www.TheNinjaAssistant.com
Thank you everyone for stopping by. It is with great honor and pride that I am announcing that The Ninja Assistant outgrew this website! I now have a great website at www.TheNinjaAssistant.com and I strongly encourage you to visit me there. THANK YOU for your interest!
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So when I signed up for my website address, and they asked me what I wanted the address to be this little skit of Jeff Dunham totally came to mind. I LOVE Peanut. And of course I love Jeff-fa-fa Dun-ham dot cooom!! So you can imagine my excitement when I got www.TheNinjaAssistant DOT COM!!! I feel all professional and stuff now. WOW! Who knew!?
During the startup of my business as a virtual assistant, I feel like a brand new mother. I have lost sleep, have no exact schedule, have spent days in my pajamas and basically have worked my tail off to get things rolling. However, like most new mom's (and virtual assistants) we forget to take care of ourselves as we are so busy taking care of our new "baby". I have a few new content writing clients (I blog for them) and a couple of social media management clients and then a few other tasks that I have totally neglected my own stuff. I am slowly getting into routine though and figuring out what works best for me.
The sky is the limit right?? I truly have found my passion. I am loving what I do. Being a virtual assistant allows me to do all of the things that I love to do. I love working with people and making them look great. I love giving them the gift of time to focus on other things.
Is it not amazing how much we are blessed with other people's talents? I am so glad that the guy down at the Jiffy Lube knows how to change the oil in my car. Yes, of course I was raised in the era that this was a required task before I was handed the keys. However, Jon does this for a living. He has the tools. He can do it in a matter of 15 minutes or less. Me, Id have to gather the tools and a place to dump the oil...and then spend the time fiddling with the filter (oh yeah after I go purchase the oil and filter at the store). It would be an all day event and I am quite certain NOT a pretty one. So, yes, Jon at the shop earns my $$ every time.
Doing menial office tasks is much like that of which I ask of Jon. I CAN change the oil. I have done it before. However, he has the tools and is good at it. Why not hire someone to do those things that YOU often are inhibited by? Do you have a database that is a mess? Do you need 700 mailers to go out by Friday? If you hire me as your virtual assistant I can guarantee you'll not be disappointed! If you think hiring a professional is expensive, try hiring an amateur and see how much THAT costs!!
Oh and spread the word www.TheNinjaAssistant.com
During the startup of my business as a virtual assistant, I feel like a brand new mother. I have lost sleep, have no exact schedule, have spent days in my pajamas and basically have worked my tail off to get things rolling. However, like most new mom's (and virtual assistants) we forget to take care of ourselves as we are so busy taking care of our new "baby". I have a few new content writing clients (I blog for them) and a couple of social media management clients and then a few other tasks that I have totally neglected my own stuff. I am slowly getting into routine though and figuring out what works best for me.
The sky is the limit right?? I truly have found my passion. I am loving what I do. Being a virtual assistant allows me to do all of the things that I love to do. I love working with people and making them look great. I love giving them the gift of time to focus on other things.
Is it not amazing how much we are blessed with other people's talents? I am so glad that the guy down at the Jiffy Lube knows how to change the oil in my car. Yes, of course I was raised in the era that this was a required task before I was handed the keys. However, Jon does this for a living. He has the tools. He can do it in a matter of 15 minutes or less. Me, Id have to gather the tools and a place to dump the oil...and then spend the time fiddling with the filter (oh yeah after I go purchase the oil and filter at the store). It would be an all day event and I am quite certain NOT a pretty one. So, yes, Jon at the shop earns my $$ every time.
Doing menial office tasks is much like that of which I ask of Jon. I CAN change the oil. I have done it before. However, he has the tools and is good at it. Why not hire someone to do those things that YOU often are inhibited by? Do you have a database that is a mess? Do you need 700 mailers to go out by Friday? If you hire me as your virtual assistant I can guarantee you'll not be disappointed! If you think hiring a professional is expensive, try hiring an amateur and see how much THAT costs!!
Oh and spread the word www.TheNinjaAssistant.com
What exactly do I do?
What exactly can a virtual assistant help you with?
- Lead generation. Do you spend a lot of time surfing the internet & newspapers trying to find prospective clients? A VA can help with that.
- Mailers. Both email and USPS mailers can be effective. However for you, they are time consuming and monotonous. A VA can help with that.
- Social Media campaigns. Are you circulating your business throughout all of the social media world? Instagram? Pinterest? Twitter or Facebook? A VA can set up campaigns to get your name and brand in front of more people consistently.
