How to Hire a Great Transaction Coordinator (LA 1824)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:
Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley Of The Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill's going to talk about how to hire a great transaction coordinator. All week this week, we're answering questions or doing topics on frequent customer service requests from our staff.
Jill K DeWit:
Yep.
Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope by now we have a full blown commercial printing company to get your offers out to owners. It's called offers2owners.com, the number two. Jill and I set this company up several years ago out of pure frustration with dealing with regular commercial printing companies not understanding mail merges and how our business works. So we decided to do it ourselves.
Jill K DeWit:
Take matters into our own hands.
Steven Jack Butala:
Fast forward to today, we do between 700,000 and a million offers a month for other people to buy land and houses and other stuff. Check it out.
Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:
support@offers2owners.com.
Jill K DeWit:
Ty wrote, "Got my first check today. Net, 79,000 bucks." Nice job. "I've had a lot of challenges this year, both in and out of Land Academy. Glad to get my first deal completed, under my belt, and glad it was significant enough to make it all worth it."
Steven Jack Butala:
So as you can imagine, congratulations, by the way. As you can imagine, this Discord, everybody in the group was really-
Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:
Really supportive of this.
Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that great?
Steven Jack Butala:
There's a subsection in Discord called success stories.
Jill K DeWit:
Success.
Steven Jack Butala:
And that this was posted in there. Hey, if you want to check out Discord, go to landinvestors.com. We embedded it. You can't play with it, but you can just look, you can-
Jill K DeWit:
Look around.
Steven Jack Butala:
You can view only and check out, you'll see this question. Actually all the questions come from there.
Jill K DeWit:
So does it take you right into Discord, you can click around? Or is it just that window, what pops up in the window?
Steven Jack Butala:
You can click around on the stuff that the general people can click around on, the general Land Academy members.
Jill K DeWit:
So you have filtered content that they can see and stuff they can't see?
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Like for Career Path and all that, you can't see it.
Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I just curious.
Steven Jack Butala:
And you can click through, but you just can't ask any questions or add anything.
Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Noted.
Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, how to hire a great transaction coordinator. This is why you're listening.
Jill K DeWit:
Okay. The first thing about hiring a great transaction coordinator is not, "I'm going to steal Jill's." That's not-
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:
That is not how you do that.
Steven Jack Butala:
Our entire staff gets a lot of job offers
Jill K DeWit:
Had that happen all the time. I used to get job offers when I was first working with you and doing deals. That, and I got wedding proposals, but anyway, marriage proposals.
Steven Jack Butala:
Did you get one of those recently?
Jill K DeWit:
Not yet, not recently, no.
Steven Jack Butala:
Did you get one this year yet?
Jill K DeWit:
No, no. You know what's kind of funny?
Steven Jack Butala:
I don't get any of those.
Jill K DeWit:
I don't wear rings at the gym.
Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, geez.
Jill K DeWit:
Side note. And I don't share personal stuff that much. I'll talk about traveling or things like that, but I don't say who I'm with or what we're doing.