Marvin is a top-ranked, nationally recognized financial advisor with a focus on helping people invest & save more wisely for their golden years. As the founder of Compass Retirement Solutions, his team leverages MyOutDesk virtual assistants for both administrative & inside sales roles, and on average, they’re making him over a 20x ROI – and sometimes even more.
“My virtual assistant made me $43,000 in commissions less than half an hour ago, so if you’re still on the fence about hiring one, my advice is: just do it. The ROI on our virtual assistants is amazing – it’s definitely going to finish the year over 20x…”
Marvin isn’t just leveraging his ISAs for prospecting: he’s also using them to prequalify prospects, which saves his team of advisors countless hours – and lets them focus on advising only qualified prospects who are ready to take advantage of his expertise. This is only one of the many strategies Marvin has used to grow his business into the #3 financial advising firm in the United States. Take Marvin’s advice: just do it! Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session now!
Marvin grew up in a working-class family in St. Louis, with little money. The first in his family to earn a college degree, Marvin put his law school education on hold to help care for his grandmother after she was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer. Marvin soon discovered that, although his grandmother had worked her whole life, she was still susceptible to financial turmoil as a result of poor financial advice and a stock market crash. Inspired to help other, hardworking retirees, Marvin became a broker for a large financial institution in 2005 before founding Compass Retirement Solutions.
“Once we get that lead, that’s where my MyOutDesk virtual assistants come in – they’re following up on those leads, getting them on our calendar and making our time more efficient. It saves us literally hundreds hours of time because we don’t have to skim through all of those individuals to find the most qualified people – and it’s changed our average case size from $325,000 to over $850,000!”
In 2016, he received the Salute to Business Excellence Award as voted by the St. Louis American Newspaper, and also that year, he was an honored recipient of the St. Louis County NAACP Distinguished Legacy Award. Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session now, and drill down on doing your one thing to the absolute best of your abilities.
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Providing e-commerce virtual assistants has helped businesses THRIVE this year. From 1 to 10 virtual assistants in a matter of WEEKS, learn how Belami Ecommerce Solutions has scaled its operations with MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants!
MyOutDesk CEO Daniel Ramsey sits down with President of Belami, Inc. Mihran Berejikian.
Tell a little bit about how MyOutDesk fueled your e-commerce company with talent?
It’s done in a couple ways. First, we were able to meet the unprecedented demand surge that we had due to the pandemic—which has been terrible for the country and the world—but have definitely been good for e-commerce home retailers.
The demand surge created an environment where we needed to bring a lot of bodies in immediately and MyOutDesk provided that.
We have great people who ramped incredibly quickly, actually one of the great benefits that we didn’t expect to occur is—not only did they ramped up quickly…
Virtual assistants were able to the job that the local people were able to do … AND they actually raised the bar!
Because on average, at least for the jobs that we were hiring, they were more mature, more experienced, more grateful, and more committed to what they do. We can now expect to get the same from our other employees, and its given us a really good benchmark as to what we should be expecting from other employees.
So now we’re able to meet the day-to-day demand for what we hired them for and it gave us a great big benchmark to compare to and it raised the bar across the board.
What positions do you think are appropriate for an ecommerce company to hire in the virtual assistant world?
For us, its entry-level accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, some amount of reconciliation work that is repetitive but still requires some level of accounting skills
On the customer service side is chat management. So virtual assistants are answering chats from customers, fielding basic questions about availability, order status, as they mature we think we’ll actually be able to let them ask product-related questions.
And then, Virtual Assistants are also doing order management.
We live in a dropship world, so order management for us means we get the order from the customer, we transfer it to the manufacturer, and we have to work with the manufacture to make sure that they’re shipping it on time, and they’re notifying us
So there’s a whole a host of activities that occurs all the way across the funnel from when a customer places and order to when it arrives. For the percentage of times when it arrives and there’s issues, there’s a whole other set of workflows that needs to occur to solve those issues.
… And all of that is an opportunity for a good outsource provider!
One of the things that is unique about your ecommerce business, is that you went from 1 virtual assistant to 10 virtual assistants very quickly!…
What surprised you about the hiring process?
How easily the hiring process went.
How quick and smooth the interviewing went.
And, the overall success rate of the candidates was pretty darn close to 100%!
What would you tell an e-commerce leader in your space who has never considered using virtual assistant?
We shied away from it for many years due to fear of culture. Given the current environment with everyone working remotely, that concern is no longer there. So this is really the right time to try it, implement it, and think about blending it back with the culture.
