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Strategic eCommerce – Email Campaigns with Virtual Assistance

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Learn the strategies top marketing experts use to grow their businesses. This article walks you through everything that goes into e-commerce marketing — from inbound marketing to paid advertising to conversions. Tune into this special episode of the e-Commerce Marketing Podcast.

Podcast link: Virtual Assistance and Email Marketing – with Daniel Ramsey

Marketing Strategies Revealed in this Episode:

  • How to select the best VA’s to assist with marketing activities such as email marketing
  • How to incorporate VA’s into your email marketing process flow
  • What prior experience should a VA have in order to be effective in assisting you with email marketing and other marketing tasks
  • How to determine the correct compensation for VA’s so that you attract the right person for your tasks

Daniel Ramsey is the founder & CEO of MyOutDesk, the highest-rated Virtual Assistant company in the marketplace with over 800 5-star reviews, and over 15 years of experience serving more than 7500 clients.

Daniel founded MyOutDesk during the last global financial crisis of 2008 to help businesses leverage the remote workplace and scale businesses with virtual assistants.

What e-Commerce Virtual Assistants do for eCommerce Businesses

  • Dropshipping & supplier coordination
  • Amazon seller services
  • Amazon & eBay advertising
  • Amazon & eBay brand protection
  • Amazon & eBay listing placement coordination
  • Product research for Amazon
  • seller growth analytics
  • inventory placement
  • seller compliance
  • fba revenue calculations
  • liaison to dropshipping suppliers
  • handling inquiries from the resolution center
  • managing seller hub
  • Shopify administration
  • Google shopping coordination

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Here’s how e-commerce virtual assistants support e-commerce merchants:

  1. Listing Coordination & Documentation: product and inventory support, reports, and billing
  2. CRM Management: Updating records, verification, claim submissions, billing, and much more.
  3. Email & Phone Answering: Answering administrative phone calls, customer support, answering emails, managing your calendar.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 7500 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.

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ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS

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 costs
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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Best Job Types for Low Overhead & High Profit Teams

Job & Workforce Trends in 2020

In today’s high-tech economy, a remote workforce helps to maximize profits, grow clientele, improve business capacity, and often outperform competing companies that have fewer remote workers.

  • 50% of the US jobs and the workforce have gone remote in 2020.
  • 73% of teams will have remote staff in the 10 years.
  • Globalization and virtual workplaces will play an increasing role, causing more fluid shifts and flows of talent.

 

 

The Future is a Remote Workforce

This is what we learned from over a decade of experience with a virtual assistant.  With a remote workforce and the right systems in place, it’s now affordable for business owners to scale operations and talent.

  • Increase your touchpoints to the most influential clients.
  • Double down on branding and marketing — differentiate yourself.
  • Focus on adding value to your clients, suppliers, and vendors.
  • Double down on your prospecting and outreach programs.
  • Optimize the work of key talent and stay more connected to your people.

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Successful Businesses with Low Overhead & High Talent

  • Keep calm and thrive on. Now is the time to double down on the projects and ideas that will drive future growth and scale.

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! Our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VPs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.” 

  • Your Next 90 Days of Planning. One of the keys to thriving during a recession is to focus your time on finding out opportunities to thrive and survive during this uncertain time. Spend the next 90 days of quiet time for deeper planning and preparing.

There are a MILLION ways to leverage a Virtual Assistant

 

Best Job Types to Increase Your Talent & Capacity

 

Here are the job types that MyOutDesk virtual assistant services can provide you — with the flexibility, scalability, and cost-savings to adapt quickly to today’s changing business & market conditions.

  1. Example Roles
  2. Best Job Types

 

In a recent survey, we asked our virtual professionals how they’ve grown with businesses. These are only SOME of the roles that our virtual assistants currently hold for their growing companies.

NOTE: Personnel through MyOutDesk are up to 70% less than the costs of adding a traditional employee!

  1. Example Roles:

  • SDR – Sales Development Representative
  • Transaction Coordinator
  • Marketing Assistant
  • Client Care Manager
  • Utility Clerk
  • Researcher/Admin Assistant
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Solutions Assistant
  • Recruitment Specialist
  • Listing Assistant
  • Client Care Coordinator
  • Acquisitions Specialist
  • Support Coordinator
  • Operations Coordinator
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Loan Coordinator
  • Concierge
  • Executive Assistant
  • Client Concierge
  • Executive Assistant
  • Relationship Liaison
  • Internal Sales Assistant
  • Acquisition Assistant
  • Data Administrator
  • Listing Manager
  • Account Reconciliation Assistant
  • Realtor Partner
  • Client Care Assistant
  • Lead Manager
  • Business Admin Assistant
  • Real Estate Marketing Assistant
  • Transaction Coordinator
  • Compliance Assistant
  • Product Support Coordinator
  • Leasing Specialist
  • Client Services Coordinator
  • Admin Guy/Office Assistant
  • “Friend”

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Best Job Types

Here are lists of the four main job types that a virtual assistant can do to best uplift your business.

  1. General Administration
  2. Marketing

General Administration
Having virtual professionals tackle operations and administrative outcomes for you can go far beyond what a traditional assistant does, like answering phones and keeping your calendar. There are many more ways a virtual professional can help you administratively. Here are some concrete examples of my favorite things administrative virtual professionals do for our clients.

