Scraping Data for Mailer Pricing Pros and Cons (LA 1399)

Transcript:

Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Ho, ho, ho.

Jack Butala:

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

Jill DeWit:

And I'm Jill De Wit, coming to you this Christmas week from sunny Southern California.

Jack Butala:

Today. Jill and I talk about scraping data for mailer, for your mailers, the pros and cons.

Jill DeWit:

You're all business and I'm all into the holidays.

Jack Butala:

Yep. For the last decade, that's how it's been.

Jill DeWit:

Yep.

Jack Butala:

I think holidays-

Jill DeWit:

Careful.

Jack Butala:

... disrupt-

Jill DeWit:

Oh.

Jack Butala:

... revenue streams.

Jill DeWit:

Well, in the old days, this would be a high retail year and it would make revenue streams.

Jack Butala:

There's something about this holiday at the end of the year, it just becomes a two week thing. Versus, I don't know, whatever other holidays that you're into, Easter or Thanksgiving. It's that day, and maybe if you're a cool employer like us, it's you take the day off after that so it becomes a long weekend. But this just, it's a two week thing. Jill's right, it starts right about now.

Jill DeWit:

You know the good thing is? If you haven't experienced before in our business flipping land, when people are home on their computers with nothing to do and they're tired of their family, sometimes they spend money on dirt. Just saying.

Jack Butala:

Yeah, well.

Jill DeWit:

It has happened.

Jack Butala:

Okay.

Jill DeWit:

It has happened.

Jack Butala:

December is not historically our best month by any stretch.

Jill DeWit:

It has done okay.

Jack Butala:

Today's topic. Oh, we already talked about it. 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:

Ellen S. "Hello, everyone. On a recent episode of the land Academy podcast, Jack mentioned something about how investors shouldn't be buying land in Apache County, Arizona. Would he or anyone else be able to give some more information about why? I'm a virtual assistant, one of my clients is a land investor."

Jack Butala:

Okay, hold on.

Jill DeWit:

This is funny. Do you want me to keep going?

Jack Butala:

She, Ellen, is a virtual assistant for one of the land investor or Land Academy members.

Jill DeWit:

Right.

Jack Butala:

She handles sales and ... Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:

Okay. Okay. "I handle sales and marketing for him. I've been doing this for almost a year and a half [inaudible 00:02:16] success selling his properties in another state, but I struggled with selling these in Apache County."

Jack Butala:

Okay, one second.

Jill DeWit:

Okay.

Jack Butala:

Ellen has success selling properties for the person that she works for. So if you need a virtual assistance that's successful at selling property, why not contact Ellen? She's right there in landinvestors.com.

Jill DeWit:

May I continue?

Jack Butala:

This is how you use land investors. It's not just like a newspaper.

Jill DeWit:

Okay.

Jack Butala:

It's huge resourcing.

Jill DeWit:

Listen, Captain Obvious. Okay. "They're in Holbrook, right by the Petrified Forest National Park. I've never been to the area."

Jack Butala:

Good for you.

Jill DeWit:

I would appreciate any tips on how to sell these properties here, and I would love to know why Jack doesn't like it. Any help is appreciated. Also, I love the podcast." That's funny and cool and sweet.

Jack Butala:

If you apply the red, green, yellow test, like we talk about in our education programs, and you look up Apache County or Navajo County, you will see that it doesn't in any way pass the red, green, yellow test. There's three components to it and it doesn't pass any of them.

Jill DeWit:

And once upon a time it did.

Jack Butala:

Yes.

Jill DeWit:

So that's a point here, so there's still leftover properties. I probably have some leftover properties.