Revstaffing Virtual Assistants provide the same services as on-site employees, without the added costs. Here are some of the tasks you might expect to delegate to a Virtual Assistant:
- Transaction Coordination
- Listing Coordination
- All Administrative Services
- Website Maintenance
- Accounting and Bookkeeping
- Branding Services
- Database Management
- Real Estate tool specific technical support
- Social media networking/blogging/account creation
- Writing, Editing, and Research Services
You may ask yourself, why not just hire an assistant? There are many benefits of hiring a VA over the traditional office assistant.
Virtual Assistants work from their home office and use their own equipment. You don’t have to pay for office space or equipment and this is especially beneficial if you don’t have a lot of space of your own.
Since Our Virtual Assistants are independent contractors you don’t have to worry about taxes, or pay health/life insurance and in addition, you don’t have to pay holidays, vacation time, or sick leave.
The relationship between you and your VA is based on a business agreement and you state the terms. You choose which tasks to delegate to the VA and which tasks to do yourself or to keep in-house.
A Virtual Assistant is an entrepreneur that has their own strengths, background, and areas of expertise. Although they work independently, a REVStaffing VA is part of a team of virtual assistants available to provide services to our clients and they have access to our internal problem solving.
Need help trying to juggle all of those admin tasks and transactions? REVStaffing can gladly assist you with those tasks! Let REVStaffing help you to achieve your goals and increase your potential! Complete a complimentary needs analysis survey, send us an email, or call 855.REVS.VA1 today!
]]>- Responsible for processing of all contracts through closing.
- Coordinating appointments for inspections, appraisals, and closing.
- Effectively communicates with clients, customers, other agents, lenders, title agents and other service providers throughout the process.
- Responsible for proper documentation of the file to comply with brokerage policies.
- Assures that all post-closing disbursements, filing, and procedures take place.
- Frees the agent client up to focus on business building activities.
In many offices across the country, there are staff who are shared among the office. While this approach seems practical or beneficial on the surface because the 
coordinator is in house and can be accessed by stopping by her/his desk. It’s not always the best or most effective approach when explored further. There are many reasons. The transaction coordinator is paid by the office and is not always exclusively coordinating transactions. Meaning, they could get pulled away from their job to help the other departments such as receptionist, listing coordinating or what have you. This means they aren’t working on your transactions.
INTERRUPTIONS ARE INEVITABLE
There can also be a huge amount of interruptions in an office setting! The facts are clear, it can take more than 20 minutes to get back on task after an interruption. Most offices have no contingency for covering sick days, vacations, or when the workload is higher than normal. When the onsite transaction coordinator is out of the office, the agent is expected to handle their own transactions.
While no perfect world exists, there are solutions designed to help the agent provide the best service to their buyer/seller from contact to close without many of the most common challenges associated with having an in-house transaction coordinator.
One would be hiring your own transaction coordinator to work exclusively for you. While this may be costly, it would provide you with the ultimate solution to help leverage your time.
At RevStaffing we have solved the most common challenges that an onsite transaction coordinator faces by providing an agent focused cost-effective solution.
DO YOU NEED ASSISTANCE?
Need help trying to juggle all of those admin tasks and transactions? REVStaffing can gladly assist you with those tasks! Let REVStaffing help you to achieve your goals and increase your potential! Complete a complimentary needs analysis survey, send us an email, or call 855.REVS.VA1 today!
Do you want to rank higher for specific keywords? In this article, you’ll discover tools and tips to help you improve the search ranking of your blog posts. Discover three ways to improve your blog post search ranking.
How Ranking for Keywords Has Changed
Optimizing your blog post to rank high in search engines used to be straightforward: pick your keyword and make sure you use it in the title and a few more times in the article. If you picked the right keyword (and if your blog was well-established and referenced), you were most likely to rank somewhere in top 10.
Keyword research has quietly changed over the past few years. First, search engines like Google have become much more sophisticated when it comes to understanding what “high-quality content” is. It’s not only about how well your article is optimized: it’s also how in-depth, useful, and comprehensive it is.
Second, the competition is growing: most bloggers know the basics of search engine optimization these days. It’s harder to stand out and get ranked.
Here’s how you can get ahead of your competitors.
