Jus' Livin in Worcester County

I haven't been posting much but I've been reading. I've seen a couple of posts and comments asking about the rates virtual assistants charge. Here's the breakdown for those of you who wondered.First, from a virtual assistant's perspective: We get the same 52 weeks you do, and assuming we work a 5...

Sending email to people who did not ask for it is Spam. If you met someone at a mixer and they gave you their business card, you still cannot send them anything related to your business without their permission. So what's the point of gathering business cards and contact information if you can't ...

I've gotten glimmers of a type of marketing recently that really interested me. It's called Funnel Marketing, and it seems to make a lot of sense.The concept of funnel marketing is fairly simple. Basically you begin by giving away free samples of your products or services. Some of the prospects w...

The Aries agent will get you into every new listing first, which is great as long as you don't mind talking about her the whole time.The Taurus agent will sell you a property, then give you a call every so often just to let you know she's been thinking of you. Send her a clipping from a bush in y...

I would bet that somewhere along the line you've heard that you should be an expert in what you do. That you need to be the go-to person. Ok, maybe you haven't heard that, but there's compelling evidence that shows that the expert in any area will win the trust of new prospects much easier than ...

Most likely you will meet your best clients through developing your Sphere of Influence (SOI). The closest people to you in your sphere of influence are your immediate family and friends. Typically, the first thing a new agent does is contact everyone they know, all the way back to people they ha...

Jeff Belonger asked on a blog posted by Laura Monroe what a virtual assistant does. A virtual assistant can do anything an agent can do, with a few exceptions. The law varies from state to state. Here's some ideas of what a virtual assistant can do for an agent, from my point of view anyway.Lead ...

We all know how hard it is to get a new client. Gone are the days when you yelled, "here fishy, fishy" and a client jumped in your boat. It's my opinion that it's much easier to retain a current client than it is to find a new one. I'm sure you put your favorite clients on a client for life progr...

I just finished imputing information into a client's database. The fields for me to imput into were fairly typical information: first and last name, title, company name, address, phone, fax, email, website, industry, and niche. There weren't that many companies to imput. It should have been easy....

Last March my husband's friend, M, decided she wanted to sell her house. M paid $185,000 for a huge old handiman special in a town about 45 minutes from Boston because she couldn't afford a house in Boston where she was from. That was 2 years ago. She works as a private maid, then comes home and ...