The Day-to-Day Tasks of a Virtual Assistant

The real estate virtual assistants of OneVirtual Global Business Solutionsare dedicated administrative and marketing support executives who perform tasks as defined by their specific clients. They are the day-to-day extra arms of modern-day real estate agents. Their tasks involve attending to daily paperwork, scheduling, updating, encoding and performing sales and marketing functions as advised by their clients. Besides having multiple tasks, they are also expected to carry out all of these functions during their 8-hour shift notwithstanding technical issues that may hamper their daily tasks. As soon as the virtual assistant is logged in for the day, their first task is to report to their client via email informing them that they are ready to start their shift. Depending on the client’s task priority, they will now go about their usual work schedule.

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Social Media (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn)

The social media tasks that virtual assistants perform involve timeline updating, monitoring notifications, posting, answering messages and sending out invitations. You don’t need to be tech savvy in order to handle someone’s social media account. The only thing that a virtual assistant should remember when handling this task is to always post related topics, links, images or messages.

Most clients use social media to expand their network and circle of influence; which means that proper decorum and judgment should be observed when updates are made to the client’s respective social media accounts.
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Ad Posting (Craigslist, Trulia, Zillow and Point2.com)

Apart from social media, virtual assistants also utilize other methods in order to market products and services. While Craigslist offers a unique way to find goods and services online, there are several setbacks to their online classifieds platform: scams run rampant, spam ads are frequent and the minimalist design lacks user-friendly appeal. Now, different sites have mushroomed in and around the online marketplace. Although others are more streamlined than Craigslist, they could work for one-off instances when you need to get something specific done.
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Blogging (WordPress, Blogger)

A blog is a web page that serves as a publicly accessible journal for an individual—or in this case, a client. Updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality, point of view and thoughts of the author. Writing something about the product or service that you are marketing is also an effective way to reach out online. It is also a way to stir up the readers’ curiosity.
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Customer Service

We prioritize both handling our client’s concerns and taking care of our client’s customers which is why people-handling skills like being proactive, patient, empathetic and effective are mandatory requirements for a real estate virtual assistant.
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Listings and Contacts Management

Real estate professionals can really benefit from having someone compile and manage information and gather them in such a way that scheduling and list utilization can be maximized. Appointments can then be monitored and promptly conducted for surefire closed transactions. Those are just some of the perks of having a real estate virtual assistant who can do your listings and contacts management.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

By using a cyber marketing approach, virtual assistants consider how search engines work, what people search for, the actual keywords typed into the search engines and which search engines are preferred by their targeted audience. The more frequent the client’s website appears on the list of search results, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine’s users. Consequently, this catapults the client’s web page popularity and therefore results to marketing dominance.
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Marketing and Branding

Marketing is the foundation of every strategic approach that a virtual assistant performs for his client. Virtual tours, flyer creation, sales & lead generation are just some of the tasks that a virtual assistant does on top of the social media mileage that the client’s products or services get. These are only some of the tasks that real estate virtual assistants do for their clients during their eight-hour shift. As the day ends, reports and email correspondence are still a requisite. In the BPO industry, there are inbound agents, outbound agents, and virtual assistants—we’re more of a hybrid generation of offshore staffing.

3 Things That Make a Real Estate Virtual Assistant

Proactive, dependable, effective and efficient, they are simply the “clean-up-crew” of the toxic real estate community. They are sometimes called the “super staff”. They are the “go-to” guys when a real estate agent’s system of order goes haywire. No matter how hard the job is, no matter how daunting the tasks are, they always get the job done. But what exactly are the prerequisites in order for one to be worthy of being called a legitimate real estate virtual assistant?

