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Ken Wimberly's 5x ROI Success Story!

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Ken Wimberly is the Chief Visionary Officer for KW Net Lease Advisors — one of only ten members in the entire country on the Executive Leadership Council for KW Commercial! He’s also the franchise owner of Keller Williams in Abilene, and was named Keller William’s #1 Agent in 2017! Ken has an undisputed track record of success, with numerous recognitions & honors including the prestigious 2012 William C. Jennings Award for the most outstanding commercial transaction in the entire state of Texas, and is a member of numerous boards & real estate associations. Ken says that if he were to put a value on the return of investment in his MOD Virtual Professional, a conservative number would be 5 to 1! That’s an amazing return on his investment and gives him more time to spend generating new business & closing deals. At first, Ken’s Virtual Assistant’s tasks were simple but time-consuming activities, such as checking their emails daily. Now, Ken delegates more

Knolly Williams: Your Time Is More Valuable Than Money!

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Best-selling author and national speaker Knolly Williams has been with MyOutDesk for about 5 years, and has great things to say about working with a virtual assistant. He finds that he’s able to focus on his passion because he has Virtual Professionals take care of the details so he can simply show-up and deliver. Knolly Williams has been featured on ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, Newsweek and in over 300 newspapers worldwide. He is an Author, Trainer, National Speaker, Entrepreneur, Real Estate Broker and Pastor of the Front Row Church. He’s a top-performing Real Estate Broker who has coached tens of thousands of agents & brokers around the world — and he’s an avid fan of MyOutDesk virtual assistant services ! “MyOutDesk has freed up my life: I just spent 2 weeks in Maui and my VA’s ran my business while I was gone — we didn’t lose any production or business while I was out. People say that time is money, but time is so much more valuable than money — and with MyOutDesk I’ve

Why Speed To Lead Will Make Or Break Your Business!

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How fast is your lead followup? If it’s more than 5 minutes, you’re losing business — and you’re losing a lot of it. Believe it or not, while many companies still cling to the belief that it’s good to “wait a few hours” so they don’t seem desperate, the truth is that if you don’t follow up within the first 5 minutes, you won’t make the sale. In the Lead Response Management Study , Professor James Oldroyd performed an in-depth study of response times & contact rates, and found that for every 5 minutes you wait, there’s roughly a 4x reduction in your chance of contacting the lead. If you wait more than an hour, your chances of contacting the lead are 10 times lower than if you’d called them in the first 5 minutes! Keep in mind that 75% of prospects do business with the company that contacts them first. However, the average response time to an online lead is 44 hours and 50% of online leads never get a response! Why is there such a large disparity? In small business, the i

On-Demand vs. Ownership: The Changing Face of Consumerism

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Why buy when you can rent — and why rent when you can subscribe? Only a couple of decades ago if you wanted something, you’d just buy it — and amortize out the cost of purchase over time. In some instances this model still makes sense, but the convenience of subscription models is increasingly common in today’s marketplace, and has moved from being an “online thing” to an intrinsic part of the modern consumer experience. Without a doubt, the consumer subscription model is one of the biggest trends in 21st century business. At first, you only subscribed to online websites, then it became desktop software, and over time it’s crawled back up the pipe to include subscriptions for specialty foods, groceries, clothing, hobby supplies — and much, much more. You get your rides from Uber, your airplane tickets and travel arrangements from Expedia and a monthly box of Japanese treats from a subscription box. According to McKinsey & Company, 15 percent of online shoppers have sign

Winning Real Estate #Hashtags For Social Media Success!

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We’ve all that got “that friend” on Social Media that makes you roll your eyes with the amount of hashtags they use in their posts. While we may roll our eyes at the #blessed people of the interwebs, a hashtag can be a powerful tool for your Real Estate business granted you use the right ones and use them the right way. In this post, we share the best Real Estate hashtags you can use for your business and how to utilize them. First of all what is a hashtag anyway? According to the urban dictionary: A hashtag is a word or phrase preceded by a hash sign (#), used on social media websites and applications, especially Twitter, to identify messages on a specific topic. By using a popular hashtag, your post becomes searchable content under that topic. So for example, if you use #realestaterockstar and someone looks for that specific hash, your content will turn up as one of the results in that search. While there are many free (or paid) hashtag generators where you can search for

Should Real Estate Investors Join Mastermind Groups?

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Mastermind circles specifically made for Real Estate investors can bring powerful acceleration to your business. Varying in price and benefits, there is an underlying commonality to them all; they introduce new avenues and present opportunities that one would not encounter otherwise. Many Real Estate investors join masterminds as a last resort, when business is failing or has hit a serious plateau. However, finding a mastermind group early on or even when your business is thriving can prove to be an extremely positive tactical move. Many say it is unnecessary to join masterminds because of the cost and the time it takes to be part of them. However, there are so many stories of successful Real Estate professionals whose businesses have doubled or even tripled because of the insight and wisdom they have gained from joining a mastermind. Not to mention the value of expanding their network and meeting people of like minds with similar goals. What are the benefits of joining a

Recruiting 17 Agents in a week with 1 Virtual Assistant

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Jessica Fox is a ten-year veteran of the real estate industry leading a top-producing Keller Williams team in Madison, Wisconsin. Her team is growing — which means hiring more agents. With limited time, she turned to her virtual assistant “Queenie”, and came way with stellar results — hiring over 17 agents in one month, with all the administrative work taken care of by her virtual assistant. “For anyone that ever asks me about a virtual assistant. I just share with them the experience and the results I’m having. This last month I hired 17 agents, I had 59 appointments and I only scheduled 4 of them — the rest of them were taken care of by my virtual assistant. Not only set but confirmed. It was transformational for us, made my life a lot easier and I really love her. She’s fantastic!” MyOutDesk is proud to call Jessica a client, and we’re especially pleased to serve top-producing real estate teams across the USA. We’ve served 5000+ clients over the span of 11 years, with about

Commercial Demand Spikes with Record-Low Unemployment!

