Real Estate Professionals, Where does your ethical & moral compass lead you?

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Last month, I sat down with the brilliant, top real estate coach, Dr. Lee Davenport. Our interview led to an important discussion, regarding the great importance of ethical business among in the real estate industry.

 

Are you noticing the same patterns as I have?

Agents and brokers — how often do you reflect on how your business is performing in ethical conduct?

For decades, I’ve had the power of granting home ownership in my hands. And, like many of you, I held all the power to approve or deny homeownership to my clients, but also gave my all to finding solutions when there were roadblocks. To this day, I find great pride in helping all families fulfill their dream of homeownership.

Yet, I noticed a huge problem in our industry from very early on in my career. When I was around 24, a Hispanic family contacted me to compare quotes on mortgage rates. A different lender in town quoted them half a percent higher than my offer with exactly the same terms. Over time, I noticed the same pattern.

It appeared to me how some lenders consistently jack up their rates to families of color. I found that the same lenders were repeatedly the culprit. I thought, “What is happening to our communities, our friends, and our neighbors if there’s a significant amount of lenders who are practicing the same, unethical tactic?”

 

Paying more for homeownership, based on race

Being a mortgage professional, I saw first-hand how predatory lenders are using the color of my clients’ skin against them as the deciding factor in having them pay more.

The discovery of discriminatory lending rates left a sour note for me. Sure, it’s within our legal right as mortgage lenders to set our own rates. However, a handful of lenders are offering unfair rates, often racially-motivated (… and that is illegal, yet very difficult to prove that it’s happening.)

Yet, there are no concrete methods for identifying which businesses engage in these discriminatory practices. So when you pull together the data of all the loans out there and put race on top of it, you can see how communities of color are systemically paying more — a great challenge for achieving the dream of homeownership. Where is the equality in that, America?

Researchers found that, among nearly 7 million 30-year mortgages, black and Latino applicants were charged higher interest, an average of nearly 0.08%, and heavier refinance fees when compared with white borrowers — according to a recent report by UC Berkeley.

 

Re-imagining ethical real estate lending

While discriminatory lending is illegal, it’s very difficult to immediately prove that certain racial groups are being offered higher interest rates as there is no proper oversight.

In re-imagining a more ethical industry, I’m envisioning a three-prong solution. 

First, we need more education about discriminatory lending practices at the licensee level (at the mortgage loan level.) Education is the key to bringing broader awareness and creating a paradigm shift.

Second, for the sake of fairness, we need more robust oversight of discriminatory practices. People conducting themselves within a myriad of immoral and unfair behaviors actually need to be held accountable. It’s a matter of directly addressing these lenders in order to change them. In clearly documented protocol of law and order, there needs to be an authoritative entity protecting the rights of lenders and homeowners, all while immediately addressing behaviors, such as discriminatory lending, as a criminal offense.

Third, we need dual education — meaning the industry should enforce a rule where those who profit from mortgage lending are those who are responsible for funding education programs for the community. It’s a virtuous feat for the profiters of mortgage lending to broadly spread the know-how on the fair and just path to homeownership, while reporting on the state of responsible lending.

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Healthy communities need responsible businesses

We can learn from what Wells Fargo is going through right now. Known for a number of controversies, the multinational company charged higher costs to black and Hispanic borrowers. More recently, impossible sales goals coerced employees to fraudulently open more than 1.5 million bank accounts and apply for over 565,000 credit cards in customers’ names between 2011 and 2015.

As a result from lack of oversight and unfair dealings, the company had to name its third CEO within three years and watched their stock price of $50 per share drop down to $20.

This is an important argument for all in our industry to lead fair and ethical business practices. It affects your bottom line. Imagine that you are a shareholder in Wells Fargo, like Warren Buffett, and you see your share value get cut by 40%, all stemming from unethical and unfair housing market practices.

