Discover the 21 Surprising Tasks That Only the Best Realtors Assign to Their Virtual Assistants!

3. HR Directors research. Your remote assistant can find the
contact details of the HR directors in your town so you
could contact them and offer your services for the time
when they’ll need to relocate new hires.
Create free reports for your potential clients. You VA can
research various topics and then get your input on topics
like making a home more appealing for buyers, how to
buy the perfect home and others that you can transform in
free reports that your website visitors could download
Keep an eye on your competitors. You’re too busy to stalk
other realtors, so let your VA do that for you and enjoy
weekly or monthly reports on what marketing tactics your
competitors are using.

4. Research all tax and applicable prorations. Your virtual
assistant can also research all tax and utility related
prorations that you’ll need for the buyer’s agent.
Prepare birthday cards for old clients. That way you’ll be able
to remind them to recommend your services to their
friends and family while thanking them again for allowing
you to help them in the first place.
Manage your Pinterest account. You could have some boards
dedicated to the properties you sold before, the ones that
are on the market right now and highly visual tips on how
home owners can prepare their house for making it more
attractive to potential buyers.

5. Find local positive stories. Your VA can keep an eye on the
local newspapers and get the contact details of the hero of
those stories. You can send a congrats card and your
business card saying “Saw the story about you and I just
wanted to congratulate you. Great Job!”
Handle your online shopping. Your VA can even handle your
personal online shopping, so that you’ll have this taken
care of and you’ll be able to spend more quality time with
your family and friends.
Local content. Your remote assistant can research and write
content for your blog, Facebook page or website on local
events and news. That way you’ll be the first realtor people
find when they’re searching online for info about a
neighborhood or town.

6. Research agents for the seller’s destination. Your VA can find
great realtors in the area in which the home sellers are
moving. That way you’ll manage to recommend to your
clients realtors that are going to help them find another
great home.
Recruiting new members for your team. Your VA can help you
find new members for your team, advertising the positions
and reviewing the received resumes so you’ll spend less
time on finding the people that will help you grow your
business even more.
Agent profile creation. Your Virtual assistant can help you
generate leads on relevant websites. Just give him your
details and he’ll create and manage your agent profile on
Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com.

7. Networking events. Have your remote assistant find you
local networking events for you to attend. You’ll be able to
meet new people and increase your sphere of influence
that way.
Find distressed home owners. People whose homes are
targeted for foreclosure feel helpless and don’t think about
selling their home. Your virtual assistant could find for you
those people in your area so you could reach out and offer
your help.
Remarketing campaign. If your website has enough traffic,
you can have your virtual assistant run a remarketing
campaign for your website. You’ll target the people that
viewed your listings and attract them back on your website
to check out the new ones.

8. Research real estate marketing trends. Wouldn’t it be great to
receive quarterly real estate marketing reports? Your VA
can always keep you in the loop about what’s driving sales
for other realtors and where the industry is going.
Data entry. Your many Excel files, notes and documents can
be all added to a database that your virtual assistant can
create and curate so you’ll have all the details of your
clients in one easily accessible file.
Twitter advanced search. Your virtual assistant can regularly
search Twitter for tweets published from your area using
keywords that would lead you to a buyer or a seller that
could use your services.

9. Create a mini-movie. Home owners are saying that they love
to see videos of the listings they are interested in. You can
use your phone to record the house for a few minutes and
then pass on the raw footage to your virtual assistant to
edit it and upload it to YouTube.
Publish relevant content. Your VA can transform your
market data into content for your social media channels,
blog or website. It’s a great way to increase your website
traffic and reach more people.
Follow-up emails. Your virtual assistant can send out for you
follow-up emails to home buyers so you could see if
they’re happy with the house they bought and to foster
your relationship.