Do you find yourself spending way too much time inside your business working on minor tasks instead of major ones that will bring your business income? Maybe you’ve considered hiring a VA to help free yourself up to do those bigger ROI tasks. However, you might be struggling with what tasks exactly can a VA help with. Below are some of the top VA tasks that hiring a VA can help agents with.
1. Cold calling – not everyone enjoys this task of cold calling homeowners to see if they are ready to sell. Majority of the time no one answers or they hang up immediately. Instead of spending your time cold calling every day, have your VA do this task for you. Should they find any promising leads, they can set up an appointment for you.
2. Marketing – these days marketing is a very time-intensive activity that must be done every day and consistently. If you aren’t doing this consistently you are not staying top of mind when customers decide they are ready to make a move. A VA can help you create marketing content for all of your marketing strategies, especially digital marketing. They can serve as your social media manager by creating posts and managing your social media platforms for you.
3. Video Editing – related to marketing, video content is the most consumed format of media today. While a VA cannot help you shoot content, it can help you on the backend by editing your videos and helping you publish them. Shooting content is quicker and easier than the editing process especially if you are putting in graphics, animation, music, and captions.
4. Inside Sales Assistant – tasks include things like following up with leads, helping manage clients, managing your calendar, transaction management coordinator, and post-closing activities. You can train your VA to assist with all these tasks freeing you up to bring on new clients and work with current clients.
5. Accounting – keeping track of your business’s books. A VA can help you to stay on top of your business’s monthly books so that you don’t have to spend hours pouring over the numbers of your business. They can also help you stay on top of your bills, subscriptions, and expenses.
6. Website Management – Another time-intensive task that requires a level of technical competence. A VA can help improve and maintain your website. Add new pages and work on improving your SEO which is constantly needed to be reviewed to stay in the rankings for Google.
7. Blog – another time-heavy activity, writing blogs. If blogs are a significant part of your business, you can hire a VA that focuses on blog writing. However, you can also write the blogs and then have your VA proofread and review your blog, as well as create graphics for it, and manage the publishing of your blogs.
8. CRM management – CRMs can be very time intensive in the beginning to get them all set up with all your contacts, systems, drip campaigns, and automated tasks. A VA can help you scrub and filter all your leads and set them up on automatic systems that you’ve created to make your business operate smoothly and with less interaction from you.
These are just some of the top VA tasks for agents. Keep in mind that you can’t expect a single VA to be excellent at all these tasks. When hiring for your first VA think about what is the primary and maybe secondary activity that you need help with the most. To help you determine this, think of tasks that you either hate doing, are not good at, or don’t want to do but you know they can help your business grow if you were doing them. If you need further help, I have a list of 250+ tasks that a VA can help with. Message or email me and I will get you this list.