Personal Assistant Break-in Period
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Jack Butala: Jack and Jill here.
Jill DeWit: Hello.
Jack Butala: Welcome to the Jack Jill show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.
Jack Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about our personal assistant break-in period. The positive and the negative.
Jill DeWit: When was the last time you had a personal assistant? Other than me?
Jack Butala: An actual personal assistant?
Jill DeWit: I think you have one.
Jack Butala: That's hilarious.
I haven't had a personal assistant in the terms I think that we all think about. Like in that role, for years. Years and years.
Jill DeWit: Well, there's a reason why. We can talk about it in a minute. Ha ha.
Jack Butala: So before we get into it, let's take a question, posted by one of our members, on the Jackjill.com online community. It's free.
Jill DeWit: Okay. Julian R. asked, "Hi everyone. I had some questions about Craigslist, so I searched the forum and here's what I found." This is like he's quoting other people here. It says, "Kevin put: I do not update the listing on Craigslist until it expires. Again, to my surprise, I sometimes get calls on ads that are so old, that I know there are several pages down from the top. I recently found out that not all Craigslist areas have the same expiration periods for ads. In one county, there's a major city and a general area that are both listed as Craigslist advertising areas. One of them had a one month expiration and the other has a two week expiration date."
He also said on another post, "You can go crazy updating listings on Craigslist, but you don't have to. I post a property one time on Craigslist. That's it. People are calling me a month later on that property and I know that it is three pages down. They know how to search and pull up what they want. I may miss a few who don't search, but then, I can use my time doing something more profitable."
And then he goes on to say, Kevin said, with respect to getting deleted, this is cute, "Remove links. That seems to be the biggest problem with land ads. I have ads on Craigslist that work just fine. You just have to follow their rules. I write up my website address and leave it up to the reader to paste it into the browser if they want to go there."
And then there's another one. Peter provided a nice link. Outsourcing Craigslist tasks and overseas VA.
Jack Butala: So you obviously can't see the link, but if you Google that, "outsourcing, Craigslist tasks" to an overseas virtual assistant (which is kind of what this topic is about). I checked it out, it's pretty cool. Anyway, go ahead, Jill.
Jill DeWit: Is it an article? Or is it something on our website?
Jack Butala: It's not on our website. It's just a website out there that says, "Outsource Craigslist off to virtual assistants, we're experts".
Jill DeWit: That's awesome.
Matt said, "I saw a ton on Craigslist. I had a lot of my success posting in neighboring states that have different terrain than my properties. Example: property's in the mountains, and the state next to it is flat. People want to vacation in the mountains." This is good stuff. And then Mike said, "I post in the three largest nearby cities."
Jack Butala: That's what we do.
Jill DeWit: "I would post every other day. Use the same body and pictures, but rotate the headlines". That's customer's research stuff; that's Jack's...