The Science of Flipping - From Oil & Gas to 200+ Deals a Year, and Dominating TV Ads | Luke Winter

Episode Date: August 29, 2025

Learn more about Luke and Hello Pro: https://thehellopro.com From oil & gas engineer to 200+ real estate deals a year — Luke Winter’s story is proof that betting on yourself pays off. In this episode, I sit down with Luke to talk about walking away from corporate, scaling to hundreds of deals, exiting his investing company, and now helping investors dominate motivated seller marketing through TV ads with Hello Pro. We cover: How becoming a father pushed Luke to take the leap into real estate The mindset shift from employee to entrepreneur Scaling to 200+ deals a year and successfully exiting Why TV ads are one of the most underutilized strategies in real estate marketing The power of masterminds, community, and paying to sit at the right table How to stop wasting leads by improving your systems and conversions About Luke WinterLuke Winter is the founder of Hello Pro, a TV advertising agency helping real estate investors generate motivated seller leads at scale. After walking away from a successful career in oil & gas, Luke built and scaled a real estate business to over 200 deals a year before exiting and launching Hello Pro. Today, he combines his operator experience with innovative marketing strategies to help investors dominate their markets. Learn more about Hello Pro: https://thehellopro.comFollow Luke on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukeerwintv Looking to hire smarter? ZipRecruiter uses powerful technology to match you with top talent fast — no more sifting through a stack of weak resumes. 4 out of 5 employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the first day. Try it FREE at ZipRecruiter.com/WORK ZipRecruiter — the smartest way to hire.   About Justin: After investing in real estate for over 18 years and almost 3000 deals done, Justin has created a business that generates 7 figures in active income through wholesaling and fix and flipping as well as accumulating millions of dollars of rental properties including 5 apartment buildings, 50+ single family homes, and 1 storage facility Justins longevity in real estate is due to his ability to look around the corners, adapt to changing markets, perfecting Raising private capital, and focusing on lead generation which allows him to not just wholesale and fix & flip, but also accumulate wealth through long term holds. His success in real estate led him to start The Entrepreneur DNA podcast and The Science Of Flipping podcast and education company, and REI LIVE where he’s actively doing deals with members. He has coached and mentored thousands of aspiring and active investors over the last decade. Connect with Justin: Instagram: @thejustincolby YouTube: Justin Colby TikTok: @justincolbytsof LinkedIn: Justin Colby  

What is up, the science flipping fan. We are back with another incredible guest. This man is a master investor, a master marketer, but also has a lot of corporate background. So if you're listening to this and you are in the corporate world, he comes from the oil and gas space, left oil and gas to go do over 200 deals a year. And now as a master marker with Hello Pro TV, we got Luke Winter here. Thank you for having me.

Yeah, me here, man. This is going to be good. You know, it's always fun for me to be able to interview experts and understand why they do what they do, the challenges they've had. So for all those out there, if you are still doing the 9 to 5, if still in the corporate world, if you're not yet all into real estate, Luke is going to be a great interview. Let me just go right after what brought you from oil and gas to say screw this. Let's jump into real estate. That was not an easy decision. So I worked my way up through the ranks and oil and gas, worked at one of the premier oil refineries, really across the nation.

Yeah. From a profitability perspective, from a operations perspective, we were the high watermark. Okay. And so when I looked at that, I looked at, well, what is my trajectory here? I looked at where am I going to go in the next five years, 10 years, 20 years, do I want my boss's job? Do I want my boss's boss's job? And really, that was about the ceiling. I looked at both of those and said, no, thank you.

And so if it wasn't going to be for two more years, it's not going to be for two more weeks and it's not going to be for two more days. Yeah. And so it kind of got to the point where I wanted to do something more entrepreneurial. I've been doing some real estate investing on the side, bought an apartment building, did some flip, some wholesale deals. And so I left that corporate engineering leadership role, Cold Turkey, in search of what is next. And what is next? It took a few months to come together, but ultimately went full time into real estate investing. So would you, you know, usually what I find is people need to be going through enough pain or discomfort to make a change like that for any reason, right?

