Kim Hughes - Real Estate Virtual Assistant Makes A Move!

As one of the first real estate virtual assistants to blog I have had my blog on Blogger and it has been great! But, as with any business I have looked long and hard at what is the best move to enhance my blogs.

So, I have made a positive move to WordPress. With the assistance of Kathy Drewien I am proud, excited and thrilled to announce that you can now visit us at www.VARoundtable.com for the latest and greatest in information regarding the virtual assistant industry and how a real estate virtual assistant can assist today's real estate professional.

We hope you will continue to support us at our new location and let us know what you think of the new layout, etc.

See you at VA Roundtable!

Can You Say - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

One of my Internet savvy clients contacted me last week in a panic about a virus that hit her computer. This client knows not to open unidentified emails, but she was in a rush and did not realize that she opened a specific email. When she did this a virus was released and her entire system crashed.

She had her husband who is extremely technology oriented and had his team of computer consultants work on the problem. This took a couple of days and still the results were not great. So, she then contacted Microsoft and they had her use this program to look deeper into her system.

She was quite impressed with the program since it found several worms, small viruses, etc and it totally cleaned her computer.

As a real estate virtual assistant I am always looking at programs to help me in my virtual assistant business as well as my clients, so this morning I saw this product on ZDnet.com and felt it was worthy of mentioning. You might want to bookmark it and try the free trial to see what is lurking on your computer.

Here is the information from ZDnets newsletter.

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is an anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware. It includes a number of features, including a built in protection monitor that blocks malicious processes before they even start. Version 1.25 adds advanced technology to delete files on reboot, ability to run a truly silent install, and support for Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, and Polish languages.

Kim Hughes Co-Authors Powerful Leadership Book

Kim Hughes Co-Authors Powerful Leadership Book

(Mineola, TX, August 18, 2008) Kim Hughes has contributed a chapter to The Power of Leadership – “Finding the Leader Within”. In this book, which is available for purchase on www.YourVirtualAssistantCoach.com, readers will learn to find success and happiness in their own lives.

Drawing from more than 10 years of experience as a Real Estate Virtual Assistant, Kim Hughes’ chapter teaches readers how to realize the dreams of owning their own Real Estate Virtual Assistant ventures. This chapter is packed full of information, including everything from what it takes to be successful to the type of services that can be offered.

With over 25 years of experience in the real estate and mortgage industry, Kim Hughes is a highly accomplished virtual assistant whose specialty is providing marketing and administrative support to real estate professionals. She was involved in creating two real estate organizations to help virtual assistants network and learn new skills. She is also the author of The FIRST Real Estate Virtual Assistant Handbook and the owner of Kim Hughes & Company (www.kimhughes.com), which offers virtual assistant services to real estate professionals worldwide. She also provides virtual assistant coaching through Your Virtual Assistant Coach and is the founder of a Google Group for real estate virtual assistants that is currently accepting new members upon approval. To join the group, visit REVA Rainmakers. For more information about Your Virtual Assistant Coach, visit www.YourVirtualAssistantCoach.com or call 903-569-6763.

Increase Your Residual Income Stream

Are you a business owner? Are you constantly looking for ways to introduce yourself to your market area? Are you always looking for referrals? If you said yes to these questions the you are in for a treat!

I have an amazing referral marketing program that touches people on a personal level. There is nothing out there like it.

Because I am a real estate virtual assistant I have implemented this program with many of my client's to stay in touch with past clients, referrals, potential clients and farm areas. The response has been incredible!

Watch this video and after you watch it visit my website at www.SendIncredibleCards.com to receive your 2 FREE cards.

And, after you watch the video and would like to explore how this amazing program will work for you, drop me an email Kim@SendIncredibleCards.com and we can get together to answer any questions you might have. No obligation! Just wanting to share this proven method of referral marketing.

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Retagger - Get IT NOW!

Create a new profile for yourself. As a real estate virtual assistant I have found this geat little tool to be easy and fun at the same time. Retaggr is a site that allows you to enter the information for all of your online profiles in one place. The best part is that retaggr uses the information you input to generate an "interactive Web 2.0 social and business card." You can then embed the card on your blog, website, or email, and then when people view it, they can click on the icons and be taken instantly to the site of their choice, where they will land on your profile.

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Go to retaggr and sign up for an account.

Best Virtual Assistant Tips

Have you ever wondered how many niche markets the virtual assistant works with?

Research shows that currently there are over 2,000 virtual assistants. With this many virtual assistants working all over the world the question has been asked -

"Exaclty what is their niche?"

"What services do virtual assistants offer within that niche?"

Each one of us offer services in either a specific niche, such as me - I only offer real estate virtual assistant services to the real estate industry. But, there are virtual assistants that offer their services to many industries based on their talent, knowledge and experience.

A virtual assistant might offer their services to real estate professionals, business coaches, lawyers, etc.

What services do you offer your niche market?
How many niches do you have?
If you were to offer one tip on that niche market what would it be?

Have you ever asked these same questions? Well, now it is time to find out!

I am putting together a survey on this very topic. If you are interested in participating in what will sure to be an incredible survey here is what you need to send me by September 1, 2008.

1. What is your niche market? If you work in more than one, list each niche.

2. For each niche market you work with share an amazing tip.

Once I compile this information you will be contacted to how this survey will be distributed and for participating you will receive recognition for your input. What a win-win situation!

So, what are you waiting for? Be one of the first virtual assistants to participate in a very important survey that will surely impact our industry!

Email me your information NOW! - BestTips@KimHughes.com and make sure to include:

Full name
Website
Email address
Physical address
Phone number - Best one to contact you, if we have any questions.

This is going to be a very exciting survery and one that I know will benefit each virtual assistant, as well as the industry they offer their services.

Get involved and email me today. Deadline will be September 1, 2008

Search Engine Tools - Learn - Rank - Dominate!

SEO Book.com is a leading SEO blog by Aaron Wall covering the search space. It offers marketing tips, search analysis, and whatever random rants come to mind. ;) The first version of my popular SEO Book came out in December of 2003. I have probably revised it about 50 times since then.

As a real estate virtual assistant your goal should be to stay on top of the latest programs and tools that will help your real estate clients to achieve their goals in staying on top of the search engines.

As everyone knows, buyers and sellers search the Internet now more than ever to research for homes for sale.

If a real estate agent is looking for virtual assistance then they will want a real estate virtual assistant who will know what is going on with today's technology and expect you to know how to help them position themselves in their market place.