All Forum Posts by: Dan Rosenberg

Sounds great! Is there anything my team can help with virtually? WE're $6 an hour.

I want to know your thoughts about something that I realize is a sensitive subject in our present day and challenges my own industry.

Call it career suicide, but I offer no apologies for opening this discussion because I'm hopeful that it will spark some interesting ideas amidst what I know is an intellectual group of people.

If I'm wrong about anything in the post, PLEASE speak up, and tell me. Yes, I care.

Once in a great while in my industry, ethics are questioned. And if it only happens once in a great while, I'll take a leap and suggest that it's on the minds of many people in real estate.

Is it TRULY ethical to hire a virtual assistant, or an appointment setter, or even have someone overseas helping you grow your business?

A woman recently said on Facebook that she wishes more realtors could find a US assistant instead.

I'm going to take another leap and guess that when her post said "sent from a mobile device", that it was an iPhone, Android, or other modern smart phone that was made overseas. But that's just feeding rhetoric with rhetoric, right? So let's pivot to a different point.

John is a realtor who believes in making things in the U.S., buying things in the U.S., and he stands firm in his beliefs. But he's starting out with very little capital. It's hard for him to afford $15-20 an hour for an in-person assistant. He doesn't want to pay less than that, because he just can't stomach paying a person less than they deserve.

LIke 87% of all realtors, John throws in the towel in real estate. He never DID get the capital he needed to grow a team. To expand. To scale.

Now what about Robert?

Robert is an Apple lover, right down to his precious airbuds, and his iProducts. He's got the Steve Jobs bio on his shelf, and even rocks the black turtleneck.

He likes following the philosophies of companies like Apple with a raving-fan culture. Companies who created tens of thousands of US jobs. He has the same views as John - he also wants to create US jobs. (But wait! I thought Apple made products overseas, so how is THIS possible?)

John hires someone overseas, because he wants to do what's best for the business. His #1 priority is doing whatever he can to maximize his time and profitability, so he can focus his time where it counts.

He grows.

He now has listings and can even play in the investor space. But that's not all - John can now afford to hire Jessica - a phenomenal US-based assistant to help field out the interested incoming calls. Jessica is extremely sharp, and she makes exactly what she deserves; not to mention, they fall in love. They live happily ever-after with their real estate empire that now employs over 500 US workers. Wow.

Modern times call for forward-thinking people. So tell me. Do you really think that our country is the only one who should eat? Do you actually feel that to be amazing we need to keep it all in America, or can we all grow together? Can we all partake in a world economy?

Tell me your thoughts. No apologies will be offered, or requested from me! Can't wait to hear what your two cents are. I know it's a little political, but let's try to keep this practical.

Tell me, is it ethical? 

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Hi Monica - we can help if you already have access to quickbooks :) 

Upswing is trained in the investment world. We'll team you up with a virtual assistant who will call your buyer/seller leads, wholesales leads, and more. We can also do skip-tracing. Circle prospecting. Drip campaigns. Social media. You name it, we can hep for $6.00 an hour. Look at what one investor said about us, or check out our site at www.upswing.today. PM me to find out more.

Hello Shaun - hope you got my DM! If not, please do feel fee to email me so we can connect by phone and/or email.

If you had $6 to spend however you wanted, would you invest it in:

a) Starbucks (it's ok, we need ours too)

b) a pack of smokes (or is it $7 now?)

c) someone to call over 100 leads in one hour, landing you buyers/sellers, or any kind of investor appointment you need?

If your answer was C, then let's talk. Our ISA's are $6 an hour, and you can still work Starbucks into the budget!

Leave your comment below - let me know whether you'd pick A, B, C, or all of the above!

You're here - in the investment world. You followed advice of wise mentors, and you've ignored the advice of your friend who says, "Dude, I just read this one article about investing...".

And it's all of these correct choices that have brought you to where you are today.

But you have FAR too much to do, and an investor can only grow so much without a team.

The question is: Which aspects of your business are succeeding because your inner control freak is in charge, and which parts could be just as successful if someone else was helping?

Enter the virtual assistant world. Maybe you've considered hiring one. Your investor friends use one. For the people who love their assistant, it seems like the best thing since...(do we still say sliced-bread, or did that expire in the 80's?).

Whether you take advantage of it or not, people are out there, in other parts of the world who need the work - and you can make your productivity great again by working with a virtual assistant.

So take inventory. What tasks do you every single day that IF done by someone else, would allow you to re-allocate your time towards the things that bring more value to your business?

Are you functioning only in the spaces where you are needed for your unique touch, or are you feverishly grasping onto cumbersome tasks while your competitors are cruising by in the fast lane?

Whether you use my company for this or someone else's, maybe it's time to step on the gas pedal. 

Build something now (for $6 an hour, we can help), or, as my workout trainer once said; "do something with somebody". 

Your inner control freak will still be at the helm where it counts; and your trusted right-hand virtual assistant will be there for pretty much everything else.

Take inventory TODAY of what tasks you need to get off your plate. Let me know if I can help with any suggestions at all!

Agreed, Brian! . I can say its much better than an investor doing it themselves because it's a cumbersome task.