 

Be ethical in business: Everything you do affects your bottom line

We have to learn and share from experiences of unjust practices so that all colleagues understand and stop behaviors that are innately wrong.

Simply put, we cannot ignore the fact that there are plenty of predatory practices in place today which are taking advantage of people. From predatory lending problems to discriminatory behaviors, it’s a fact that professionals in the real estate industry play a direct and explicit role in contributing to segregated neighborhoods. It’s up to us to enact a standard of ethics and confront these issues together.

It’s your civic duty

Professionals in the real estate industry share an entrepreneurial mindset that makes them great leaders — and as entrepreneurs, it’s your civic duty to provide value to our communities. The real value that you provide, in turn, becomes profit for your business. One misstep can mean exploitation and capitalizing from unjust practices. When there is a case to make a business deal, all considerations must be approached holistically. There needs to be clear-cut ground rules.

Problematic practices are structural issues. It requires responsibility and integrity when individuals have enough power and autonomy that could bring about discriminatory sales practices. For example, a mortgage person can set non-uniform rates and exploit certain people and communities in order to make an unfair profit. By doing so, they are breaking principles of ethics.

Unethical business is an important challenge that all leaders and professionals must confront. Continue educating yourself and your teammates on conducting business on moral and ethical values. It requires board-level accountability where CEOs take the responsibility to lead, educate, and address any issues that may arise. 

This is a call to be explicit about and reflect on which business practices are structurally and ethically wrong. Let’s prevent unfair dealings from happening.

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When you need to scale up customer service… but your AI just doesn’t quite cut it yet

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There is no doubt that the presence of AI in today’s businesses has helped companies operate smoothly when teams cannot afford more customer service employees. For some, businesses are finding that their retention rates are dipping while using AI customer service software.

So what is the perfect balance in incorporating AI, yet still fostering genuine client relationships?

 

Despite tremendous success in AI software like Siri & Google Assistants by the big-5 tech companies, most AI solutions out there made by tech start-ups lack the programmatic ability to respond in a genuinely human way to queries.

An “unsupervised” AI bot has led businesses to receive sudden surges in negative feedback, bad reviews, and increased churn. Every customer in the world, including myself, will always choose “talk to a person” or “connect to a representative” as the first choice over a call.

When small teams don’t have the time, there’s an additional solution to continue improving their AI customer service – with human touch. When a customer service representative administers AI tools at full-time capacity, that is how the best synergy happens and all customer expectations can truly meet satisfaction.

 

 

Enhancing the Digital Learning Curve

With dozens of AI bots on the market, it’s easy to fall into the trap of trying to automate your customer interactions. Your customer begins their interaction thinking they’re chatting with a person, and when they realize it’s a bot, their level of satisfaction drops precipitously.

It’s natural to look for automated solutions first. After all, IT solutions are often more cost-effective than hiring team members.

Many aren’t yet aware that competitive businesses are assigning a full-time virtual assistant to pair with their digital customer service technologies. Virtual assistants are providing the human-touch needed for up to less than 70% the cost of a traditional full-time employee – often in the same tier of low overhead costs as some popular digital software subscriptions.

 

 

Increasing Retention Rates + KPIs, with “hybrid” virtual solutions

Businesses find that they can finally deliver the genuine customer satisfaction that all buyers expect – when the power of virtual AI meets the power of human virtual assistance – fortunately at a lower amount of overhead costs than a full-time physical employee (allowing the best profit margins).

An experienced, qualified Virtual Assistant provider is capable of supplementing the rest of client service needs. They can handle customer onboarding and training processes, along with Tier-1 support and Help Desk tasks.

A virtual assistant is fully in charge of administering customer service technologies (open, manage, and close tickets) – delivering that genuine customer satisfaction that all buyers demand.

As Shep Hyken mentioned during our special webinar, “If your employees and customers are nervous, uncertain and even scared, you owe it to them to communicate at a much higher frequency and much more empathetic than you ever have before.” Communication is key, and this is why AI tools need to couple with fast human response, which can all be afforded by a virtual assistant.

