Real Estate Virtual Assistants

A Virtual Assistant (VA) provides support services to other businesses from a remote location using the telephone and internet for communications. 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 VA 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 and handling scheduling and appointments to performing social media marketing duties and managing PR for your company. Many VAs have particular schooling, training and skill sets that add to their value. This qualifies them to help with techni...

Our firm, MyOutDesk , has been around for 11 years, working with successful Real Estate Businesses and providing value by matching them with highly talented Virtual Assistants. Throughout this time, we’ve heard it all, success stories and horror stories too. Two crucial factor in all these stories are training & delegation. Our most successful client and Real Estate Virtual Assistant relationships share crucial components; they took the time to train their Virtual Assistant — and the understood what tasks to delegate. While we go through great lengths to ensure that each of our clients gets matched with the Virtual Assistant that matches their talents and that they have gone through basic levels of training, each business has a unique set-up that our Virtual Assistants need to learn. You have to take the time to ensure that your Virtual Assistant will be equipped to not only take over the tasks you are delegating to them but that they will be able to do them as well as ...

Adding a virtual assistant to your team brings many benefits. They are generally much more affordable than hiring in-house and have the skills and flexibility to support several aspects of your business. The virtual assistants at MyOutDesk are a step above the average virtual assistant with only 2% of applicants making the final grade. Here are the top six reasons why successful companies hire a real estate virtual assistant  — and as you read these, consider the impact that they have on your own business, and if it would make sense to consider a VA to assist you! Time is your most important resource:  Successful businesses and entrepreneurs know the value of being economic with the use of their time. Low-level tasks like email management and customer support can clutter up your schedule, restricting the amount of time you can spend on the more profitable tasks of your business, like dealing with leads and strategizing for future growth. A virtual professional enables...

The gut reaction to a shifting market or a business experiencing changes is to “shrink the business” or cut down on costs. We have been taught that the answer to change is to cut down. While this may seem like a logical decision, can you shrink your way to growth? We can look to the example of General Motors. At the beginning of the 20th Century, GM ruled the roost and sold 50% of all vehicles owned in America, but by 1988 it was down to only 15%. So what happened to them? The short answer is cost-cutting.  In 1974, GM’s new CEO, accountant Thomas Murphy, questioned the company’s strategy in selling cars with different features and suggested that they sell basically the same kind of vehicle, just with different external accessories such as bumpers, fenders, side mirrors, etc., in order to cut down on manufacturing costs. Obviously, consumers did not like this and started paying more attention to other manufacturers. Just before the end of 2018, General Motors released this ...

As an entrepreneur, are you looking for a long term business partnership where you employ a  Real Estate Virtual Assistant  who will be a real team member with loyalty, commitment, and responsibility? One thing you need to determine is whether you want a Part Time or Full Time VA. On the surface it seems easier to commit to a Part-Time solution to start, but the problem comes from the type of organizations that typically offer this type of VA services. Part-time or Project Based Virtual Assistants If you aren’t too sure about what a Virtual Assistant can do for business or see Virtual Assistants simply as people to finish short term projects or work for you part-time, then you are in the “dating” phase. Many services and companies offer these kinds of detached and seemingly low-risk services. Just keep in mind that with companies like these, attrition is high and while their set-up may be more flexible, they are only suitable for short-term partnerships, and it is ...

Leaders know that if they want to increase their business the only way to do it is by applying leverage! With the right Systems (tools) and Processes (Play-Pause-Do) you can and will double your business — and it will happen rapidly. However, we’ve heard it over and over again, “I don’t have the time to train a Real Estate Virtual Assistant !”  Our time tested, step by step process that works so that you can easily & effectively complete training your Virtual Assistant. Through the knowledge and wisdom we’ve gained from serving over 5,000 clients in the past 12 years, we have come up with a method called “Play, Pause, Do”. Create A Virtual Playbook We highly recommend that you craft a virtual “ playbook ” for your Virtual Assistant. Don’t worry; this benefits your business in general as well. What is it exactly ? It’s a step-by-step, documentation that outlines each of your processes and what to do when things go awry. How do you do that ? The answer is simple,...