Whatever this thing is, right? And so were you at a place of genuine like just unfulfillment? Because it probably not pain, right? They were still paying you. You weren't. But was it a lack of fulfillment? Was it just like, hey, I meant for more? What was the thing internally that you were going through that said, fuck this?

Like, I want to go create something on my own. Yeah, yeah. We'll get deep here right away. So what was big for me is the birth of my first daughter. And getting an understanding of like, well, what does parenthood mean? Yeah. And what does it mean to be a father and a leader of our household? You know, when you're married, dual income, no kids, life is good, right?

Yeah. Got a lot of flexibility, but it gave me a lot of purpose in what. I'm doing and the actions that I take and what I do every day, once my first daughter came around. And so that's really where my mind set started to shift. Okay. And what type of father do I want to be? And really, what type of stories do I want shared when I'm not here anymore? What was Luke's life like?

And so I wanted the war stories. I wanted the trials and tribulations. I wanted the successes. You wanted to run into the storms. Yes. Sheesh. Yeah. It's not a lot of, you know, it's funny you answered the way you do.

I would argue at all the interviews and people I've met, and then the people that aren't out of platform like you're at, I would say most people would say because I was becoming a father, because I wanted the security of the job, most men would say, I don't want to leave that security. You and I are probably built a little different. We are the guys that are like, bro, there's a store coming. I'm the Buffalo.

I'm running into it. So that was more of your thought process. Like, yay, who am I going to be as a father? Who am I going to be as a leader? Who am I going to be as a, you know, the family patriarch? And so that's really kind of where your mind was at. Exactly, exactly. You know, in the corporate space, my roles were very, very technical.

I was working on projects that it was difficult to communicate to my boss and leadership what we were doing and the technology that we were developing and how we were using it and how it would be advantageous, let alone talking to my family about what I'm doing and why it's meaningful. it would make people's eyes gloss over and go straight over their heads. Yeah. And so for me, I thought, is that the story that I want? Are those the relationships that I want in my life? Are those the relationships that I want for the next couple decades?

And not that there's anything wrong with that, very solid career path, but for me, I wanted a lot more out of life. I wanted really to look up to the people that are in my network. I wanted to build those stories of success and get a good understanding of like, hey, this didn't work out. Why didn't that work out and prove to myself also that I can do more. I was built for more. And so that's really what set that trajectory off. That's the unique.

What you just brought up, I think, is I'm hopeful a lot of people can actually have some self-actualization like that, right? because I actually just did a episode myself where I talked about like something very similar is like I'm built for more like I'm not okay with just kind of doing this and that is not a common trait and you have to have some level of self actualization like I'm willing to go for it I know I deserve it and a little bit of a chip on the shoulder like I know people won't expect me to win and they're probably banking on me failing I'm going to go prove them wrong and have that chip on your shoulder say just watch like go ahead and snicker go ahead and and think I can't do it. Go ahead and talk behind my back because you're all doing it. I get it. Yeah. I'll still have a beer with you. But then to be able to say, look, look what I did.

Look what I built. Look who I am as a father. Look who I'm as a leader. So I love that. I'm hopeful a lot of people are already listening to this. Like, I need to do a little bit more what Luke's doing. Yeah. Yeah.

It's important to me. And that's really what fuels me and provides me a lot of fulfillment. Yeah. Is knowing that I'm on the journey that fills my cup up. And, you know, I don't think that most of our, most of our entrepreneur groups are really built that much different. But maybe they haven't connected with the vision of the better state. I look at, we used to use a term like the human action model. And there's three things necessary to make any change or major change in your life or your job or your role.

A vision of a better state is one. And I think that's where a lot of people just don't have an understanding of what is entrepreneurship. ship. Yeah. How would I be a full-time real estate investor? I can do it on the side. I can hustle it, but what would that look like to build a real business around it? So the other component is a sense of unease with the current state. And the last component is a belief that you can get there. And so if you have those three components, then you can start to move the needle a little bit. Yeah. So you and I are in a mastermind together, board of a mastermind where we officially, I think, connected officially.

Yeah. You talk about the community to help you get there. And I think that's a big thing that a lot of people, they shortchanged themselves, right? You and I cut a very big check to be a part of these masterminds. We cut a check to sit at the table with the people that we know can help us move our needle. In large part, this is why we're here. Like, I'm here to help you move your needle for your company, TV pro, right? For all those real estate investors, TV ads is an incredible.