 

 

 

There’s nothing more important to a growing business than your customer experience 

In today’s service economy, excellent service is the deciding factor for most businesses. If teams do not focus on creating a good experience across each and every interaction, you will lead to negative feedback, bad reviews, and increased churn.

Despite the hype, commercial AI is still maturing. While it can be useful for basic key-phrase recognition and providing canned responses to common questions, ultimately it’s confined to the limitations of a predefined workflow. AI cannot yet think outside the box and adapt to situations that require a degree of empathy and comprehension—and it often falls apart when asked even simple questions outside of what it is programmed to recognize.

 

 

Relying on AI as a front-line customer interaction tool alone can be dangerous. So rather than attempting to replace human assistance with AI solutions, it’s better to combine them for optimal customer service. The modern workplace is increasingly collaborative, and human assistants remain intrinsically more capable to foster relationships than AI alone.

There’s a place for automation, and there’s also a place for real, human staffing – and VA providers such as MyOutDesk virtual assistants are the top-tier solution for your high-tech help desk & customer service roles for a fraction of what business would pay locally. 

 

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When Sometimes Hustle Just Isn’t Enough

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Are you happy? Think about it for a moment: are you really, truly happy in your career? Studies have shown that the human mind finds fulfillment & happiness in doing tasks that are useful, so it’s likely that you get an emotional reward from your work – otherwise you would have changed careers long ago.

Still, before that first cup of coffee, do you come in filled with excitement about the day ahead, or do you have trepidation about a pile of unsolved problems that you have to tackle while simultaneously pushing your business forward?

Maybe the problem isn’t you or your job – it’s that you’ve missed a critical off-ramp to the world of hustle. You’re still stuck in the fast lane pushing as hard & fast as you can, despite the fact that the more successful you become the harder you have to push just to keep pace with all of the demands.

What did you miss? In a word: help. Schedule your ‘Grow Virtual’ Business Strategy Session today to find it.

 

 

When you’ve got a tiny business, you can wear all the hats, do all the jobs, and keep all the profits. Even on a small scale, it’s a lot of work, but at least you can keep up with things. Then, as your business starts to grow, the demands increase. More customers, more prospects, more demands on your time – more hustle.

As a business owner, you’re like a frog in the pot of water – it’s easy to miss the slowly increasing heat as it comes to boil, until you’ve reached a point where you’re waking up early & staying up late just to stay on top of things. You never would have taken a job working for somebody else doing this kind of work, but for some reason you torture yourself with it because it gives you freedom.

Freedom? We need to redefine the term, because you’re definitely not free and able to determine your own course in life if you spend all day, every day running just to keep up. Perhaps we could say that “creating your own trap is better than being bait in somebody else’s” – but that’s still a dark, pessimistic view of things, and it doesn’t have to be that way.

As your business grows, you need to add team members to handle the busy-work that you no longer have time for. Your job is to be a leader, provide vision & inspiration, and handle key tasks that nobody else can manage – and maybe even sip the occasional Pina Colada on the beach of a tropical resort along the way.

The way that you get from here to there is by hiring staff to handle the hustle for you – which is exactly what MyOutDesk does for thousands of clients across the United States. We provide higher-quality staffing with prices 70% less than you’d pay for in-house staff, with the flexibility you need to handle any type of assistance required. Schedule your ‘Grow Virtual’ Business Strategy Session today to find out more!

 

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Winning Leadership Strategies In The Virtual Workplace

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Leadership is challenging, and when you add a virtual workplace into the equation, the level of complexity and complications go even higher. The qualities of a good leader are thrown more sharply into focus when you need to successfully manage a team that is entirely remote. There’s no such thing as “management by walking around,” or any of those leadership styles that benefit from being in an office.

