The document discusses effective advertising strategies for real estate investors. It emphasizes keeping messages clear, concise, and with a clear call to action. Both active advertising methods like business cards and passive methods like vehicle wraps are covered. Specific recommendations include using the front and back of business cards to provide information, making sure colors on vehicle wraps stand out, and getting advertising materials out in public to maximize exposure. Measuring the effectiveness of different advertising tactics is discussed for an upcoming video.

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2. What's up, fellow real estate investors, this is John coming back at you with REI
Wealth Academy. I didn't mention in the last video, with this one I may look a
little bit different. Sometimes my job calls for the shaving of the beard,
unfortunately. And I'm also tend to travel quite a bit with work, so that's why I
have the lovely hotel room in the background. No, that's not a backdrop that I
prefer, but it is what it is.
So we're talking a little bit about the "why" last time for advertising. Now we're
going to talk about a little in the "how." So, one of the things, one of the tactics
that you de nitely want to start out with when thinking about anything that
you’re doing, so you have your elevator pitch when you go out and tell people
what you do, but you want to get even more clear and even more concise in your
messaging and your calls to action with your business cards, or vehicle wraps, or
any of the stickers that are going to go on your vehicle, or on your windows,
whatever the case might be. And we're going to talk a little bit about the active
versus passive, but no matter what, you need to make sure you’re clear and
concise, and that you have legitimate calls to action for what you want them to
do.
And it needs to stand out. The colors need to stand out. They need to be
something that breaks up the background of what it's in. It could be green and
yellow. That is what Keith, if you've seen his advertisement on his SUV, on his
windows, it has white, it has green, and it has yellow. And it simply says, "We buy
and sell houses" with a number and a few other information. If people are really
interested, they're going to look a little bit harder, they'll see the other things
that they talk about on there, but no matter what, even if it's at a distance, we
buy and sell houses, number. They know they can call the number. They know
that that's what they do. It's very clear. It's very concise.
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3. Also, your business card. Here's another thing that you can use, and what we
always talk about here at REI Wealth Academy as well, is use your real estate.
And what does that mean? Use the front and back. Tell people what it is that
you’re doing. Decide on what investor identity that you have, and how you want
to propose your value proposition to those people, in your own voice, make it
clear and concise, and put it on the front and use the real estate on the back as
well, to gather information, or to give them more information if they so desire.
But make sure you give them a call to action to call you, to connect with you in
some way. Because that's really what it comes down to is connecting and
listening to the people that are potentially your customers.
So vehicle wraps vehicle stamps. Those are also good things. There's one thing
that I'm looking to do here soon for my car. Even we had one student that just
simply took some of the shoe ... I don't even know what to call it, but the shoe
stuffer or whatever, and stuck it on the window with a white sign, you know
normally people say, "We just got married," and his was just, "I buy and sell
houses," number. Call now. That's it. It can be as simple as that. And literally they
did that, and within a week they already had a few phone calls. So something as
easy as that can help.
So active versus passive advertising. So, a simple way to think about this is if you
have to actively send out something, and you have to do it on a consistent basis
and get it back, that's more of your active type of stuff. So, your business card,
your vehicle wrap, some of those things, or maybe even posting on Craigslist or
something like that, those are the things that are going to be a little bit more
active in nature. But when you’re talking about the passive things, you’re talking
about business cards, you’re talking about vehicle wraps, you’re talking about
stickers on a water bottle, stickers on a laptop, whatever that may be. That way,
you don't always have to be out there trying to meet people and talk to people,
which you know, hopefully your doing on a basis that yields you results and
you’re not afraid to do that.
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4. But, one thing with the passive stuff you might want to think about, if you do
have stickers, if you do have maybe even a hoodie that says, "I buy houses," I
have one of those, you can check out some of the other videos and kind of see
that, where it's a black background with yellow and white letters, and that's it.
And you know exactly what that ... what its saying.
So, if I wear that out in public, you know, and that's what I was going to say. Make
sure you get out in public. Don't be afraid to get out there and go to a coffee
shop. Don't be afraid to go shopping in the sweatshirt that you have. Don't be
afraid to drive that car around and park it where no-one else is parking, because
it's the one car that, "Why did they park way out here? Oh look, they have a ...
They have stickers on their ... Oh, they buy and sell houses. That's amazing." So,
it's the little things that are as simple as that, using the active versus the passive
for what you might have.
And then we'll get into the measurements here in this next video. Hope you
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