I've done TV ads for a long time. TV Pro talk really quickly about. Yeah, we'll show you back. But TV pros and access, where can they find you and learn a little bit more about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the company's HelloPro. We really specialize in TV advertising. Just go to my website, the hellopro.com.

The HelloPro. The HelloPro. I'm not in saying TV Pro, just I'm thinking about TV ads. So my fault. Hello Pro TV ads. I think a lot of people need to understand the value of like getting to the table that can move your needle. And you made that investment. I make that investment every single year.

Talk to that point. Like, you just brought up four kind of main pillars that you genuinely believe, and one of them being in the community. What is community? What is boardroom? What is other masterminds? What is that done for your business that, you know, hello, pro? Yeah.

So not only does it help build a network of people like yourself that have audiences that can help coach you and provide some interaction with prospective clients and people that my business can help. But it also helps my mindset too in how are people running their businesses. What do they think about when they hire people? How do they think about growing their business? How do they, you know, manage their lifestyle?

What types of things are they doing in their life that are impactful from a health and fitness perspective? From a recruiting perspective, from a personal branding perspective. And those two components to me, not only from the business development side, but also from the mindset side, is incredibly valued.

Oh, yeah. Almost invaluable. I would say there's probably not, when you're in the right community, when you're in the right mastermind, when you have, it is invaluable. Like the check probably can't be big enough

because what it can do for you. Absolutely. You obviously know this, but a lot of people have to understand it's more of a long-tail play anyways. The network, the people, Luke and Justin,

will be closer today from this day forward than we were before today. And that long-tail relationship will pay dividends over years. people want the how do you go make me money right the second look how do you make me money the second justin well luke has hello pro right i mean that's how you can help people make money in the real estate absolutely um and so i encourage all all people to have some actualization of like are you even playing in the league you should be and then pay your way to the table i do it every year

i cut massive checks whether there's individual coaching masterminds whatever it may be i have a financial coach that I have that's very expensive, but he's had 30 years of financial advising. Like, I pay him because he has the experience I need. It's a shortcut. There's not a lot of shortcuts in business or life, but that is one of them. Just get straight to the people who have the answers,

who have been through what you are trying to do or in some parallel path to that. Yeah. And it gives you that, that short-er path. As a real estate investor and entrepreneur, I've hired a lot of people, VAs, acquisition reps, lead managers,

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ZipRecruiter.com forward slash work. ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire. I don't know if we could call it quite a quite a shortcut because you self to put in the work. And certainly if you want your business to be. around in the long term. You have to think about things in the long term. If you're looking for quick wins, you probably won't be around in the long term. You always have to have that long term mindset from a relationship perspective, from a business perspective, if you're looking for immediate ROI on your investment in something like a mastermind, a coach, like that's,

and that might be difficult to produce. Yep. I agree 100%. So the thing that I wanted to ring up is immediate returns. Let's get into marketing a little bit. Let's talk about your company and what you do for real estate investors, but also marketing as a whole. Because the concept you just brought up, I think, is a misunderstanding of what marketing really can do for your business. I will make an art. Now, TV ads is better than most marketing strategies. You find real sellers that usually, for the most part, are pretty highly motivated, right?

Cold calling, way less motivated. So I encourage you guys. Again, find Luke, find the website, engage with them. fill out the forms what again let's drive them back to the where do you want them to go the hellopro dot com go there talk to them right the reality is people need the very fast way to get in front of motivated sellers that's what your company does but the mindset of a real estate investor needs to have a longer tail that's the challenge it's not hello pro's fault that the seller didn't want to sell at your price which is 50% of value and in the next seven days you need to have the

to sell that person over time. Correct. So talk to the business, what you do, how you're helping investors, and let's talk about the ideology of marketing in general. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And to provide a little bit of context, I'm a former real estate investor. Yeah.