While fundamentally, leadership stays generally the same, the unique aspects of being a leader in a virtual environment can be tricky. You’ve got to consider the logistical issues of scheduling across time zones, communicating virtually and overall, how you’re going to foster teamwork remotely.

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Foster Connections

It is crucial for you to create unity within your team and ensure that you are working towards the same goals. A study from Harvard University revealed that leaders need to develop a common identity and understanding for their virtual teams, as without it, virtual team members are especially prone to “us versus them” thinking and the perils of incomplete information. You can’t have soloists or teams developing within your team, everyone has to be enrolled towards a single purpose, despite the fact that they are working on different things. Create opportunities for you and your team to connect via weekly meetings and even online calls that are not solely about work. Create a team culture that everyone will feel comfortable and happy to be in.

 

Foster Communication

According to the aforementioned study at Harvard regarding digital work environments:

“Digital dependence often impedes information exchange, however. In face-to-face teams, participants can rely on nonverbal and contextual cues to provide insight into what’s going on. When we walk into an in-person meeting, for example, we can immediately sense the individual and collective moods of the people in the room—information that we use (consciously or not) to tailor subsequent interactions. Having to rely on digital communication erodes the transmission of this crucial type of intelligence.”

Communication is so important when you have a virtual team. Finding ways to ensure that there are many channels and platforms to communicate is imperative to your success. Always be clear about expectations and be open to any incoming information. Make yourself available to your team and let them know that sending over an instant message or a call is more than ok.

 

Manage your processes and information

Creating processes is very important, so is documentation. Make sure that both your processes and documentation are always up to date and organized. Over time, you will find that your processes need tweaks so analyze them and discuss frequently with your team to get them just right. Also, be sure that you religiously document and organize all your data etc. Hand in hand with your processes, this will be the foundations of your business and you must be the one to spearhead this.

The qualities you need in order to be an effective leader for a virtual team does not stray too far from what is needed of a leader in any other situation. Patience, openness, responsiveness and flexibility will always give you good results, all you have to do is pair those qualities with the strategies mentioned above and you will hit it out of the park for sure.

 

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No More Distractions: Scaling Your Business & Growing Profitability

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It can be a real challenge to perform at an optimum level in our increasingly distracted world. If you’re a person who really wants to be the best version of yourself, this podcast is for you.

Mark Struczewski is a productivity expert and online trainer that helps people be productive in a distracted world. He is also the host of The Mark Struczewski Podcast.

 

THE MARK STRUCZEWSKI PODCAST
Scaling Your Business and Growing Profitability – Daniel Ramsey

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In this episode, Daniel and Mark discuss the 3 stages of entrepreneurial growth, leveraging, 96% versus 4% versus 0.04%, the downfall of tribal knowledge, and control freaks.

Daniel Ramsey is the founder and CEO of MyOutDesk, the highest-rated virtual assistant company in the marketplace with over 500 verified 5-star reviews, and over 13 years of experience, serving more than 6,000 clients across industries. Back in 2008, he was inspired by his own time-management struggles to find a better way to help agents leverage their time & energy, and created MyOutDesk to provide a trusted, reliable solution to the office administration, marketing & prospecting tasks that every agent has – but most lack the time to focus on. In 13 years with MyOutDesk, Daniel has helped thousands of clients scale their businesses and grow profitability.

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Getting GHOSTED by clients because of this one thing…

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Are your hot leads suddenly not responding anymore? When you seem to be hitting it off, this is probably why, all of a sudden, you’re getting ghosted.

Earlier today, a sales guy shared with me this extremely common incident:

“I had a great call, but now they’ve ghosted me. I don’t know what happened. We had some great conversations, and it felt good. I liked them, and they seemed to like me … BUT I can’t get them back on the phone!”

 

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Building Rapport Requires COMPETENCY & SINCERITY

Here’s the thing. Foundational in the sales process, building rapport is akin to building trust. You can build rapport either by showing your competency or your sincerity.

