Best Agent Business - Real Estate Assistants
One of the core lessons learned echoed by many of the Billion Dollar Agents interviewed was - Get an assistant as early as possible in your career! You should be focusing your time and energy on those tasks that are directly getting you to that billion dollar goal, and leave the smaller tasks to an assistant.
Best Agent Business does just that. Best Agent Business is a company started by Billion Dollar Agent - Lessons Learned author, Steve Kantor to provide part-time assistants to the top 10% of real estate agents in order for them to apply the lessons learned through Billion Dollar Agent.
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Here are just a sampling of those who feel that assistants are major asset to those in the real estate business:
Delena Ciamacco
Delegating is extremely hard for most people. We always think we can do it better or faster than anyone else. You must remember, however, there is only one of you and your time is not best spent doing tasks an hourly employee can do for you. I hired my first assistant when assistants were not even being used in our local industry.
She freed up my time by handling all the day to day activity so I could get out there to do what I knew I did best, SELL!
For each assistant I hired after her, my business grew and grew and grew.
Sid Lezamiz
My biggest mistake - I wish I had an assistant the day I started. I was scared to death I would not be able to pay my rent or my staff. It took me 5-6 years before I finally said I think I can afford to pay someone but I was scared to death. When I hired my first assistant, it had been six years. Six months later, I added a second one. The secret to making money is LEVERAGE. That is the key.
Gregg Neuman
My first assistant came after five years in the business. She was an all around assistant who basically did everything. I believe that once an agent is doing two deals a month for a year they should add an assistant or at least share an assistant. Most agents spend too much time micro managing and not enough time on dollar productive activities. The year that I added my assistant, my production doubled in that year. It was a very sound and wise investment.
Craig Proctor
I take an entire day at our SuperConference to discuss the important subject of leveraging yourself with people. I help agents calculate what they are worth per hour. The guy who makes $100,000 per year trades 2,000 hours of his life for $50/hour. Most of them never think of it in these terms. I get them to think about their typical day. I have them write down a list of what they do all day long. Then I have them make another list to the right where I have them specify how much it would cost to replace themselves for each of the tasks in the left column. What they discover is that about 70% of the things on the list could easily be done by an assistant making $20/hour.
I help them understand that what they really need to be in their businesses is the Rainmaker. I awaken them to this important concept. Rainmaker activities are those activities that make the change and growth happen in your business – they’re the activities you couldn’t hire a $20/hr assistant to do, because by doing these activities yourself, you can change the outcome in a way someone else couldn’t. You have to draw the line in the sand and say: “If I cannot change the outcome, then I should not be involved in that activity”. Banging in a For Sale sign, putting on a lock box, printing off a feature sheet – these are activities that are certainly NOT Rainmaker activities.
An agent will not change the outcome of a sale by wasting his or her time on activities like these that could easily be done just as well by someone else. You need to stop doing the $20/hour work because it takes your time from the things that truly will cause your business to grow and flourish.
Jerry Mahan
We get so caught up in new customers that we forget to service people who bought homes from us. Look at the dollars you are bringing in for 25 homes. This could be $150,000 a year. Take $25,000 of that and invest in an assistant that can do all your paperwork and marketing. Your time is worth $XX per hour. If you had someone else doing those appointments for you, what is it worth to you? I was paid when I went out and took people in cars or had listing appointments. I did not get paid sending information to people. My job was to help them locate a home or sell a home
Michelle Rizzo
I could pay someone to do something for $15-20/hour and go out and sell a house and make $8,000 commission. I need to be out talking with people, either listing and selling or negotiating. Anything other than that should be delegated. I would say out of 42 agents of them only 5-6 of them have assistants and almost 30-40 of them should have a part-time assistant. Even a few hours a week would help. I think one thing is control. You think you have to do all that. Sometimes it is a commitment to pay someone else’s salary. You also have to step back and know what you can delegate. You can’t go to the next level until you do that and get an assistant. In addition, it makes you look so efficient. My clients think I am so organized and it makes me look so good to my clients.
Ron Rush
Get an assistant immediately. Don’t put this off because you don’t have it in the budget. If necessary, borrow the money to afford an assistant who will support and emulate your values and work ethic. Your business will expand rapidly.
Phyllis Harb
When you get an assistant it allows you to have a life and it allows you to be more productive with your time. There are a lot of tasks that are not so useful. Having someone to help you like an executive administrator is very useful.
Gitta Urbainczyk
It took me 6 years until I hired my first assistant. That is when I really started to grow. I should have hired an assistant much earlier. You have to start much earlier. I was afraid to spend the money. If you do not spend the money then you do not grow. Finding the right team administrative people to really help you in the process.
Howard Brinton
I think they should hire an assistant from the very first day they start their business. Until you hire an assistant, you are one. Are you worth $20/hour or $100/hour?Brad Korb
Bringing in an assistant sooner so you are not doing it all. Get that stuff off your plate and spend your time on high dollar productive activities.
Valerie Fitzgerald
I think that
they feel that they cannot afford an assistant, and they are unsure
what to tell the assistant to do. I had made three sales and decided I
needed an assistant, when no one had an assistant at that time. I made
a list of everything I liked doing and of things I did not like doing.
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