What e-Commerce Virtual Assistants do for eCommerce Businesses
Research & Administrative Support: Any type of research on the web, maintain spreadsheets & any other information or secretarial tasks, coordinating with other staff or getting any other work done or organized at your workplace.
Marketing Management: Coordinating your social media pages with updates, CPC & PPC coordination, news or article sharing, setting-up email campaigns, creating marketing materials (flyers, brochures etc).
MyOutDesk has been in the industry for over a decade, helping all types of businesses grow. We have providing e-commerce virtual assistant services for years, becoming one of the top virtual assistant providers available. After serving more than 5000 clients and employing over 4000 professionals, we have seen firsthand how this investment supports business growth. Because of this experience, MyOutDesk, currently caters to other industries as well such as professional services, mortgage and insurance to name a few.
Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & business owners 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.
See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.
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Did You Know? MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Pioneers of virtual assistant services, our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VAs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”
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Quit chasing paperwork! The documentation, signatures, phone calls & followup involved in each transaction involves a massive amount of time & effort – time that you should be spending that time generating new deals!
According to the National Association of REALTORS®, it takes 45 hours of time to close each transaction, and agents spend over 60% of their time in the office doing busy-work to make sure their deals get closed. On average, this leaves them less than an hour a day for showings, listing appointments, and other dollar productive tasks that generate new business.
What if you could cut down your per-transaction time-investment to only 15 hours with a virtual transaction coordinator – buying you an extra 30 hours a week for selling?
Bruce & Michelle Brunk took the plunge and hired a MyOutDesk Real Estate Transaction Coordinator to handle their transactions 2 years ago. They started their assistant, Virnelli out with a single responsibility – preparing pre-listing packages – but over time she became integral to managing the workflow of every transaction in the Brunk’s pipeline.
Virnelli handles MLS listings, research, offers, coordinates calls, collects signatures, and a variety of other transaction coordination tasks. Bruce and Michelle also credit Virnelli for creating business processes & systems to ensure they don’t miss any steps or paperwork and are always ready when meeting with their clients.
She created trackers, standard operating procedures and checklists for the Brunks, and is working with them on a project management process that allows them to isolate & segment the requirements for each of the transactions in their pipeline.
The Brunks recall an incident where there was a mix-up between 2 transactions, which tends to happen when there are a lot in process. Nobody was able to catch the mistake, not even their in-house person, until the last minute. Bruce was late to the presentation and they lost the listing. Hearing about this Virnelli stepped in and said “this will never happen again.” She created a checklist and tracker system from scratch to help her clients keep their services top notch, and eliminated the confusion from their process.
Beyond that, Bruce & Michelle have been empowered to delegate even more responsibilities to Virnelli, currently she also stays on top of their marketing for their properties listed, and she keeps their statistics up to date for marketing reports and manages their database. They continue to train her to take on more as she approaches her 3rd year with them. Virnelli has provided so much value to their business.
What do Bruce and Michelle say to those of you who are thinking: “I don’t have time to hire or train someone”?
Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & business owners 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.
See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.
Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide
Did You Know? MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Pioneers of virtual assistant services, our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VAs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”
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We’d like to give a worthy shoutout to one of our best clients — Dan Stewart & his company Happy Grasshopper— for being featured on Forbes!
The best thing about Happy Grasshopper is the professional writers hired to create content that you can use in your communications. As an entrepreneur looking to invest on the side, having this help can be a game changer.
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Dan Stewart, president of Happy Grasshopper, is a veteran of multiple startups with over 10 years of experience in bringing new firms to early profitability. Dan has been instrumental to offering the best recruitment strategy for future to the MyOutDesk Family.
A Key To Business Success
Dan shared “It’s crazy how great MyOutDesk is – you guys go way beyond what I expected! We hired our first virtual assistant, named Mary, and she’s simply awesome. It was a tough choice, though, because we interviewed four separate VA candidates, and honestly I wanted to hire all of them!”
MyOutDesk virtual assistant services provide you with the flexibility, scalability, and cost-savings to adapt quickly to today’s changing business & market conditions. Here is a list of all that a virtual assistant can do to uplift your business during a recession.
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In this STRATEGY-focused webinar, understand the magic of selling physical real estate through virtual solutions. This year is your ultimate test.
Fun Fact: THE Knolly Williams doesn’t go to a showing UNTIL he’s already signing the listing agreement / selling / closing the sale. He’s worked remotely more than he has stayed in an office (started at 23 years old, and he’s in his early 50s now).