  • Virtual receptionist
  • Client care & relationship building
  • Screen calls & emails
    Loan processing
  • Administrative support
  • Accounting & bookkeeping
  • Lead management
  • Lead reporting
  • Recruitment
  • Agile project management
  • Performance reporting
  • Customer support

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Marketing
There are many things a virtual marketing virtual assistant can do for you to supercharge your company’s scalability. Focus your talented marketing professionals on the above sales tools and also on ideal client targets. If you know who buys from you and why your marketing virtual professional can really help drive your message out to the marketplace. 

  • Online marketing, listings & social media
  • Virtual showings & open houses
  • Webinars & speaking events
  • Marketing automation
  • Brand work
  • Design coordination
  • Collateral development
  • Repurposing content
  • Audio, video & multimedia
  • PR & paid advertising

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Sales Development & Inside Sales
A sales development representative can take over your prospecting and expand your lead generation efforts. Our inside sales virtual assistants will help you generate more leads, qualify them and allow you to focus on selling and generating commissions. In addition to warm & cold calling, our virtual assistants can assist you with lead screening & pre-qualification, lead nurturing, prospect & client follow-up calls & more!

  • Telemarketing & inside sales
  • Smart plans
  • Appointments
  • Warm & cold calling
  • Prospect & client follow-up
  • Lead nurturing
  • Recruiting assistant
  • MLS

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Service & Support
MyOutDesk virtual assistants provide the leverage you need to meet your customer service & support demand at a fraction of the cost of hiring full-time staff. Customer service outsourcing lets you work smarter, not harder, and helps you invest your time in dollar-productive activities that matter.

  • Manage trouble tickets
  • Manage escalation calls
  • Run reports
  • Manage calendars
  • Update CRM
  • Customer training & education
  • Issue resolution

… and the list goes on! With a business strategy in place that leverages virtual talent, there are a million ways that virtual professionals at MyOutDesk will transform your business.

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Niche Specialities to Grow your Business

Transaction Coordinator
A Transaction Coordinator Virtual Assistant manages all the paperwork and deadlines involved in a contract transaction. They’re trained in every step of the selling process and tasked with monitoring progress from the time the seller accepts an offer through the steps involved in the close of escrow.

Become more effective by using a virtual professional transaction coordinator to handle the repetitive tasks involved with closing a transaction – such as gathering documentation & signatures, calling clients, completing paperwork, following up on contract terms & requirements, and ultimately creating a broker file for the completed transaction.

  • Manage signatures & documentation
  • Manage paperwork processing & deadlines
  • Coordinate inspections
  • Respond to contract terms
  • Compliance coordination
  • Communications liaison

Loan Processor
MyOutDesk loan processor virtual assistants can to manage all the paperwork and deadlines involved in your mortgage & lending transactions – including every step of the process, from contract to close, and everything in between!

  • Gather documentation
  • Cloud e-agreements management
  • Lender follow-ups
  • Documentation review
  • Internal reporting
  • Manage mortgage or lending pipeline
  • Communications liaison

Schedule your free Grow Virtual strategy call today & access more free guides.

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.

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 find top talent and lower your operational costs.

MyOutDesk proudly provides free business growth business 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.

 

Keep Calm & Thrive On

Schedule your free Thrive strategy call today & access more free guides.

 

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Integration Today – How Even Your Business is Functioning like E-Commerce

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(Sales Development Strategies)  Today’s preference for e-commerce has brought in a whole new way of doing business that benefits some and harms others. As a CEO and entrepreneur, it’s on you to ensure the internet is always to the advantage of your business.

Still, many are not considering the effects of the e-commerce business trend. Those who are at a disadvantage due to e-commerce are losing out on business and income, but there is no indication that it will be over soon.

In this article, you’ll find out:

  • Physical businesses aren’t tapping into their online resources enough!
  • E-commerce strategies work with any business to INCREASE market share
  • What fresh “WORK FROM HOME” businesses need to consider for virtual success
  • Sales development strategies by leveraging remote work
  • What is the history of e-commerce?

Whether you know it or not, ALL businesses already incorporate e-commerce functions in parts of their operations.

 

Integrating a physical business into the online marketplace

 

Even when operating from a commercial location might be necessary, business owners of franchise locations, medical offices, brokerages, financial services, and further professional firms CAN FURTHER BENEFIT their already-existing online presence.

 

How? By leveraging the e-commerce style operations

What are those? How is my physical business already virtual?

 

Your business is already functioning like in an e-commerce standpoint because:

  1. Your business is listed on search engines (Hours, phone number, location)
    Yelp, Google, Bing, Facebook
  2. You use email, contact forms, and further messaging platforms
  3. You might be already setting & confirming appointments online
  4. Your newsletters and campaigns are online

It seems to be rather obvious that, in the modern age of technology and connectivity, we have come up with many new ways of doing things that were previously done via traditional methods or other means.

HOWEVER, THERE IS MUCH MORE TO LEVERAGE ONLINE!

To learn exactly how to leverage e-commerce strategies for your business, continue to “Sales Development Strategies.”

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History of e-commerce & e-commerce strategies

 

E-commerce (also known as electronic commerce, e-business, Internet business, or online shopping) is the buying and selling of products or services over computer networks.

It is an umbrella term used to describe the buying and selling of products or services over computer networks such as the Internet. This form of electronic business allows CEOs & entrepreneurs to conduct commercial transactions over the Internet. It includes retailing, services, and entertainment.