Have scaled up a business to where most people aspire to be at. I was CEO and managing partner of a real estate investing company. We were doing about 100 flips a year and about 100 wholesale deals a year. And so just to get people some perspective on my background. I just heard some random TV company and you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So go in that, you're a little bit of your background. And then how does, so going from true real estate investor to now, you know, still an investor, but now you have, you know, this marketing company that focuses on TV ads.

How did it transpire? Sure. Why did you do that? Yeah, yeah. So I left oil and gas. Yeah. Went into an existing organization. and they're doing maybe like 40 or 50 deals a year.

I'd say pretty young from an operations perspective. Now a lot of systems or processes in place, not a good understanding of what marketing was working or not working. You know, we were, when I came into the business, pretty pretty unorganized, but had deal flow, which is good, right? That's the foundation for any good business. And fix the pains, although it's not optimized, right? Correct, correct.

And so the way that my brain works And the experiences that I've had in the corporate space, it was a very good fit in order to streamline our operations, in order to scale up and understand, hey, how do we do that? If we need to put our foot on the gas, where do we do that? Recruiting, hiring, training people, I could do that in my sleep as well. And a lot of project management experience, construction experience. So it was a good fit. So I grew in an equity stake in that business as we scaled up. And which was important to me leaving the corporate space, I did not want just a standard job.

I wanted equity that was very important to me and something we negotiated right out of the gates. And so we scaled up the business really over the course of about three and a half years. We were doing, going from about 40, 50 deals a year to about 200 deals a year. And that's not even including some of the retail deals like that was. So you just have a serious way, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that goes to the company party fund, you know. that's difficult to run an off market real estate business off of that, but you always have to capture that revenue.

Of course. So, you know, we kind of got to the point where we needed to come up with what's next in our business. Do we continue to scale the off market side? Do we add more retail team members? Do we get into lending, title, that type of stuff. Franchising, licensing, kind of everything was on the table. And it was really difficult between me and my partners to get an understanding. like, well, where do you want to go?

Where do I want to go? And how do we fund that, right? Who's going to pay for it? Who's going to staff it? And so we got to the point where we looked at selling the business. Ultimately, we reached an agreement where my business partners bought me out of the business. And so it looked like a pretty standard exit. Sure.

And so, you know, took some time to, again, reflect on where do I want to go? Well, yeah, what do I want to do? By the way, my story did I actually work out to the, to, letter of the law that was on the paperwork like the egg to happen the money was exchanged it actually happened yep that is unique and you know that but very for for business owners and business partners to have a divorce and for to transpire in a way that actually is how it was set out to transpire yeah very unique correct so actually there's just not a lot of people that have had a sale or exit out of a flipping and wholesaling business yeah that's right and so

So it's a feather in my cap that I wear proudly because to me, not take away the monetary exchange and all of that, kind of the title of exiting a business. But for me, it's a feather of my cap that I'm proud to wear because we built something of value. Yeah. We built something where there's real momentum, there's real processes, there's real expectation that revenue will continue, that profits will continue. And that, that to me is much more fulfilling than, you know, the monetary side, for sure. So, yeah, after that took place, I started to shape a few business ideas, what happens next. I met with a handful of advisors who have spent a lot of time in the advertising space and started to shape the idea of what is now HelloPro. Cool.

I'm a strategist, so put a lot of business plans together and wanted to make. a true innovation in the space, how TV ads are served to real estate investors. So your previous company that you should bought out of, did you utilize TV as a marketing strategy? Is that because you're like, dude, this really works. I know it works. Is that kind of the... To no surprise, it was a huge component of our success.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I still think it's one of the most slept-on marketing strategies for real estate investors. It can deliver massive impact. It's incredibly scalable without a lot of operational headache. You try and scale up a cold calling team and you're going to lose sleep. You're going to pull your hair out. You're going to be reaching points of diminishing return.

I've done that. I've had in-house, not VAs and not companies. In-house, 20 to 30, 20-year-olds that, you know, we're going to ASU. This is the way I was in Phoenix. Yeah. You know, and they've come in part-time. And when I say it is a brute force like brain damage, it is. And scaling that in-house is a whole other story.

It's doable and it can be profitable. Or you could just give, you know, you 10 grand a month to run ads and should let the leads come in. Correct. Correct. And there is a very predictable process to scaling that up to 15,000, 20,000, 25,000. And really what's unique about our offering is that we are using data to understand what's working best for your marketing. Yeah. Real data.

