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Whether you are buying or selling real estate in Ann Arbor, you’ll need a good mortgage company to help you facilitate the transaction. Keep up the good work out there and keep it local.
We recommend a virtual assistant to help you set up and manage your database. Busy agents and brokers have better things to do than worry about the day-to-day details of maintaining the organization. You have property to show and sell. Why not leave the nuts and bolts to the people who are capable of getting down on the ground and turning the screws. A good virtual assistant has the tools to help you take your business to the next level. Why not let them do their job while you do yours?
This real estate assistant can help you improve your marketing and business processes no matter what state you sell real estate in.
If you are a real estate agent in any of these states then you should have a web presence. You should have a website and you should have a blog. Both tools are necessary in today’s hot Internet marketing climate because, increasingly, your competition is adopting these methods and by using these tools they will surpass you in the search engines and get the business before you do.
People start their search for buying real estate online, no matter where they live. The top searches for real estate are:
Does that mean you should be using these search terms in your real estate content? Maybe. Maybe not. But one this is for sure: If you expect to gain a competitive advantage in your local real estate market then you need to consider the needs of buyers in your area and reach them online before your competition does.
Google Insights also reports the following rising searches by volume:
See a graph of these results.
It’s important to understand the online consumer search for real process if you plan to get ahead in your local real estate market. Why not consult with someone who can help you beat the competition?
Here are a hand full of real estate and mortgage websites we recommend:
Real Estate
Virtual U. - A blog that instructs virtual assistants on how to improve their services.
Seaside Views - Looking for coastal real estate in Florida? Start here.
Homes For Sale - This real estate broker in New Jersey deals exclusively with high end luxury homes.
Park City Journal - More than a real estate blog, this is a community blog. And it covers Park City, Utah very well.
Investor Wealth - A great blog for real estate investing.
Building Systems Network - A blog focused on ecological home construction, green building, and modular homes.
GW Kime & Associates - Real estate agents serving Michigan, primarily the Ann Arbor area.
Mortgage
Mortgage Tracker - When you want the latest, and the best, information on anything related to mortgages, this is the place to check first.
A lot of people build a real estate client mailing list and send out a newsletter, but are you getting the results you should be getting? Are you using the right program for your real estate newsletter? Do you really have the experience to manage a professional real estate newsletter?
Hiring a virtual real estate assistant can help.
A Real Estate Assistant Can Ensure That You Send the Right Message
More and more frequently, real estate agents are using email marketing as a tool for promoting their businesses. A real estate assistant (or a real estate VA) who is familiar with electronic newsletter design and programming can make sure that you use it to its maximum benefit.
For example. your real estate assistant can make sure that you are using the right program for delivering your message - Constant Contact, Rainmaker; each program has its own advantages and disadvantages. Your assistant can fill you in and help you choose.
We all get busy. Running a business of any kind means that you have to be a mutlitasker. It means you have to set priorities and meet deadlines. It also means that there are some things that you would like to do that will never get done.
Things like sending Christmas cards to your clients. Getting to know enough about your clients to know where they work, who their kids are, what they want out of life, etc.
Those all might sound corny, but those personal touches like remembering their child’s name or at least how many kids they have means a lot to your clients.
Sometimes you barely have time to even ask any questions besides what do they want for their house or what are they wanting to pay for a house and what kind of neighborhood are they looking for.
It’s not that you are cold hearted, it’s just that it’s hard to make ends meet in a business unless you move fast. That means some of the details get lost. Some personal touches get lost. You may have started out doing all of those things and then just got too busy to do them.
This is an interesting blog post from the Virtual real Estate Assistant Blog that shows how having a virtual assistant can put the personal touch back into your real estate business without you slowing down.
When you’re working with buyers, you need to know who your clients are in order to make sure that you’re finding homes that fit with their idea of where they want to live. When you’re working with sellers, you’ll need to know them well enough to be able to help them sell.
Your real estate assistant can help you not only get to know your clients, but also to show that you know them.
Maybe it’s as simple as creating a “getting to know you” questionnaire that will let you keep track of the important details so that you never have to think “does their son play soccer or basketball” - you’ll have a reference point.
We all need help from time to time. In my business, like many others, there are uptimes and downtimes. If I hire someone to assist me locally, I would have to lay them off everytime the business slows down. That doesn’t make the job all that attractive to potential employees.
More and more companies are turning to virtual assistants. I have several depending on the volume of my business. These virtual assistants are good at what they do and they understand the nature of the business. They know that you will have more work for them at some times and less at other times. They get work from more than one source so they can earn a steady income and this makes them available to me when I need them as well. it’s a win-win.
This is an excerpt from a blog where they train virtual assistants;
Virtual Assistants Do Short Term and Long Term Work
Many virtual assistants find that there are two types of clients who they will be working with. They will find that, in some cases, they will be working with clients who are looking for help on an ongoing basis; in other cases they’ll find themselves working with a client who needs help on a single project.
As a VA, you’ll always want to put forth your best effort. Whether your working with a client for a single project or over an extended period of time, remember you’re working for yourself and with a client: whatever services you provide, make sure that you’re doing your best work.
5 Ways a Real Estate Assistant Can Help You Out
When you get right down to it, your real estate assistant is a vital asset for your business. It’s not just the time that she can free up in your schedule; it’s what your real estate assistant can do for you that shows her value.
I’m not in the real estate business, but I have been hiring virtual assistants for years now and could never justify the cost of replacing them with a salaried employee.
There are a lot of real estate agents who want the web to help them sell homes for their clients. A lot of different methods are being used to do this. Unfortunately not all of the methods are working out.
Many real estate agents attend seminars that will supposedly teach them how to market homes on the internet. The speakers at these events make a lot of claims about their “real estate marketing system”.
These systems are basically a bunch of private label rights articles, duplicate content, useless content management systems, and worse, they all charge a fortune for their system and real estate agents are being duped into thinking these fake gurus have all the answers.
The truth is that selling real estate online is no different than selling any other product online.
You need to use standard seo techniques to get listed high in the search engines. You need good original content to achieve that. You need link popularity to achieve these goals as well.
In those aspects, selling real estate online is no different from selling anything else.
You need to also be creative and do things that your competitors might not be doing. There was a great post about using youtube to maket homes for sale on the real estate vitual assistant blog that realtes to what I am talking about here.
A lot of people tend to think about YouTube as a site where people put up the moments that they thought were really funny during a late night comedy show, clips from concerts and animations about what it’s like to wake up when you have a cat that wants to be fed. If you haven’t thought about marketing properties for your sellers on YouTube, you’re not alone.
More and more these days, companies are hiring virtual assistants and virtual teams to do tasks that they would normally have to hire full-time staff for. We all know companies began outsourcing things to India and other countries, but this trend toward hiring virtual assistants means these companies are still hiring US citizens and saving money.
Are you considering opening up your own Virtual Assistant business?
Do you think you have what it takes to run a Virtual Assistant company?
Today’s Virtual Assistants usually enter the business with an administrative skill set and an overwhelming desire to eliminate the commute to the traditional office setting.
These independent thinking people are ready to take control of their time and their future by becoming a business owner. They are up to the challenge.
As a real estate agent or company, can you afford not looking into outsourcing some of the work you need done to a real estate virtual assistant?