About 2-1/2 years ago a friend of mine (not in Real Estate) happened to mention that she had a terrific assistant and if I was interested, she would share her contact information. The timing was really good for me- I had an active website that I was constantly trying to keep updated and had taken on some extra duties in an organization that was requiring more of my time- in addition to the usual realtor related showings, advertising and marketing needs as well as working with as many buyers & sellers as possible in a challenging market.
So began a wonderful working relationship with Pam Tanino, my Virtual Assistant. Pam didn’t begin as a virtual assistant, she began by coming to my house to work a few mornings a week. Having no previous experience in the world of real estate, Pam enthusiastically tackled learning the language and nuances of the business. She caught on extraordinarily fast and in no time, was in total control of my website. She was a wealth of IT information and a whiz at Excel Spreadsheets. With the advent of better technology, we decided she could work just as well from her home after the first year.
Pam now knows Sharper Agent, Virtual Office from Hillside Software, Advanced Access for websites, our company Kentwood sites and a variety of blog sites. She does Craigs List, Trulia, Active Rain and Word Press, Realtor.com, Tour Factory, Obeo, and Denver’s Metrolist.
If I spring a new site on her, she has it mastered in a matter of hours where it would take me days or even weeks to figure out!
She is creative and always looking for ways to increase my SEO or coming up with new marketing ideas for the website or properties. It was Pam who told me a year ago I needed to change to a blog-based website and was way ahead of the game introducing me to QR Codes.
So if you haven’t tried using a Virtual Assistant, I would really recommend looking into it…as agents we need to be spending more time getting in front of our clients rather than our computers and a good Virtual Assistant will allow you to do that!
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