Justin B. McClelland

This past weekend, I spent alot of time behind the computer.  I mentioned a while back that I was going to create another tutorial/video about how to use Mozenda with CraigsList (at least I think I did).  I took a few hours on Sunday and came up with a screen-scrape for CraigsList.  I would’ve created the video then, except I was having an issue with my account.  Stay tuned for this as it might just be something that can replace a virtual assistant of yours.  You know I’m all about that.  I’m a firm believer in the adage, “if you want something done right, you do it yourself”.  Yeah, I know about delegation, time-maximization, blah blah blah.  But if you can get a computer to do what you’d normally have to hire a person to do, you’ve just eliminated a liability from your operation.

Marketing: I’m still working on calling people back who originally responded to my last mailing.  The game of phone tag is on.  I feel like this may be a waste of time as I’m following-up with luke-warm leads.  The Realtor that I had answering my phone calls didn’t have any lead sheets that were fully completed.  Part of this is probably because I just didn’t have any motivated sellers and the other part is that as a Realtor he is pre-occupied with what Realtors do on a daily basis.

Last week, I mentioned an investor who has about 60 properties in town and whom also invests in tax liens.  Well check this out.  He said that he was looking for someone to do some busy work for him to aid in preparation for the Tax Sale next week.  He was offering to pay $15 an hour for someone to manually go through the tax delinquent list and check to see if the tax delinquent parcel numbers have a building attached (he accidentally bought a lien on a pond before).  It’s 2am and I’m too lazy/sleepy to break down the exact detail.  So I’ll just say that I will be able to do exactly what he is looking for with a screen-scrape of the tax assessors website.  Perhaps, I’ll make a video about that too.  So instead of sifting through 2,000 records at a one minute/record pace of 2,000 minutes (33 hours * $15) or $495.  I’ll be able to get him squared away with everything he needs with about 18 hours of labor using Mozenda.  Uhmmmm….yeah, I’ll just have to post again about it when I complete it.  I’m not sure this paragraph makes sense in it’s brief form.  Anyway, my eyelids are heavy. Peace Out.

P.S.
I’m posting this just cuz. One of the funniest comedies of all time.

Marketing, Random, Real Estate Marketing, Mozenda, National Association of Realtors, Tax lien