Real Estate Virtual Assistant / Internet Marketing Specialist

Virtual Assistant Anna Baron specializes in Internet marketing.

Real Estate Virtual Assistant Anna Baron specializes in Internet marketing for real estate professionals.  In business as a Virtual Assistant since 1997, we’ve seen the real estate industry morph into an Internet driven business.

Our services focus on marketing your business online!   As an Internet marketing specialist, Anna Baron can assist you with web site design, ezines, desktop publishing (postcards, flyers and brochures), search engine optimization and consulting.  Take a look below at some of the services that we can offer your business!

Certified Real Estate Virtual Assistant

Successful agents know that a team approach is the key to building your business.  Finding an assistant who’s competent and qualified is easier than ever.  Don’t fall for the jack-of-all-trades VA – invest in specialist who can get the work done in half the time.

If you’re an agent that has a hard time letting go of the administrative and marketing details of your business, think about this?  How many hours per week do you put in to administrative and marketing tasks?  10 hours per week?  20 hours per week?  What if you could instead delegate those tasks to a specialist leaving you with an extra 10-20 hours per week to spend with clients, networking or with your family?  Think about it!

The Virtual Link focuses on assisting REPs with their marketing efforts.  From web site design, e-mail stationery, e-zines, flyers, brochures and search engine optimization, we can help you coordinate your marketing efforts and brand your business.

Click here to see how a Virtual Assistant can save you time and money!

Real Estate Web Sites

All of our real estate web sites include standard features such as IDX, Featured listings, Calculators, a Blog, SEO techniques, lead generation tools and forms, sitemap, domain name and hosting if needed!   The key is creating and maintaining a web site that differentiates you from the competition.

Choose from a custom HTML web site or a Content Management System – we use Joomla.  

Neighborhood/Community Web Sites

Many agents are now focusing on individual communities within the cities that they service and are creating online communities for these neighborhood sites.

When RE/MAX Hall of Famer and Star Power member James Nellis of The Nellis Group decided he was ready to start building Community Sites, he came directly to The Virtual Link to begin the process.

Click here to view the Burke Centre Community web site.

Custom Web Sites

With over 80% of today’s shoppers utilizing the Internet to search for their new home, Web sites are a major component of your businesses success.  Designed properly, a web site should give visitors a fast and easy way to disseminate information on your services and listings.   We can provide custom designed web sites which are built using the best search engine optimization techniques!  Our custom web sites come with search engine submissions, optimization and rankings report free for 6 months from launch of your web site.   

http://www.realwealthcareer.com/ Austin real estate agent Dawn Krantz recently changed over to EXIT Realty.   Dawn and her husband Scott are coaches and  mentors to other agents and needed a  unique web site to focus on their coaching.   Complete site design, utilizing SEO techniques.	http://www.howardcountyrealestate.com/ Howard County Maryland real estate agent John Hurly recently redesigned the look of his site. Complete site redesign, utilizing SEO techniques.

Content Management Systems - Joomla

Content Management Systems are dynamic web sites for REALTORs and quickly becoming popular for their ease of use and online marketing.  Joomla is easy to install and even easier to manage.  Highly regarded for its flexibility, power and reliability, Joomla is hands down becoming the favorite open source content management system. Joomla templates are available for sale but we recommend customizing your site so that your real estate web site is unique.  If you already have a Joomla site and would like help customizing it or optimizing it for the search engines, contact us, we’ll be happy to help!

Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing encompasses a myriad of tools and techniques designed to help you grow your business.
 
It’s all about getting leads!  Focusing your time on money generating activities is the key to building your business.  Utilizing a Virtual Assistant who specializes in Internet marketing will save you time and money as well as a lot of headaches along the way.
 

Logo’s and Branding

Identity branding is the key to being remembered.  Your logo is your identity in the marketplace and its imperative that you set yourself apart from your competitors by putting your personality into your branding efforts. 

Utilizing your new logo. we can assist you with creating your e-mail stationery, e-zines, business cards, print stationery, envelopes, print ads, online ads, banners, postcard templates, presentation templates, flyer templates, and company brochures.