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A WHACKED-UP BODY CLOCK

The real estate industry is a restless world. With real estate agents being on-call 24/7, they are constantly on the move. Thus, their virtual assistant is also not foreign to graveyard schedules, shifting schedules and of course, overtime.A whacked-up body clock allows a real estate virtual assistant’s system to be in sync with the schedule of their client whose location is 8,207 miles away and 13 or more hours ahead of them. It also constitutes to a broken meal schedule, a disoriented leisure time and a messed up love life. Well, you can’t have everything anyway, so why fret?
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CAFFEINE-INDUCED CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

The graveyard shift can often take its toll. While most real estate virtual assistants are already accustomed to sleeping during the day and working at night, some still find rest and sleep very elusive. A cup of potent coffee is a sure way to keep a virtual assistant alive, alert and enthusiastic. Coffee is a natural anti-oxidant that is a proven fat-burner. It helps inhibit diabetes, alzheimer’s and parkinson’s disease. It also helps keep the liver healthy so it’s definitely healthy and beneficial. As a matter of fact, a cup of coffee can prove to be a VA’s most reliable drug in order to stay productive.
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WESTERNIZED TONGUE AND THINKING

We can trace it down to history or even blame it on the immense popularity of western pop-culture, but there’s no denying that virtual assistants, especially those from the Philippines, have taken the second language and mastered it. This upgrading was caused by the length of time that they are exposed in chattering, chatting, bickering, flirting and rebutting with Americans over the phone that even in their dreams, their pronunciation, enunciation, syllabication, and diction including intonation, is undoubtedly westernized…but, grammatically correct. Undoubtedly, language and communication is a real estate virtual assistant’s main tool of trade.

Take It From The Pioneers of Onevirtual Solutions

Confessions of a Virtual Assistant

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It’s hard to find your first job. After all, your first job can make or break your career, but it will also provide a lot of new experiences that would steer your career into your preferred direction. For most people, it takes several jobs and several companies to find their destined place in the workforce. For some, deciding to stay and grow with a company could come as easy as after their first interview.

Take Christian Pueda – or Sam as what his colleagues would fondly call him–for example. He was looking for a job in the Business Process Outsourcing industry when he found out about OneVirtual Solutions (OVS) through his friend Mae Cortes. When Sam was told that OneVirtual Solutions was in need of virtual assistants (VA), he jumped right into the opportunity.

“I wasn’t exactly prepared to be a part of the company. I was like a blank paper and had no idea what OVS was or what a virtual assistant job would require,” Sam shared.

Although a bit disoriented at first, Sam eventually enjoyed his training days with OVS, as it was fun and interactive. He was able to learn the ins and outs of being a Real Estate Virtual Assistant quite easily.

“No job is ever easy. You must learn to focus and be attentive at all times. It takes a lot of determination but it will help you do your job better,“ Sam added.

For Karyl Casaquite, it’s all about connections. She heard about the job from her brother who happened to have already been working with OVS.

“It was a few months after I had my first baby and my skills weren’t that broad for the job but OVS gave me the opportunity to work and jump-start my career as a Virtual Assistant,” shares Karyl.

Like Sam, she also went through the usual application process. She was interviewed by Mae Cortes and although Karyl felt a little nervous during the interview, she landed the job and became a Real Estate Virtual Assistant.

Karyl and Sam were among OneVirtual Global Solution’s first batch of Real Estate Virtual Assistants. They underwent a series of training, building their skill set for the job and while they both describe the training as intensive, they also recalled all the fun memories they had. Both say it was very challenging at first but the self-fulfillment they earned after starting to perform their VA tasks proved that it was all worth it.

“I understood that clients have a different culture compared to ours. I always get nervous when my client would call to give me instructions, but in the long run, I got used to it. I was able to handle our conversations with more confidence as time went by,” shares Sam.

“There’s this one client who left a big mark on me as a VA. I have learned a lot from him and that’s what made me grateful for having him as a client. He made me realize that things should be taken seriously and should be done at your best. He taught me how to keep up with my work and to manage my time appropriately.”

As with any company or job, the pressure can make or break the employees. Karyl and Sam say that becoming a VA changed them. Asked why they chose to stay, they offered interesting insights.

“Yes, people come and go. I`d rather stay and challenge myself to do better every day than quit and let the pressure get to me. Leaving is a choice but so is becoming better at what you do. In the end we all have decisions to make,” Sam said.

While it was a matter of choice for Sam, Karyl’s reason tugs on an emotional note.