 

Why has e-commerce become so widespread in today’s marketplace?
  1. The first reason is the advent of computers and their widespread use. Computers provide unprecedented efficiency for businesses, allowing small ventures to compete with big ones.
  2. The second reason is the advent of the internet. The internet allows for easy communication between businesses, customers, and suppliers.
  3. The third reason is the availability and relative ease of use of mobile technology such as smartphones. Mobile technology allows for access to information on demand, which in turn provides people with more choices.
  4. The fourth reason is the relative ease of setting up online businesses, which are cheap to set up and don’t require a lot of overhead.
  5. The fifth reason is the relative ease of setting up online stores on sites such as Amazon, where sellers can easily set up and start selling their products with very little overhead.

E-commerce is the embodiment of a more equal, globalized playing field for anyone to tap into a data-driven and information-driven network and grab more market share.

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Is e-commerce the future for every small business?

 

Small businesses that incorporate e-commerce style practices have seen how it has greatly changed the way they communicate, sell and buy.

The negative effect of e-commerce is that it has also hurt traditional businesses. Brick and mortar stores have been closing at an alarming rate.

Thus, more traditional businesses are adapting by hybridizing their operations, being able to reap the benefits of accessing an online marketplace for the physical location. People are simply not going out anymore unless they have a reason!

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Sales Development Strategies + Case Study

There are three universal ways to think about sales development strategy. Which approaches are you taking for accelerating your results & profitability?=

Most CEOs & entrepreneurs say they rely on one (or all) of these approaches:

  1. Relationship-driven service & value using excellent people skills & soft skills.
  2. Numbers-driven decision-making based on reports & data (such as a daily number of leads, average close rates, etc.)
  3. Heavy emphasis on marketing and creating content for attracting & converting leads.

Sometimes a company will use all approaches, they hire different talents to fill each capacity. For example, one person may be great at talking to people on the phone. Another person might be great at networking and bringing in new leads from other companies or industries. A third person might be great at creating content to attract visitors to their site and then converting them into leads.

Luckily, we offer relentless talent matching to support the growth and success of your business. You can benefit from adding new talent to your team!

 

Case Study

Lead Generation through Outsourcing (Marketing Virtual Assistant)

Awarded Top 1% US financial advisor Marvin Mitchel built an innovative inbound marketing MACHINE, leading him to over $3M in revenue last year alone. He learned that mortgage & healthcare industries were doing the same.

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. 

So what engine do you want to rev up in your business? MyOutDesk has TOP talent for marketing, admin, and PR.

If the highest-performing financial advisor in the nation is leveraging MyOutDesk virtual assistants, shouldn’t you as well for your own business growth? You are one call away from saving time & growing your business than you ever had. Be ahead of the game.

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Gain Market Share with Virtual Solutions

Focus on dollar-productive activities for your business and close more deals! Leverage one of our Virtual Assistants and prepare yourself for more fruitful results. We are here for your success. 

 

Hiring Virtual Assistants can save you up to 70% on traditional employee costs.

 

We have college-educated professionals in our talent pool with experience in these roles:  Sales Development (SDR), Marketing, and General Admin

Add a new hire to your team  —  without the headaches of payroll, taxes, insurance, retirement, office & equipment costs. Our customers saved over $55 million last year!

  • Never miss a lead opportunity
    Our client Amy has an SDR who handles at least 100 calls per day, and he reaches out to new leads within 5 minutes of their inquiry. 
  • Keep a smooth-running virtual office
    An administrative assistant will regularly crunch numbers for reports and prepare any documents that you need.
  • Ramp up your virtual operations with digital marketing

With a marketing assistant, create full-time marketing campaigns, produce quality content, and increase your online engagement.

 

ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS

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 costs
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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5 Things You Need to Know to Successfully Manage a Remote Team

Authority Magazine, a Medium publication, is devoted to sharing interesting “thought leadership interview series” featuring people who are authorities in Business, Film, Sports, and Tech. They use interviews to draw out stories that are both empowering and actionable.

They believe that good stories should feel beautiful to the mind, heart, and eyes.

Authority Magazine

Top Lessons. Top Authorities

Fotis Georgiadis interviews Daniel Ramsey of MyOutDesk on “5 Things You Need To Know To Successfully Manage a Remote Team” – 13 min read

Link to Authority Magazine Feature

 

Fotis shares, “As a part of our series about the five things you need to successfully manage a remote team, I had the pleasure of interviewing Daniel Ramsey. Daniel is the founder & CEO of MyOutDesk, the highest-rated Virtual Assistant company in the marketplace with over 800 hundred 5-star reviews, and over 15 years of experience serving more than 7500 clients.”

 

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Authority Magazine

Leadership Lessons from Authorities in Business, Film, Sports, and Tech. Authority Mag is devoted primarily to sharing interesting feature interviews of people who are authorities in their industry. We use interviews to draw out stories that are both empowering and actionable.

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ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS

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 costs
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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Explained: What does a Virtual Assistant do?

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Everything you need to know about how to use virtual assistants for your business

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Considering a VA for your business? — This page has everything you need to help you make an informed decision.

Hiring a VA marks the beginning of a new and exciting time for you, your current employees, and the company. Employing a VA means that your company is making an investment in the team and looking to achieve the next level of excellence and performance.

In This Article, We’ll Cover . . .

What Is A VA? What Is A VP?

  • VA’s provide assistance in prospecting, calling, marketing, administrative, and customer service functions to their clients from a remote, home office and typically from a different country.
  • VP’s (virtual assistant professionals) are career-oriented virtual assistants with proven industry and educational experience.