#1: Include More Keywords
The days when you wrote one blog post per keyword are gone. Google (as well as your audience) now looks for more in-depth long-form content that features a varied vocabulary including synonyms, related phrases, and concepts.
The following tools will help you expand your keyword lists:
Seed Keywords helps you crowdsource your friends and followers into suggesting related keywords for you. The tool creates shareable mini-surveys for your followers to help you brainstorm more ways to search for your topic.
Soovle will generate keyword suggestions from multiple sources (Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, Yahoo, Answers.com, and Bing), giving you a good overview of how people search for your keyword on different platforms.
Another tool that does the same (but supports fewer sources) is the Google Keyword Suggest Tool. It generates suggestions from Google, Bing, YouTube, and Amazon and it digs very deep, so you’ll get hundreds of phrases to work with.
If you’re looking to optimize your existing blog posts, use Serpstat to go through your site, pick the most powerful pages, and suggest a list of “missing keywords.” Essentially, these are words your competitors are ranking high for, but you’re not.
Connection Strength refers to the number of competitors that rank for the keyword that you don’t have on your page.
Now all you need to do is go back to your articles and optimize them for those missing keywords to increase your ranking.
An easy way to optimize existing content for new keywords is to add new sections (with subheadings) targeting those new words. This helps content get more comprehensive over time, which naturally results in more social media shares and backlinks.
#2: Refer to Notable People, Places, and Brands
One of the biggest changes in search engine optimization is Google’s focus on understanding entities. “Entities” are related notable people, places, organizations, brands, etc., which associate in some way with your keyword.
For the easiest way to demonstrate how entities help in ranking your content, read this awesome case study by Bill Slawski. Bill took a well-optimized piece and rewrote it the following way: first by making it much longer, and second by including notable events and people. The result was astounding. The article started to drive referral traffic from people linking to it, and return visits. And yes, better search rankings too!
Google pays special attention to entities when trying to understand how concise and useful your content is. Google has had years to learn to understand entities, concepts, and their relationships.
Google pays close attention to entities and how they relate to your content.
Google’s Knowledge Graph is an entity graph. Search for any notable name you’re aware of to see how Google structures and relates entities.
To research related entities, use your own common sense. Chances are you already know a lot about your content’s topic. Next, search Google. In some cases, Google suggests related concepts while you’re still typing your query.
Google uses entities to verify how concise and useful your content is.
Run content that ranks well through an entity extractor. Pick a few in-depth articles on your topics and run the content through AlchemyAPI (alternative tools: TextRazor and Open Calais). AlchemyAPI extracts entities from the content using color-coding to markup sentiment.
Run several long-form articles on your topic through AlchemyAPI and you’ll have a solid list of related entities.
#3: Answer Niche Questions
Another area Google focuses heavily on days is measuring the ability of content to answer popular niche questions. You might have noticed Google’s “quick answer boxes” each time you type a question
Is your content answering popular niche questions?
It’s important to make question research part of your keyword research each time you’re writing a blog post.
The aforementioned Serpstat does question-focused keyword research, too. There’s no visualization, but it returns unique results, which are free.
This is a whole list of content ideas for you to use!
Answer The Public is a cool tool for content inspiration and question-focused keyword research. Type any word into Answer The Public to see a visualization of various types of questions people ask using that word.
The question modifiers are: which, who, what, when, why, how, are, and where.
Answer The Public is great for content inspiration.
Another trick is to research niche questions using Twitter Advanced Search. The search won’t deliver as many content-worthy results, it will help you research and use natural language (which is something Google is focusing on as well, especially for mobile search).
To find questions on Twitter, search any keyword with a question mark placed one space away, like this: “keyword?” This filters Twitter search results to those containing a question.
You can search Twitter for updates containing questions.
You can use Cyfe to monitor and archive the Twitter search results.
Cyfe searchable Twitter search archives can provide inspiration when you’re stuck.
Conclusion
Keyword research has evolved, and it’s definitely more complicated. At the same time, though, it’s also more diverse. It encourages you to create in-depth content and works wonders for inspiration.
What do you think? Are there any unique keyword research tools you’d like to share?
