The Mystery of Umar and Offers2Owners.com (LA 1080)
Transcript:
Steven Butala: Hey, Steven here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala, broadcasting from sunny Southern California. Today I talk with Umar, the manager of one of our companies called Offers2Owners.com. He's going to share some stories of our Land Academy members sending out offer campaigns by the ton. I know from experience it's going to be good. Some of it's going to be bad and some of it's just going to be a mess. Umar, how are you?
Umar Awan: Good. How about yourself?
Steven Butala: Excellent man. Thanks for joining us today. This is kind of something new for us so I can't wait to see what's going to happen.
Umar Awan: Absolutely.
Steven Butala: I'm hoping on your screen you've got the stats so far this month. When we're recording this is September 20th, so I'm wondering how many offers we've sent out on behalf of our members, including ours, so far this month.
Umar Awan: So currently we're looking at actually quite a big number compared to last month. We are looking at 259,000 offers sent so far.
Steven Butala: Wow. Can you explain what Offers 2 Owners is in general?
Umar Awan: Absolutely. Offers 2 Owners...
Steven Butala: And then tell us how you keep track of all of it because that's a daunting number and how we get everybody's campaigns in the mail, and just basically why we're great is what I want to hear.
Umar Awan: Absolutely. Offers 2 Owners it's a bulk direct mail company, so we don't focus on postcards. I'll leave other things here. We are a real estate specific company which helps our members get exactly what they want and that is to make money through direct mail. we take out everything else, all the issues of having to do your own merge, to having to set up your data. There's tons of headaches that come with every direct mail campaign. What our members get to do using Offers 2 Owners is completely outsource that work to us. Decide on a county, decide on a state and the acreage, provide us with the data and we take care of everything else. It belongs ... [crosstalk 00:02:27] Go ahead.
Steven Butala: I'm going to interrupt you for a second, because I personally have been sending out mail campaigns since 2001, offer campaigns and it's never been easier for me to get something in the mail now since we started this company. We started Offers 2 Owners, Jill and I, in response to our Land Academy members and our House Academy members saying, "Can you just please take this out of my life? I'm happy to pay for it." Some of the companies that we start don't quite take off, but for whatever reason, and I really credit you with this, Umar. This thing is just totally taken off. I mean people love it, and every time I talk to a member on our Thursday calls or whenever, they're constantly giving you compliments. That's kind of what I wanted to explore today aside from the raw numbers, and I don't mean to interrupt you, but if you can finish that I want to know what your secret is, and everybody else does too.
Umar Awan: Thank you so much Steven. Honestly, there is no secret. When you do mailing campaigns eight hours a day, you kind of just figure it out. My personal thing is to make everything easier on the members because with a full-time job and a land investing business or a house investing business, there's not a lot of time left in the day.
Umar Awan: So that's it, we take out the headache entirely and we actually have super, super competitive rates. Whereas other people charge more with half the services missing that we've got and alongside that, well our members are awesome.
Steven Butala: Yeah.