Welcome to The Accelerated Investor Podcast with Josh Cantwell, if you love entrepreneurship and investing in real estate then you are in the right place. Josh is the CEO of Freeland Ventures Real Estate Private Equity and has personally invested in well over 500 properties all across the country. He’s also made hundreds of private lender loans and owns over 1,000 units of apartments. Josh is an expert at raising private money for deals and he prides himself on never having had a boss in his entire adult life. Josh and his team also mentor investors and entrepreneurs from all over the world. He doesn’t dream about doing deals, he actually does them and so do his listeners and students. Now sit back, listen, learn, and accelerate your business, your life, and you’re investing with The Accelerated Investor Podcast.

Hey, welcome back to Accelerated Investor. I’m excited to be with you. We are deep right now we’re all in with two feet. We are deep into our discussion around the five steps to getting all the capital you need for all the deals you want. This is actually a 10 part series. So we’ve done a couple of different episodes on what is a private lender, what are the SEC rules and regulations, you know why we hate the stock market, right? We’ve done some of those episodes and right now we’re on episode number eight in this series. It’s step number four, create a regular recurring multi-medium marketing plan, okay? And so when I think about private money, you know, people don’t invest from, you know, a website, they don’t invest from a social media post. They don’t invest from spam emails, they don’t invest on, you know, some crowd funding platforms unless they’re really comfortable with their investment.

And so what I’ve focused on is building relationships with people, okay. Over the last three or four episodes, over this entire podcast, all about relationships. I want to have personal, interpersonal relationships with everybody who invests with me. I want to get to know them on a personal level, share with them, talk to them about their investments, talk about how it impacts their life. And so as we build this relationship, then we’re just not really sure exactly when they’re going to be ready to invest. So we need to stay top of mind. We need to stay top of mind so that when they think about real estate investing, they think of us, okay. When they think about am I going to invest in an active basis, a passive basis, am I going to, you know, am I going to deploy $50,000 or $500,000 or $5 million? We want them to think of you.

We want you to be the top of mind reference the person that they think about when they think of real estate because they may not be liquid today, but they may be liquid in six or liquid in two years, okay. So step number four is to craft and deploy a multi-medium marketing approach so that we can stay in front of those people that we have relationships with. And so some things to consider, okay. Now we’re going to talk in episode number 10 it’s coming up. We’re going to talk about the SEC and the different regulations in the what’s called the registration exemptions that you need to have in order to successfully recruit private money. We’re going to talk about that in episode 10, so make sure you join me for that. But let’s assume that you start with what we call your project 100.

Your project 100 is 100 people that already, you know, that you like, that you trust, that you already have relationships with. You write down their name, email, phone number, and physical address, and you create your first database, okay? Now you might say like, oh, I don’t want to start with my friends and family. Okay, well let me talk to you about that. You know, when I was at Northwestern Mutual and I started in my financial services career, Northwestern Mutual is one of the top 10 internships in the country, okay? If you look at Gary Keller’s book, The 1%, if you look at a lot of sales organizations, they all teach you around real estate. Being a realtor, being an investor, they all teach you to start with your sphere, the people that you already have already know, like, and trust you. If you’re going to be a realtor, you start with your sphere.

If you’re going to be a real estate investor, you start with your sphere, right? So who are the top 100 people that are in your sphere? Because I’ll tell you right now, if you can’t recruit money from people that are already in your sphere, that already know you, like you, trust, you, have relationships with, you’re never going to recruit a nickel of private money from a stranger, okay? If you look at Uber, you look at Facebook, you look at Google, they all lift. You all stay, all started with a friends and family offering. They all started with a friends and family offering. They offered stock or units equity in their business. They recruited capital, and those friends and family now are rich. They’re rich beyond belief, okay? And so step number four is to create a multi-media marketing plan. So once you have that group of investors, it could be active investors, passive investors, friends and family, people from your, you know, homeowners association, that you know, people from your maybe you’re part of a charitable organization.

Maybe you go to different industry functions, you already know them, like them, trust them, you have relationships with them. Now you’ve got to create a regular recurring marketing approach to keep them top of mind, right? So that when they think about real estate, they think of you when you are thinking about a deal that you want to recruit money for, they think of you, okay. So this multimedia approach could include things like one email broadcasts, okay. Sending out information to educate them about your deals, educate them about past closed deals, educate them about your industry, educate them about what’s going on with the market, the real estate market. Is it going up? Is it going down? You know, the way we invest in real estate doesn’t really matter because we buy at wholesale prices always. So, but that’s a different podcast for some other time.

