Private Lending & Real Estate Investing by Chris B. Jenkins

A very important aspect as you move through the process of learning the world of private lending and real estate investing is to make sure you maintain an idea of what is going on with the industry at the national level. One of the best tools you can use to keep abreast of the national market news is Google Alerts. Google Alerts is just one of the many services which you have available to you when you set up a Google account, These services all offer you a tremendous value and wealth of resources.

One type of resource you have available to you is a system called Google Ad Words. Google has made an industry out of information, their whole business model is based upon selling advertising on their system which is presented to customer who come to use their information and Web database services. Google Ad Words is one type of advertising model that is offered but may not be the best option for you, another type which may fit better is the Google Ad Sense, these are small ads which when click on offer the person who is hosting the ad on their site anywhere from $0.50 to $1. If you have a very high traffic site this might be a great way to generate a few extra dollars for your business. if Nothing else you might be able to use that income to pay the monthly hosting cost of the site making the site basically self sufficient. The ads are changed frequently keeping fresh content in the eyes of your visitors and increasing the chances that someone will click on an ad that fits a need they currently have. The implementation is simple, just copy and paste the code that they give you to your website and then save the page, within a few minutes the new ads will start to appear automatically. Again this is not going to be a main source of funding to your business, it wont even be a steady and important source of funding to you but it will provide some extra income that can be used to cover some things which are relatively small but necessary.

The main thing thats good fro you though is the service called Google Alerts, You can go into their system and type a particular keyword, in this case well say "private Lending", When the exact phrase "private lending" shows up new on a website anywhere in the world you get email from Google with a list of the sites. You can choose to have the list emailed to you daily, weekly or monthly. You can get this list and quickly scan it and if anything is interesting to you click the link and go to the site to read the information presented. The best thing is its relatively simple to set up, fully automated once you get it going, and its FREE. Its a great way to stay abreast of changes in the industry or the marker nationally and is good for pursuing continuing education in the field of private lending.