Saving Money on Postage and Data (LA 819)

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 saving money on postage and data, and here's what happened right before the show. Jill said, “What's this show about?” And I said, “It's about saving money and all the mistakes that we made over the last 20 years and all the money we wasted,"

Jill DeWit:                            Yes.

Steven Butala:                   "And the time.”

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   And she said, “Oh, like every single other show.” How we made all these mistakes, and why it's easier now.

Jill DeWit:                            And how we can help you.

Steven Butala:                   It's faster and cheaper.

Jill DeWit:                            And save you.

Steven Butala:                   Easier and all that.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   You can go broke, by the way, sending out mail the wrong way.

Jill DeWit:                            I gotta tell you, last weekend someone asked me about the script, like about how we do our show and about a script, and I said, "Oh, no, no, no, no, no." Not only is there no script, the only thing we read is the little bit in the beginning. The question, I read it, and then a little bit at the end that's consistent, but other than that, not only is there no script. It is also one take and we talk about it for three minutes beforehand and then we're like, "What's it about? Got it. Ready, go." So, this is truly how it's ... what comes out of our mouths is what unfolds in our heads.

Steven Butala:                   It's unedited.

Jill DeWit:                            It is, and it's so-

Steven Butala:                   Just the beginning and the end are edited.

Jill DeWit:                            Sorry for you, it's not more ... it's not cleaned up, it's not edited-

Steven Butala:                   I'm sorry that your standards are so low, that you have chosen to listen to this show.

Jill DeWit:                            This is real. Sometimes we say things wrong, hopefully we recover and say to each other, "It's good. Thank you."

Steven Butala:                   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.

Jill DeWit:                            Marcus asks, "I want to reach out to a few in the counties I'm looking at because there isn't much to go by on LandWatch, Zillow, etc. Should I just call ahead, make a day of it and pay them cash? I don't want to waste their time or ask them to do it for free. Thank you." Interesting. So he wants to reach out I guess to some other members in the counties he's looking at and pick their brains.

Steven Butala:                   Good luck.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah, I'm not sure how that would go.

Steven Butala:                   Here's how it would go. "Hi, I'm a new member, Jill, and I would like to see how much success you had in Mojave County, Arizona. I mean, are you ready to retire there? Because I'm thinking about sending 300 or 400 letters out, just to kind of see, so would you recommend that or do you think another c...