REVIEW

Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint

It’s no secret in this business that Andy Proper and his partner Justin McCormick have used the Internet to revolutionize the concept of a real estate “Bird Dog” with their Teamwork Lead System software. But you may not have yet heard that they’re taking the revolution a step further when they launch the “Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint: An Authoritative Course on Outsourced Lead Generation for Real Estate Entrepreneurs.”

Early adopters of this fully automated and outsourced real estate lead generation training and informational tool kit are bound to cash in quickly and maintain a comfortable lead, leagues ahead of the competition. How? Because the Web 2.0 technology that drives the “Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint” is now gaining a storm-like momentum that will drive our business once it has reached critical mass.  Are you ready?

Who Says You Can’t Teach an Old Bird Dog New Tricks?

Andy and Justin were new real estate investors, and they were starting out in some of the toughest real estate markets in the U.S.: Hawaii. They fought the odds and adverse market conditions as the wrestled with all the conventional approaches to lead generation in a home market that seemed as tight and unyielding as a native volcanic rock.

Andy and Justin soon were initiated into the REI fold through the traditional Bandit Sign Trial by Fire. They spent countless hours driving around and chasing down leads, and suffered through the theft and vandalism of their gear. They paid too much for ads and even more for marketing that got them nowhere. Business was slow.

“We knew we had to pay our dues to get our investment business off the ground, but we were a couple months into it and this just wasn’t happening,” Andy says. Then, something happened that would turn the tide.

Technology Leverages the Virtual Bird Dog Paradigm Shift

For decades, a “Bird Dog” has been the term that real estate entrepreneurs apply to people who bring investors property leads in exchange for some form of compensation. As Andy says, “Most real estate courses, CDs, and seminars teach this concept on a small scale as part of an overall strategy that generally includes bandit signs, direct mail, print advertising, and other seller lead generation strategies.”

The idea that drives the Basic Bird Dog strategy is that your mailman, UPS driver, or other contact who is on the streets every day is often happy to earn a couple of bucks by sharing the addresses of vacant homes they encounter during the course of their daily activities.

When Strategy and Technology Collide

What happens when this time-proven strategy for real estate lead generation has a head-on collision with Web 2.0 technology? Andy and Justin will tell you: The “Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint” is born. That’s what happens.

“It’s like turning an ocean liner vs. turning a jet-ski,” Andy explains. “We began to outsource our lead generation by using the Internet to rapidly recruit and train bird dogs to do our lead-finding for us.” When Andy and Justin outsourced their lead generation to their new Internet Bird Dogs, the scale of their operation blew like a Hawaiian volcano.

In the first six months following their initial launch, Teamwork Lead System helped nearly 300 investors in the United States and Canada to extend their virtual reach to more than 600 unique investment markets and generate approximately 13,000 seller leads, Andy says. “This has allowed our investment business to gain a footprint in mainland markets thousands of miles away by having leads brought to us by locals in those markets.”

The Future of Real Estate Lead Generation in Upon Us

Since it’s humble debut, the Teamwork Lead System has etched its own unique niche in the real estate business. It also has to come to define itself as a driving force in the relatively new and rapidly growing virtual real estate investing (REI) movement.

This emerging paradigm of Bird Dog lead generation is now having its day because it’s fast, scalable, cost-effective and because it leverages free Internet technology to tap otherwise difficult to reach markets.

At the outset, Andy and Justin found themselves in a frenzy of training and managing their growing pack of Bird Dogs, and wrestling with systemizing all the data and spread sheets that came from all the new leads they were generating. Even at the time, they realized they were on to something great. They had a system that worked. And it was both scalable and replicable. “With shared entrepreneurial drive, Justin and I put our backgrounds in IT to work to develop this system online so that any investor could instantly put the same strategy to work for them quickly, easily and with the least human effort possible,” Andy says.

What you Get with the “Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint”

This is not some abstract, pie-in-the sky pre-boxed guru fantasy system. The written content and nine separate audio sessions in this course tell you precisely how to structure your own, scalable Virtual Bird Dog Network.

The “Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint” tells you exactly what you can accomplish with your lead generation strategies, and provides you with full procedural disclosure for getting the job done.

The written portion of the course contains 150 clear and concise pages with all the information you need to jump right in and immediately start generating the virtual leads you need to take your business to the next level. The course also includes all the forms you need to infuse your business with the leads and cash flow that’ll make all the difference in the world.

The audio portion of the course is compiled into nine separate, portable sessions that are ready for download to your laptop, iPod, personal computer or other device. Besides the great content, the best part of the audio component of the “Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint” is the entertainment value and style Andy and the illustrious JP Moses bring to the table.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent a lot of time listening to real estate audio course content. To be honest, even when it’s interesting and useful, I’ve often had my share of struggles to stay focused and alert so that I can benefit from the learning experience that I know is in store for me.

This training couldn’t be a better departure from the norm. Listening to the “Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint” audio content has been a high point of this review process for me. The voices and materials presented were so entertaining that I made popcorn and laughed out loud at the entrepreneurial antics Andy describes.

SUMMARY
The “Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint” is a systematic response to the question: What happens when an old model for real estate lead generation has a head-on collision with Web 2.0 technology?

“The Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint” is not some abstract, pie-in-the sky pre-boxed guru fantasy system. And it couldn’t be a more welcome departure from the norm. The comprehensive written content and nine separate audio sessions instruct you in structuring your own scalable Virtual Bird Dog Network and how to unleash it on your business for optimum results.

Early adopters are bound to cash in quickly and maintain a comfortable lead ahead of the competition because this course gives you all the information you need to jump right in and immediately start generating the virtual leads you need to take your business to the next level.

Regardless of whether you’re a novice investor, or a seasoned veteran, the "Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint"offers you tools, strategies and choices for generating leads in your real estate investing business.

With the " Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint," users get the entire package. The book, and its audio components are as entertaining as they are fascinating. Part of this spark, no doubt comes from the influence of co-author JP Moses of REITips.com fame. JP’s fingerprints are all over the “Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint.” His editorial candor, incomparable style and combustible real estate savvy are remarkable contributions to this fine package.