And so when we see that opportunity to put our foot on the gas, We know exactly where to do it and how to scale up. And from the operator's perspective, certainly you have to write a bigger check, but there's very limited operational headaches associated with that. You're not trying to recruit and hire and retain more cold callers. You're not pulling the next list of lower motivated people. You know, there's a diminishing return with kind of the list way to market. Yeah.

You're reaching the highest motivated people first. list stacking, AI rankings, whatever that is. And the more that you want to push that marketing, the deeper into the barrel you have to reach. And generally, that means a lower motivation. TB works almost the opposite. The more that you spend, the more favorable treatment we get from the stations, the more value ads that we can get,

the more freebie spots that we can get, the better programming that you can get. And so it almost has the opposite effect. The more that you lean into it, the more that it gives you back. So it's not a one-to-run one relationship. as you scale up, it starts to become one and a half to one and two to one and two and a half to one. So it's your ideal avatar for a client. Like who would you ideally like to come from this podcast to talk to you about being client?

Yeah. So if you're doing more than two to three deals per month, if you have a brand and a decent web presence, you know, a consumer facing brand, you've got your Google My Business page filled out. You've got a website that converts pretty well. that's a great time to go into TV marketing. Yeah. If you don't have those pieces together, you can start to build that. TV is an expensive marketing channel.

Yeah. Generally, your cost per deal is going to be a little bit higher, but you make up for it on the margins on those deals. Yeah. And so if your first few deals, if you're looking for those first few deals, use other marketing channels. Yeah.

And as you start to get momentum and you want to advance and start to buy back some of your time and start to buy back some of your operational overhead, then TV is a great time to do that. I love TV. I've done it for a long time. Your point is very valid. I need people to understand. Like, if you're trying to get your first two or three deals, there are cheaper ways.

Like you could call listing agents, right? I mean, I just had a student close a deal totally free. But if you have some money behind you, using this strategy, you do need to be looking up, Luke. you need to go contact them because I just think if you have any level of good salesmanship in a CRM that has good nurture

sequences, spend the money for better leads. Correct. Right? And I think TV is just regardless of the market, I think it just offers the value of the lead above

I would argue probably most, if not all other strategies. That's correct. To me, there are three main scalable strategies for real estate investors. TV is one of those components. Direct mail is another one of those components. You can get high margin deals out of direct mail, very high motivation, good conversion

rates. I don't care about response rates. Like that's a total vanity metric because we've all been on the receiving end of those calls and we know what the responses are and they're not all positive. Yeah. That's all right. But from a conversion rate perspective, like those are generally quite motivated. PPC, I would say, is the other scalable marketing channel. Yeah. And so if you have a few of those as your foundation and your business, the world is your oyster. You can continue to scale up significantly. But TV is generally a frontrunner in conversion rates and margin of deals. How much would be like a minimum marketing threshold? So walk through the business model, right? So you guys manage it. You're a managed service. You're not technically running the ads, right? This station is.

what do you think between a management service plus the ad spend where would they want to be monthly you know so they understand like oh this is probably the safe number sure sure in smaller markets we can generally work quite well with a marketing budget of $5,000 a month okay and that's usually going to get you we'll say 100 ads a month or so okay in some markets we can work with that budget and get much more but it just depends a lot of on how many stations are there, how many viewers are watching the programming that we want to air on, and that determines the price ultimately on our side. In larger markets, you might want to start out with a larger budget. Frequency is very important in TV advertising.

If you air one ad per month, nobody will remember you. That's right. You air one ad a week. Maybe you have a chance. Maybe. Maybe. Generally, we're trying to get daily programming. So in the same time slot. We have the same viewers. And so anything that's more frequent than daily is generally good. Yeah. Same station, programming. You know, we play with a lot of those different things on our side to build an optimized schedule. But frequency is very important. And so we look at those metrics to do the best media buying that we can. What about branding? You know, so I use Justin Bysbama's is the brand. And so it has a little rememberable, right? So maybe they haven't seen my commercial while and they could be like,

Jasmine, does that make sense? Does that play into anything? Is it irrelevant? Is it more my thought of what I think works? What do you think? Yeah. Yeah. So I work with a lot of different businesses across the country.

