Concepts of a Mail Merge 101 (LA 817)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

Steven Butala:                   Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk about the concepts of a mail merge 101.

Jill DeWit:                            Everything good over there?

Steven Butala:                   After I turn my phone off. Welcome to our reality show.

Jill DeWit:                            Are we keeping you from something?

Steven Butala:                   You want to know the truth? Here's the truth.

Jill DeWit:                            Tell us.

Steven Butala:                   I have an alarm set on my phone for every hour, on the hour.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah, guess it is right.

Steven Butala:                   Because I'm launching something shortly here called the Daily Show, where it's just every hour I take a picture or I submit a little video of exactly what I'm working on. We just had this live event. We just had the first Land Academy live event and everybody just wanted to dig deeper. How do you handle this? How do you handle this, Steve? What do you do in here? How do you manage your time? That was the biggest one. So every hour, I'm ... An hour ago, I ran through my email and explained exactly on, on a screen, what I'm working on and why there's only about 7 things in my email. And why most people fail ...

Jill DeWit:                            I have like 70 in mine.

Steven Butala:                   It's 700 in most people's. This is totally off topic, but most people use their inbox as a to-do list. I refuse to let my email control me.

Jill DeWit:                            And you're right.

Steven Butala:                   And I talked about that. So that's why my alarm went off. I will release the Steve Daily Show about a week from now.

Jill DeWit:                            Cool.

Steven Butala:                   Because I don't have enough stuff to do.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah. That's a good idea.

Steven Butala:                   Today's topic ... Where am I? Today Jill and I talk about the concepts of a mail merge 101. This is kind of a Jill episode. She's got hers all locked in together.

Jill DeWit:                            I do.

Steven Butala:                   In perfect Jill and Steve form, I created this concept and then Jill came in and Jill-ified it. Just made it really work for us and made it better.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   Before we get into the topic though, let's take a question. Posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:                            Mike asks, "Hi all. I sent an offer letter to an owner of a 40 acre parcel. And he called me back and said he would be glad to sell but not at my offer price because there is a long dormant volcano on the property and I know what it's worth."

Steven Butala:                   Why would you wanna own a volcano, by the way?

Jill DeWit:                            Oh my gosh. Anyone have experience with special assets on a property? Looking forward to hearing your story. Thanks. Oh, Mike. It's not funny. He thinks that's an asset, he thinks that's an attribute. Who's gonna build next to a dormant,