Archive for April, 2007

An Assistant for Real Estate Can Help Impress Sellers

Monday, April 30th, 2007

In real estate, there’s plenty of competition. Sometimes the difference between a seller working with you and working with one of your competitors comes down to your ability to leave an impression.

An assistant for real estate can help you to impress sellers.

Want to show that you’ve done your home work? Taking a customized absorption report to the first meeting can do just that. Want to make sure that a seller has all the tips and tools necessary to come out on top? Take a custom sellers’ tip sheet with you. Want to make sure that your sellers know that you can help them sell? Take them a customized home staging tip sheet.

Whatever it is that you need to impress sellers, an assistant for real estate can help you to create it.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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What Do People Say After Working with a Virtual Assistant?

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

When you hire a virtual assistant, it’s important to look at what others have said about working with that person in the past. Looking at the feedback that others provide a virtual assistant – as well as testimonials about working with that VA – is a lot like checking references before hiring an employee.

If you want to be sure that the virtual assistant gets work done on time, check feedback or testimonials or ask for references. If you want to know that you are hiring a virtual assistant who is willing to ask the questions that make you think, questions that will help you to improve your business, check feedback and testimonials. If you want to be sure that the virtual assistant is someone who you can work with, someone who is cooperative and committed, check feedback and testimonials.

You’ll be able to tell a lot about whether or not someone will be the right virtual assistant for you based on what others say after working with her.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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Virtual Assistants Can Help Your Business in 3 Main Areas

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Using a virtual assistant can provide a number of benefits to your business. There are three primary areas of business in which virtual assistants can contribute.

The first area is administrative. This area includes tasks like scheduling appointments, taking messages from clients, answering emails and other administrative office tasks.

The second area involves technology. A virtual assistant can stay on top of your email marketing campaigns or electronic newsletters. A virtual assistant might also update your website, answer electronic inquiries or even create surveys for your website.

The third area involves creativity. Virtual assistants can help you to create marketing materials – logos, business cards, flyers or brochures.

Some VAs specialize in one area; others are able to contribute in all three areas. When you look for a virtual assistant for your business, determine what you need and work from there to find the VA who can help your business the most.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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An Assistant for Real Estate Can Give You that Extra Something to Take to Buyers

Friday, April 27th, 2007

If you are a real estate agent looking to give “something extra” to the buyers who you represent, an assistant for real estate can help.

An assistant for real estate can:

  • Research neighborhoods and create a guide for you to give to buyers;
  • Create buyers’ guides so that your buyers will know that they have thought about everything;
  • Create movers’ guides so that buyers know that there’s nothing that they have overlooked;
  • Create customized change of address postcards for your buyers; and
  • Help you to ensure that your buyers know that you’re on their side.

When you want the buyers who you represent to know that you’re putting in 110%, an assistant for real estate can give you that extra edge.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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Thinking About Hiring a Virtual Assistant?

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

If you are thinking about hiring a virtual assistant, congratulations! This is a sign that your business is growing.

Here are some thoughts on finding and hiring the right virtual assistant for you.

  1. Choose a virtual assistant who you can work with. Sounds like it should be a given, but sometimes it’s overlooked. Be sure to find a virtual assistant whose focus and dedication matches your own and whose way of working is complimentary to your own.
  2. Choose a virtual assistant who works with professionalism. When you choose a virtual assistant, be sue that you choose someone who will work with you with the same professionalism that you have when you work with your clients. Keep in mind that your virtual assistant is someone with whom you and your clients will interact and you want to use a virtual assistant who treats your clients well. Also, it means choosing a virtual assistant who cares about his or her own work – something that you can see reflected in a web site and other marketing materials as well as examples of the work that’s been done for other clients.
  3. Choose a virtual assistant who has shown that he or she can meet your deadlines. This too sounds like it should be a given, but it is important to make sure that the work is getting done. After all, you’re hiring a virtual assistant to help you stay on top of tasks.
  4. Choose a virtual assistant who has experience. By choosing a virtual assistant who has been in the business, who has demonstrated that he or she has the skills you need – and references from past clients to back them up.

In other words, when you hire a virtual assistant take the time to be sure you’re hiring the right virtual assistant.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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Nervous About Hiring a Virtual Assistant?

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Some people are nervous about hiring a virtual assistant. They all have their reasons.

Some have heard horror stories about work not getting done. Others have heard about virtual assistants who overstep and try to take on more “responsibilities” than they have been hired to perform. Still others are afraid of letting go of their own control – they still have a sense that they can do everything on their own.

However, when you work with a reputable, established virtual assistant, you do not have to feel nervous.

A reputable virtual assistant will meet (or beat) all of the established deadlines. A reputable virtual assistant will want to have projects outlined and will offer suggestions – but not overstep boundaries.

More importantly, a reputable virtual assistant is there to help you. You don’t have to do it all yourself: a virtual assistant can help.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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Could You Benefit from an Assistant for Real Estate?

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Are you involved in the real estate business? Do you sometimes feel a little bit overwhelmed? If so, you could benefit from an assistant for real estate.

An assistant for real estate can help you to take care of scheduling showings, sending out mailings, creating brochures and flyers, maintaining your website and even – in some cases – home stagings.

An assistant for real estate, in other words, is someone who can help you to grow your real estate business, who can help you with the “behind the scenes” work so that you can focus on the parts of your job that are the most important to you. But, more importantly, an assistant for real estate can help to ensure that none of the important details slip through the cracks.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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Looking for a Better Way of Marketing Your Real Estate Business?

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

If you are looking for a better way of marketing your real estate business, you owe it to yourself to look into the services that a virtual assistant can provide.

A virtual assistant can help you by:

  • Developing “Just Listed” and “Just Sold” postcards and flyers that get noticed – so you can be sure that the properties that you are representing (and have represented) get noticed;
  • Creating a great real estate website that gives your clients and prospective clients exactly what they are looking for – and making sure that the search engines find your site quickly for those who might be looking for it;
  • Coordinating your listings to make sure that all of the information prospective buyers are looking for;

By doing all of these things and more, you can get the word out about your real estate business. Customers will find you and the homes that you represent and you’ll still be able to focus on doing what you do best: working with your clients.

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The Right Home Staging Can Ensure Sales

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

When your real estate clients need some help getting their homes ready for an open house, a home stager can help to set the right scene.

Staged homes sell more quickly and for a higher price than homes that have not been staged.

There are a number of reasons why this is the case. Staged homes tend to be better organized. In a staged home, prospective buyers will be able to see how their furniture will fit, how their memories can be made – but they will still see the house for what it could be: their home.

If you want to offer your real estate clients a service that will really benefit them, be sure to offer them access to a home stager. You can do this simply by choosing an assistant for real estate who is trained to stage homes. That way, you’ll have the support that you need and so will the sellers you represent.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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A VA Can Help Your to Create Your Real Estate Brand

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Big businesses know a lot about branding. Think about fast food chains and coffee houses: they use their logo on packaging, on billboards, on napkins and everywhere else. With branding, current and prospective customers know their favorite shop as soon as they see it.

Small businesses can learn a lot from the big boys. In particular, small real estate businesses can do a great deal to establish their own brand.

A virtual assistant can help you to create your real estate brand. A virtual assistant can help you to design brochures and postcards that have a unique look. A virtual assistant can also help you to develop consistency in all of your real estate products and services – a consistency that your current and prospective customers alike will recognize and seek out.

Developing a great brand will do a lot to help you grow your business.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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