And people are married to their brand for better or for worse. Yeah. I created that brand up for the marketing purpose. It's not even an LLC. Yeah. Because it's just a marketing brand that brings them in doing business as my actual LLC that's going to contract and buy the deal. Yeah, yeah. So

let's go down a little bit of a rabbit hole here because I think it's important for people to realize the difference between running a hustle and doing deals and running a consumer-facing business. And if you're trying to run a hustle, you can run a business under Luke Winter Equity LLC.

I cannot run a consumer-facing business. That's right. That will engage zero people in my services. Right. They don't know what it's for. It doesn't tell people who we are, the values that we stand for or what we even do. And so when we look at a consumer-facing business, it's important to have a name that's memorable. It's important to have a logo that's memorable,

colors and fonts that are uniform across your brand so that when people see your TV ad or a Facebook ad and they land on your website, they recognize that I'm in the right place. And if they don't recognize that, there's either going to be a red flag or lack of continuity amongst your brand and so you're not building that trusting credibility

throughout all of your omni-channel marketing channels. So it's important for people to understand that you are in a consumer-facing business if you're trying to buy houses direct from somebody. And so your brand has to support that. Not everybody who approaches a business like mine has that ready to go. And so I'll work with people

and provide a little bit of advice on that. but from a business perspective, get out of the hustler mode. You are building a consumer-facing brand in business, and it's very important for you to invest some time and energy so that your brand looks and feels the same everywhere that you are. Do you have a lot of people that don't have a lot of that infrastructure? You kind of mention it, but like, is it a good amount of people that come to you and be like, hey, I want to get working with you.

And you're like, okay, what's your website? What's your brain? And people are like, well, I don't know. I have this company called Justin buys really. real estate and you're like okay and it's not pointing to the market or what you're actually trying to do do you have a lot of that

are people like I'd say about a third maybe half of the people that want to start airing ads on TV don't have everything buttoned up. Yeah they need to find out. Yeah for example one of the key components of having successful TV ad campaigns is does your website convert? And as

much as I try and push people to call a phone number because that's, that's generally the urgent lead, that's who's going to be selling your house. Those are the people that will sell their house quickly. There will also be people that want to search you online, look at the reviews. They might submit a web forum a few days later. They want to read an about us page. Like, they're going to nose around. Yeah. And it's about a 50-50 split. So you have to have a good web present. Yeah. And so, for example, I was looking at somebody's website. And it was first name, last name property address phone number a consent form I

authorize you to text me I give away my firstborn child and a captcha and I was like you are turning everybody away as a web form if you want nobody to submit a web form then this is a good way to do it yeah and you're like well I was getting a bunch of spam leads so this is why I built

it this way with the captcha and blah blah and you think about the person selling their house for cash they are probably not going to be able to navigate a captcha very well I can hardly navigate whereas the stoplights and sidewalks and I get it wrong, and somebody's going to get frustrated by that and go to a competitor's website where it's really easy to fill out that level on. And so those are little things that we'll optimize, you know, before we launch a TV campaign,

but it all works together. And so we provide a little bit of that perspective just because we have seen what works well across all of our client accounts. But what's just about their nurture? Let's take it to now they're working with the leader coming in. what about their nurture, their sequence, the follow-up, the CRM, the automation, the AI, do you kind of like guide them to say, hey, I'm only going to keep you as a client as good as you are at converting these leads.

So if you suck, you're going to lead me. And it's not because I'm not doing my job. It's because you can't convert the leads I'm giving you, which as a coach, that is a large part of our world as, you know, these real estate investors want to blame the lead provider, but they don't want to look at the mirror and say, oh, I actually am not very good at conversion. I actually don't know how to call properties. I actually don't make as many offers as I should be. I actually suck on my side.

It's not actually the marketing strategy, right? Yeah. Do you help them with that kind of stuff? Do you suggest things or do you have any type of like consultative like, hey, if you're going to come on as a client, I need to see even how your CRM works because I need to make sure that like you have some level of follow up, some nurture. How's your team built? Who do you have? Yeah. Yeah, a little bit.