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Why You Need VAs

VA services have existed since the 1980s. The biggest US corporations have been using VA services for decades–it’s a huge factor to their growth model.

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Caption: US corporations with integrated blended business models.

“We really needed good candidates to interview and MyOutDesk has provided that. We’ve been really happy with MyOutDesk’s resources!”

~ Jonathan McGowan, JVM Lending

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Why VAs Are Important?

VAs are mentioned as an integral part of the 2007 bestselling book The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. Ferriss needed virtual assistants as a business growth tool to check his email, pay his bills, and run parts of his company.

Yes, small & medium businesses are increasingly incorporating VA business models.

» (See also) AllTheLeads: Why You Should Hire a VA

In fact, in 2021, the top competitors of the 10 most profitable industries ALL use virtual assistants.

Here’s how the 10 most profitable industries are leveraging virtual assistant services, like MyOutDesk, to ensure scalability and higher profits.

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Where To Find VAs

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Differences & Similarities – How to compare the 4 Types of Virtual Assistant Services Companies

How To Choose & Decide The Right Virtual Assistant Services Company Or Provider

Where to Find: Fundamentally, there are four types of VA companies that cater to different sets of needs.

Database Of Freelancers

This VA company displays virtual assistant profiles for mainly part-time gigs. Prices vary per assistant.

Pros: Great for one-time, off-hand projects

Cons: Skills & experience typically not vetted by provider

Project-Based Freelancers

This VA company attracts both virtual assistants & clients to their site, and charges a service fee.

Pros: Great for a one-time seasonal project

Cons: Skills & experience typically not vetted by provider

Low-Cost Full-Time Provider

This VA company provides full-time assistants, generally specializing in a few specific roles or industries.

Pros: An affordable alternative to a traditional employee

Cons: Limited to a few roles and responsibilities, and lower value tasks.

Strategic Outsourcing Partner

MyOutDesk consults & caters to each client’s needs and addresses growth opportunities through outsourcing business processes — with specific expertise serving multiple industries. They provide services, starting from just one VA, for up to an entire enterprise workforce.

On the client side, the VA company provides a thorough talent-matching process, background checks, full-time client support, business process optimization tools, and business strategy consultations.

On the VA side, the company offers company perks such as professional development, health benefits, and holidays.

Pros: As affordable as all other VA services. Greatest quality of professional skill sets in a competitive talent pool. A powerful model for businesses looking to scale up. Hybridized physical-virtual (blended) organizational strategy allows local employees to focus on higher value tasks.

Cons: Not ideal for one-time projects.

As not all virtual assistant providers are created equal, businesses need to consider and choose the provider would best serve their needs.

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How Much Does A VA Cost?

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The price of virtual assistants can rage from $3 per hour to $50 per hour. However the quality of these assistants greatly vary!

Will a $3/hr VA meet your expectations? Cheaper providers typically do not have FBI-grade background checks & legal backing like MyOutDesk.

Does a $50/hr assistant necessarily mean they’re the best? No. Higher wages mainly reflect the average living costs of where the assistant lives.

The ideal provider can will with you on a comprehensive solution — finding the most qualified candidates for the lowest rates & stringent safety checks.

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

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Best VA Companies

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We’ve scoured through the internet to find all the reviews for the best virtual assistant companies. MyOutDesk is consistently named one of the best virtual assistant companies out there.

Where To Find & Where To Hire Virtual Assistants

MyOutDesk is named as the TOP virtual assistant company by:

TechRadar: Best Virtual Assistant Services of 2022
Time Doctor: Top 30 Virtual Assistant Companies of 2021
Hubspot: 30 Virtual Assistant Companies & Services to Make Your Job Easier
Hooquest: Best Virtual Assistant Companies in 2020

Full-time employees are expensive. In addition to salaries, you also end up paying a hefty sum every month for benefits, office space & equipment, worker’s compensation, and even retirement. It adds up fast & erodes profitability.

MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants are a cost-effective alternative to full-time staff that save you money, and let you keep your business nimble. Add or reduce staffing on-demand as you grow to meet today’s needs without the overhead.

MyOutDesk COMPETITION
Market Force Personality Profile Yes No
Over 5,000 clients served Yes No
VA Benefits & Medical Yes No
Legal Entity in USA & PH Yes No
Stable Internet + Backup Systems Yes No
Secure PCI Compliant Payments Yes No
VA Time-Tracking Software Yes No
FBI Grade Background Check Yes No
Dual Candidate Vetting Yes No

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What Tasks Can VA Do For You?

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Most Popular VA Roles:

Administrative Assistant
Executive Assistant / Personal Assistant
Marketing Assistant
Transaction Coordinator
Virtual Receptionist
Customer Service
Telemarketing / Inside Sales
Help Desk & Support
Recruiting Assistant
Loan Processor
Real Estate ISA

Where Virtual Assistants Are Most Popular, By Industry

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Real Estate

“Our top reps have been able to focus more on developing relationships & creating new business with clients — rather than task-work like simply handling claims. MyOutDesk allows us to scale more quickly & be more profitable at the same time!”

— Mark Schwaiger
Managing Partner at Infinity HR

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

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Mortgage & Lending

“As a loan officer, I want to foster relationships, and I use my Virtual Assistant to help me acquire the relationship…He set up 51 one-on-one meetings with agents in the first quarter I had him!”

— Ryan Yardley, RyanYardley.com

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

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Healthcare

“Our virtual assistant is basically our entire 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.”