“I stayed because I could not find any other company that would choose to keep me and value my worth as an employee. I’ve had different jobs with different companies before but here in OneVirtual we are a family.”

OneVirtual Global Business Solutions (Virtual Assistant)

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If you are serious about growing your business and want clients to perceive you as professional and successful, then OneVirtual Global Business Solutions is the perfect solution.

We utilize today’s technology to deliver our services and communicate with clients by working remotely. Our core practice and specialty is that of administration. We also diversify; offering additional specialties that fall under various other categories, such as marketing, website development or maintenance, creative and technical services, etc. Our VA’s are also tasked with social media monitoring and the scheduling of social media posts for personalities, brands and businesses. For just a cost of a sandwich and a coffee a day, you can hire your own personal assistant which will help you manage your business tasks like a pro.

We can do Customer Service through Chat, Email and Phone Support so even though we’re miles away, we could be at your service any time you needed with less overhead cost in the same quality a live person could offer. We guarantee excellent service since OneVirtual Global Business Solutions pre-screens and only select Virtual Assistants with customer service background and excellent English communication and written skills. We make sure that our Virtual Assistants are prepared and trained for outstanding customer service and equipped with a variety of business backgrounds and several years administrative experience earned in the real (non-virtual) business world working in occupations such as administrative assistant, executive assistant, secretary, legal assistant, paralegal, legal secretary, real estate assistant, office manager, etc.

OneVirtual Global Business Solutions is a company providing clients with a wide variety of support services through a single point of contact. Tasks are delegated depending on who is best suited for the assignment. For instance, graphic design work would be delegated to a graphic designer within the company. The benefit to the client is that all types of services are offered under one roof and there is an assurance that client’s deadlines are met since that our VA’s are monitored every now and then by our Team Leaders to ensure quality and productivity.

As outsourcing continues to grow, it speaks a lot in terms of work quality, ethics and reputation.  If you’re a client seeking virtual assistant services, it is still important to take a look at a company’s credibility and track record of providing these services whether onshore or offshore. As a company providing virtual assistance, doing our best for our client is the best way to taking outsourcing to the next level.

OneVirtual Global Business Solutions is everything that you needed, so make up your mind and contact us right now. There’s no time to waste for success.

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The Growing Demand for Virtual Assistants

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When I started working in the BPO Industry, I was actually curious if what is a Virtual Assistant. First thought that came to mind is that, these virtual assistants are computers who assist people especially business executives: that they are projected out from a computer like those in the movies to take orders from the boss. I know that some are really laughing right now but it’s definitely true, that kind of assumption is really happening.Still a lot of people think that Virtual Assistants are only for the rich: that you can’t afford to have one if you only have a small business. And that’s the reason why I’m writing this, to straighten false assumptions on Virtual Assistance.

Virtual Assistants are real persons who provide professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients remotely from another office or offshore. The common modes of communication are Internet, email, phone calls using different free calling tools like Skype, yahoo messenger etc. Increasingly Virtual Assistants are utilizing technology such as Skype as well as Google Voice. Professionals in this business work on a contractual basis and a long-lasting cooperation is standard. Typically 5 years of administrative experience in an office is expected at such positions as executive assistant, office manager/supervisor, secretary, legal assistant, paralegal, legal secretary, real estate assistant, information technology,et cetera. They’re just like your ordinary office employee that can do all of the tasks required in a business. The only thing that can’t be done is making a coffee, BUT they always have ways in ordering a coffee for the boss from a coffee shop nearby, amazing right?

Nowadays, the demand for a Virtual Assistant is growing rapidly especially in the field of Real Estate in the US. Real Estate Professionals got tons of tasks in their shoulders and their trade is not predictable. There are those who get lucky and can close multiple sales in a year but there are those whose struggling to get even just one sale in a year.

A Virtual Assistant can offer his/her services to anyone. They are paid in an hourly basis so you could be able to manage your finances without sacrificing your time doing those extra administrative tasks that’s required in your business. They are also flexible individuals; they are willing to work with you on your most convenient time no matter where they are located. You don’t need to pay for any office space or equipment as well as benefits as all of those things are already included in the package.
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