EP. 216 Yakov Smart: Finding Investors & Raising Capital with LinkedIn

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Finding Investors & Raising Capital with LinkedIn

Most everyone has a profile on LinkedIn, but few understand the power that it has to find investors and raise money. Engagement on LinkedIn is at an all-time high, with the average household income above six-figures.

Today we talk with Yakov Smart, the leading expert when it comes to attracting high net worth investors and raising capital through LinkedIn. Yakov discusses how to create lists to find investors, how to approach investors once you’ve found them, and how to optimize their LinkedIn profile to build credibility.


Key Discussion Points

[01:04] Opening remarks by Eric Odum and Steven Silverman
[03:34] About our guest: Yakov Smart
[05:02] How did you get into using LinkedIn to help find investors?
[07:17] How do you convince people that LinkedIn can help find investors?
[16:09] Whare are some specific ways to create lists on LinkedIn, and how does the LinkedIn Sales Navigator fit with this?
[19:53] What are some mistakes people make on LinkedIn when trying to target high profile investors?
[24:08] Once you find investors on LinkedIn, what’s the best way to approach them?
[30:19] How can a people best optimize their LinkedIn profile to build credibility?
[37:13] What’s some of the language you would use to find investors for real estate deals?
[40:30] What are some of the online events you have coming up related to using LinkedIn to find investors?
[41:19] How can folks get in touch with you?
[41:57] Closing comments by Eric & Steven

 

About our Guest

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Yakov Smart is considered to be the leading expert when it comes to attracting high net worth investors and raising capital through LinkedIn. He is the author of Disrupting LinkedIn, and is a sought-after authority by top business owner and sales leaders worldwide. He is a proud leader of LinkedIn Lead Enterprises where his webinars and training programs and consulting accelerators give people proven techniques for transforming their LinkedIn profiles into capital raising assets.

CONTACT INFO

LinkedIn: Yakov Smart
Free Online Events - How To Raise More Capital And Find High Net-Worth Investors Using LinkedInlinkedleads.us/rcwebinar

EP. 213 Gus Munoz Castro: Finding Real Estate Leads

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Finding Real Estate Leads

Finding real estate leads and deals is one of the hardest things for investors, especially new investors just starting out. Some people respond to email, some to Google ads, and some to Facebook – there’s no silver bullet.

Short term rental is a relatively new market segment within the last 10 years or so. During this current market saturation reset, J-Ryan and Jarrod expect the next 2-3 years to have really good high profits for short-term rentals.


Key Discussion Points

[01:02] Opening remarks by Eric Odum and Steven Silverman
[03:57] About our guest: Gus Munoz Castro
[04:40] How did you end up going from Microsoft engineer to real estate agent?
[10:39] Tell us a about how your system & process works utilizing internet leads and telephone
[12:20] So you do the follow-up off the inbound leads from the FB ads – tell us about that
[13:02] What’s the process for you to get the  FB leads?
[14:48] What are the benefits of FB leads?
[32:30] Do you work with marketing agencies that have a focus on real estate?
[37:11] Do you think FB is the best business to business platform?
[39:11] Tell us about the discriminitory issues with targeted FB ads
[43:07] How can folks get in touch with you?
[44:19] Concluding comments

 

About our Guest

 Gus

Gus Munoz Castro is a former Microsoft engineer turned real estate agent. Gus runs one of the largest inside sales teams for real estate in North America called Power ISA (powerisa.com) with 65 agents and making about 50k outbound calls a day. He runs a 7 figure a year business and has over 600+ active accounts. Gus is super passionate about helping business owners be successful through online marketing and lead follow-up.

 

CONTACT INFO

Website: powerisa.com
Facebook: powerisa