Need help staying in contact with all the leads that will soon be coming your way? REVStaffing can gladly assist you with those tasks! Let REVStaffing help you to achieve your goals and increase your potential! Complete a complimentary needs analysis survey, send us an email, or call 855.REVS.VA1 today!
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Regular readers of our REVStaffing blog know that we focus a lot of time and energy on getting our clients successfully ramped up and firmly positioned in their use of social media. And while the needs differ from one client to the next, but the bottom line is always the same: We work hard to make you THE local expert.
If you’ve been holding off on getting started with social media, here’s our advice: Don’t wait any longer. Social media isn’t going away – it’s getting bigger. And it can be one of YOUR greatest marketing assets as you head into 2019…if you make it work for you.
The best part? Social media is, for the most part, free. Yes, there are fees associated with some things…and there are things for which you’ll probably want to pay a small monthly fee (like a public Active Rain account). But you don’t have to pay to use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, and they’ve been proven time and time again to be among the best (free) marketing tools at your disposal.
There are a lot of myths surrounding the use of social media. These include the idea that social media is overwhelming, and you have to spend hours and hours every week keeping things up to date. Or you may have heard that it’s a waste of time, and doesn’t really generate results. A lot of people think that there’s no way of gauging your success.
We get it. Myths are generated when people are uncomfortable with something, and need excuses for not dispelling their discomfort by learning about the thing they fear. REVStaffing wants you to know that there’s nothing to fear in the prudent use of social media! The savvy and timely use of social media isn’t hard, especially with REVStaffing’s crew in your corner. You are in total control of when, where and how you use it. We do it all for you, and you reap the rewards.
Whether you’re already a REVStaffing client or considering becoming one, you know that we’re dedicated to helping you to grow and nurture your successful business. We encourage you to fill out our free needs analysis; we’ll be happy to discuss ALL of your unique business needs! And be sure to visit our website, and “like” us on Facebook.
Bookmark this page to return for regular updates. If you need assistance in the meantime, please contact us by email at info@revstaffing.com or phone at 855-738-7821, X700.
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“… Add to the mix the sheer volume of information on socially-enabled sites around the digital globe, and you’ll soon realize the best strategy for getting noticed is to publish as often as possible, 24 hours a day, especially if you are trying to reach a global audience.”
So how do you decide? First, you need to understand the difference in terms. A content creator is someone who identifies their audience’s needs, then moves to meet those needs by creating original and highly relevant content. This can be a listing blog, or it can be an informative narrative blog. When you create useful and valuable content, that content is not only absorbed and appreciated, but shared and re-shared – driving your readers right back to you.
A content curator is someone who sifts through the Web to find and deliver the most relevant content for their intended audience. A thoughtful content curator is more than just a broadcaster of information. In our marketplace, a content curator can regularly broadcast status updates – information about their market that’s useful and informative to their target audience.
The idea is to position yourself as a trusted resource online. Start by formulating a content strategy. Whether you are creating or curating, you can be sure that the content you share is valuable and useful to your intended audience.
When it’s time to choose your mode of operation, take your time and be open to the possibilities. Our social media specialists at REVStaffing can show you how you can expertly balance created content with curated content. Remember, the more you share ANY valuable content about your market, the faster your reputation as your market’s trusted adviser will grow.
REVStaffing‘s virtual assistants are professional users of a vast array of CRM tools. If you’re not yet a client, give us a call for a free needs analysis; we’ll be happy to discuss your unique social media needs! Be sure to visit our website, and “like” us on Facebook..
If you need assistance in the meantime, please contact us by email at info@revstaffing.com or phone at 855-738-7821, extension 700.
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Why Paradym?
Innovation is their passion. Marketing is their focus. From the early days as a virtual tour pioneer to their current place as a top-rated real estate technology software, Paradym has remained an industry leader in providing innovative and high quality marketing solutions for real estate agents and brokers.
They make it easy and affordable to create the informative, engaging content you need to drive traffic, create buzz, win leads and referrals in today’s real estate market—online and in your local community.
The Paradym Way
At Paradym, your success is our success. They set you on the road to critical success with unique tools applied directly to your business. From full-service training and automation to streamlined social media optimization through our creative content engine, your membership in the Paradym community is preparing you for measurable gains in your business.
