Just wanted to say thanks.  We are still available for small jobs but not full time clients at the moment.

A quick tip: Organization will save you uncountable amounts of time.  Tracking how your inefficiency is a waste of time but you will quickly realize how much easier it is to perform once you are organized.

Start step by step.  Don’t get stuck trying to fix everything now.  You have to keep marketing yourself while putting it all together.

Realtor.com - 6,600,000 hits (views) not sure if these are unique

For Sale By Owner - 1,600,000

Realtor.com sends the listing information to MSN and many other sites.  If you don’t purchase listings on Realtor.com then the listing information is pulled from you local MLS system with no contact information.

You can have up to 25 photos, 3000 character descriptions and possibly purchase zip codes.  The order of listings is based on photos which you can only have extra photos if you purchase a featured listing.

If you want to help your web presence you should check out Realtor.com.

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.

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.

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