— Robert Massie, Owner & President
Brightstar Fairfax

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

IT Outsourcing

IT & Technology

“I’m not going to be able to make $250,000 a year if I’m spending half my time doing $10 an hour work. That’s why we’re such big fans of virtual assistants and automation.”

— Dale Warner
CEO, Realvolve

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

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Insurance

“As a Fortune 500 company, controlling the title market in SoCal and being Top 5% in the country, we highly recommend the local expertise with a unique touch that MyOutDesk offers. If we want to go onwards and upwards, definitely the option to consider.”

— Joseph Galante, Ticor Title

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Marketing Agency

“My four VAs are very professional & very timely. I’m grateful for them and for all the wisdom shared by MyOutDesk. The people you bring to us are top notch people. In all seriousness, I have to say that!”

— Matt Buchanan, Founder of Pioneers of Marketing

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

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Human Resources & PEO

“Anybody who’s gone to business school in the last 20 years has had 1 commandment hammered into them: if it’s not your core business, outsource it.”

— Pat Cleary, President & CEO
National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO)

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

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Property Management

“MyOutDesk has really revolutionized our business. We’d generate rental leads, hand them off to our agents, and have those agents reach out. We needed a better way to use the time these agents were spending to get these leads ready to go out on tour. I can’t tell you how many hours you’ve saved for our agents.”

Boots Levinson, Principal, Rent Philly

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Financial Planning

“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. 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 Mitchell, Compass Retirement Solutions

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Cannabis & Legal Marijuana

“Why didn’t we do this two years earlier? MyOutDesk helped with least 8 candidates & seamless interviews. If you’re thinking about it, just go for it. We paid off in a month.”

— Tony Trinh, Fresh Mint
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What Tasks Can A Virtual Assistant Do?

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VA’s provide you with the flexibility, scalability, and cost-savings to adapt quickly to today’s changing business & market conditions. Here are a million tasks and roles that virtual assistants can do for you.

General Administration

Having a VP tackle operations and administrative outcomes for you can go far beyond what a traditional assistant does, like answering phones and keeping your calendar. There are many more ways a virtual professional can help you administratively. Here are some concrete examples of my favorite things administrative virtual professionals do for our clients.

  • Virtual receptionist
  • Client care & relationship building
  • Screen calls & emails Loan processing
  • Administrative support
  • Accounting & bookkeeping
  • Lead management
  • Lead reporting
  • Recruitment
  • Agile project management
  • Performance reporting
  • Customer support

Marketing

There are many things a virtual marketing assistant can do for you to supercharge your company’s scalability. Focus your talented marketing professionals on the above sales tools and also on ideal client targets. If you know who buys from you and why your marketing virtual professional can really help drive your message out to the marketplace.

  • Online marketing, listings & social media
  • Virtual showings & open houses
  • Webinars & speaking events
  • Marketing automation
  • Brand work
  • Design coordination
  • Collateral development
  • Repurposing content
  • Audio, video & multimedia
  • PR & paid advertising

Prospecting Assistant

A sales prospecting assistant can take over your prospecting and expand your lead generation efforts. Our inside sales virtual assistants will help you generate more leads, qualify them and allow you to focus on selling and generating commissions. In addition to warm & cold calling, our virtual assistants can assist you with lead screening & pre-qualification, lead nurturing, prospect & client follow-up calls & more!

  • Telemarketing & inside sales
  • Smart plans
  • Appointments
  • Warm & cold calling
  • Prospect & client follow-up
  • Lead nurturing
  • Recruiting assistant
  • MLS

Loan Processor

MyOutDesk loan processor virtual assistants can to manage all the paperwork and deadlines involved in your mortgage & lending transactions – including every step of the process, from contract to close, and everything in between!

  • Gather documentation
  • Cloud e-agreements management
  • Lender follow-ups
  • Documentation review
  • Internal reporting
  • Manage mortgage or lending pipeline
  • Communications liaison

Transaction Coordinator

A Transaction Coordinator Virtual Assistant manages all the paperwork and deadlines involved in a contract transaction. They’re trained in every step of the selling process and tasked with monitoring progress from the time the seller accepts an offer through the steps involved in the close of escrow.

Become more effective by using a virtual professional transaction coordinator to handle the repetitive tasks involved with closing a transaction – such as gathering documentation & signatures, calling clients, completing paperwork, following up on contract terms & requirements, and ultimately creating a broker file for the completed transaction.

  • Manage signatures & documentation
  • Manage paperwork processing & deadlines
  • Coordinate inspections
  • Respond to contract terms
  • Compliance coordination
  • Communications liaison

See also: Should I hire a Transaction Coordinator? 

Service & Support

MyOutDesk virtual assistants provide the leverage you need to meet your customer service & support demand at a fraction of the cost of hiring full-time staff. Customer service outsourcing lets you work smarter, not harder, and help you invest your time in dollar-productive activities that matter.

  • Manage trouble tickets
  • Manage escalation calls
  • Run reports
  • Manage calendars
  • Update CRM
  • Customer training & education
  • Issue resolution

. . . and the list goes on! With a business strategy in place that leverages virtual talent, there are a million ways that virtual professionals at MyOutDesk will transform your business during a recession.

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Is it safe? Can a VA be a security risk?

