Posts Tagged ‘easy way to make money’

Reverse Mortgage Lead Generation

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Reverse mortgage leads are generated from public records. When a home is purchased this goes into the public record, along with the type of mortgage. Companies gather this information based on different criteria. The groups are broken into such areas as those with adjustable rates that are coming due and now fixed rate mortgages can be offered. Those with high interest rate fixed loans can be targeted for refinancing down to the present market rate for fixed loans.

The information is then packaged and sold to interested parties. Businesses who want to offer mortgages or refinance existing mortgages would be interested in this information. When the correct group of homeowners are targeted, success in selling the mortgages will rise and more money can be made.

The individual in the mortgage business can gather this information themselves but it will take up valuable time that could be devoted to making sales. This is similar to targeting audiences with your product on the internet. The better SEO (Search Engine Optimization) companies will target those interested in purchasing rather than those who are just shopping around with no intention of making a purchase any time soon.

Reverse mortgages are targeted to older people through the gathering of information on these people. Older people may be having trouble paying their mortgages and reverse mortgages could be the answer. A company will gather information on older people who own homes outright or are paying mortgages and subject them to a mailing.

In order to attain success in selling mortgages, a good supplier of leads is needed. A company with a proven track record. Study the companies online and see if they are offering up to date information that is narrowly focused on specific groups. Then purchase the list of mortgage loan leads and a higher percentage of successful sales will come your way.

If an homeowner has an adjustable mortgage, which resets periodically, a fixed rate will be offered through the internet to this population. More narrowly targeted groups will make the purchase of this information more valuable than a hit or miss style.

Money the Easy Way, Cleaning Gutters?

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

So if you are interested in a really easy way to make money now, you could probably make money tomorrow cleaning gutters.  This is a really easy business to start because all it requires is a ladder and a bucket.  If you already have a bucket all you have to do is borrow the ladder.   (For a complete list of recommended equipment please click on <a href=”http://www.guttercleaning101.blogspot.com”>Gutter Cleaning Tools</a>.  If you have a job, you could do it on Saturdays, if you are between jobs you could easily make 300 dollars a day cleaning out gutters on 3 houses.

Peak seasons vary throughout the country but generally the fall and the Spring are super busy times for gutter cleaners.

To start this business simply find a street that has a lot of trees and fairly nice houses.  When you knock doors say something to this effect.  “Hey, I was in the neighborhood cleaning gutters for a few of your neighbors for a great price and I was wondering if you have cleaned your gutters yet this year?”  When they say ‘no’, ask them if they would like a free estimate to have them cleaned.

Side note:  Most people like to use the word ‘no’ with someone they don’t know the first time they meet you.  If they say ‘no’ first, they are more likely to say yes latter.  Plus this makes it kind of a fun game for you.  I once used this tactic to pick up jobs for seven houses in a row.

If you are people phobic, you may also elect to run flyers.  Depending on the area, how good your flyers are, and what time of year it is, you should plan on getting between 2 and 10 jobs for every 500 flyers you run.

A note on picking good nieghborhoods.  I have cleaned gutters in the past and it seems 90% of people who pay you to clean gutters have a jacuzzi so pick affluent middle class nieghborhoods for the best results.

Be careful this job can be dangerous, cold, and dirty, but the worse conditions get, the busier you get.  Afterall no one in their right mind except you wants to clean gutters if they can avoid it.