Drip Mail Campaigns

Drip mail campaigns when utilized correctly provide not only valuable information for your visitor but also builds your database and keeps your name in front of the visitor over a period of weeks or months using a carefully coordinated drip mail system that is customized by the type of client, whether they are buyers, sellers or investors.

The Virtual Link uses Aweber for our lead management system.  Aweber is a double opt-in system which keeps your online marketing SPAM compliant.  Additionally Aweber allows for multiple databases to keep your leads separated.  Keeping your leads separated allows you to customize your drip mail campaign for that particular visitor/lead.

Aweber is also able to effectively send out messages and e-zines in either text or HTML as well as provide information on the number of click throughs.  Using your web site layout and colors, we will design an e-mail stationery for use in your drip mail campaign and eZines in order to help you to brand your business.

Virtual Assistant Coaching

If you are interested in becoming a Virtual Assistant and need a Virtual Assistant coach, Anna Baron has 10 years of experience as a Virtual Assistant and has been coaching VAs for over 5 years.  As a member of Coachville for 5 years Anna Baron has been successfully coaching Virtual Assistants who are launching their business as well as providing consulting services to in-house assistants who need to learn the latest tools and techniques in Internet marketing.   

In The News

As a Certified Real Estate Assistant and Certified Real Estate Support Specialist, The Virtual Link is honored to be listed in Florida Realtor Magazine’s 2007 Best Solutions Guide.  We’re highly recommended by Allen Hainge and proud to work for his CyberStars.  In addition, Anna Baron and TheVirtualLink.com have been highlighted in Texas Realtor Magazine, mentioned twice in Florida Realtor Magazine (article 1, article 2), and have been featured twice on EpowerNews (article 1, article 2). 

As a Virtual Assistant, Anna has been highlighted in The Entrepreneurial Parent by Jeff and Sarah Edwards, The Dallas Business Journal and featured three times at IVAA she holds the certifications of IVAA CVA (Certified Virtual Assistant), CRESS (Certified Real Estate Support Specialist) and is Ethics Checked.

Real Estate Virtual Assistant Organization

Anna Baron and Kim Hughes had a vision in 2004 that with the increased popularity of real estate virtual assistants, that there needed to be an organization available for REVAs to learn, share and collaborate with. That organization was originally named CyberStarVA in 2005, but in 2006 we took that organization to the next level by making membership available to in-house assistants as well. IREAA, the International Real Estate Assistants Association. If you're a real estate virtual assistant, an in-house assistant or a real estate professional who's assistant could use an organization to help keep you on the leading edge of Internet technology, IREAA is the organization to join!

Most real estate virtual assistants specialize in a particular niche, such as Internet marketing, listing coordination or transaction management. Some real estate professionals use multiple REVAs to get more work done. If you're looking to find a Real Estate Virtual Assistant to support you in your business, visit the RFP (Request for Proposal) area at IREAA and submit the tasks you're needing assistance with. Rest assured the RFP section is private and your contact information will not be given out. Your information remains anonymous, yet when one of our members responds to your RFP, you recieve their full contact details so that you can contact the REVA to discuss your tasks further.

If you like the idea of using a Real Estate Virtual Assistant, but not quite sure how to start, take a look below, this is just a small sample of some tasks that a REVA can assist you with!

• Gather listing information
• Prepare market analysis
• Answer the telephone (forward calls, take messages)
• Schedule appointments
• Web site design/maintenance
• Search Engine Optimization
• Build PowerSites™ or single property sites
• Input listing information into a multiple listing service
• Newspaper  and magazine advertising - write and place advertising
• Type forms
• Bookkeeping
• Property cards
• Postcards - just listed or just sold
• Promotional mailings
• Thank you gifts
• Research demographic information
• Schedule/ confirm appointments:
• list or show property
• property inspector
• repair/maintenance person
• appraiser
• Follow up calls
• Organize open houses
• Perform clerical duties
• Drip marketing campaigns
• Transaction coordination
• Personal tasks
• Flyers
• Listing presentations
• Virtual tours
• Open house invitations
• Thank you notes
• Client gifting
• Newsletters/eNewsletters
• Customer call backs
• Research/order promotional items

You can find great local Texas real estate information on Localism.com Anna Baron is a proud member of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, a free online community to help real estate professionals grow their business.

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