Brilliant at the Basics Part 10 (Audio): Help! How Do I Handle All These Leads Coming In? » Peter Vekselman
Summary: In this episode, we’re on part 10 of our awesome back to basics series in which my business partner, Peter Vekselman, and I discuss the ways that you can kill it by keeping things simple and being really good at the basic things. In today’s episode, we’re talking about a very good problem to have – you’re marketing is working (the good thing) because you are slammed with lead calls coming in (the overwhelming thing). So, what do you do when you just have too much to handle? Well, that’s exactly what we’ll cover today; we’ll walk you through some steps that you can take to help alleviate some of that overwhelming stress – in a way that you can likely still profit from it, too. Sounds good, right? Well, here we go… Listen and Enjoy: What’s inside 2:14 – How to handle the volume of calls coming in 9:15 – How Joe and Peter helped one of their partners who was overwhelmed with leads Mentioned in this episode Joe and Peter’s <a href="http://www.freebasicbook.com" target="_blank">Brilliant at the Basics</a> free book <a href="http://www.craigslist.org" target="_blank">Craigslist</a> Peter and Joe’s <a href="http://www.peterandjoe.com" target="_blank">Apprenticing and Partnership Program</a> Tweetables [Tweet "Too many leads? Go to your local REIA, give those leads to other investors & split the profits with them"] [Tweet "Find what your sweet spot is & focus on it; outsource the rest. Be great at 1 thing, not okay at lots"] [Tweet "Work less in the details; the more you can outsource that to the right people, the better off you are"] Transcription: <a href="http://www.realestateinvestingmastery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/REIM-BATB-10-Brilliant-at-the-Basics-10-Help-How-Do-I-Handle-All-These-Leads-Coming-In.pdf" target="_blank">Download episode transcript in PDF format here...</a> Joe: Hey everybody, welcome this is the Real Estate Investing Mastery Podcast and we are back with the Brilliant at the Basics series, and I'm with my business partner Peter Vekselman in Atlanta. How are you Peter? Peter: I'm doing great. Joe: Awesome. Peter: How are you doing Joe? Joe: Really, really good. Today we are going to kind of continue our series of just being brilliant at the basics, you know how to dominate your market by being simple, keeping it simple, being really, really good at the basics things. First, I want to tell you that we did write a book. If you go to freebasicsbook.com you get the copy of this book freebasicbook.com, but Peter and I have a marketing done for you coaching program that we actually set up the same business that we are doing in our markets. Peter in Atlanta, me in Saint Louis and a multiple markets across the country. We just duplicate our systems and create the same marketing, the same websites, the same CRM systems that we are doing in our marketing, we will set that up for our folks in their own markets, and so if you want more information about that, you just go to Peterandjoe.com, peterandjoe.com. Learn more about the opportunity that we have. We have students all over the country that are crashing here right now. I just talked to somebody recently, Peter he's done 11 deals with our marketing in his market. So anyway, today we are going to talk about, you know, what do you do if-- and we will see where this kind of goes, it might take a different direction but you know, a lot of Peter, a lot of folks have-- they do the marketing, they get a ton of leads and they have a hard time handling the volume. It's just like a lot of call me in the marketing the we send out works right, and so what do you do-- and I will give you this question peter, what do you do when you are doing all the marketing and it is working, you are getting a lot of calls, and you are just getting overwhelmed with the volume of calls that are coming in. How do you handle all of those leads? Peter: Well you know it is interesting you ask me that because you k...
