What's going on everybody?
So in today's video, I'm going to be showing you exactly how to hire real estate virtual
assistants for your real estate investment business.
So if you give me just about 10 minutes, I'm going to show you the exact virtual assistants
that I use and recommend, how they can save you 40, 50, even a hundred hours per week
or more, and also just how to choose the best just ones, how much they cost, different things
like that.
So at the end of this 10 minute real estate video, you're pretty much going to be an expert
in getting a virtual assistant for your real estate investment business.
So that being said, before we jump into this video, please smash that like button, because
it helps the YouTube algorithm and let's get into it.
Okay.
So for starters, the whole reason you need a real estate virtual assistant is that it's
going to save you a ton of time, but you're also not going to have to pay someone 50,
a hundred thousand or whatever you would pay a normal employee per year to work for you.
There's a lot of risk and cost associated with that.
So with virtual assistants, you can pay them per task.
You can pay them for five hours a week, 10 hours per week.
And many times these virtual assistants are overseas.
So you don't have to pay them $50 an hour, you can pay them as little as $5 an hour,
$10 an hour, $15 an hour.
It all depends on their skill set, what they're doing, their experience, reviews, different
things like that.
So some of the things that they can do for you as a real estate investor is number one,
research real estate leads to find the value so they could come up with comps.
They can also just do research as to looking up probate records, looking up eviction notices,
maybe even doing some skip tracing.
So any type of manual labor type of data research that you could do and you could probably do
it pretty well, but it might take you hours and hours and hours, you can have a real estate
virtual assistant do that.
And I have one that spends about 40 hours a week just looking at property data through
my MLS and giving me the most motivated prospects to market to.
So it's massively valuable to have someone to do that.
I wouldn't be able to spend 40, 50, 60 hours a week in my real estate business and then
also spend 40 hours a week just doing research.
They can also do cold calling for you.
So if you have a list of names, which you could also get them to build for you, they
could call 1,000 people per week or 100 people per day.
And I can guarantee you, you're not going to get a huge response, but you could get
Five, 10, 20 extra leads every single month, which would be huge.
They can also do coordination, managing CRM, social media.
They can do blogging.
You can get them to answer phones and I'll show you the services that I use in a second
here, video editing.
So if you're doing a lot of videos and you want to get your video, not only edited, but
maybe across multiple channels, like IGTV, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, you can have
someone edit it so that you can upload it on all those platforms.
So no matter where you are in your real estate investing business, I can guarantee you that
you can find 40 additional hours for somebody to do and maybe have a couple of virtual assistants
where one person does 10 hours of social media, 10 hours of your website, video editing, cold
calling, following up with leads, direct mail, different things like that.
There are so many things you can take off your plate so that you can have more free
time to build your business, scale your business.
And that being said, let's jump into it.
I'll show you exactly which services I use and how to hire one.
So my favorite place to work with is called Upwork.
And all you have to do is you go to jobs and you would do, "Post a job."
And you can also search by freelancers just to find somebody, but I prefer just posting
a job and then people apply and then you can choose the best one.
So as you do, create new job post, short term, and then continue.
And then let's say I need a video editor or social media manager.
I would just type in, "Real estate investor looking for a social media manager."
And then you'd come down here, they already have the categories most of the time, so social
media marketing, you do next.
And then with your description, you want to be very clear because sometimes these people
are overseas.
So you want to keep it just a couple sentences, but you also want to be specific.
So if I was hiring a social media person, I would just say, "Look, I need a social media
manager for Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and let's say, YouTube.
And then what you'd want to do is you'd want to post a profile of exactly what you're looking
for.
So if I was hiring for this person, I would say, "I want my social media to look like
this."
And then you would just post the profile of somebody, maybe in real estate, it doesn't
even have to be in real estate.
A lot of times some of the best social media people might just be in different industries.
It could be food, it could be fitness.
And you can say, "Look, I want the profile, the videos, everything to look like this,
I'll give you the content.
I just want you to upload it, optimize it, do your thing."
So then you'd post the profile there and you'd say next.
And you can also upload projects.
You can say, ongoing project.
I typically don't fill out all the screening questions.
I like to just have the most amount of candidates to choose from.
So you do, next.
And since I already typed in social media marketing, it already filled in a lot of this,
but you can add different things if you want.
You don't necessarily need to add all this stuff.
Sometimes I might add a couple keywords.
And then the most important thing is entry-level, intermediate, expert.
This all depends on your budget.
If you're doing something like data entry, you can do entry level.
Even if you're doing social media, you can do entry level.