We know that your time is critical to your success in this industry, which is why we take the burden of digital marketing off of your shoulders. Your success is our priority and that’s why we are committed to the Paradym difference.
The Automation Engine 
Creating engaging marketing for all of your listings just got ridiculously easy. List your home on your MLS, and you’re done. Our Automation Engine takes it from there. Unleash the power of automation in your marketing.
- Automated Tour Creation
- Automated Posting to Social Media
- Smart Scheduling
- Automated Social Comments
- Facebook Page Integration
The Media Studio
Create beautifully customized visual tours that get your listing noticed. Enhance your visual tours to engage your audience and give your listings justice.
- Cloud Based Studio
- Mobile Agent App
- Tour Enhancements
- 3 Different Tour Branding Options
The Mobile Toolkit
Capture leads, create new tours on the fly, and manage your listings… all from your smartphone. The mobile toolkit is what separates Paradym from the crowd. You’re constantly on-the-go. Your marketing should go with you.
- Mobile Agent App
- Mobile Target Lead Capture
- Bonus! Printable Marketing Materials
The Success Team
Part marketing coach, virtual assistant and tech support. The Success Team’s goal is to help you achieve the marketing success you’re working toward.
- Your Own Personal Success Coach
- Super Simple Onboarding
- Unlimited Support
- Video Tutorials
- Webinar Training
- Success Academy
REVStaffing helps you to achieve your goals and increase your potential! Complete a complimentary needs analysis survey, send us an email, or call 855.738.7821 X700 today!
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Do you have enough leads or are you behind on keeping touch with your current leads?
REVStaffing has found that of our top clients, a small percentage are in need in more leads, while the majority of our clients need help calling current leads, sphere of invoice (SOI), and clients in their databases.
In either of the above mentioned scenarios, REVStaffing can help!
If you are an agent that needs more leads, we have systems in place for prospecting to FSBO and Expired leads. Our calling assistants are trained, have a range of scripts to choose from (that we can customize for you) and also have create ways to handle objections as well as ways to get a higher response rate.
If you are an agent that needs help calling your current database, or to handle your incoming lead follow up, we are staffed and ready to help you as well. The longer you wait to tackle the list of 
calls that you want to make, but just don’t seem to have time to, you risk losing those once solid leads to another agent.
REVStaffing has a process to get your database cleaned up, as well as assist you with follow up calls/emails, and then making sure that all of your contacts are getting the proper marketing such as drip campaigns and action plans. We can even send you a short report daily or weekly of calls you need to personally make, to help keep you on track.
Our calling assistants are all US based, and we offer bi-lingual services as well. We can set a plan that works with your budget and get started right away. We use customized scripting that focuses on the agent, in the time zone and time of day that gets you the best results.
For more information, or to get started, please contact us at info@revstaffing.com or you can reach our us at 855.738.7821 x700.
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Are you curious about what works on YouTube?
The first thing marketers need to consider is what they’re going to do on YouTube: what they will talk about and the brand’s message. To figure out the content strategy, come up with potential video titles, using the 5 Ws: who, what, why, where, when and how.
Start with “who” and make a list of the big names in your industry. Then, go over to “what.” What is the best way to do something, as it pertains to your business? Work your way down the rest of the list to get a full range of ideas for your videos. Come up with the biggest questions asked by your audience and answer them in video.
The types of videos you make should be specific to your company or industry. If there’s someone who’s comfortable on camera as your spokesperson, that’s great, since communicating eyeball to eyeball is the best way to build a relationship with your audience. If there’s no one to participate on camera, just use audio and graphics.
Mistakes marketers make with YouTube
The first thing professionals cautions against is using YouTube as a compilation channel, a holding ground for every video you’ve ever made. For instance, you may have a couple of Q&A videos with your staff, an old commercial and some home video of the company picnic. All of these videos have low views, and there’s no real cohesive strategy.
The second is the violation of what is referred to as the 3 Ps: Platform, Purpose and People.
Marketers often violate the Platform when they repurpose their non-YouTube video content (Google hangouts, Meerkat videos or portrait videos) for YouTube.