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Businesses who choose a reliable VA service provider with thorough qualification procedures ensures high-quality virtual talent. MyOutDesk has a strong reputation for providing virtual administrative assistants, built on:

  • A stringent talent matching process that uses detailed work experience profiling.
  • A comprehensive candidate vetting process unmatched by any other outsourcing provider.
  • FBI-grade background checks.
  • DISC personality matching to ensure the most experienced, educated, and skilled virtual assistant services possible.

An unparalleled distinction of MyOutDesk among many virtual assistant providers is its high standard of service to its clients and virtual assistants. The company provides uninterrupted support services for client businesses and virtual assistants with dedicated trainers and solutions managers. VAs receive competitive benefits and medical at MyOutDesk, upholding high work morale. Hiring a highly qualified, full-time virtual assistant from MyOutDesk is safe as well as cost-effective — costing up to 70% less than hiring a full-time in-house employee.

“Our top reps have been able to focus more on developing relationships & creating new business with clients — rather than task-work like simply handling claims. MyOutDesk allows us to scale more quickly & be more profitable at the same time!”

— Mark Schwaiger
Managing Partner at Infinity HR

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Managing VAs

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Typically, when you hire a virtual assistant, you have to provide these kinds of productivity tracking systems yourself. MyOutDesk understands the importance of having these systems in place, so we created one for our clients.

MyTimeIn
Remote Team Productivity Tracker

Manage your virtual assistant’s (or assistants’) department, teams, service accounts, schedule & PTO, and payroll.

  • Real-Time Visibility
  • Work History
  • Scheduling & Timesheets

Also to help foster the most effective remote work culture for your business, we’ve made a guide to help your team thrive under a remote transition.

Effectively Manage Your Remote Teams with:

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Where to Find & Where to Hire VAs

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MyOutDesk is a California based company founded in 2008. We’ve been steadily growing and gaining large and small business clients daily, especially those seeking a high quality virtual assistant. We’re an intelligent, successful voice in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and the Virtual Assistant community.

With 40+ years of combined experience, our principals have been involved with hiring and managing personnel and running businesses ranging in size from $14 million per year corporations to proprietor-type businesses producing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Simply stated, no job is too big or too small for us. Unlike many outsourcing companies that will only work for businesses that place hundreds of employees at a time, we treat one order just like one hundred. We believe that while the order may be small, hiring a virtual assistant will allow you to grow your company. We fully expect to grow with you as partners in your success.

MyOutDesk COMPETITION
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VA Benefits & Medical Yes No
Legal Entity in USA & PH Yes No
Stable Internet + Backup Systems Yes No
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VA Time-Tracking Software Yes No
FBI Grade Background Check Yes No
Dual Candidate Vetting Yes No

Our Business Is Built On Experience

1. Cost-Effective Staffing Solution
An alliance with MyOutDesk will deliver high quality ancillary services you need while giving you the freedom to focus on your core business.

2. Highest Quality Virtual Assistants
You can contract for services that you need without the long standing costs like benefits, retirement, office space, management staff, etc.

3. Best-Of-Breed Technologies
MyOutDesk hires virtual assistant candidates that have some college education or college degrees; many times those degrees are similar to Harvard or Yale education. Our staff also has a broad range of skills, having worked for other United States companies like Dell Computers and IBM.

4. Over A Decade Of  Experience
Operating leverage is a measure that compares fixed costs to variable costs. Outsourcing changes the balance of this ratio by offering a move from variable to fixed cost and also by making variable costs more predictable, thus improving profits.

5. You’ve Always Got A Single-Point Of Contact
Our virtual assistants receive ongoing trainings to keep up with current business practices.

6. We Value Your Information Security
You can manage contracts in a way that you can’t manage in-house projects. We can also manage virtual assistants by utilizing operational best practice that would be too difficult or time consuming to develop in-house.

We Match You With The Best Candidates

All of our virtual assistants are required to complete a rigorous 160 hours of special training, learning our secrets of success prior to employment. We also require our hired Virtual Assistants to attend five hours of additional training every month to help keep them “above the curve” with new technologies and processes. English is a common language in the Philippines, so all of our virtual assistants speak English clearly and professionally. We invest a great deal of time and money into developing our VAs and it shows in the quality of work they perform for you.

Many Virtual Assistants you find on the internet operate out of their homes. We feel this is a poor environment for both quality and accountability. At MyOutDesk, our virtual assistants work out of their home offices that provide them with the infrastructure to do their jobs more efficiently and effectively. They provide their own most up to date hardware and software and have experienced management on hand to assist them in their duties.

Working out of an office helps to create a team environment and allows for better accountability and security; your work will never leave our offices and be taken home by a Virtual Assistant.

Each employee is trained on task tracking and metrics reporting. If a virtual assistant cannot handle such simple tasks correctly before they begin, we don’t want them, and neither would you. Be careful with companies that claim task-tracking software. Why? If they need such software, they are likely hiring under-skilled, inefficient people. We know from extensive experience the importance of finding and employing only best people.

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Getting Started With MyOutDesk

TALENTED LABOR WITHOUT DISTANCE LIMITATIONS

For almost any function that can be done remotely and doesn’t require physical space, virtual assistants for recruitment, marketing, & administrative jobs are cost-effective and allow us the adequate focus & time for our functions.

MyOutDesk Virtual assistants are known to exceed expectations in providing excellent customer service and seamless administrative operations.

We will save you up to 70% on employment costs with experienced virtual assistants, precisely matched for your strategic needs. To book an interview with those in our talent pool, click here.

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Is Your Email Marketing Failing? Here’s How To Fix It!