Sales is not marketing. Back in college they had us memorize a definition of it long enough to give you a headache, so I’ll break it down simply for you here: marketing is mass-media, and sales is 1-to-1. Pretty simple, huh? As a real estate agent, you’re responsible for doing at least part of your own marketing to get eyeballs on your listings & generate new leads, but in truth you specialize in sales. That’s a good thing, because salespeople have a lot higher earning potential than marketing folks do, although neither group likes to admit it. The problem with doing marketing in real estate is that it’s time consuming, and it distracts you from sales. The time you spend putting your listings in the MLS, posting to Zillow or Craigslist, publishing photos, building websites, doing social media, and yes — even blogging on ActiveRain — is time that you COULD be spending making sales commissions. But you’re not, because you’re doing marketing. Unless you hire a real est...

In survey after survey, it has been shown that remote workers are happier when compared to all employees across all working arrangements. In turn, this directly impacts productivity. One survey questioned 14,000 people regarding their personality and whether or not they are suited for remote work. It was found that only 24 percent of individuals who worked in an office loved their jobs, compared to 38 percent of mobile workers and 45 percent of telecommuting workers. Similar results have been reported time and time again, leading to new insights, particularly in regards to productivity — but what does this mean for your business? A Worker’s Happiness Impacts Productivity There are a number of studies available that show the association between happier employees and a more productive workplace. This includes a study from the University of Warwick, which found that greater happiness led to a 12 percent increase in productivity . In comparison, unhappy workers were 10 perce...

Outsourcing overseas has become a practice that many businesses, big and small, have been leveraging more and more in the past decade. While there are several countries that are well-known for offering virtual services such as Malaysia, South Africa, and India, it’s actually the Philippines that has been making headway in the outsourcing world. A research study on the global outsourcing market in 2016 revealed that Manila sits in second place for the biggest outsourcing city in the world. Bangalore, India, is the only city with a larger outsourcing market. Shanghai, China is the first Chinese city that shows up on the list, and that’s not until 12th place. MyOutDesk’s Real Estate Virtual Assistants are based in the Philippines for many reasons: their determination and hard-working, indomitable spirit are just a few of them. Here are some facts and statistics that support why outsourcing to the Philippines makes absolute sense: 1. 92.58% English Literacy Rate  — Filipin...

“A dollar saved is a dollar earned” as the saying goes. Who doesn’t want to save more money? Now, marketing for your real estate business can cost a pretty penny. However, with a marketing real estate virtual assistant by your side (figuratively of course), there are quite a few things that you can do on your own. Once you have a solid real estate marketing plan in place, you can look over it and find different areas and items that you can do without having to spend a lot of money. Here are some marketing ideas that you can execute with a real estate virtual assistant: 1. Offline Marketing  — There are lots of awesome programs and software, many with free versions, that you can use to create your offline or print marketing materials yourself. Getting them done professionally usually costs a lot of many and can be a waste of resources. Your can conceptualize ideas and have your real estate virtual assistant create your business cards, fliers, postcards, newsletters, mailer...

Are you having a tough time scaling your Real Estate practice? What are the challenges you find yourself facing in this tricky market? Today we’re going to discuss a few things you can assess to help you make changes to benefit your real estate business. First of all, let’s answer a few questions: What percentage of your listings are you double ending? Are you prospecting each and every day? Are you using a CRM to organize and build your business for scale? Do you have an assistant? All of your answers to these questions will paint a picture of what you may need in order to win, scale and grow your business. You see, we believe that business is very much like sports. The experience is similar for players who want to be champions and win. In any sport, there’s a coach and perhaps a few assistant coaches, a gym workout discipline, a required practice schedule and games or matches where you test your abilities as well as your team’s.  In business, the same s...

MyOutDesk has been around for 11 years, working with successful Real Estate Businesses and providing value by matching them with highly talented Virtual Assistants. Throughout this time, we’ve heard it all, success stories and horror stories too. One crucial factor in all these stories we’ve heard is training. Our most successful client and Virtual Assistant relationships share a crucial component; they took the time to train their  Real Estate Virtual Assistant . While we go through great lengths to ensure that each of our clients gets matched with the Virtual Assistant that matches their talents and that they have gone through basic levels of training, each business has a unique set-up that our Virtual Assistants need to learn. You have to take the time to ensure that your Virtual Assistant will be equipped to not only take over the tasks you are delegating to them but that they will be able to do them as well as you do or perhaps, even better than you can. Why is Train...