I'll just do intermediate just for this video.
And then I do worldwide talent location, I just want as many people as possible applying.
We're in the digital age now, it doesn't really matter where people work.
And I say anybody here, and then I'll just do one freelancer, but you can always hire
more than one person.
And I don't even fill out all this stuff, I just try to get straight to the...
So pay by the hour.
For something like social media, where it's like a weekly type thing, you probably want
to pay by the hour.
And I'll set my own range and I'll say anywhere from like five to 20 bucks per hour.
And what's going to happen is people are just going to apply.
And they'll say, "Look, I'll do it for $5 an hour.
I'll do it for..."
Some people might even be outside this range and say, "Look with my skills and everything,
I don't want to be making five to 20 an hour.
I need to be making 25 per hour."
And sometimes you might have people that'll do it for like $2 an hour and you might not
want it.
You typically never want to go with the cheapest person for any type of provider.
So you can say, more than six months.
And then it's probably going to be less than 30 hours per week.
If you were hiring a cold caller, maybe it would be more than 40 hours.
Maybe it would actually only be like 10 or 20, but let's just do less than 30 hours per
week.
And then you would just basically say, "Post job now."
And I'm not going to do that.
And then once...
And I'll just show you one of my job posts so you can see what it looks like.
You click on all job posts.
Leave this.
And people will start applying.
So here's an example.
I needed some just research done, just very simple type stuff.
I was looking to build a list of YouTube videos that met a certain criteria.
And I had 18 people apply, someone like this is really good.
100% success rate, only $3.75 cents per hour.
And actually these were the two people I hired.
So I had a lot of...
Let's look at the proposals.
You're going to get a lot of people applying.
And most of them are probably pretty good, but I would probably only hire someone that
has at least a 90% success rate, has made some money, and also is a good deal.
So there's a lot of people that could have done this job probably pretty well, but that's
the main criteria.
You don't want to just hire anybody.
If they haven't earned anything, if they don't have good reviews, you need to be careful
with that.
And with hiring virtual assistants, I would actually recommend hiring two that are really
good and see which one does the better job and split up the work a little bit.
That'll help you get better results.
So, that's how you hire on Upwork.
And let me just show you Fiverr real quick.
That's another really good one for real estate investors.
So Fiverr's really simple.
You basically just hire per task.
So if you don't want to hire someone for 10 hours per week or whatever it may be, you
can just get so much different stuff done.
And I have a link below that you can sign up to Fiverr with.
I am an affiliate so I get a couple bucks from that.
But as you can see, they do all types of graphic design, digital marketing, SEO, video marketing,
email marketing.
They have so much, I mean, video, you can get blog posts done.
And not everything is five bucks, it starts at $5 and then honestly you can go up to like
thousands of dollars.
Fiverr's becoming a lot more popular.
You can get your LinkedIn profile done, white papers, case studies, email copies.
So much different things.
You can even hire actors to make YouTube videos for you.
I actually did that when I was first getting started.
So there's a lot of different things.
And then the same, you want to find someone that has good reviews.
That's really the one tip I can give you.
The last three virtual assistants I would recommend for real estate investors.
One is PATLive.
So that's an answering service that will answer your leads for you.
So I'm just going to type that in real quick.
So here it is, it's a live phone answering service.
So you don't have to answer your calls.
If you're doing a lot of marketing, you're going to get a lot of calls.
Most of them are not going to be great, so you can give PATLive a script.
They work with a ton of real estate investors and I have a link below to sign up with them,
but they're just a great professional service that's affordable, reasonable, everything
like that.
If you're sending out direct mail, I would recommend Click 2 Mail so you don't have to
write your envelopes and everything like that.
And I have a Click 2 Mail tutorial video on my channel to show you how to use that, but
you don't want to spend hours and hours handwriting letters and envelopes when you can just have
a service where you upload your list and it sends it out for you.
And then lastly, if you don't want to mess around with your website too much and go through
all this backend stuff and you just want a professional website for real estate investors
that you know works, I'd recommend Carrot.
This is the website that I have and there's a link below that you can check out.
But it's just very user-friendly, it looks great.
I've gotten deals from it before.
They have trainings.
They're very helpful.
It's affordable.
I would just highly recommend it if you don't want to have to hire somebody to build out
your website and deal with all that type of stuff.
This is just probably one of my favorite resources as a real estate investor.
So thanks for watching this video on virtual assistants for real estate investing.
And if you have any questions, just drop them in the comment section below and I'll be sure
to respond.
And I'll see you in the next video.
All right, bye.