virtual assistance: Delegate Your Accounting Tasks - 04/18/18 05:18 PM
ACCOUNTING tends to be a task that many business owners put off until the last minute. Don’t wait until the last minute to get your income, expenses and data entered for the next tax season. Let Best Agent Business complete your accounting tasks that you don’t enjoy. Our Assistants remotely enter, update and produce reports for your business using an online version of Quickbooks. To GET STARTED, Call or Text me Today, 202-297-2393. 
 
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virtual assistance: Client Marketing - Your Road to Higher Profits - 10/27/14 06:02 AM

We all may have a different idea of what constitutes Client Marketing around the office, but in my world, Client Marketing is simply all marketing efforts to Clients/SOI. Client Marketing seeks to maximize the amount of repeat and referral business from Clients/SOI. Lead Generation is marketing efforts to generate Buyer/Seller leads.
Why Client Marketing?
Client Marketing is the most profitable marketing. Marketing costs are about 5% instead of 10-30% for Lead Generation Benefits of Client Marketing: Most profitable; Easy to manage; Easy to delegate; Easy to track and measure; Increases asset of the business of client database Financial Analysis: For 100 … (3 comments)

virtual assistance: End of Summer, Beginning of Time Management - 09/02/14 10:13 PM

Summer is over. Back to work big time. I hope you enjoyed Labor Day weekend and wiped from your mind any notion that 4th quarter is slower. Your thoughts create your reality. On a related note…
Delegate More
The longer you spend time doing $20/hour, the less money you will make in real estate. You either are doing $0/hour stuff, $20/hour work which you should delegate to Best Agent Business, or $100/hour sales work. If you have a team of agents and assistants, you should be doing only $1,000/hour listing appointments. Every moment you spend 'managing' your business, you are making $20-50/hour, because that … (3 comments)

virtual assistance: Keep An Eye On Buyer Lead Profits - 06/02/14 10:21 PM


You start real estate working with buyers. As your business grows, you get your first listings and start working with sellers. As you succeed, you focus more on sellers and less on buyers. You start to drop and ignore buyer leads that would have converted $5,000 to $10,000 commission checks a year or two ago. As your business grows, you may get buyer’s agents, and your buyer business will go from bad to worse. You may not even know your buyer business is bad because you just look at buyer deals, not buyer profits. At this point, you either … (0 comments)

virtual assistance: Happy Fall! Now Get to Work! - 09/02/13 12:11 AM
So, Labor Day has marked the unofficial end of summer. Congratulations on an awesome spring/summer of growing business! Most of our clients are having solid growth of GCI and profits this year. If you're a client, (or even if you're not come to think of it), I am looking for anyone who is growing over 50% compared to 2012. Email me your 2012 deals/GCI, 2013 YTD to 8/31/13, and 2013 projected.
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virtual assistance: Steve's Billion Dollar Agent Retreat - Magical 12/12/12 - 12/11/12 09:30 PM
 
Today is a special day. If you’re reading this on December 12th, I am at a personal Billion Dollar Agent Retreat in the mountains of Maryland at Rocky Gap.
Do you want to know a bit more of the story behind the last 6 years of Lifebushido and Best Agent Business, the starting plan for the next 1,000 days, the new Billion Dollar Agent book, and retreat in 2013? See lifebushido.Billion+Dollar+Agent+Retreat. A hint of my plans; I am making a commitment to launch the next version of Billion Dollar Agent book in 2013 with some secret and exciting new twists … (2 comments)

virtual assistance: Cash In With E-Newsletters - 05/19/11 05:43 AM
When I want to order pizza, I get on my laptop and google “pizza.”  Next, I decide which local shop has the best selection, the best reviews, and the best deals.  That shop gets my business.  
Likewise, when I decided to buy my current home, I got on my laptop and googled “real estate in The Villages, FL.”  Granted, I did spend more time researching in this case, but the process was the same as making my pizza choice.  I found sites of realtors who had the best selection and the most user friendly way to view the selections.  I read … (3 comments)

virtual assistance: Hit Or Miss With Email Response - 05/12/11 05:29 AM
Communicating by email to potential clients is one of the most inexpensive and effective methods of cultivating relationships and sales in today’s technology.  However, there is a “catch.”  Email communication must follow some basic ground rules or it will backfire and actually turn potential clients away.  Many agents spend large portions of their marketing money for web sites and auto responders, thinking that they are ahead of the game, but this is true only if the auto responding is managed well.
When answering an email request from a potential client, pay attention to the following tips:
 The delete button is hit … (0 comments)

virtual assistance: Use Marketing Money Wisely – “Farm” Rather Than Prospect - 05/09/11 04:24 PM
The terms “farm marketing” or “farming a market” in the real estate business typically mean picking out a geographic area such as a small town or subdivision and becoming the expert for that area - the “realtor of choice”.  Farm marketing might also mean directing marketing efforts towards a certain demographic group such as a specific income range or young families, or focusing on specific sales-types such as expired listings or for-sale-by-owner properties.
Prospecting, on the other hand, means sifting through the dirt here and there trying to turn up a gold nugget.  It is the shotgun approach – scattering marketing … (3 comments)

virtual assistance: Consider Facebook For Cost Effective & Successful Targeted Ad Campaigns - 05/05/11 09:31 AM
How many times have you wanted to run an ad online but didn’t want to pay the premium fees that many companies are asking these days?  Have you thought about placing an ad, but didn’t want to waste money if it wasn’t going to your target market only?  Or have you ever wanted to just try out a paid ad for a week or so and see how it works?  All of these things are possible with Facebook Advertising.
 As a virtual assistant experienced in marketing, I tell my clients they need to be visible on Facebook and to have … (2 comments)

virtual assistance: Straight From A Virtual Assistant: A Great “Audit” For You - 04/28/11 09:44 AM
 