- Do you blog? Have you considered it? Do you have a website? Did you have a professional go over the writing that you have put in front of potential clients? Is it saying exactly what you want it to say? A VA can do that!
- Do you have thousands of ideas swarming around in your head? Do you need a sounding board? Do you want a consumer's view? A VA can do that too!
- Data entry. Do you have a lot of info that you need to be put into the system at your office? Maybe your current help doesn't have time to do that and keep up with their current work. A VA can do it efficiently and effectively!
A virtual assistant can help you do every single thing in your office, aside from making you a cup of coffee. Though my specialty is in Real Estate, I do know my way around an office and a computer. I have excellent customer support skills and am experienced in multi tasking both within firms and also many firms at once. My prices vary, but I promise they are comparable to the market and of course are far less than if you hired a live person to come into your office and I already have my own computer, phone and notepads.
Real Estate Agents Have it Rough
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!
YOU might need an assistant
So you, might have come to the conclusion that you need help. Maybe you are drowning in a sea of paperwork? Maybe you have a daunting project that is just not getting done because you are constantly distracted by menial tasks like email and social media? Maybe you are a busy mom who just needs a couple of extra minutes in the day? So step one is accepting the fact that you need help. Hahaha---sounds a bit like an intervention doesn't it?
Next you need to determine what kind of help you need.
A Personal Assistant is someone who can be there for you physically when needed. This type of help can be vital to a mom who needs extra hands or a taxi to shuffle kids. Maybe your 5 year old was just crowned kid of the year and you want to throw him a great party, your assistant can help set that up. Maybe your closets are attacking you and you really cannot seem to get a grip on your organizing, not to mention the dry cleaning that needs picked up, prescriptions that need dropped off and oh yeah-- what is for dinner? Perhaps you'd like to send personal Christmas cards to all 432 of your friends? Maybe Grandma has no one to sit with her to watch The Golden Girls this afternoon and you could really use some help with that. A personal assistant simply becomes extra hands and sometimes wheels for you.
Another type of assistant is a Professional Assistant. Perhaps you are a busy real estate agent that needs help shuffling the papers in the office so that you can sell houses. Maybe you are a CEO of a fortune 500 company and NEED someone to field phone calls and do all of the administrative needs that come with your position? With both a personal assistant and a professional assistant you are faced with hiring the right person that is not only qualified to complete the tasks at hand, but also someone that you might remotely be able to get along with. You will be spending SOME time with them, after all. You'll also need to provide them with work space.
Let me introduce to you Virtual Assistance though. I am sure you have heard of it. It is the way that many of our top executives function in today's world. It is more cost efficient and digitally acceptable in the technology era that we live in now.
Perhaps you only need an hour of help this week. Chances are you won't step out and get that help because you do not know your options, after all it is ONLY an hour. A recent client of mine had a deadline. He literally had to make contact with 64 different people in a 45 minute time frame, to get their vote on an important business matter. I am not a rocket scientist by any means, but I can tell you it is IMPOSSIBLE to make 64 phone calls and act even remotely polite in 45 minutes. However, with my help, he and I were able to make contact with 62 of those 64 with time to spare. This also included my conversation with Jane who wanted to know ALL of the details of the topic that was being voted on. I am certain that Keith was thrilled with my services. He didn't have to feel guilty for only needing me that one time for those 45 minutes. That is the awesome thing about virtual. You pay for what you need. Sometimes you are charged by the task, other times by the hour. But I promise it is a whole lot better than doing something on your own, and a lot cheaper than hiring an assistant when you really don't need THAT much help.
Virtual Assistants can do virtually ANYTHING administrative that doesn't require them to be present. Everything from social media management, transcribing, dictation, web design, flyer and brochure layout design, typesetting, direct mail, photo editing, data entry, newsletters, email management, travel arrangements, voicemail & call management...seriously the list goes on and on. If you have an administrative need, I guarantee you will be able to find a virtual assistant that can help you. The benefits of this are just as countless. No overhead. You pay for the work done. That is it. If you need an hour, you pay for an hour (or $ per task), if you need 15 or more hours a week for the next 25 years then that can work out as well. No office space or supplies. No benefits to pay for. No worries with state or federal regulations. The best one yet...if you are not happy with the person you choose to be your assistant then do not ask them to assist you again, no sticky pink slips and hurt feelings and so on. Go find you a new one and keep searching until you find a good fit. Really--it IS the ultimate way!
Luckily for you!! I am capable and experienced in all three of these aspects of assistance. I love being behind the scenes to make you shine. I love helping others to succeed. To me, that makes me successful. No task too small, no job too big.
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