Take your business to the next level with Virtual Assitants

Are you ready to take your business to the next level?  Do you want to have more time ?

Virtual Assistants are the answer! Lets be realistic. We got into real estate investing to have the lifestyle of our dreams, NOT to work harder. Today, with the technology and communications that are available to us, there is no reason not to get a virtual assistant! Why?

You need to have the mindset that you should be working ON your business and not IN your business. Your job is to make offers and market only. These are the only two actions that produce revenue. Anything that does not contribute to revenue creation.. you have to outsource it!.

Here’s how:

You can hire out the mundane or most time consuming task that will cost you a lot of valuable time and NOT a lot of money. A virtual assistant can free up time and let you stay focused on your businesses’ core task of finding more deals and look for additional investment strategies to expand into.

Ask yourself the following questions to find out if its time for VAs?

“Could I have made more money doing other things with the same amount of time than I would have invested in performing that task?”

If you answer yes, hire it out! This keeps it very simple and to the point. You may find in the beginning it’s hard to let go of some of the task you have been performing over the years, but once you see the results pay off, you’ll quickly find yourself a more willing participant.

9 tell-tale signs that NOT having a VA is costing you money.

1. You feel overwhelmed by your business and can’t get to the next level

2. Important details are getting missed causing your business to suffer

3. You’re not able to stay focused on your core competencies such as finding more deals or expanding into other markets to grow your business

4. You have already made the decision you need an assistant but you work out of your home or office, and simply don’t have enough space for an in-house assistant

5. Your business has many “project” based task which can easily be delegated out with little to no instructions

6. You are not technically “savvy” and it makes more business since to hire those tasks out then to take the time to learn them yourself. We can’t be an expert at everything

7. You don’t have the necessary time to effectively market to find deals and your business has grown stagnate or even worse declined

8. You know you are missing things and you can’t do anything about it

9. You understand the importance of delegating

If you answered yes to any of these questions..    OUTSOURCE IT !


 

Virtual Assistants that I use help me do things like :

– Answer Phone Calls From Motivated Sellers and Hungry Buyers
– Make Offers
– Fill Out Contracts
– Write Comps
– Do Follow Up
– Send Marketing
– And So Much More…

Where Do You Find Virtual Assistants?

There are a few companies  in the Philippines that are actually training their virtual assistants to work exclusively with real estate investors.  They are pre-trained and have experience and best of all they are cheap, cheaper than you can find on your own in most cases.

I already hired and trained my own virtual assistants to do these things for me but like with most virtual assistants you hire on your own I had a few virtual assistants that were moving to full time U.S. based jobs.

The upsides to using a companies like this to fulfill all you virtual work is endless. Think about it like this :

  • You don’t have to worry about your virtual assistant picking up and leaving you hanging.  There are over 300 virtual assistants that you can choose from and if one leave you have another one to fill their place and they are already pre trained.
  • You save so much time not having to train someone
  • You don’t have the lengthy time consuming job of hiring, and interviewing assistants
  • and the list goes on and on

STARTING SMALLER

Important Considerations:

  • Preparation is the key to success with your Virtual Assistants. If your jobs and systems aren’t prepared and ready then you will most likely not get good results because they won’t know what to do.
  • The main reason people fail with VA’s is that they don’t do a good job managing their projects.
  • Give clear expectations and deadlines!
  • Tie payments to clearly defined milestones
  • Don’t choose someone mainly by price.
  • Start small & keep it simple.

Simple Steps:

  1. Create good systems
  2. Create good job descriptions
  3. Post your job
  4. Interview the assistants
  5. Hire your assistant
  6. Manage the project
  7. Reward good work

How I Use Virtual Assistants:

Marketing for Sellers

  • Searches through Craigslist and FSBO sites for motivated sellers
  • Send emails & voice mails to sellers
  • Finds addresses & personal information from Absentee Owners and Expired Listings
  • Send postcards through www.Click2Mail.com
  • Transcribes any voice mails from sellers
  • Updates my web CRM database  with seller information
  • Sometimes my VA will call sellers back and schedule appointments for me to talk to them (Google Cal)

Marketing for Buyers

  • Create vFlyers / Postlets for each property
  • Post vFlyers on my website
  • E-mail new properties to Buyer’s List
  • Post properties on 20+ different websites
  • Transcribe voice mails from buyers onto spreadsheet
  • Emails my Selling Manager any responses to ads

Favorite Tools & Resources:

  • www.oDesk.com
  • www.Vworker.com
  • www.Fiverr.com
  • www.elance.com
  • www.guru.com
  • www.onlinejob.ph

Always have  have a training document / systems manual that you can train your next VA with when you lose your current one. It’s so easy to revise!

  • www.JingProject.com
  • Docs.Google.com

 

Next .. Integrating A VA into your business