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In today’s slow real estate market, Realtors and sellers are trying anything to capture buyer’s attention. A quick flip through your real estate for sale section in the local newspaper and you’ll find no shortage of ads that read “0 down.”

These attention-grabber ads are usually meaningless and only used to capture a lead . . . you.

Try calling on one of these ads and inquire about the 0 down option. Without a doubt the answer you’ll get from the listing agent is the 0 down option is based on a certain credit score and lender approvals.

What a waste of your time. I could of told you that and I don’t even know you.

Today I’m going to show you a few real methods of buying a house with little or no cash out of your pocket investors use every day.

Some of these your Realtor will say, “no way” and lenders will not accept.

I really tried. I did, really.

I tried to fit this topic all into one post. But as soon as I stared down that blank digital canvas I said, no way.

I live in one of the riskiest markets around in the US these days, Las Vegas, Nevada. Foreclosure rate is high and job growth has slowed.

People are afraid to buy a house here because they are afraid they will lose money and in no time at all be upside down on their house. They feel buying a house right now is too risky. And the uninformed ones are right, it is too risky - for them.

Informed investors, on the other hand, know there are investing techniques for every kind of market; slow, medium, hot - it doesn’t matter to them. They understand that good house buying techniques go beyond simply getting a low price.

Hello blog readers and thank you for your subscription. As a thank you for either subscribing to or reading my blog, I’d like to extend an offer only to you.

Until May 15th those who visit my blog and would like to get themselves online, I’m offering
you a discount on our web hosting services and for no fee, I will personally install a WordPress blog on your account for you.

Here’s a snapshot of our Web Development page that shows our normal cost of 1 year web hosting and blog installation with setup:

It costs more than that to fill my car up with gas.

The offer above includes 1 year web hosting using our Business Plan which normally runs $83.40/year (monthly broken down to $6.95/month). That equals about a 45% discount for hosting alone.

The Business Plan comes with such features as:

• Free Online Website Builder
• Free Included Scripts to create forums, shopping carts, image galleries and more

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I can’t tell you how many times I hear or read about something and go, “That’s a good idea; good thing I’m already doing that.”

As entrepreneurs, it is important to achieve a level of enlightenment where you unconsciously and automatically choose good decisions.

You need to see what you should do, what you need to do, and what you would like to do and how you should go about implementing them in the right way without much research. It should become something automatic.

For me, things become second nature by the way I approach topics and new ideas, apply them to what I do, and practice them. It’s more in how I absorb them into the overall big picture rather than simply understanding what I’m reading.

I’m always learning. That is the key, to learn. Learning allows the brain to make connections with similar and dissimilar things. This can lead to creativity. Of course experience is part of it, too. But learning comes first.

Hello all. I’ve been spending some time posting in the eVentureBiz Community Forum and would like to invite readers to join in on conversations and topics.

The forum is a great compliment to this blog for a few reasons:

• people who read this blog probably have similar interests and can make connections
• it provides a place where I can connect better with my readers
• the forum discusses topics like SEO, Marketing, Real Estate, etc. and is about winning in business both online and off

If you’re thinking of starting a business, check it out. If you’re a Realtor or investor, feel free to list your house for sale. And if you have questions about starting a business online, ask me.

Of course if you just want to hangout and chat, I’m down - but I’m afraid you’ll have to bring your own beer.

Where’s my Starbucks!

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How you market your product and who you market it to is essential. If you hit the wrong crowd and deliver the wrong (or boring) message your product will probably fail or achieve only a limited amount of success.

Always keep in mind the essential Ps of marketing. It could be just one of those Ps that wins big for you, but a good combination is always your best bet.

Take for example Starbucks. They sell, uh . . . coffee; oh how exciting.

They did well because they didn’t advertise just coffee, they advertised a coffee bar where you could come and hangout, listen to music, or read the newspaper while you drink your coffee.

They didn’t advertise how great their coffee was; they advertised the coffee drinking experience.

Could you imagine if today you decided to try and start selling your own brand of coffee? The competition is stiff!

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A quick note to thank everyone for giving Lindsey and me a week’s break from blog posts for the birth of our son, Ethan. He was born on 4/8/08 and yes, we no longer sleep!

Is a question just a question or is there a deeper meaning behind it?

When someone asks me a question, I try to look beyond the surface of what they are asking and try to find out what they truly are meaning. I find many times people don’t know how to ask for what they really want.

As an entrepreneur, it’s your job to solve problems. When people ask meaningless questions, you need to figure out what it is they truly want and then fulfill those needs for them. That’s how you win.

Let’s look at an example.