things, right? You know, daily weather, right? You can get emails for daily weather. There's plenty of tutorials. I didn't want to make this a video tutorial.

You can go on YouTube. I myself will probably do a tutorial at some point, but I was doing a call yesterday with several of our students and I realized this could be a huge value. Again, there's so many people listening and I thank you all for listening. Thank you so much. You guys have been so loyal to me over the years. But this is a great little tool. It's free. It's very easy, easy, easy to use. Even someone like myself who is not super tech savvy can use it. And it's very helpful in terms of setting up your systems and your businesses.

As I talk to you guys over and over again, this podcast is to set up your systems, automation, and implementation to create the business that you want. And so instead of yourself going in there every single day, you can just simply create an, if this, then that, um, uh, what do they call it? They call it, uh, recipe, right? If this, then that recipe is what they, they call it. And if someone posts on Craigslist, um, fire damage, right? You can search key terms. So what you do, again, I'm not doing a video tutorial right this second, but you go to If This Then That, they will say If Craigslist, so you go to Craigslist, you put in search terms fire damage under houses for sale, you then copy the URL, you put it in If this, then that, where it's asking

for that URL because you're looking for a very specific term in Craigslist. And then you say then, and you'll click your Gmail account and or your email account, and you'll receive those emails based around the search term fire damage, right? So very, very easy, a great tool, a great system for you to automatically start using. You can use it in many different ways in terms of you yourself can call back the seller, you can shoot the seller an email, you can have your virtual assistants do that,

you can even have our girls here in the office do that. We have two full-time employees who actually follow up with this every single day. So very, very useful, free, easy. Thought it'd be a great quick tip for you guys heading into this week. So thank you again for all my loyal listeners. I couldn't tell, you know, words can't describe how much I appreciate you guys. Keep going out there and doing great work. If you're watching this on YouTube, because there's a video component, it's under the YouTube channel, my channel, Justin Colby. Like, comment, ask questions.

I want this to be very interactive. If you are on iTunes, I would really encourage and would love a review and a rating. Guys, I want to make this interactive and I want to continue giving you guys the best stuff I possibly can, whether it's a quick tip like this or we're knocking it out with a great interview or me and Kent Clothier are doing a great episode here to help you guys. Again, I'm signing off and I will see you guys on the next episode. I think this is actually episode 76. I will see you guys on episode 77. I'm out of here. Peace.