  1. Showing your competency means that “I know what I’m doing, and I can help you.”
  2. Showing your sincerity means that “I actually care about you and your success.”

These are the two ways to establish trust and ultimately grow your rapport.

Building rapport is only the first step. Your rapport alone is NOT going to get leads to call you back.

 

Salespeople getting ‘ghosted’ are missing: CREATING VALUE

Building trust and rapport is only going to get leads to have the conversation with you & listen to what you have to say – but they aren’t going to call you back unless you create value.

How do I get them to actually be in a client relationship with me?

Adding value is the quality that all salespeople struggle with. It takes intention to uniquely engage each lead. The questions you should be asking yourself with every call are:

  • How can I add value to somebody’s life?
  • What expertise and qualities can I contribute to somebody’s business? to my clients?

In every industry, whether your role is an insurance broker, a real estate agent, a mortgage person, a construction person, you must answer you are continually adding value in every interaction … and that’s how you get them to call you back.

 

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If you’re struggling to get people to call you back, you need to implore your customers and ask for feedback. The best sales professionals will ask the:

  • How’s your progress going today?
  • Do you feel like I’m helping you?
  • Do you feel like I’m adding value to your business?

 

If they respond along the lines of …

  • “I want you in my world moving forward … Would you support me?” 
  • “This has really changed my thinking”
  • “I appreciate the great ideas you’ve taught me”

 … That’s when you know that you’ve added value.

 

Salespeople have to overcome this hurdle and break down the difference between building rapport and adding value. Once you distinguish yourself with these concepts you’ll get your customers to call you back.

 

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Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs with tools, strategies, and virtual employees – and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

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Guard Against The Chaos: How to create Bulletproof Systems & Processes for your business

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Focus on positive outcomes and continually take the next action of the most important thing. At MyOutDesk, we stress to our clients on continuously improving your operations for continued, optimal results!

If you can’t make that shift, you’ll quit growing – and your business will spend all its energy simply trying to replace churn. As people seek to maintain their livelihoods, it’s up to you to help produce what is needed by the community. You get paid to add value to our customers, clients, vendors, and the people in our communities. 

Instilling effective change to keep your business thriving must be adopted at all levels. Here’s how.

 

 

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Learn: Bulletproof Systems & Process (MOD Style)

  1. Document the process (Play-Pause-Do)
  2. Add it to a system (IT & project management)
  3. Create a training guide
  4. Create a presentation about the standard
  5. Creating change – Name it, Brand it, Wear it, Teach it, Institutionalize it, Reward it.  

 

In today’s global economy, many companies are leveraging talent between both physical and remote employees. To prepare — when your organization implements a new remote work culture or hires a MOD Virtual Professional, they will need to be onboarded and trained like any other employee. At the same time, the team will determine and adapt to best practices, technological tools, and procedures for training a strong blended team.

 

Document the process (Play-Pause-Do)

Try the Play, Pause, Do Method. This method requires that every standard operating procedure has a video attached alongside all written documentation. What is it exactly? It’s a step-by-step, documentation that outlines each of your processes and what to do when things go awry.

This method is part of crafting your Virtual Playbook. You will be amazed at how efficiently you can bring all employees up-to-speed when you have a play-by-play, documented process.

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Add it to a system (IT & project management)

Use a task assignment & management platform.

There are many services to choose from to help organize tasks and projects. Choose from Slack, Microsoft Teams, Workplace from Facebook, Monday.com, Trello, Asana, and many more.

Here at MyOutDesk, the Monday.com platform has worked well to keep our team organized.

 

Create a training guide

A standard operating procedure (SOP) is a set of step-by-step instructions compiled by an organization to help workers carry out complex routine operations. SOPs aim to achieve efficiency, quality output and uniformity of performance, while reducing miscommunication and failure to comply with industry regulations.

With any new hire, it is important to have SOPs in place. SOPs ensure that tasks are completely in a uniform manner throughout the organization. Download MyOutDesk’s FREE SOP Guide & Sample here.

