Entries from January 2008

A Real Estate Assistant Can Ensure That You Send the Right Message

Date January 31, 2008

More and more frequently, real estate agents are using email marketing as a tool for promoting their businesses. A real estate assistant (or a real estate VA) who is familiar with electronic newsletter design and programming can make sure that you use it to its maximum benefit.
For example. your real estate assistant can make sure [...]

Your Real Estate Assistant Can Promote Seller Confidence

Date January 30, 2008

When the real estate market isn’t exactly thriving, your real estate assistant becomes more valuable than ever – especially when it comes to promoting the confidence that sellers have in your services. Part of the issue is simple: when you’re out in the field, your real estate assistant can make sure that their calls are [...]

Should a New Real Estate Assistant Be in Your Plans?

Date January 29, 2008

Rather than focus on what a real estate assistant can do, let’s look at what a real estate assistant should be able to do.
When you’re working in real estate, you should have an assistant who can:

Help you to focus on your marketing strategy and help you to improve it.
Create professional listing presentations that set you [...]

A Real Estate VA Can Improve Your Blog

Date January 28, 2008

Blogging, like being a real estate agent, is something that needs to be figured out over time. You know how it is: when you sell a third home, you will have learned things that you’ll wish you had known back when you sold the first. When you’ve sold 40 or 50 or more homes, you’ll [...]

A Real Estate Assistant Can Edit Listing Photos

Date January 27, 2008

When you have a real estate assistant who knows how to use it, personal effects can be cloned out of the picture, lighting can be enhanced.
The same is true when it comes to the listing photos that you use to market a listed property on your own website or in your blog: it’s possible for [...]

Your Real Estate Assistant Can Design a Guide for First Time Buyers

Date January 26, 2008

First time buyers have a lot of questions. As a real estate agent, it’s your job to provide answers. If you have your real estate assistant design a guide for first time buyers, you’ll be able to spend less time providing the answers that they need.
For example, your real estate assistant can create a glossary [...]

20 Marketing Tasks a Real Estate Assistant Can Take On

Date January 25, 2008

The real estate business has more to do with marketing than it does simply helping others to buy and sell homes. There’s marketing in the MLS, websites, print marketing – not to mention just the need to attract more clients on a regular basis. However, not all real estate agents are marketers: and those who [...]

A Real Estate Assistant Can Smooth Out the Mortgage Process

Date January 24, 2008

When you’re working with buyers, you’re likely to find that they have a lot of questions about the mortgage process; your real estate assistant can take the time to create a guide that will smooth the process out.
For example, your real estate assistant can talk with mortgage lenders in your area to get answers to [...]

Your Real Estate Assistant Can Create Listing Action Plans

Date January 23, 2008

Every time that you add a listing to the multiple listing service for a client, you’re going to follow a similar pattern. Your real estate assistant can look at that pattern and help you to develop a listing action plan.
Your real estate assistant, for example, can set up templates for the letters that you send [...]

A Real Estate Assistant Isn’t Just Front Office Staff

Date January 22, 2008

Some people seem to think that a real estate assistant can be all of those things, it’s important to realize that – in many cases – a real estate assistant is far more than just front office staff.
Your real estate assistant can help you to prepare listing presentations that will help you to attract more [...]