Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Hello.

Steven Jack 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 the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today Jill and I talk about how to use the Land Academy online community in real time.

Jill DeWit:

This is so good. This is one of those things that we always tell our community. You ask, we listen. And day one almost of launching Land Academy way back in 2015. Wow, it's been that long.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah.

Jill DeWit:

We have how many years of this?

Steven Jack Butala:

Well, it's going to be eight.

Jill DeWit:

Eight. Eight years of making millionaires. How's that? I'm just going to say it. Eight years of making millionaires. That's easy. But 20 to 30 years.

Steven Jack Butala:

30 years.

Jill DeWit:

... of us doing it on our own.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yep.

Jill DeWit:

Talk about valuable experience. I haven't said this in a while, but man, I wish I had us when I was starting out. So anyway, but one of the first things that came out of our folks was, "How can we communicate with you?" I'm like, yeah, you're right. We do need to do that. And so we started an online community. It had a different name than it is now. It was fun. That was Success Plant back then. It was really cool. And then it morphed into Land Investors, and now we still have that, but now it's gone into this Discord environment, which is blowing me away.

Steven Jack Butala:

Me too. I mean, I'll tell you, we offer value added products in Land Academy all the time. Jill's got all kinds of prop products lined up for 2023. And a online community, especially in this Discord format, was a really good idea. In fact, that's what we're going to talk about today. So before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Before we get into that though, I hope you'd know by now, and this is another example I guess of a product that we created that everybody loves. Yep. Jill and I created a commercial blown commercial printing company created solely to help you get an expensive direct mail offers in the hands of sellers quickly. It's called Offers to Owners. We set this company up several years ago to share it with members and non-members. It's nothing more than how we used to do our own mailers. We just made it pretty and offered it to-

Jill DeWit:

And still do.

Steven Jack Butala:

... our leadership community. Fast forward to today, we do between 700, and 900,000 offers per month on behalf of members and non-members. Everything from pulling and scrubbing and collecting comps to just actually, literally doing the mailer for you. Check it out. Offers2owners.com.

Jill DeWit:

Titus wrote, "Good morning, Discord family. Hope your Thanksgiving was fun and relaxing. Quick question. Is anyone else having issues with sorting data from Redfin's housing market data website by ZIP code? I don't see ZIP codes in the region type or region fields. Any thoughts? Anybody else having this issue?"

Steven Jack Butala:

So I put this in here. This is a fantastic use of our online community, specifically Discord. So he's in there pulling data and pulling comps as we ask everyone to do in the Land Academy education. And there's something's going wrong with Redfin. So Redfin, their data center specifically is amazing. I cannot believe how much realtime data they provide for people like us to make good decisions about where to send mail and whether or not, and just if you know the program. You know how we use Redfin's data center. Here's the thing. It's awesome. It's web enabled, and it breaks often. And so I often, very often go into Redfin when I'm doing my own mailers. It's not working right. I have to wait a couple hours maybe. Do it the next day. I included this in this format. I can't include all the responses,