Archive for June, 2007

Why Hire a Real Estate Virtual Assistant?

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

How’s your real estate business doing? Is it growing? Do more calls come in every day? Are you busy securing listings and showing properties to the buyers you’re working with?

Are you able to spend your days working on those tasks that allow you to continue growing your business?

Many agents who are growing their real estate businesses can’t say that they have all of the time that they need to commit to growing their business. They get caught up with administrative tasks – answering the phones, backing up files, sending email, writing a blog or trying to figure out how to create a great website that will bring in even more business.

A real estate virtual assistant is someone who is specially skilled in helping you grow real estate businesses continue to thrive.

Your phones can be answered – so can emails. Your blog can be written for you and you can be sure that you’ll have a fantastic website. Appointments can be scheduled. And you can focus on those parts of your business that only you can do well: interacting one on one with your clients, finding buyers for the properties you represent and finding the right home for each buyer.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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Choose a Real Estate Virtual Assistant Who Understands What Your Business Needs

Friday, June 29th, 2007

When you’re in the real estate business, you know that there are things that you’ll need to do. You’ll need to keep in touch with your clients, show properties, get listings, update MLS listings, stage homes, market your company and more. Sometimes, it’s going to feel like there’s no way to get everything done.

That’s why many in the real estate field turn to virtual assistants: they make it possible to get everything done.

But don’t just hire any virtual assistant: hire a real estate virtual assistant, someone who understands what your business needs.

When you choose a real estate virtual assistant, you can be sure that you’re getting someone who understands tasks as they relate to your business. You can be choose a VA who has experience staging homes, who understands real estate marketing and has the tools to keep all of your listing information up to date.

Don’t just get help – get the help your real estate business needs.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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Five Services a Real Estate Virtual Assistant Can Offer

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Growing businesses – whether they have been established for a while or are just starting out – need to take certain steps in order to keep up their growth. This is especially true for real estate businesses, and the best way to continue growth is to bring on a real estate virtual assistant.

A real estate virtual assistant can help you to:

  1. Attract new clients. We can work with you to develop great presentations, materials that you can offer to prospective clients to show them why your services are the only ones that they need when they are buying or selling a home.
  2. Keep in touch with prior clients. This may be as simple and straightforward as sending a housewarming gift for you after your client has purchased a home or it may be as complex as following up months or a year later to show that your interests were longer lasting and not just about making the sale; this can help you to bring in referral clients.
  3. Enhance your listings. Want to make sure that all of your listings look great when viewed online or even on a flyer? Let a real estate virtual assistant help you to make sure that all of your marketing materials are top rate.
  4. Take advantage of a variety of technology services. Do you know about creating and updating a website? What about maintaining a blog that drives traffic to your site? How about email drip campaigns? Some real estate virtual assistants do – and can put their knowledge to work for you.
  5. Get and keep your schedule organized. Wouldn’t you love to be able to return calls the same day and still be on time for all of your appointments? A real estate virtual assistant can manage your schedule and even prioritize your messages so that you never leave anyone hanging and still make all of your clients feel important.

In other words, a real estate virtual assistant can help you to stay on top of your business while it’s growing – making it possible for your business to grow even more quickly, without you feeling like you’re losing control.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
See what services a real estate virtual assistant can offer your business.
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To Blog or Not To Blog?

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

To Blog or Not To Blog?

We were just featured in Micheal Russer’s newsletter on blogging. If you are a real estate agent you should have a blog. Blogging will allow you to communicate with your client’s right on the blog page. They can leave comments for you to review and ask questions. If you are a real estate agent and you don’t have a blog or are considering blogging call us today. 734-446-0328 and ask for Kandra Hamric.

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It’s Not Just Real Estate Virtual Assistants Who Can Benefit from Our Marketing Plans

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Here at Assistant for Real Estate we’ve recently decided to make a number of our marketing plans available to others.

Now, Real Estate agents can use our plans – Past Client Action Plans, Closing Action Plans, Expired Listing Action Plans and even plans for FSBO sellers as well as article marketing lists and press release submission sites – to help their clients. And that’s great news.

The even better news, however, is that it isn’t just real estate assistants who can benefit from our plans – they’re also great for:

  • Teams of real estate agents who are trying to work better together so that, if one is unavailable to work with a client, others will be able to provide the same services.
  • Real estate agents who are just getting started and want to work their way up more quickly than they otherwise would.
  • Experienced real estate agents who are looking for a way to get themselves ahead – to provide even better services to their clients.
  • Top producing agents who want to stay at the top of their field and are looking for the plans and ideas that will keep them there.

Think you could benefit from one of our marketing plans? Stop over for more information.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
See how our plans can benefit your business.
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A Real Estate Virtual Assistant Can Help You to Get Your Site Noticed

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

When real estate agents are just getting started with putting their sites on the web, many are excited. Many agents, however, don’t recognize that there are steps that need to be taken to create an effective site – a site that ranks well with the search engines, a site that people will want to visit because it provides great content.

And that poses a problem. Without working with someone more experienced – like an assistant for real estate who can create and update your real estate website – these agents will struggle, trying to do anything in their power to improve their site ranks.

Don’t believe me? This article sheds some light on the topic. Here’s an excerpt:

I could not find it anywhere (didn’t really look long) but heard that Matt Cutts in the past has mentioned that he does not like the reciprocal linking that Realtors engage in. Supposedly, he had mentioned this several times over the last few years but has not done anything about it.