As a top-performing real estate broker who has coached tens of thousands of agents & brokers around the world, Knolly Williams has over 300 listings without ever physically seeing any house, and he’s been doing this since 2008!
Tune in to understand his remote business model and how he leverages his virtual assistants to prepare everything. Knolly shared very important tips, tricks and resources on our topic:
“Houses don’t have to be seen to be sold: Virtual Real Estate Selling”
The new mentality & discipline for selling remotely
How to do a presentation without being physically present & what they look like
How to handle objections
The proven Virtual Real Estate model
Agents didn’t think it was possible to effectively sell virtually until COVID-19 forced everyone to.
Knolly has been featured on ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, Newsweek and in over 300 newspapers worldwide. He is an author, trainer, national speaker, entrepreneur, real estate broker, and pastor of the Front Row Church.
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“If the small business owner is impacted, everyone is impacted. The TOP 2 things that CANNOT be cut are the people who we are committed to, which are our employees and virtual assistants.”
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Stephanie Masterson is the President & Chief Sales Consultant for Central Ohio’s #1 Top-Producing Team – and relies on MyOutDesk VA’s to support the daily demands of her fast-paced residential real estate brokerage. Stephanie runs The Raines Group / HER Realtors, and uses her virtual assistant to support her client service managers to expedite paperwork, listings, MLS entries, and much more!
“We have a virtual assistant with MyOutDesk – she’s awesome, and helps our client service managers run their day to day business. So whether that’s data entry or calendar invites – you name it and she does it. We absolutely love her: she supports for our client service managers, so they can return support the agents.”
In the Raines Group, virtual assistants play a solid support role, focused on keeping the repetitive, non-dollar-productive tasks under control while her in-house staff focuses on maximizing luxury sales in the high-commission New Albany market. Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session today and find our how a MyOutDesk Virtual Assistant can support your team like they’re helping the Raines Group!
The Raines Group is on The Wall Street Journal’s Top 100 List and REALTOR Magazine’s top 100 Realtors list for their work in luxury real estate. In addition to Ron and Sandy Raines’ selection as members of Star Power, they’ve been awarded “Best Overall Marketing” by Institute of Luxury Home Marketing. These prestigious honors are a tribute to the hard work & expertise of everyone on Stephanie’s team – including her VA:
“Once she learns the task you know that it’s done. You don’t have to think about it twice. It’s just been a lifesaver for us, especially for the data entry portion of what we do with with transactions, inputting data, setting up our MLS sheets and helping us be proactive about getting stuff done.”
In her current role as President, Stephanie most enjoys helping people meet their dreams by exceeding expectations, delivering world class service, and providing operational excellence. In working with her virtual assistant, she focused initially on training, followed by setting achievable goals and expectations, and gradually adding new tasks over time as her VA mastered their in-house systems. This made her virtual assistant an intrinsic asset & let Stephanie’s team focus on what truly matters.
“Our VA is amazing at what she does. I think the hardest part is when she goes on vacation and we’re like, oh my gosh, we have to do this and that, or it doesn’t get done. That’s the biggest thing is when she’s gone. We really feel it but we like for her to have her time off and we figure it out. When she’s not here, we definitely feel it.”
The Raines Group is one of hundreds of industry-leading organizations leveraging the power of MyOutDesk virtual assistants to save money & boost productivity. You should be doing the same! Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session today and find our how a MyOutDesk Virtual Assistant can support you to boost your business.
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Brightstar is a rapidly growing in-home healthcare organization striving to help Americans with quality, affordable assistance – but when it comes to recruiting the best of the best for their organization, who helps them? MyOutDesk! Just listen to what Brightstar Fairfax Owner & President Robert Massie has to say:
“Mark, our virtual assistant, is basically our recruiting department – and he’s been able to drive us from two hires a week to just over four hires a week in the last 12 months. He’s a very skilled individual who understands the health care market, very technically savvy, and he’s been very effective.”
A few years back, Massie left a successful Fortune 500 executive career to launch a Brightstar Franchise with his wife – and in the process, learned how painfully competitive the market is for qualified healthcare staff. He turned to MyOutDesk to help his recruiting, and in less than a year we gave him 150% higher results, for less than half the cost of in-house staffing! If you want to do the same, schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session now!
So what’s the secret sauce that makes his MyOutDesk VA work? We found him a qualified, healthcare experienced recruiting assistant to handle all of his recruiting, and turned it into a full-time role that let his HR staff focus on more important tasks in their daily routines. The results were impressive:
“I would’t have expected it was going to be quite this successful. You know, I thought that if I can get 70% of what I would have gotten otherwise maybe that’s good – but I’m getting 150% of what I used to get and it’s less than half the cost of a really good recruiter. It’s turned out to be very, very good – the outcomes can’t be argued with!”