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Despite slowing job growth, demand for commercial real estate in the form of rental units in major metropolitan areas is soaring! This is from a massive uptick in rental demand during the second quarter of 2019 spiking at 11% from a year ago. That, in turn, pushed rents up an average 3% nationally to $1,390 per month, according to RealPage, a real estate software and analytics company. Experts are crediting this rental boom to in part to record-low unemployment numbers. Multiple organizations opened approximately 136,000 positions in September, slightly lower compared to 168,000 positions rolled-out last August. Employment growth however exceeded numbers of job seekers thus resulting to a labor shortage. Employers’ staffing needs will support the hiring of about 2 million personnel by year end. Potential economic headwinds, originating from trade tensions and other factors, create some risk of job creation falling below expectations. Broad-spectrum employment growth heightens

Rent Philly's Massive Growth & Time-Savings With Virtual Assistants

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Boots Levinson is a top-producing Philadelphia real estate agent and the Principal at Rent Philly — and also a MyOutDesk client who fell in love with our real estate virtual assistant services !  We’ve helped his team of agents delegate repetitive lead-qualification tasks and paperwork to our expert virtual assistants, which lets his team focus entirely on their own area of expertise. “MyOutDesk has really revolutionized our business. We’d generate rental leads, hand them off to our agents, and have those agents reach out. We needed a better way to use the time these agents were spending to get these leads ready to go out on tour. It’s been remarkable what we’ve been able to accomplish with MyOutDesk. I can’t tell you how many hours you’ve saved for our agents.”  — Boots Levinson Boots has worked hard to build a highly-reputable team of knowledgeable, professional agents who share a genuine commitment to innovation in assisting clients with buying, selling or leasing proper

Virtual Assistant Services (And Why You Need Them)

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What Is A Virtual Assistant? A Virtual Assistant (VA) provides business support services working from a remote location using the telephone & internet. This means they work from a remote location, often a home office, using technological tools to perform their job duties and to stay in touch with clients, supervisors and other team members. Technological advancements and a greater market acceptance of remote staffing has encouraged the rapid growth of virtual assistant services over the last three decades. While administrative support defined early virtual assistant services , the breadth, and variety of service offerings available now through VAs are vast and growing. Your company can hire a Virtual Assistant to do anything from answering customer calls, handling scheduling & appointments to performing social media marketing duties and managing PR for your company. That’s why recently Entrepreneur stated that a virtual assistant is the “ fastest ticket to growth .”

Real Estate Marketing For Dummies (Simple & Effective Strategies

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As a real estate agent, you’re a licensed sales professional, but your job is a whole lot bigger than just that. Unlike many other sales professions, real estate agents are responsible for marketing both their own services as well as client listings — and if you don’t have a plan of action in place for marketing then even stellar salesmanship is going to fall short. For the most part, agents all know that they need to be marketing, and most even have a plan in place for it — and you’re probably no exception. The question isn’t so much about whether you have a marketing plan, but whether than plan actually works. So take a moment and ask yourself whether the ROI you’re getting on the time you spend promoting yourself and your listings is producing real, measurable results. Are you getting back the time investment you’re putting into it? The Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, states that 20% of the activities you are doing is responsible for 80% of the results. I

How to Dominate Video With Real Estate’s #1 Video Influencer!

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Christophe Choo is an award-winning, top-producing luxury real estate agent with over 30 years of experience serving Los Angeles’ most elite Westside neighborhoods. He’s also a video and social media rockstar who gets over 51,000 monthly hits to his website and 7.3 million views a month on YouTube with over 23,000 subscribers! Video has served him well: it’s a key strategy in growing his business, Chistophe Choo Beverly Hills , to over $60,000 a month in commissions — with commission income doubling every year and and on track to double yet again! He employs innovative sales & marketing techniques, combined with a deep knowledge of his marketplace that helps him truly dominate the competition — and earned him the title of #1 Real Estate Video Influencer in North America in 2018 by Real Trends & the Wall Street Journal. In this special webinar, we’ll drill down to uncover the insider tips and strategies to help you leverage the power of video and truly hardness your soci

Is Your Real Estate Email Marketing Broken? Here's How To Fix It!

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Email marketing is one of Real Estate’s most powerful and cost efficient tools for generating & nurturing leads. Its non-intrusive nature and immense flexibility gives you a lot of room to find creative ways to market to your clients. You shouldn’t underestimate the possibilities that can be created with a strong email marketing strategy. Email marketing requires attention and consistency. Leverage a MyOutDesk Marketing Virtual Assistant to implement your strategies for email and all your marketing responsibilities. If your email marketing is not as effective as you might hope, there are a few factors that might be holding you back. 1. You aren’t doing it. - Surprisingly, there are a huge number of Real Estate professionals who do not utilize email marketing in their business. Email is 40 times more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook or Twitter. According to studies, email beats social media by 40 xs for customer acquisition. 2. You aren’t person