Real estate agents trade links with other agents around the country and world with the argument that we refer business to each other so therefore it is a legitimate link exchange and not done for the sole purpose of pumping up our rankings. This may be true in some instances but for the most part it is bologna. I would venture to say that 95% of the agents who trade links do so to achieve higher rankings in the results. That was the only reason I did it. What was the likelihood that a visitor to my Sarasota, Florida website was there to find an agent in Albuquerque, New Mexico? The only reason I ever traded a link with an agent outside Florida was to get to number 1 in Google.

In the beginning, when I knew absolutely nothing, I was told to trade links with anyone and everyone. I did that for awhile. Then someone told me to only trade with people in the real estate industry. So, I changed it up and did that. The link exchanging worked. I wasn’t number 1 but was on the first page for a couple key phrases.

Fast forward a little bit, I changed to a more search engine friendly website, traded links sporadically, added plenty of original content, included and updated a blog frequently. My overall goal was to become an authority site and build a valuable, useful website to people looking for anything real estate related in Sarasota, Florida. I simply wanted to make a website better than my competitors. Eventually, I became number 1 for the most sought after key phrases in my market and was on the first page for hundreds of phrases. I got there by having a better website than most. That is a great thing about the Google search engine. It generally does the best job of providing relevant results.

Yes, for your site to be noticed it takes having links – but they should be built naturally. An experienced assistant for real estate can help you to accomplish that.

That’s not to say that your site will be a success overnight – though it might be – it’s just to say that we have the tools and experience to get your real estate website noticed.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
Let an assistant for real estate’s experience get your website to the top.
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What Daily Tasks Come Between You and Your Best Work?

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Almost everyone has a task that they do not enjoy doing but that is a necessary part of their job. Fortunately for those who own and operate small businesses, virtual assistants are able to take some of the pressure off.

Maybe you’re not great about screening calls and knowing who to talk to; a virtual assistant can help you to prioritize calls and even to talk with some of the clients that you work with for you. Maybe you don’t know how to get a website up and running – or how to keep it up to date once it’s been started; a virtual assistant may be just what is needed to market your business on the internet.

The same is true for some accounting tasks, managing email, backing up files and more: if you find that a daily task is coming between you and your best work, it’s worth looking into hiring a virtual assistant. That way, you’ll be able to delegate those tasks that hold you back – to give them to someone who specializes in and enjoys those areas – and focus your attention on the things that you do best, the things that will grow your business.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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Why Article Marketing Is Important to Your Real Estate Business

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Different people will give you their opinions on article marketing. Some people will tell you that you absolutely must use it – even if you don’t quite understand what it is. Others will tell you that you need to research every article and make every phrase perfect.

The key, however, to article marketing for your real estate business is simply this: you can learn by doing, and we can make it easier to get your project underway.

First, you’ll need to have articles written. You’ll have two options for this. You can choose to put your knowledge of real estate and your market into words on your own. Or you can hire a virtual assistant to ghostwrite articles for you. These articles will help to establish your expertise in the field and differentiate you from other real estate businesses in your area.

Then, you’ll need to submit them to article directory sites. Here’s the great news: we’ve put together a comprehensive list or article directory sites. With it, you’ll be able to know exactly where to submit your articles for the exposure you need.

With your article’s resource box, you’ll create links back to your real estate business’ website – from the article sites as well as from relevant newsletters and blogs that choose to use your articles. And, as a result, your website will grow in popularity and search engine rank.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
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Looking to Streamline Your Listing Coordination Process?

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

If you’ve been wanting to ensure that all of your sellers have a better sense of what’s going on, it may be time to focus more on listing coordination. However, when you already are focused on meetings and scheduling appointments and trying to return calls and emails, sometimes it’s hard to streamline the process.

Fortunately, a real estate virtual assistant can get your listing coordination process in top shape – and stay on top of it for you.

A real estate virtual assistant can make sure that:

  • the listing is added to the MLS so that buyer’s agents will be aware that the property is on the market;
  • the listing is added to websites that buyers who are looking for properties on their own will be aware that the home is on the market;
  • all of the information about the property, showings and, if applicable condo fees, is accurate;
  • the property has a great virtual tour;
  • emails are sent out to to all of those clients who are looking for similar properties;
  • great flyers are created to advertise the property;
  • newspaper advertisements are well-written and placed; and
  • listings are enhanced with great photos, appealing and accurate copy and links back to your real estate office.

More than that, we can also work with you to create great tip sheets for your sellers so that they understand the process of selling a home. They can be provided with tip sheets on which changes to make and which can wait, how to stage the home, and other guides that will streamline the process for them too.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
Let us streamline your listing coordination process
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Who Wants to Take Their Real Estate Business to the Next Level?

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Are you looking for a better way of handling expired listings – better tools to give to your clients if they have to face an expired MLS listing or a house that seems as though it just won’t sell? Are you looking for ways of keeping in touch with past clients so that you can follow up with them to ensure that when someone they know needs a real estate agent your name immediately comes to mind?

Maybe you are looking for tools that will help you to walk your real estate clients through the closing process when their home sells. Maybe you want to have access to better tools for marketing your real estate business.

If you are just getting started in the real estate business, we’ve got the tools that you need to help get your business to the next level. If you’re a real estate virtual assistant, we’ve got the tools that will help you to help get your clients to the next level. If you’ve been in the business for a while and are looking for ways of moving forward, new ideas that will help you to continue to grow your business, we’ve got that too!

Whether you’re already a real estate top producer or you are looking to become one, we’ve got what you need to take your real estate business to the next level.

Kandra Hamric – Real Estate Virtual Assistant
Take your real estate business to the next level.
Assistant For Real Estate Blog
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