Repurposing leads to a violation against People. YouTubers want to engage with your content, comment and be a part of your community. When you repurpose, such as putting Meerkat videos on YouTube, you’re telling your audience they don’t care enough to create content for them.
Monetization of YouTube
It is believed that the point of being on YouTube is to carve out a very specific audience that you can serve through the video medium.
Rather than trying to build a huge channel with millions of views and subscribers, marketers should create a funnel that takes viewers from their video to a clickable link that leads to an opt-in.
You should know the purpose of the video from the beginning. Do you want people to subscribe? To share? Focus on one call to action per video. You might make 10 videos that are all designed to build a list. Then 20 videos that are designed to get new subscribers.
Is your purpose to drive sales? Several YouTubers sell to their subscribers or a non-subscriber base through both in-display ads and pre-roll ads. Both options are 10-second ads that appear in front of the video that’s queued for viewing.
If you use YouTube ads, you need to remember to focus on selling one product. Then target the ad’s delivery through the ad system to push your video out to a prequalified audience.
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If you need help creating and publicizing your videos contact REVStaffing at 855.738.7821 X700. Or if your schedule is hectic, as most realtors are, schedule an introductory meeting at you convenience.
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If this is new territory for you, then take a look at how some of our top producing clients use their assistants:
In-house Real Estate Assistant
- Show properties
- Attend listing appointments with you
- Prepare and/or hold open houses
- Place follow-up calls to prospects from open house
- Install and refill brochure boxes
- Install and remove lock boxes
- Make copies of keys
- Check on property condition
- Attend home inspections and/or closings on your behalf
- Meet with prospects and clients in person when you’re not available
- Create a specific to-do list for each day
Virtual Real Estate Assistant
- Write SEO-rich webpages and hyperlocal blogs to attract buyers in your target area
- Create single property website pages and/or blogs
- Promote listing across social media
- Create open house fliers for print and online
- Promote open house on social media, listing sites, and email blasts
- Create listing fliers for print and online
- Provide contract-to-close transaction coordination
- Field and reply to phone calls and emails on your behalf
- Send thank you cards to clients upon listing and/or after closing
- Request reviews from clients after closing and post online
- Create general action plans for lead follow-up, new listings, closings, etc. using CRM tools such as TopProducer, Realty Juggler, eEdge and more.
This is just a basic comparison. Whether in-house or virtual, the responsibilities of your real estate assistant will vary based on your needs.
If you would like to learn more about what a real estate virtual assistant can do to improve your business, complete a Needs Analysis Survey for a free consultation.
REVStaffing can gladly assist you with any task! Let REVStaffing help you to achieve your goals and increase your potential! Complete a complimentary needs analysis survey, send us an email, or call 855.REVS.VA1 today!
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Google Rolls Out a New Google+
Google introduced “a fully redesigned Google+ that puts Communities and Collections front and center.”
Tumblr Simplifies GIF Creation on iOS
Tumblr announced that “any video (or burst!) on your iOS device can be GIFFed, edited, and posted using the Tumblr app.” This functionality will be coming soon to Android.
Vine Introduces New Remix, Remake and Collaboration Features
You now have the power to reinterpret, collaborate or remix with audio from any Vine on the network.” Vine also introduced a new discovery feature that allows you to “find Vines that use the same audio clip or song.
YouTube Releases New Translation Features
YouTube introduced a new set of translation features designed to help creators make their content more accessible and understandable to an international audience.
Blab Rolls Out Show Cards for the Web
Show cards on Blab are finally here. They are currently only available for new blabs and only on the web, but are coming soon to Blab replays, on iOS and in tweets.
Instagram Limits Access From Third-Party Apps
Instagram announced several platform changes to improve people’s control over their content and set up a more sustainable environment built around authentic experiences on the platform, including a new review process for third-party apps starting December 3, 2015.
Facebook Mobile App Opens to Google Search
Facebook is allowing Google to crawl and index its mobile app, which means mobile search results from Google will display some content from Facebook’s app, including public profile information. The results appear as deep links that will take users to the relevant part of the Facebook app.
If you need help creating and publicizing your videos contact REVStaffing at 855.738.7821.
Or if your schedule is hectic, as most realtors are, schedule an introductory meeting at you convenience.
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