Is your market slowing down? Finding you have some extra time on your hands? Well, take advantage of the slow time and take a hard look at your business and determine what you need to do to make it better.

Here are my suggestions:

1. Update your listing presentation.
2. Go for those designations that you have wanted to get, but just did not have the time.
3. Update your website. Is the material current?
4. Update your computers. If you don’t have a laptop – get one! You can find some great deals at www.dell.com, www.gateway.com and www.bestbuy.com
5. Take inventory of your programs. What are you using that you can improve and what are you not using that you should be. Or, get rid of the one’s that don’t work for you.
6. Update your database. Add your previous sellers, buyers, etc.
7. Update your drip campaigns. How can you improve them?
8. Create your marketing calendar for the next 6 months.
9. Call past clients.
10. Update your newspaper ads.
11. Update your photo and your teams. Get creative with them.
12. Host a client appreciation party. You can put together a movie day, picnic, sports event, etc.
13. Clean out your filing cabinet and set your files up electronically.
13. Set up a home office.
14. Looking to make a move? Now is the time to look at other companies.

Of course, you are sitting there saying this all sounds great, but I don’t know where to start. Well, you need a real estate virtual assistant to guide you though everything mentioned above.

Go to www.REVARoundtable.com to locate a real estate virtual assistant that meets your needs and to help you implement your ideas and tasks.

Having just returned from the Allen F. Hainge CyberStar Summit in San Antonio, Texas a couple of weeks ago, all I have found myself doing was creating Blogs for all my clients.

I thought “Hey, I know how to do this, it will be easy!” WRONG! Well, not really, just very involved in setting one up properly.

Once the blog is created you have to link to all the other agents (preferrably CyberStars, in this case) and then submit your blog to all the feeds.

I love doing this, but OMG! The time involved and as soon as I get one completed and updated guess what? The Rules Change! LOL! I meet myself coming and going now and have no time to do my own blog, which is now out dated.

So, this Blog thing is one task you should be asking you real estate virtual assistant to do for you, if you are a real estate professional. Do not tie yourself up at a computer trying to do this yourself. You will not leave it until it is perfected! BELIEVE ME! I KNOW!!!!

So, I think the next post I make will be a little information on how to set up your Blog properly for the world to read and learn from. HMMM. Good Idea?

If you were to go to www.google.com and do a search for a real estate coach you will find there are several out there that offer to coach you on life, your spiritual needs, business and so much more.

When I talk to agents I find that more and more are using a coach to mentor them in various areas of their business or personal life. These coaches offer to help you be more productive and help you achieve your goals. I feel that coaching is a great way to help you become aware of what you need to do no matter what you use a coach for.

Recently I was contacted by an agent who was currently being coached to help him improve his volume and take control of his business. This particular coach was great mentoring this agent, offered him some great ideas, but once the coaching session was over the agent did not know how to take these ideas and implement them in his business. This is where I came in.

I listened to what the coach told the agent and then I filled in the gap of how to implement the plan. We set up programs, created a campaign, restructured his team and gave him a meeting planner in detail on what should take place during his weekly sales meetings.

The agent did not feel so overwhelmed anymore. He was able to relax and delegate the ideas to me so that he could focus on what he did best and that was working with his clients.

This agent is still being mentored by his real estate coach and I am coaching him on how to get it done. What a great relationship!

So, my advice is when you are being coached in your business listen and take notes then if you are struggling on how to implement the ideas then consider a virtual assistant to get the ball going for you.

Don’t feel you need to do everything at once, but realize that you will have deadlines. Have your virtual assistant layout a game plan for you. Let you virtual assistant create the items you need to market yourself and set up a calendar of when things should happen.

Part of having a coach is to have them guide you on how to do better in your business or your personal life, but they are not there to do it for you. That is your responsibility. But, this is where you can use the experience and knowledge of a virtual assistant to put the ideas in place and make the most of what you gather in knowledge of your coach.

So, consider using a virtual assistant to assist you in putting everything you learn from your coach into motion.

You will not feel so overwhelmed and you will be surprised at how quickly the whole concept comes together.

If you are in need of a real estate virtual assistant go to www.CyberStarVA.com to find yourself a virtual assistant that meets your needs.

You can also visit my website www.KimHughes.com to find out more about virtual assistants.

Good Luck!!!!

Kim

When the time is right for you to locate a real estate virtual assistant to assist you with your daily administrative needs you need to keep in mind that you are working virtually with your assistant. Therefore, you need to make sure your virtual assistant offers the services you are looking for. Some questions to ask the VA:

• How long have you been assisting the real estate professional?
• What is your background?
• Do you have a website that offers your services?
• What programs are you familar with?
• Do you have samples of your work?
• Do you have references?
• Do you have an agreement?
• What are your fees?

By asking these questions you are getting a good feel for what this VA can offer you and these questions will develop conversation to trigger additional questions to build your relationship to see if there is a good fit.

But, remember, you are not the only one interviewing, the VA will interview you as well to see what type of work habits you have, personality fits and if you will be a good client that will provide a direction on where you want this relationship to go and if you are going to be dependable.

Maybe you have some questions about the interviewing process?

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