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Email marketing is one of the most powerful and cost-efficient tools for generating & nurturing leads. Its non-obtrusive nature and immense flexibility give you a lot of room to find creative ways to market to your clients. You shouldn’t underestimate the possibilities that can be created with a strong email marketing strategy.

Email marketing requires attention and consistency. Leverage a MyOutDesk Marketing Virtual Assistant to implement your strategies for email and all your marketing responsibilities. Schedule your ‘Grow Virtual’ Strategy Session to find out how.

 

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If your email marketing is not as effective as you might hope, there are a few factors that might be holding you back.

1. You aren’t doing it.– Surprisingly, there are a huge number of entrepreneurs who do not utilize email marketing in their business. Email is 40 times more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook or Twitter. According to studies, email beats social media by 40 xs for customer acquisition.

2. You aren’t personalizing it. – Automated emails are convenient ad easy. There is nothing wrong with writing blanket-type emails that may generally appeal to a large portion of your niche. You do not have to write an individual email to your contact list, however, little touches of “personalization” are important as well. For example, using their names is a great touch. “Hey Greg!” is still better than a non-descript greeting. Many email platforms allow you to customize greetings and can be programmed to pull names from a list. Aside from that, use words or terms that are related to your niche, this tells your leads that you really know what you are talking about and are here to help them.

3. You aren’t responding quickly enough. – Speed to leads applies to emails too. Over 88% of prospective customers expect a response within an hour, but this is rarely accomplished. You should respond to inquiries within the day of receiving them AT LEAST., the sooner the better.

4. You aren’t mobile-friendly. – Mobile accounts for up to 77% of email opens! When creating your emails, make sure that they are mobile-friendly as well. People are constantly on their phones and you want to be sure that your email has readability across different devices. Testing your emails before sending them out so you can make adjustments is a great way to ensure that you are.

5. Your content isn’t dynamic. – Nobody wants to hear the same things over and over again nor do they want to feel that all you are doing is selling to them. Mix up your content by talking about different aspects of human life that relate to your services. Find different ways to touch on your audience’s personal interests and perspectives.

6. You aren’t testing your content. – A/B or split testing is a highly effective tool when you are trying to figure out your market. Testing the efficacy of different kinds of content can greatly help your marketing strategy. Every audience is different. You must test to know what works. A/B tests can improve conversion rates by 49%.

Email marketing can indeed be a powerful avenue you can use to grow your business, but sometimes it takes the kind of time and attention that you just do not have. A MyOutDesk Virtual assistant can be instrumental in ensuring that your marketing campaigns are effective.

Schedule a ‘Grow Virtual’ Strategy Session so we can help you make the most out of your email marketing!

 

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Achieve the Dream – Scaling as a Franchisee | With Brian Beers

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Brian Beers and his family currently own and operate 12 Midas® franchises in the Philadelphia area. He shares what talent means for his franchise businesses and his journey to getting the leverage that he needs.

 

“We used outsource companies in the past and have some varying experiences. I really like about [MyOutDesk] is all the work that you guys do upfront to find the right virtual assistant — ensuring that we’re getting a high-quality, well-vetted candidate because the biggest challenge or a roadblock is TRUST.”

 

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Brian’s family has been in the business of owning franchises for a long time. With a virtual assistant, they doubled their business in the last 3-4 years, and in the next couple of years they’re looking to double again. His virtual assistant, Ann, handles tasks independently. Brian compliments her achievements in our interview.

 

The virtual assistant directly works with his managers to get things done. These tasks are now completely off his radar, and Brian shares his “great experience for his franchise locations!“

 

“We got to try to multiply our efforts, and that’s really where the virtual assistant comes into play. They take away the everyday tasks, so that I could focus on higher-value outcomes and continue to work towards these larger goals.”

 

 

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! 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.” 

 

ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR FRANCHISE BUSINESS

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & franchise 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! Our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VPs 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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Beat Low Housing Inventory With These 8 Strategies

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We’re facing a historically low housing inventory in 2020. Fluctuating mortgage rates have forced many to stay put in their homes and forgo upgrades and downgrades. While we have seen a bit of improvement as of late, trends say that if current market conditions persist, we may see further dips in inventory.

Do you want to ride the ups and downs of the Real Estate market unscathed? You need to be able to focus on your business and have the best support in place to do that. Book your ‘Grow Virtual’ Business Strategy Session and find out how a MyOutDesk Virtual Assistant can give you the leverage to thrive and not just survive.

 

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Here are eight foolproof tactics you can apply that will not only help you find more homes in markets affected by low inventory but will help you generate more listings as well.

1. Know the Price Points of ALL new construction in your area

The majority of new construction housing will never even land on your MLS. If you are in a low housing inventory market, this makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE. Find out all the information you can about new construction neighborhoods and build relationships with developers. You will not only have alternative options for your buyers, but you stand a high chance of getting recommendations and referrals from developers as well. Your knowledge of your local community will help establish trustworthiness.

2. Tap your Sphere of Influence

Both Personal and Professional. Don’t be afraid to use your personal network to find new business. Send out a personal message or meet up with them to ask if they know anyone looking to sell their home. Don’t forget to contact your old clients as well, and you never know what you may stumble upon.

3. Post a Wanted Ad

There will most likely be people around your community who want to sell but haven’t listed yet or are waiting on one thing or another. You can attract a potential seller with “Seller Wanted Ads.” You can use flyers or take out an ad in a local newspaper or even use targeted social media ads for this. If you have a serious buyer, describe specific features of a home they are looking for, why they want to move into a specific neighborhood, and a general deadline. You might even get a chance to list the property!

