CL and gumtree real estate method

[BigDipper]

interesting method (not mine)

Hey all,

I thought some of the people complaining how CL is dead, people notice scam from miles away etc. would enjoy my little twist for a very old method. I don't do any CL posting myself but know a few people who use this very method right now and cash in plenty - plus there is virtually no reporting.

It does involve a little bit of preparation but this shouldn't take anybody more than a day or two.

Here's what the original method suggests:

1. Post an advert for a rental apartment, making it look nice but putting the price tag very low (not suspiciously low, though) and tell people to email you for more information or to arrange a viewing.

2. When you receive an e-mail, reply saying that since there's a huge demand for this apartment, you require a credit report to be filed and include your affiliate link to a credit report site.

This used to work a year or two ago but with credit report scams getting more and more popular, it needs to be taken to the next level. Here's what we do, instead:

1. Create a nice-looking real estate website (try the BHW download section - you'll find loads of great WP templates. I personally like Gorilla templates a lot, especially the Open House one). Make sure the template has a "Featured Properties" section. Best if you register a real-looking .com domain for it and make the whole site as specific as possible, i.e. "London Rentals" or "NYC Long-Term Apartments". Total timeframe: about a day; Total cost: $6-$15 (domain+hosting)

2. Scrape a few (10 will do) real properties off the Internet and add them to your newly built site. Make sure that the descriptions are detailed and look legit, and that you include as many pictures as possible (pictures sell!). You can add a contact form or an email address below those ads but this doesn't matter as you won't be replying to anybody requesting to view those properties.

3. Scrape 2-3 more properties off the net but this time modify the rental price, lowering it around 25-40% from what it actually is. Add those properties to your "Featured" section. Add a contact form to the end of those listings and make sure that the contact form dispatches emails to a different address than the ones underneath your "regular" listings (you'll soon find out why).

4. Integrate a content gateway (CPAL*ad, Ads*end, etc. if you want to play it safe or otherwise BHCB) - ADD THE CONTENT GATEWAY CODE ONLY TO THE BOTTOM OF YOUR FEATURED LISTINGS and nowhere else. Tip: be very creative when selecting your offers and figuring out the text for your gateway. I won't reveal what's been working the best (fearing saturation), but things like "Because of the increasing content theft we need to verify that you're a human" etc. might work - be creative!

Your website is all set so it's time to do some postings.

5. Post property rental ads about those same three properties that you submitted to your site as "Featured". For posting, your options are literally endless - depending on the location you've chosen, there's probably tens of high-traffic real-estate portals that allow free listings. In addition, you can use Craigslist and you can even use Gumtree as real-estate postings over there are free! (as opposed to job postings). MAKE SURE YOU DON'T MENTION YOUR WEBSITE OR DOMAIN IN YOUR AD, use a gmail or yahoo email instead.

6. Wait for a day or so and gather a bunch of leads (Gumtree alone should give you 100+ leads per post if you do central London).

7. Reply your leads (or use an autoresponder) saying that you have decided to let the [put your site's name here] real estate agency deal with all viewings of your apartment and asking them to go to their website and book a viewing using the online form they provide.

8. (OPTIONAL) If you want to increase your conversions a great deal, you can go the extra mile and set up a phone number (you'll get a VOIP number for free very easily) that delivers an automated message. You can then tell your 'customers' the phone number of the agency instead, and the message they get says something like "Unfortunately we're busy at the moment but all our properties are listed on our website at www.......com where you can apply for a viewing online" or "All our agents are occupied at the moment. If you're calling us to arrange a viewing of one of our properties, please visit our website instead as we now use a fully automated online version for viewing arrangements". Again, be creative! And if you're not a native English speaker or don't want to reveal your voice then pay $5 for a freelancer to record this message for you.

9. When you receive an email (form submit) from a person interested in one of your featured apartments then write them a nice reply saying that unfortunately the apartment has already been already rented out. Being professional here leaves you with a great chance of not getting reported so take this step with an utmost care!

10. Watch the cash rolling in!

Extra 1. Don't forget to swap your featured apartments every now and then. People may get suspicious if you email them saying an apartment's been gone but it's still up on your site a week later

Extra 2. If you're creative enough then at step 9 you can try and re-monetize. Send them to a competitive real-estate site that pays you CPL or hell, you can even be bold enough to try the credit report trick! Sky's the limit!

I actually thought about giving more examples (such as including the URL of one of such sites and providing some sample email and ad transcripts) but figured this would only do damage as there would be 100s of newbies starting to post the exact same things, therefore creating the "Craigslist effect" and starting to get us all banned / our ads removed.

P.S. The scaling possibilities for this method are ENORMOUS. A good friend of mine started with almost exactly the steps I described above, made quite a bit of income and during the following two weeks generated 10 more such sites - all focusing one specific geographic area and/or niche. Though not fully automatable, it's very easy to hire a freelancer to do all the scraping/posting and another one to build new sites. All you need to do is come up with new domain names and areas.

Just my little contribution to the community.

Bryan

EDIT: I'm thinking about opening a betting pool, accepting bets on how long it will take for this to show up as a $5 ebook over at DP

[Invader]

If you would like this moved either to VIP or Invaders Crew let me know. This is a very lucrative way to market.

[buddywes1436]

Very nice bro thanks for the share...

[Krazie]

This is a badass idea.. maybe I should try to get my girl working on something like this.. I have a few ideas for a twist on that, and if they work I'll post em up

Edit: if you want a free voicemail # either use google voice, or k7.net K7 is easy, it gives you a washington # though.

[buddywes1436]

nice thanks bro i could use a voice mail lol