The most successful real estate agents know that creating systems for each process in their business allows them to be more effective and efficient in delivering the necessary solutions that their clients want. The systems, once created, give you free time to focus on income-generating tasks; hence the need to hire a Virtual Assistant (VA) to help simplify your life. Here are 7 ways a VA can help with your time-consuming daily tasks.
Administrative work
VAs will help you with your daily administrative tasks, like sending faxes, scheduling and confirming appointments, and much more. Once a system is created to handle an administrative task, it can be turned over to the VA.
Telemarketing
Most agents fear making cold calls to potential clients; you can have your VA use specific scripts and make initial calls. Then you can take over the conversation with potential customers once they have become warm prospects.
internet marketing
Virtual assistants can perform various internet marketing tasks, such as; post on your real estate blogs, keep your social media profiles online, create viral videos, write articles, etc.
Database managment
AVs can maintain lead data and help store the information in a database. They can search the data, run custom queries on it, and easily provide you with reports on the data when needed.
Bookkeeping
VAs can help prepare records of your financial transactions, verify the accuracy of figures and calculations. They can also do preliminary audits of your books before handing them over to your accountant.
Marketing Analysis on Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
VAs can conduct preliminary market research on the MLS by helping you prepare a Comparable Market Analysis (CMA) that you can then deliver to your clients and / or clients.
Marketing campaings
VAs can help you set up marketing campaigns to sell the listings you have, such as; create and send brochures, set up interactive voice response (IVR) systems to provide property-specific information to prospective buyers and sellers, prepare the necessary information and images for the properties you plan to list on the MLS, and much more.
In short, the possibilities are endless. A virtual assistant can help a real estate agent be more efficient and effective overall. All you need to do is spend the time building a system and then hand it over to them to run the task.