I have worked with many real estate agents in my career. I have assisted top agents and I have worked with those that are barely out of school. One thing that is common amongst them all is that time is precious. Time that they have to fiddle with ANYTHING other than working with home owners or home buyers in their business is wasted. When they have to spend hours making sure that all parties have signed documents before they can submit the file to their office and get their $$ is time wasted. Time that they have to spend surfing social media to build their name, though be it, fun is wasted. Time that they spend researching areas and markets is wasted. I am not saying that a good agent should not do these things. A good agent should be VERY much involved with all of them. What I am saying is, THESE are the tasks that an assistant can help you with. Let them be a liaison between you and contractual parties if signatures are needed or a form was missed. Let them make your flyers for your new listings. Perhaps you want to drench the social media market with a pocket listing you plan to expose next week. A good assistant can do all of this for you. The time that you spend away from your computer is time that you could be introducing new buyers to their dream home. Another thing in common amongst agents is referrals are KEY! Keeping your name in front of past clients is huge. Most social media managers know the ins and outs of this and how important it is to keep that flow constant. An assistant can also help you to build an effective way of reaching out to past clients even beyond social media.
I know many of my realtor friends feel like if they hire an assistant then that is their hard earned money that they are having to share. One more person to get a cut of the already skinny slice of pie. They do not feel like they have quite reached the point of success to be able to "afford" an assistant. Let me remind you that virtual assistants are the bomb!! Remember you only pay for what you need! Perhaps your kids have 8 ballgames this week, you have 2 listing appointments and you and your husband have a dinner date on Friday night that you have already rescheduled twice. Let me ask you, the sleep that you miss and the time that you miss with your family, is it not worth hiring just a little bit of help? Is that peace of mind knowing that things can be handled outside of your business not refreshing?
I know that many of you are rockstar agents. You are super go getters and how you manage ALL that you do blows my mind! I also know that you reach a point that you are frazzled. You get burnt out and dreary. Remember, hiring an assistant is smart. It frees up time for you to do what you do best, sell houses. NO ONE goes to school to get their real estate license because they want to push papers around. No one visualizes hours on the computer building their social media campaigns or the countless headaches that will ensue as they try to figure out LinkedIn and why it is different from Facebook and maybe even better? Real Estate agents become agents because they want to sell houses!! Personal assistants love paper!
A good assistant can free you from the choke hold that all this menial stuff has on you. Not only will you be less stressed but I believe you will start to see your business grow fairly quickly. You will wonder why you waited so long.
Interested in learning more about what I can do for you? Let's chat! Let the Ninja help make you a rockstar agent!
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