SUCCESS STORY:
(full story)
How One
Kansas City Team Is Earning MORE By Working LESS
...
(Editor's Note: The following
is a reprint of an e-mail sent to me by Wendee
Hawn, Marketing Agent for The Cone Team, RE/MAX of
Kansas City, on how she found a Virtual Consultant
from eLance.com to build a sophisticated e-mail
database solution...)
Dear
Mr. Internet,
After attending your Internet Rally in Kansas City
this April, I learned of the
www.elance.com website. Being the Marketing
Agent on a busy RE/MAX team, I could always use
some assistance on projects that I don't have the
time or staff to do. Having someone available to
do a project as needed is much cheaper than hiring
staff to be there all the time.
I went to Elance and found so many categories of
work they performed! I instantly started thinking
of other ways to use them by browsing their
categories and reading feedback from other's
projects. The reason I had went to Elance was to
get a realtor email database setup for new listing
notifications, price reductions, and events. I
entered my project and had 10 bids by the next
day. I read through profiles and feedback comments
and finally chose a Kansas City native with
realtor database experience. She so exceeded my
expectations!
I had wanted the emails to use with my Outlook
program but you have to enter new contacts one by
one and since her database was over 1500 email
addresses, that wouldn't have been a fun time for
me! She suggested opening up a Hotmail email
account (free) where you can just cut/paste email
addresses into groups. Hotmail will only send 50
at a time though so I have groups setup by broker
(remax1, remax2...). She made the whole process so
much easier and setup the groups in Hotmail for me
for no extra charge. This saved me so much work
and I can't wait to outsource more things to
Elance in the future.
Thanks, Mr. Internet, for telling me of this great
service!
Wendee Hawn
As a result of his story,
Wendee wins a copy of the 2001 edition of
ePOWER! PRO, the online success "bible"
for real estate professionals ($129 value)! Great
job Wendee! (There must be something about living
in the Midwest, these folks are *doers"! --this is
the 2nd winner in a row from KC!)
Remember, submit your (real) success story to Mr.
Internet at
success_story@epowernews.com and if it shows
up in this newsletter you will win your own copy
of ePOWER! PRO. |
