Outsourcing Tip Winner Announced…How to Organize Your Outsourcing

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Hi guys, Greg Purnell gets the V for this contest and wins a free ticket to my Lifestyle Business boot camp!

Here’s why I chose his…there are lots of productivity tips on how to get more done YOURSELF in less time, or one-time tasks you could describe to someone, assign, and follow up on.

But a whole level beyond that is to allow someone else to transform your vision of what you want into details and then execute as well.

Then, you get the same benefits of someone doing the work for you, but you also get free of the details, the organizing, the planning, the thinking through every step of the way, which can really add up over time.

So you can write detailed systems for routine tasks that you want done exactly the way you want it done, but it’s also nice to be able to just say “please do this” and have that person be smart enough to really think it through and make it happen even better than you could yourself.

Also, sending my assistants tasks by audio recordings (just use an Olympus digital recorder and email your voice notes as attachments) has helped remind me that I can just describe what I want, without typing it [slow], and can give more detail if needed in less time.

So there’s something to be said for details as long as you can communicate them in a really efficient way.

The moral of the story is to hire a superstar team that “gets” what you’re saying without a bunch of questions, but can just figure stuff out on their own to give you the result you want, which is more important than the means of getting it done, anyway.

I would only document a checklist or detailed instructions for something if it is going to be a routine task done in your business over and over that you want done exactly in a certain way.

One-time tasks and everything else, just rattle the tasks off to your team as fast as you can, and, as long as you hired right watch them soar.

You can see the other Outsourcing Tips readers submitted here.

Video: The Real Estate “Lifestyle Business Blueprint”

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Click Here to Watch “The Real Estate Lifestyle Business Blueprint”

I’m happy to announce that I’m putting on my first live event November 13-15, called The “Real Estate Lifestyle Business Boot Camp!”

It’s going to be a 3-day, in-depth look at how I run my own real estate investing business, producing a six-figure income, in less than 1 hour per day from anywhere in the world.

I was originally going to make it JUST about getting virtual assistants to run your business for you, but I realized the following:

* You probably want more than a piece of the puzzle…you want to see the whole thing laid out from start to finish

* A lot of investors are still super-overwhelmed with what types of deals to do, and how to get started, that I think showing how to set up an entire business (and THEN how to manage it) would be a lot more helpful

* Now we’ll get to talk about turn-key, done-for-you marketing methods that have worked for me consistently

* Focusing 100% on JUST how to create a super-simple wholesaling lifestyle business is going to be so much more powerful than bombarding attendees with other, optional types of investing that I hardly bother to do anymore, ike rehabs, landlording, etc.

To give you a preview of what we’ll cover, as well as some GREAT free training, I created the training video “The Real Estate Lifestyle Business Blueprint,” which gives a good overview of how I have set up my business, its different functions, and how I’m able to make more and live happier by having my business do LESS, not more.

Check it out today!  You’ll also get all the detail on the seminar at the video’s page.

Click Here to Watch “The Real Estate Lifestyle Business Blueprint”

Contest: What’s Your #1 Outsourcing / Automating Tip?

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Click Here to Get Details About Alan’s “Real Estate Lifestyle Business Event” Nov 13-15th

Good news!  I’m putting on my first 3-day seminar November 13-15th, and I’m looking for ONE person to invite for FREE!

All you have to do is write in your best outsourcing or time-saving tip, and I’m going to award a free ticket to the winner (worth $1995)!

It’s simple.  In the comments box below, write something you’ve learned or done in your own real estate investing that:

• Saves you a ton of time
• Makes life simpler and easier
• Has to do with outsourcing or delegating work to others
• Automates your business with technology

I’ll pick the winner in a week or two and announce it then.

NOTE: Contestants may submit more than one entry, so write in more tips to increase your chances of winning!