But, you know, so email broadcasts. So we send out a regular recurring email broadcast every single Tuesday. We call it a funding opportunity, okay. It goes out to people that we have existing relationships with and we send that out every Tuesday, not because we think people are going to invest from it, but because we want to stay top of mind and we always send a past closed deal, a deal that’s already been filled, whether it’s an apartment, whether it’s a single family property, whether it’s a fix and flip, because we want to make sure that we have a real existing relationship with them. We don’t want to just solicit the public a general solicitation from an email, okay? We want to make sure that we send a past deal because in case it slips into the hands of somebody that we don’t have a relationship with. We don’t want to look like we’re soliciting money from people that we don’t know, okay?

So we send a funding opportunity out every single Tuesday. We make social media posts. Now the social media posts aren’t to recruit money. There’s no call to action to invest with us. We don’t describe the offer. We don’t describe the interest rate. We don’t describe the minimums. We don’t describe the maximums or the lock-up period or anything like that. We just simply talk about a real estate deal that we’ve already closed. You know, we funded this deal, we funded that deal. We bought this property, we bought that property, okay. Here’s how much money we made. We flipped this house, etc., etc. So social media posts is an easy one. Now, if you’ve got a database of people that you already have relationships with, you could hold a, let’s say a monthly webinar where on the third week of every month you host a Webinar and that webinar showcases some of your deal flow, your apartments, your one off deals, your rentals, your rehabs, whatever it is.

You could host a webinar or you could use, Go To Meeting. You could use Zoom. We use Zoom.com or Zoom.us, I think it is for all of our classes. So we can do a screen share. And we can share slides and we can do an interview. That’s another way for you to stay in front of those people. I do this podcast. All right. This podcast is really about building relationships with people. It’s about you. It’s about me giving value, giving back, paying it forward, right? That’s another strategy of a multimedia marketing approach. In addition, every other month we send a physical newsletter. We actually print off a physical newsletter. I was looking around my office for those of you that might catch this YouTube to see if I have one. It’s probably in the other room, but we send out a physical newsletter, physical newsletter, basically just showcases deals that we’ve closed.

Talks a little bit about our business, some fun and cool, exciting pictures from our live events and from, you know, from deals that we’re closing or you know, different places that we’ve been with our team or even some personal photos. It talks about deals that we funded for other people through our private equity fund. It talks about and there’s examples in there, talks about some of the different organizations that we sponsor, like the deal makers meet up every month with the home investors association or the home investors franchisees, the Great Lakes REIA, the Akron, Canton REIA, all these, you know, the Lake Erie Landlords Association, the Homeowners Association, all these different, groups that we sponsor, okay. And so really, really cool, exciting stuff. We put it in a physical newsletter and physically mail it out every other month so it hits their physical house. Like, I don’t know about you, but I don’t really get any junk mail anymore.

What I get is a bunch of spam, junk email. I don’t really get much snail mail. I get, you know, a couple of coupons here and there. And certainly around the holidays, around Christmas time we get a bunch of flyers for Dick’s Sporting Goods and the local mall and you know, all the different stores and this and that. But on a daily basis, I just don’t get as much junk mail as I used to. I don’t know about you, but I don’t. So I physically send out a physical newsletter so that I have a multi-media marketing plan and I’m hitting them email marketing, Webinar, podcast, physical mail. Then I also email out our newsletter in a PDF version of digital version, okay. And all of this traffic, right? I’m just pointing back to me. I’m giving them my email I’m giving them my personal phone number, telling them if they have a question about actively investing in real estate or passively investing in real estate, just give me a call.

I don’t want to send them to a website and have them opt in. I want it to be way more personal, way more of a personal relationship. So I give out my phone number, I give them my cell phone number, my email. I encourage people to call me, email me if they have any questions. Okay, so the question now is in step number four, once you have your irresistible offer, that was step one. Once you have your ideal investor or your Avatar, that’s step two. Once you have identified where your ideal investor can be found and you go to those places to collect business cards and make relationships. Step number four is to deploy this multi-media marketing approach. So that you can be the top of mind a person that they think about when they think about real estate, that’s step number four, so hope you enjoyed that and we’re going to move on now to step number five, which is to follow a proven sales process. Join me for that solo cast next.

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