 

Create a presentation about the standard

Use visuals to articulate your messages. Videos and images can greatly improve communication among virtual teams. Visual learning is the most effective training tool. Invest your time right and create video documentation to get your employees up to speed in working uniformly!

Video conference calls are the new (virtual) conference rooms and allow team members to show body language, facial expressions, posture, and hand gestures—all important aspects of communication. A more in-person experience encourages all to have more open communication and build trust.

Best of all — all video meetings can be recorded & used in the future. (You can save your breath a bit. No need to keep repeating yourself!)

Creating Change

Name it, Brand it, Wear it, Teach it, Institutionalize it, Reward it.  

The Organizational Change Model is a great framework to bring change into effect and to breathe life into any idea, any concept, any organizational culture change, and procedural change.

Here is the framework we use at MyOutDesk.

Let’s turn your list of ideas into existence. Pass them through this Organizational Change Model framework:

  1. Name it
  2. Brand it
  3. Wear it
  4. Teach it
  5. Institutionalize it
  6. Reward/Recognize it

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Allow an adjustment period and repeat key messages regarding the change intentionally and consistently. By doing so, you will get everyone on the same page. Consistently train and repeat key messages, as well as regularly use effective frameworks like SOPs and Play-Pause-Do!

 

The Recession-Proof Business

 

Achieve low overhead & high profit for your business during a recession, it takes top & affordable talents from MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants.

MyOutDesk virtual assistant services provide you with the flexibility, scalability, and cost-savings to adapt quickly to today’s changing business & market conditions.

The recession will eventually pass, and so when we come out of this thing, you will be the winner. Here’s a guide for thinking through all the things that you can do right now. Think through all the things missing or needs updating in your business.

 

 

Envisioning of a New Reality for Your Business

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs with tools, strategies, and virtual employees – and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

MyOutDesk proudly provides additional free business growth guides, books, and strategy calls.

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US Economic Recovery Tracker + Solutions for Your Business

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From our businesses to our home & our groceries, Covid-19 has disrupted every aspect of our lives. While CNN Business is tracking America’s economic recovery, we examine the most important points.

 

It’s safe to say — your business will never be the same post-pandemic.

  • Office workers have shifted to working from home (See also: Remote Work Success)
  • Millions of other Americans have filed for unemployment  (See also: Labor Market Opportunities)
  • Essential workers in hospitals & grocery stores are hailed as everyday heroes

 

During the pandemic, Americans have tightened their spending and chosen to save more, as they grapple with a historically weak job market. (See also: Preparing for AFTER COVID-19)

 

It definitely got harder to sell your home during the pandemic. No open houses. Virtual closings. And many owners hesitated to put their homes on the market. (See also: Virtual Residential Real Estate Trends)

 

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As of July 4th, the total hours worked in small businesses is down 52.61% since before the pandemic.

 

The unfamiliarity of what the future holds is the source of the roller-coaster of emotions. And, the best best way to ultimately overcome this recession is to ramp up on staying informed and mitigating risk.

One factor has remained the same — businesses and customers want speed & efficiency. And in today’s stay-at-home culture, experienced virtual assistants who are well practiced in providing an effective remote operation is the key to business growth.

 

Solution: Why Virtual Assistants?

You are probably wondering, why hire a Virtual Assistant then? Why not just hire someone in-house? If cost was your immediate concern then a Virtual Assistant is exactly what you need. You save on office space, you don’t need to buy them equipment and if you work with a company like MyOutDesk, all HR concerns are handled for you. Beyond the monetary cost being lower, you will also have a larger pool of talent to choose from, thus guaranteeing that you find a perfect match for you and your business.

 

Dynamic business duo Olivia Cooley & Charles Pulliam share:

“Without virtual assistants (VAs), it limits us and we have more responsibilities in-house. A VA is significantly more affordable to the business pattern. We get more value for the price. This is essential and instrumental for our growth, not only now but long-term… 3 to 5 years out, we will continue to grow our number of VAs.”

