- Hey guys, what's goin' on?
Seth here.
In this video, I'm gonna show you something,
it's called Deal Machine.
It's an app on your phone.
Looks kinda like this when you open it up.
And, I just heard about this app, not long ago.
The idea behind this app is, it makes it really, really
easy to contact owners of specific properties, and
send them mail, or give them a call, or send them an email.
Essentially how it works is, let's say you're driving by a
property one day and you see a house, or a building,
or whatever, and you say, "I want that property.
That is the property that I want to reach out to that owner
and contact them, and see if they want to sell it".
My business doesn't necessarily work this way,
I don't do this a lot, but I know there's
a lot of real estate investors out there who do this
kind of thing every single day, it's a very common thing.
Sometimes they call it driving for dollars.
Basically, the way this app works is, you're supposed to
like drive up to the property and, ideally, take a picture
of the property with your phone, and in a matter of seconds
you can generate a postcard campaign to be sent to the
owner of this property.
You can either send them one or you can send them
ongoing postcards asking them if they want to sell their
property and to contact you.
I think the success on this kinda app is sort of dependent
on your ability to get in front of the property and
take a picture of it, or at least find a good picture
somewhere that can be included on that mail piece,
because that's really what makes it compelling, and what
would make a lot of people respond to this kind of
mail piece, seeing a picture of their property
on the postcard.
Another thing I think this app can be really useful for
is, simply, if you want to get ahold of a property owner.
There's something called skip tracing where you can
basically use certain services out there to track down
and contact owners of certain properties.
Say, if you sent them a mail piece and it got sent back to
you because the person doesn't live there anymore,
there are different services you can use to
try to track that person down.
What this app does is, it pulls in a lot of that
information, and makes it like super user friendly.
Where it will give you a bunch of different data,
different mailing addresses, different email adresses,
different phone numbers.
I actually did this on my own house and found that
a couple of the phone numbers and email addresses
were not correct, but some of them were.
So, it's one of those things where if you use this,
and if you actually follow up with all of the different
information it gives you, there's a pretty good chance you
can get ahold of the property owner.
So, anyway, I'm gonna quick drive by a property that I own
and I'm just gonna show ya how this works.
Show ya how easy it is to generate this mail campaign,
to find the contact information, and I think you'll kinda
agree, it's pretty cool.
And, it doesn't necessarily apply to everybody, again,
like I don't think I would use this everyday in my business,
cuz that's not how my business works, but if you are
somebody who regularly drives by properties and says,
"I want to find that person and make an offer to them
on that property", if that's you, you know who you are,
then this could be something that's worth checking out.
So, come along with me.
I'll show ya how it works.
(upbeat music)
So we're getting close to it here.
And, this is it.
Right there.
Let's see.
Okay, so I'm gonna quick show you how this works
when we use the app.
So, we open up the app, looks like this.
All we gotta do is click this plus button, and we're
going to take a picture here.
Going to give it permission.
Alright, so now, we're going to get a
picture of the property like this.
It's kinda hard to see with this bad exposure,
sorry about that.
Now, it's telling us we've got an invalid address
so we have to, sort of, adjust things a little bit.
See if we can get it on the right one.
There we go.
So that's the address.
We'll go ahead and click that, and that's correct.
And, that is the correct owner information.
That's the name of my company there, that's my correct
address, and if we want to start the mailers, we just
gotta click 'start mailers'.
So, let's do that.
And, its already got like a pre-populated message in there,
which kinda came by default, so I didn't have to do
a whole lot.
If you decide to use this, I'd suggest getting in there
before you start sending mail out, just to make sure
the message actually says what you want it say, make sure
all the address information is correct.
I've already done all that, so it's good to go,
so I'm just gonna go ahead and click 'start mailing',
and that is literally all you have to do, folks.
It is extremely easy.
We're talking like pushing a couple buttons and
the mail is done.
It takes about three business days I believe, that's how
long it took when I did this before.
And, it's really, not hard to do this at all.
Another thing you can do here, say if you're trying to
do some skip tracing information, and find out other
information about the owner,
you can do that stuff down here.
Now, this particular property is actually
not a great example, because normally what you would see
here is a phone number or two right there, email address
or two right there, and I think the reason we're not
seein' this here is cuz I do a pretty good job of flyin'
under the radar with my properties.
Like, I don't put a lot of my information out there, and
it's associated only with my business,
my business name and address.
So, that's really the only information we had; however,
I'll say, if this property was owned by somebody's
personal name, we'd probably see a lot more information
just in terms of like, contact info., and how we can get
ahold of whoever owns it.
But that just kinda goes to show this app is not like a
fail proof system.
There are definitely going to be times when it either
doesn't give you the information, or the information that
it provides is not entirely accurate.
So, anyway, I just thought for what the app does,
it does a really good job of making it like super, super
easy to send out mail to people, and to find that contact
information to do that, and that's pretty much it.
I mean, it doesn't do a lot else beyond that, from what I
could see, but if that's somethin' you need to do a lot
in your business, by all means, use this thing, cuz it
makes it like super easy to connect those dots, and
make it all happen.
But I do know of a lot of people who do this stuff on a
regular basis, and it's kind of a pain to look up
people's contact information, if they can find it at all,
and then put the mail together, and get that stuff goin'.
So, if that's somethin' that you do regularly, then
definitely use this, cuz it'll make it a lot easier for
you to put all that stuff together, and ultimately
like with direct mail and this kinda thing, you're gonna
hear a lot of people saying 'no' to you when make low offers
to 'em, so you have to be ready for that.
It isn't the kinda thing where you're gonna get 'yes'
responses on every offer you send out there,
but at the same time because you hear no so much,
it's important to be able to do volume, and send these
things out with ease, cuz if it's not easy, you're
going to get burned out really quick doin' this kinda
thing, and the Deal Machine app is one of those things
that, I think, can really make it lot easier for ya.
So, if that's something you want to check out, by all
means, give it a shot.
I believe they have some kind of a free trial, with some
free credits if you want to just give it a try.
You definitely don't have to commit to anything long term
without understanding how the system works.
But, anyway just wanted to share that with you guys.
Hopefully, that's helpful to a few of you out there,
if you do this kinda thing in your business.
And, yeah, thanks for watchin' and
I'll talk to ya next time.