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What Can A Virtual Assistant Do?

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:04:30 +0000

How about look through Zillow, Trulia or the plethora of FSBO sites to mine addresses for a mailer from you?

How about search the expired listings to be sure they are still expired and then set the addresses up on labels for you to print?

How about organizing your email filters so you spend less time reading junk email?

Just a couple of ideas to help you in your real estate career.

Virtual Assistants Make You Money

admin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:04:32 +0000

I came across this article at writetodone.com explaining how he finds virtual assistants useful. Since real estate agents are essentially freelancers, I think it fits very well. When he speaks about “billable” hours, think of marketing or contact time with your clients.

The “secret” here is not so secret at all. Of the 28 hours I spend behind the desk, only approximately 14 are billable hours. That’s a dismal 50% billable rate. I simply must increase my billable hours to 75% of my total time, which will increase my income by 25%, with no time adjustment on my part. How?

By hiring and training a virtual assistant.

Can’t afford it you say? Let’s look at it this way: if you bill at $70/hour and pay a virtual assistant $30-40/an hour, by regaining those billable hours, you’re netting $20-40 more per hour.

And at I’m Virtually There, we are only charging $17 per hour for typical services. More specialized work like behind the scenes web work and editing your letters and copy-writing are more.

Sometimes we oversimplify math but it doesn’t seem to be a stretch of any kind to say that if someone can do tasks for you, that they enjoy and are well-versed in, then it may be worth.

Ask yourself a few questions

Do you market everyday?
Do you get slowed down with menial tasks?
Do you update your listings immediately with changes on appropriate sites?
Do you ask for feedback with a survey within 12 hours of a showing?

These are some of the things we help you do.

Hello

admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:36:07 +0000

Welcome to I’m Virtually There. We are virtual assistants with experience in either the real estate world or the web. We can help you set up your web presence or keep track of clients.

On the real estate side we have someone who is very familiar with Portland real estate and RMLSweb.com as well as craigslist, postlets, showingfeedback.com, twitter, linkedin and much more.

On the web side we have someone who can set you up with self hosted wordpress, which we think is the best and the rest of us can maintain your site.

We also have access to other resources such as copy writers and editors.

imvirtuallythere@gmail.com