 

Achieve more – the first step is getting the help you need to reach the next level in your business. Schedule your free ‘Grow Virtual’ Strategy Consultation’ to get started today!

 

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Every Leader Needs Help: The Case for Virtual Assistants

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No matter where you are in life & how successful you’ve been, all leaders know you can’t do everything on your own.

Even Batman can’t save the world without Robin.

Effective Leadership: To make the best use of time & maximize productivity, leaders know how to effectively delegate & benefit from the assistance of others. Even leaders need help!

Let’s face it in today’s digital world, every successful business has its online presence. Whether we like it or not, it’s simply not feasible to operate without technological savviness. When daily busywork can bog you down, leverage the right kind of support that helps you thrive.

 

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Every leader needs an assistant

Now, you can have a full-time Virtual Executive Assistant with a career background from your preferred industry and skillset!

A Virtual Personal & Executive Assistant can handle most, if not all of your paperwork, transactions, concierge-related tasks, and even reception calls! Whether it’s working on documentation, managing emails, transaction coordination and the list goes on. A Virtual Personal Assistant can save you valuable time while handling these essential tasks that you do not need to be doing yourself.

 

You can sleep well at night knowing that your work transactions & tasks are handled on time -AND- you have plenty of quality personal & family time.

 

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You can acquire top talent for your daily needs even while cutting your costs, saving you up to 70% of the cost of a traditional employee. Professional virtual assistants can grow your everyday capacity. Schedule an interview.

MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost

 

MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
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OUTSOURCE YOUR PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL WORKLOAD WITH PERSONAL ASSISTANT SOLUTIONS

The math is simple with an enormous ROI. A full-time Virtual Personal Assistant will lower your costs, reduce overhead, save time, and leverage professional talent for your career, business, and personal goals.

It’s no wonder entrepreneurs & career-focused professionals trust us most — with 13 years of experience serving over 6,000 clients. Last year we saved our clients $55 million as the highest-rated virtual assistant company with more than 500 verified 5-star business reviews.

 

It’s already July – Less foot traffic? Don’t Sacrifice Your Lead Flow

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The virus scare still exists, and over half the year has passed. Just because foot traffic is still down, don’t sacrifice your lead flow. Virtual assistants are the missing gear. 

It’s already July, yet new reports share how the number of new Covid-19 cases continue rising at record levels.

Continue to Drive Revenue during COVID-19 

Businesses are experiencing personnel and capacity issues due to the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis. We get it.

 

Less foot traffic? Don’t Sacrifice Your Lead Flow

How to increase lead flow & online traffic with virtual assistants 

 

Awarded Top 1% US financial advisor Marvin Mitchell built an innovative inbound marketing MACHINE with a lead flow earning him over $3M in revenue last year alone. 

This is how — he hired 2 MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants to prospect, nurture leads, and set appointments for him and his team to close. 

“Because of one 15-minute appointment set by a MOD Virtual Professional…that one, landed client just paid for both virtual assistants for the rest of the year.”

MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs with experienced, career virtual assistant professionals. To book an interview with those in our talent pool, click here. 

 

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From local mandates to international ones — we can’t predict when travel & tourism will rebound.  While Europe appears to be through the worst of it — at least for now — it’s interesting how the EU has a travel ban on the US.

 

Many US businesses are still affected by the pandemic — we’ve all noticed how decreased foot & vehicle traffic has created ghost towns among all US cities. Meanwhile, the EU has recommended that its member states can now allow entry to 15 countries (but not the US): Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Georgia, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, and Uruguay. (Source)

 

By picturing this global impact, it’s important to understand how to virtualize your the core of your business and lead a stable, pandemic-proof operation. You are one call away from saving time & closing more deals than you ever had.

 

Don’t do this alone, but with the MOD Family.

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