And what's unique about my business and how we're set up is I mean with all my clients. monthly. Yeah. And it's not only just from, hey, how are your TV ads performing and what can we do from a marketing perspective? Some of it is providing perspective from groups like boardroom. Yeah. Not everybody wants to pony up all that money to be a part of the group. Yeah, you can offer some insights that you're seeing you did. So you're right, hey, I'm going to help out my community. Yeah, here's a lender. Here's what the latest trends are across the industry. Here's what my other clients are up to. You know, Dispo strategy is a huge component of people's success and their ultimate ROI will be. So yeah, there's a certain degree of it. I wouldn't consider

it a core service, but ultimately that will determine their success and probably my business is success as well. I would make an argument that, well, you and I should just talk off camera about it because I would make an argument you would want stickiness and their, your client's ability to actually convert the leads you're already giving them knowing TV and how good they are. Yeah. They're dropping the ball more than you are by far. And it's because they don't have some automation and and they don't have their CRM set up in a way that can nurture a conversation. When a seller says, no, I'm not really interested. They probably go next.

Or they say, oh, these leads suck. Yeah. It's not your fault. It's, they got to be able to wait long enough for that motivation to hit, right? Yep. So we'll talk off, because I have some ideas to help you kind of keep your clients they already have. That's great. That's great.

And here's a perfect example of it. I was working with a client for a couple of months. we were airing their ads and through some of the data that we were looking at we can see when there's more or less engagement throughout the day right we kind of plot that over time and that helps us optimize our media buying yeah which ads are working better at what time a day and so we saw a pretty large increase in volume around 9 p.m. at night yeah I said well what's your after I was answering it looked like and because it looks like there's quite a bit of engagement in your business around this time. I want to do more of that but I'm curious

can you handle after hours calls well? And it was more just a curiosity like, hey, here's what I'm seeing. What are you doing on your end to make sure that that is being monetized well? And I wasn't quite satisfied with their answer. As you could guess, they didn't have an after hours answering service. Yeah. And only answered the phone during normal business hours and actually sent people to voicemail, which if you're in a service business and you push people to voicemail,

goodbye to that lead. That's right. So I was like, wow, really, Friday at 9 p.m., They're not getting a call back and tell Monday at what time. Like, well, probably around 10 or 11 when we're done with our Monday morning meetings. And I was like, wow, you're probably not getting any of those opportunities. People just need to understand if you're an entrepreneur, your 9 to 5 world is gone. You are 24-7, seven days a week.

It is the biggest misnomer and frustration. When you just said that, it triggered me because, dude, people think, oh, I own my own business. I get more time with my family. it's actually especially in the first probably five to ten years it's actually probably the opposite because you got to work longer harder it is all on you to go win you cannot blame your boss you cannot blame anything you are bringing in leads you're paying for those leads and you are not calling them at nine o'clock or not saturday morning or not any day saturday or sunday because you are the business owner that gets to go you know to the beach all weekend you are not going to be very successful

you might have some level of success but nowhere near the level you should entrepreneurs need to wake the fuck up it is a hundred percent seven days a week 24 seven all on your shoulders until the point of scale most people in your world are not at the point of scale same thing with me in my world when i'm coaching people i crawl up their ass and i say guys this is why you're sucking because you want to say you have the lifestyle you don't deserve yet because you're not working right yeah sorry you just triggered me on that because it's so frustrating you're like i'm giving me the golden lead it's right here it just came in at nine o'clock on a friday okay Okay, fine. You're putting the kids down, but there's not answer it. Like, you don't have someone calling them back answering the phone.

Yeah. Or minimum, God for a sake, someone calling them at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Like, you're going to wait until Monday. Correct. Yeah. Fires me up. Yep. It is just unacceptable. And as a, picture yourself on the consumer side when you call a local service provider and you get pushed to voicemail. Don't be that business. That doesn't answer their phone. It is the most simple thing to do. And what is, by the way, what is a good service provider that you would say, hey, here's a good provider that will answer the phone off hours? Um, I have a fair number of clients that are using things like call porter, answer connects. There's a bunch of ant, you know, almost everybody uses call rail. Yeah, but do they, but they have a live answering service at call rail? Not, not call rail, but not saying call routing. Yeah, you know, you can have a, you can have a hierarchy amongst your team members. 100%. Uh, they're all the hoarders and answering service. All right. Yeah. Yeah, right. Yep. There used to be, they may be a Ruby, something Ruby.

