Mr. AventuraRoman Pavlik is known as “Mr. Aventura” for being the specialist in the very unique and special community within Miami known as Aventura.  He has also been a student of mine for at least 3 or 4 years now (he also just joined my ULTRA eTEAM)  And one of the (many) great things about Roman is that he implements what he learns —period! 

Well, he took the ideas of using Virtual Consultants (as given in the ePRODUCTIVITY™ Course) and really ran with it.  Here’s a portion of the email I just received from him:

Hey Mike
I have found something really good. To make data entries and update my website, I am using through Elance, people in India for $1.50 per hour. They are entering all my keywords, page descriptions, loading pictures, creating pages. For free I dowloaded CAMSTUDIO which allows me to record my screen movements, so I send it as a tutorial to the VA so that they know what to do, rather than spending an hour to write down the keystrokes. See the email below that I responded to and click the link. best part is that when I go to bed, I assign it, and when I wake up it is done.
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Warmest Regards,

Roman Pavlik
Team Leader/Broker Associate
Pavlik Real Estate Group
Keller Williams
24/7: 305-965-6947
Cell: 305-343-3910
Fax: 305-675-3809
www.PavlikGroup.com

If you look at what he did carefully, he actually accomplished two very significant things for his business:

  1. He outsourced an important task that most sales associates do themselves to a group that does it for $1.50/hr (trust me, Roman’s time is worth many hundreds of times that);
     
  2. He quickly, easily and cleverly documented the process he wanted done by using a tool like Camtasia to record the actual process as he does it once on screen.  This gives his VAs an unambiguous process to follow when doing the work.  And it probably took less than 10 minutes to document and upload the entire process this way.

BTW, Roman is so on fire about Virtual Outsourcing that he created a course for his fellow sales associates called “How to Stuff 30 Hours of Productivity Into an 8 Hour Day”.

So what’s the take-a-way here?  Outsource, outsource, outsource anything that is not your core competency and document the process you want done in a way that cannot be misinterpreted.  You lose big money every time you do the work that can be done by someone else.  Lastly, one of the qualities that makes Roman such a great success is that he implements unfailingly.  Is it perfect every time? —no way.  Does he make mistakes? —you bet! Does he always move forward? —without question!!  So now that you know this is such a great idea, what are you going to do?

NOTE: the Camtasia free trial only lasts for about 30 days.  If you want to purchase it you can save a lot of money (if you have a kid in school) by purchasing it through Academic Superstore.