Robert’s experience is similar to many MyOutDesk clients who rely on our trained recruiting assistants to find, follow up with, prequalify help onboard the best & brightest talent for America’s up & coming organizations. We have experience in several industries and across dozens of national market areas, and know how to help your organization grow rapidly by outsourcing the phone work & scheduling to a trained virtual assistant.
Brightstar Fairfax is assistant by Mark – a hard working VA with past experience as a trained nurse. We placed Mark with Robert’s team, and over the course of a year, he took them from 2 hires to over 4 per week: and helped the beat the competition to the highest quality trained labor for their organization!
If you’re trying to grow your organization, a recruiting assistant is an amazing resource to put your team growth into high-gear, and available for less than 60% of what you’d pay for in-house staff! Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session now and add a virtual assistant to your team today!
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Money is a crucial business consideration – it’s the reason you got into business to begin with, remember? That’s why it’s important to have an expert in charge of all your accounting-related activities. For the Hergenrother Realty Group, the RealTrends #4 real estate team in the USA, that expert is Rebecca Shanahan-Galligani, the HergGroup Controller.
Learn how Rebecca works to maximize relationships, and utilizes virtual assistants to provide the company with flexible, cost-saving virtual staffing for a fraction of what local labor would cost. Learn her techniques for financial wizardry, and how she translates her commitment to superior service into organization, team-building, and customer-friendly strategies for success. Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session now!
Rebecca started with the Hergenrother Realty Group in 2014 and has helped to build the organization from 4 locations to 20 in 4 years. Prior to joining, Becca was a Keller Williams Market Center Administrator for 12 years in the New England Region and quickly rose to the top 10 percent of all MCAs in Keller Williams within two years. Her expertise in Market Center Operations brought her to work with the MCA Support Division in 2007, where she continued to provide training and consulting on Market Center Operations for 10 years, retiring in 2018.
Over the last 13 years, Rebecca has trained at Keller Williams Family Reunion for ten years, written KWU courses on Operations and Systems and was one of the first MCA KW Approved Trainers. Becca has a passion for coaching and training operational staff and supporting others to achieve higher levels of business success through superior customer service and team building.
Becca lives in Dracut, MA with Steven, her husband of 16 years, and her children Kevin and Angelina. Becca enjoys travel, camping, attending theater productions and performing in local theater groups. Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session now, and drill down on doing your one thing to the absolute best of your abilities.
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Caitlyn Rathgeb is the Director of Client Care for Hergenrother Realty – the #4 top-ranked RealTrends team in America. What’s her secret to delivering a world-class customer experience? MyOutDesk virtual assistants! Her organization leverages them to dominate the Burlington, Vermont market with over 2,000 transactions a year.
“My VA has saved me in so many ways, because when the workload is piling up and I’m feeling buried, I know I can turn to her and leverage those tasks. It really is powerful being able to know that Clarissa and our virtual assistants are there – knowing that we’re not doing it all ourselves. We love MyOutDesk based on the value of the candidates and the skill set, and the significant cost savings. It’s definitely a great opportunity!”
Caitlyn oversees the Client Care Division and also focuses on training and coaching Operations Coordinators, who are responsible on listing management, transaction coordination and client care, and finding optimizations for scalability and efficiency. MyOutDesk virtual assistants have been a big part of enabling her to juggle the workload in her position and still ensure that her clients are fully served. Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session to find out how to leverage MyOutDesk virtual assistants in your business!
Caitlyn graduated from the University of Vermont in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science. Upon graduating, she gained experience in sales and event planning, which helped her to develop the essential skills needed to lead, manage, and be a proactive team player. Caitlyn prides herself on exceptional customer service, dedication to her team and clients, and an energetic and positive attitude.
“You know, I’ve gone through the interview process multiple times now with MyOutDesk – and it’s been so easy and so simple! I’ve gotten a very speedy response and great resumes. One thing I love is being able to say, ‘Hey, here’s the skill set we’re looking for’ and getting resumes that are really matched to the person that we need.”
There’s nothing better than the quality, value & flexibility offered by MyOutDesk virtual assistants, which is why thousands of business owners across the country rely on our virtual assistants. In Caitlyn’s case, having the reassurance that she can leverage her time to focus on her “one thing” while knowing that the repetitive, time-consuming tasks in her day are handled by virtual assistants is an invaluable tool in her role – and it can be the same foryou as well. Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session to get started today!
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