A virtual assistant (VA) agency provides trained remote workers, often based in lower-cost labor markets, to handle real estate investors' and agents' administrative, prospecting, and operational tasks: lead management, cold calling, data entry, transaction support, marketing, and more.
Log in to followRan an outbound VA program for eleven months and shut it down in the fall. Writing it up because the failure was structural and I didn't see it until month seven. Setup. Three VAs…
I've been building a small service offering around agent back office work and last year I finally got the unit economics to sit still, so here's what happened. The product was lis…
I've been trying to figure out which acquisition channel actually fits me and cold calling was winning on volume and losing on cost. Last spring I ran three VA dialers at $10.50/h…
I run rehabs and I wanted a steady flow of seller appointments without me on the phone. Set up an appointment setting desk through an agency in November: two dialers at $11/hr ful…
I signed with a VA agency in February at $9/hr for 20 hours a week, prepaid the quarter at $2,340 because the discount was 10% and I liked the idea of locking it in. The agency wa…
Eighteen months ago I was reselling VA hours into small investor shops at $22/hr and losing bids to anyone willing to go to $19. Margin was about 34% and shrinking. I finished the…
Three property rehab, running about $310k of combined budget, and I moved draw tracking and lien waiver collection to a VA in month two because I was drowning. The process I gave…
Signed a two seat agreement with a VA agency in the spring. Two years later I wanted to bring one of them in house directly, and the exit cost was $9,400. I want to be clear that…
Construction is my background, marketing is not, so when I decided to send mail on absentee owners in two counties I hired a VA through an agency at $8.50/hr to build the list. Te…