Is Your Business Running You Instead of You Running Your Business?

Between your clients, lenders, title companies, and trying to actually have a life; do you find that there isn’t enough time in the day? Do you worry that important issues will slip through the cracks? Save yourself a lot of time and money by hiring a Virtual Assistant.

What is a Virtual Assistant? A Virtual Assistant is an independent business owner who provides administrative support from her own fully equipped office. Virtual Assisting is a profession born from the advancement of technology. The concept is to enter into a long-term partnership with entrepreneurs and small businesses, to provide administrative and personal support. VAs are worldwide and networked. When you hire a VA you’ve actually hired a knowledgebase you can’t get by hiring a traditional employee.

What does this have to do with real estate? Today’s consumers expect to be kept in the loop and to receive immediate answers regarding their affairs. Realtors are busy people and, when available to talk, don’t always have the answer on hand.

Working with a Virtual Assistant can take your business to the next level. Having someone dedicated solely to the transaction process releases you of administrative responsibilities and allows greater productivity. Your listing presentation can contain the fact that your client can access his or her transaction 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They don’t get frustrated trying to track you down for the answer to a simple question; they log on and see the status of their transaction. Your cell phone is not attached to your ear all day long because the lender and title company have access to the transaction on-line too. And you don’t have to purchase any additional software!

With the number of people involved in a single transaction, from inception to closing, information is being disseminated multiple times, to multiple parties. Keep a common platform in control of the critical communications. How many hours do you spent on a single transaction? 10? 20? Utilizing a Virtual Assistant can save you a lot of time and make you money.

Just imagine all parties communicate and retrieve data from one centralized location via the web and your Virtual Assistant takes care of all the administration.

Kathy McHenry, founder of Your Virtual Advantage would be happy to speak with you about working with a virtual assistant.