We all know what it is like to have our work scrutinized . . . the dreaded audit.  The word can make you cringe just saying it to yourself.  An IRS audit, employers auditing your past work, your family auditing the choices you make and the things you do, etc.
At Best Agent Business, our Listings Inbox Team does a “good kind” of audit.  We bet no one thought there was even a GOOD type of audit, but we audit the work our real estate clients send us before they ever see the finalized product.  We are the eyes … (0 comments)

virtual assistance: There Is A Perfect Virtual Assistant For You - -But Where? - 04/26/11 08:41 AM
Before you even begin the search for this perfect assistant whom you’ll probably never meet face-to-face, you must decide WHY you need her/him.  What do you need assistance with?  Start brainstorming – take a piece of paper or open a blank document on your computer.
Without stopping to think about details do the following:
Quickly make a list of the things you hate to do in your business.Now make a list of things you don’t mind doing, but they are time wasters – they are  not at the core of what you  should focus on.   Next make a list of … (0 comments)

virtual assistance: Finding Your Niche and Making It Pay - 04/21/11 03:09 AM
Marketing your business can be fraught with many dangers all too often caused by simple mistakes.  One of the most frequent mistakes is trying to spread your marketing dollars out over too much of the population.  On the other hand, you may do the reverse and not market your business at all.  There is a much better way –finding your niche.
 
Niche marketing allows realtors or any business owner to get the biggest return on their marketing investment.  Focus on being the best realtor in the world to the market that makes the most sense.  Your marketing dollars will be … (3 comments)

virtual assistance: Don't Put the Cart Before the Horse - 01/20/11 05:00 AM
Old timers used to call it "Putting the cart before the horse"... referring to when something that should come second is put first.
 Was that typical of how you first started out in the real estate business?  You got your license, found an office, hooked up the phone lines, printed business cards and presto -   you were in business?  But were you really "in" business or were you simply "a" business?
Without a marketing plan, you are "a" business.  What is your mission, what are your goals, and how can you reach them?  Undoubtedly, you thought some about these things, … (0 comments)

virtual assistance: Don't Surrender Your Identity To the Competition - 01/12/11 04:02 PM
Identity theft is a huge problem today, as crafty thieves work in person and online to become you though they're not. You certainly do not want to voluntary surrender your identify. Yet, every day, real estate agents sacrifice themselves by allowing themselves to blend into the competition or worse, disappear entirely.  Why? Because they fail to develop distinctive logos and marketing materials that them apart from the crowd.     
Great graphics can give you the marketplace presence you need!  Even if you are just getting into the business and setting up your office, you need to think about how potential clients will … (2 comments)

virtual assistance: And the Survey Says.... Write Your Goals for 2011 - 01/04/11 09:14 AM
If you had to fill out a survey for 2010, would you check off the year as:
__  Great, couldn't have been better!
__  Good, but there was room for improvement!
__  O brother, thank God it is 2011!
You may want 2011 to hold more of the good successes you had in 2010 or you may want it to be much better.  How can you make this happen?
When you try to answer that question, you must realize that if you tend to go day to day, you may not be able to figure out how it to replicate success … (2 comments)

virtual assistance: Have More Leads Than You Can Handle in 2011 - 12/26/10 04:39 AM
As we cruise into the week after Christmas, you may be thinking of way to improve your business in 2011 after assessing ways to improve on 2010.  Even if you had a great year, there are ways to tweak your systems in the new year an make better use of your time.  Wouldn't you like to have more leads than you can handle and a way to handle them too?
Calling can be tedious and most agents tire of it quickly, but the truth is that if you are not calling, you are leaving thousands of dollars on the table by … (0 comments)

virtual assistance: Contest Marketing - And the Winner is You! - 12/24/10 04:09 AM
Are you a real estate professional who is struggling to find leads?  Are you new to a market and looking for a way to build a client base?  Thinking "outside the box" can not only generate leads, but can start or grow your client database with minimum of time and investment.
Monthly contests are an excellent way to get your existing clients actively involved and responding to your efforts.  The contests do not have to be difficult or expensive.  You can create a fun, simple contest as big or as small as you would like, as often as you would like. … (4 comments)

virtual assistance: Remember Your Clients with Holiday Marketing - 12/23/10 01:55 PM
During the holidays, it seems everywhere you turn, businesses are using a variety of techniques to relate to customers and deepen their business relationship.  Okay, so now it is Christmas, which is celebrated in most areas.  If you serve a variety of cultures, you might want to go with a happy holidays theme, but you can develop a marketing strategy over almost any holiday.  President's Day, Valentine's Day, Fourth of July, Halloween, etc. can provide a theme. 
Are any of these days intrinsically tied with real estate?  No.  However, any day can serve as a focal point for contact with your … (2 comments)

virtual assistance: Santa Delegates for Success – What About You in 2011? - 12/22/10 03:40 AM

As real estate virtual assistants, we stress that delegation is the key to success for top agents and those who hope to be so.  At Christmas time, if you are wondering whether to do this in the new year, take a look at the master delegator.  Santa has this title, hands down.
Here's the facts. From September on, Santa is a dominating figure in advertising.  Though in the past, he wasn't seen much until after Halloween, now he competes with costumes for shelf space, and soon dominates the scene.  Then the toy ads start. Miraculously, Santa is hard at work … (0 comments)

 
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