Anyways, there's been, I've used a handful over the years. And it'll be a lot of them to get bought out and whatever. I think people, if you're going to spend money, make sure you actually have efficiencies. That's why you and I will talk to see if I can even help your own clients. Because if you're going to go spend $5, $10, $15, $20,000 a month and you don't have efficiencies, you're just missing out on money. It doesn't do you any good. Yeah.

You've got a leaky bucket. You're pouring more water into a leaky bucket. And they're going to blame the marketing company, right? That every time, whether it's direct mail, cold calling, oh, your list suck. Your cold callers, don't speak rating, whatever. Name the complaint. The customer is going to blame them versus themselves. And that's like that whole, I'm big on this self-actualization.

Look in the mirror and figure out who the fuck you are and where are your weaknesses. Yeah. And they don't. And look at the industry. It's not all rainbows and roses out there right now. Well, it is you need to be a dialed-in operator to be successful. Right now, the people who are marginally okay are being washed out of the industry. There's no.

It is massive opportunity, if you know what you're doing, massive opportunity to take market share because the average players are getting washed out. Yeah. Yeah, it's one of my original mentors talked about, he phrased it in a way, but essentially it is like you take market share, you go deeper whenever. everyone's running out because when the when it's all done you're going to have so much more market share you're going to be the name brand right you're going to be the one that everyone looks to because you're able to eat up that market share now it's tough to be able to have the stamina during these times right you need to dig deep you need to work longer you need to work harder i mean i've been in this business almost 20 years this specific business i will argue i'm working harder now than i did

over the last five years during the COVID. For sure. Yep. My wife sees it. My kids, like I'm not seeing the kids as much as I want to. Now, that's by choice because I'm trying to create more market share and more growth so we can have those moments. Again, I get frustrated a little bit by these, you know, so-called gurus or people on the internet talking about be, you know, take your life back and own your time and vacations and all this shit as an entrepreneur. I'm like, guys, it is actually the opposite for the first five to 10 years.

And I'm two decades into this. And I'm still working harder now than I was during COVID because sometimes it's seasonal. Sometimes there's a season that you've got to dig deeper. Work harder and work to get what you want. And right now in the real estate space, we collectively are in a season. It is harder now than it was during COVID. I hate COVID, not because of all the health issues. I hate it because it weakened our society.

It weakened everyone. Everyone expects free money. Everyone's expecting, you know, these easy ways to make money. that's just not the case. It's never been the case. It was a unicorn event, right? And now everyone's weak because of it. Yeah.

If you are still riding high off of YouTube University, wholesaling will not make you rich in today's environment. It is very, very difficult to do what was being done four years ago. You could be an incredibly successful wholesaler, marginally good at sales and operations. just because people were paying a very high premium for wholesale deals. Yeah. It is very, very, very difficult.

Only the best of the best operators are doing wholesale exclusive. And they're spending their way there. They are cutting massive marketing checks every single month to make sure they're bringing the best leads so that they can have the biggest margins per deal versus volume. You talked about how you got started. You were doing 200 deals a year or whatnot. It's a big number.

Yeah. Now those same type of operators are doing. like maybe 80 deals a year, 50 deals a year, but they're trying to focus on the bigger margins, less volume, right? Yep. These are all things that everyone should be hitting you up. Make sure you're going to Luke, Luke Winter. He's all over my social media right now.

Send to the website one last time. The hellopro.com. You can book a call direct with me on our website. Yeah. Guys, if you're interested in marketing in finding a vertical, maybe you're not utilizing, make sure you hit them up. They're phenomenal.

I appreciate you showing up and being so, genuine and authentic about it. It's been great. Yeah, thanks, Justin. Absolutely. All right, guys, if this was helpful and you think actually maybe someone needs to know Luke, share this with least two of your friends. I appreciate it.

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