What Every Real Estate Agent Needs:

The life of an agent is mobile, very fast-paced, and driven by technology. Focusing on the wrong things can lead to losing money and wasting time.

One of the biggest limitations to real estate business growth is the idea of “if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” You can't do it all! At some point in growing your real estate business, you will need to hire staff to take some of the to-dos off your list.

You Need To Spend Your Time Wisely!

The more your business grows, the less time you have to actually do everything by yourself. More leads come in, your responsibilities grow, the paperwork piles up, and unfortunately this might mean your follow up (and $$$) may fall through the cracks.

As an agent, your time should be spent on dollar-producing activities. Hiring a Virtual Assistant (VA) can be a great first move in finding the focus to do just those tasks that directly generate money and grow your pipeline.

A Virtual Assistant can handle so many things. They can handle everything from filtering emails, setting up email marketing and assisting with your social media & website/blog updates and so much more.

Benefits of a Virtual Assistant

Some benefits to hiring a Virtual Assistant versus in-office support staff include:

• Virtual Assistants are contractors, not staff. You don’t have to worry about all the HR paperwork and responsibilities of bringing a new staff member on board.

• Virtual Assistants work remotely, so you don’t have to worry about them taking up precious office space.

• Virtual Assistants can work part-time, per project, or on an as-needed basis.

• Although hiring a Virtual Assistant has many benefits, you do have to be willing to give up some control. Not unlike implementing a new technology product, starting something new or different can come with some risks.

• Hiring a Virtual Assistant can be a stress reliever that unchains you from time consuming tasks. Also, delegating jobs that you are not very skilled at yourself can not only make your business run more efficiently, it can save you from wasted time and money in the long run.

What Tasks Should I Assign?

The best tasks to assign Virtual Assistants are ones where systems have already been put into place. Virtual Assistants are great at taking a program you’ve created and then running with it.

While you wouldn’t want your Virtual Assistant to create your systems and processes from scratch, you can easily plug them into a variety tasks.

• Administrative support. They can take care of all that paperwork that eats up your time, emails, data input.

• Marketing support. Have your VA help with updating your social media outlets or blog/websites. They can even post your listings to any sight you chose to drive additional traffic to your websites.

Due to growth of online leads, the demand for Virtual Assistants is surging. Delegating out the smaller tasks can free you up to convert more leads, and significantly increase the return on investment of your online marketing efforts and help you close more deals.

If you’re an agent and you find yourself juggling too many tasks without enough time to prospect, consider hiring a virtual assistant to help. Get back to your dollar producing activities!

For more information contact me!