4. Zillow’s “Make Me Move”

Make Me Move by Zillow is a feature where first-time listers name the price that would make them sell their home. You can do specific searches and find “Make Me Move” listings in the area your buyer is interested in. While some prices might be a bit too high, it is an option you can show your buyer, and the fact that someone made an effort and named their price is a positive sign.

5. Pre-foreclosures

As banks are putting foreclosures into motion, it is important to know that most of these homes are near equity. Current homeowners aren’t aware of this, but the banks are, which is why they are being targeted first. Find these properties and reach out to homeowners and let them know that they can sell their homes, you help both your buyer and give the potential seller hope.

6. The Best Time for Expired Listings

Right now is the best time to prospect Expired listings because the market has recovered. While these listings may have been priced too high in the past, their prices may be perfectly acceptable now. Try going for really old expired listings as well!

7. Find Unrepresented Sellers (FSBO)

Seeking out FSBO can be another great resource. Think about it. They are already actively selling their homes, in a low inventory market, finding FSBO and connecting them with your buyers may just be the ticket.

8. Create your dream team

We’ve given you solid tips to overcome your low inventory market. Now, implementing them is another story. Set up a team that can take these tips and runs with them! MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants are ready to be part of that team and can give you the leverage you need to be successful in a low inventory market! Start building your dream team right now! Book your ‘Grow Virtual’ Strategy Session and add a MyOutDesk virtual assistant to your business today!

 

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Top Social Media Platforms & How to Best Leverage Them

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Social networks are one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, with a projected annual growth of 25% over the next 5 years. Social media marketing increases your brand’s awareness. 63% of buyers who search for houses online are more likely to use ones with an informative social media presence. Not just brand awareness, social media also has the power to increase customer loyalty. 71% of consumers who received a quick response on social media would recommend the service to others too.
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Speed For LEADS: Your PACE Makes Or Breaks Your Business!

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How fast is your lead follow-up? If it’s more than 5 minutes, you’re losing business — and you’re losing a lot of it. Believe it or not, while many companies still cling to the belief that it’s good to “wait a few hours” so they don’t seem desperate, the truth is that if you don’t follow up within the first 5 minutes, you won’t make the sale.

In the Lead Response Management Study, Professor James Oldroyd performed an in-depth study of response times & contact rates and found that for every 5 minutes you wait, there’s roughly a 4x reduction in your chance of contacting the lead. If you wait more than an hour, your chances of contracting the lead are 10 times lower than if you’d called them in the first 5 minutes!

Keep in mind that 75% of prospects do business with the company that contacts them first. However, the average response time to an online lead is 44 hours and 50% of online leads never get a response! Why is there such a large disparity? In small businesses, the issue is usually that you’re busy with task-work and don’t have time to jump on new leads. With all the responsibilities on your plate, the lead response often falls to the bottom of the list when in fact it should be a priority.

Improve your speed to lead time and never miss an opportunity again. MyOutDesk Real Estate ISA Virtual Assistants can give you the leverage you need to boost your business. Schedule your ‘Grow Virtual’ Strategy Session to find out how.

 

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According to studies, the odds of calling to contact a lead decrease by over 10 times in the first hour.


The odds of qualifying a lead in 5 minutes versus 30 minutes drop 21 times. And from 5 minutes to 10 minutes the dial to qualify odds to decrease 4 times.

 

Online leads are a great source to grow your business and yet, they are extremely underutilized.  Many leads get resold over FIVE TIMES mostly because business owners like you don’t call them. Many leads prospect several Realtors before settling on one but keep in mind that the first statistic we shared, 75% of prospects do business with the company that contacts them first!

A study by the Harvard Business Review revealed that contact within an hour of inquiry, you have 7x more of a chance to have a productive conversation compared to reaching out after over an hour, and compared to someone who waits 24 hours to contact a lead, you’re 60 times more likely.

In real estate, 64% of buyers and 66% of sellers end up working with the agent they speak with first, according to the National Association of Realtors. Those who are first-to-the-draw have a tremendous advantage.

As an example, let us tell you about one of our clients Amy and her ISA Virtual Assistant Rex. Rex is in charge of calling leads as soon as they enter their system. His speed to lead is extremely important and this sense of urgency was instilled in him from his first day with Amy. Aside from being tasked to make at least 100 calls a day, he is also given new leads that he must reach out to within 5 minutes of their query. Rex set 199 appointments in his first year alone and out of those, Amy has closed 142 transactions. This is 7 million in trackable sales volume and over $200,000 in GCI!

Amy, like many business owners we work with, simply could not take everything on herself. She realized that her team needed someone who could focus on their speed to lead time. So she hired and trained a Virtual Professional who could pick up the slack so she and the rest of her team could focus on what they needed to accomplish.

This is only one part of the whole speed-to-lead game, stay tuned as we will explore more strategies such as the best times of day to call leads, etc.

If you want to improve your speed to lead but know you can’t do it all yourself, book your ‘Grow Virtual’ Strategy Session with us today so we can have a conversation about how a MyOutDesk Virtual Assistant can help.

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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 distracting 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 800 verified 5-star reviews, and over 15 years of experience, serving more than 7500 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 15 years with MyOutDesk, Daniel has helped thousands of clients scale their businesses and grow profitability.

Visit Mark at https://www.markstruczewski.com/.

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