5,772,575
Donna,
Our measuring stick for this is: "Is this worth the time to do it myself?" How do you value your time per hour? We outsource considering what we would charge for our time. Recently, a client wanted us to review their CMA presentation and make new suggestions. We suggested that he reviews all the points, and let us know what he felt were weak point, and we would work on those, This saved him $$$ of our hourly rate, and he got what he wanted exactly. A
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
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Women of Westchester W...
West Harrison, NY
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Susan Haughton
Alexandria, VA
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Gabe Sanders
Stuart, FL
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Les & Sarah Oswald
Eastvale, CA
1,280,748
Ron & Alexandra Seigel ~That's a good measuring stick. Now I need to figure out what my time is worth! Thanks!
Sarah & Les Oswald ~Very similar to what Ron & Alexandra do in their business!
Gabe Sanders ~We do just about everything ourselves too, that's why I'm trying to determine what's best to outsource. Back end web stuff for sure!
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
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Women of Westchester W...
West Harrison, NY
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Gabe Sanders
Stuart, FL
1,280,748
Thanks Debbie. It's just me and Rich, no assistants. I'm not sure I want any either. I would prefer to outsource to companies that specialize. Just need to figure out what makes the most sense to do.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
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Women of Westchester W...
West Harrison, NY
1,280,748
Makes good sense Sam Miller .
Jenna Dixon ~I'm not very good about mailings either, however I haven't found a realiable source that mails when I want them too. Guess I need to do more due diligence to find the right partner.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
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Women of Westchester W...
West Harrison, NY
864,658
I always ask what is the return of my time worth? Is my hourly rate $10 or am I worth much more? I also make sure I am not spending my time on things I have no expertise at, such as website building.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
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Gabe Sanders
Stuart, FL
630,251
1,280,748
Margaret Rome, Baltimore Maryland , Joan Cox and Susan Haughton ~Thanks for sharing. I'm going to be working on our plan for 2015 and I want to be smart about how we spend our time!
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
1,027,602
We outsource newsletters, website stuff, monthly local events calendars. photography and videos. I need to revamp things this year, though, hope to look at that in December.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
5,868,544
I had an assistant last year, and did not work out, so AGAIN doing everything myself. I did hire someone to come in weekly to clean my floors. That really helps!
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
3,854,909
This is the first year I have outsourced my photography..hired professionals and love the quality of the pictures and the time saved.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
1,280,748
Lawrence "Larry" & Sheila Agranoff. Call 631-805-4400 (c) ~Do you outsource any of your marketing, web design, mailings?
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
4,333,761
Larry and I handle all our clients, even when it gets a little hectic at times. We like to know first-hand how a deal is progressing...
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
2,817,671
I do my best to delegate work to my assistants and trying to empower them more as they learn more/take on more responsibility. I focus on the customer/estimates/trying to close sales and directing all the marketing/networking. (I also have to take care of paying bills/books, etc.)
I have an acct to help w/ me taxes and quickbooks, etc. This year I'm doing more on quickbooks but plan next year is to that hopefully I can have money to pay bookkeeper at acct do this work.
My assts do things like answer the phones, set up appts, confirm, send out thank you cards after appts, 1 yr anniversary, take care of all of productiong (e.g. setting up installs, getting deposits/balances, going to job starts, etc, manage issues/questions that come up on jobs), dropping of donuts to realtors, dropping off thank you gifts to customers, etc. (we have way more customers than you have clients). Following up w/ leads to set up appts, read my emails..whatever I can think of to have them do to allow me to go to more appointments w/ customers.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
1,853,099
Donna Foerster, We outsource web design, web templates, printing, postcard designs, single page websites, most video editing, court house research on our listings to name just a few.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
4,800,082
Donna Foerster, I do too much myself. Almost everything. Back end web design stuff I leave to the experts.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Dagny Eason
Wilton, CT
6,393,404
I am a believer in empowering others, I teach and coach others to success.
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
279,878
1,280,748
Thank you Susan Haughton and Dagny Eason ! I'll keep your processed in mind when planning for 2015. Thank you for sharing.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
1,315,804
I like to outsource the photography for the larger more expensive homes, and outsource some of the newsletter and mailings to an old assistant, and have a part time video editor... During the summers I have been hiring interns to help on some of the research for my website.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
3,071,489
4,319,419
1,280,748
7,836,134
Very busy agents need one or more assistants to help with the phones and to update the database,