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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Hot take - vibe coding right now is the equivalent of dropshipping in 2014.
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    After implementing this advice, my new problem is that I have TOO MANY qualified leads on a daily basis. Today is Friday, and after filtering out the bad leads, I have 65 qualified leads that booked tours.. I couldn't possibly do all of them myself (nor with my brother who also does some...
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    Excellent. I've hired out all of my administrative work as well to the VA and I pick up almost no phone calls except important ones. I built the automated excel sheet to qualify and disqualify renters who booked tours, and got a VA to send text messages to qualified people confirming their...
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    Right... I actually just tried this and something I thought was really complex (qualifying renters) is actually really easy.
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    Thanks again. I was actually able to set up conditionals on excel that will automatically cancel or qualify people and put them on a different list based on conditionals of renter qualities. Really saved a lot of time. Awesome advice.
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    Also, because of the hire due to your recommendation, I have been able to peacefully work with absolutely zero interruption from phone calls except ones that are important and need to be taken in order to close a deal. The VA is immaculate.
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    Out of curiosity, I am curious if you have a recommendation for a scheduling system that VA or technology can do. Basically, I show apartments and people book tours on my calendar and sometimes there could be upwards of 20 to 30 qualified leads that I should be showing that day but initially...
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    Thanks, this was helpful.
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    For me it's worth it because: Each rental is $600 to me 2 closed rentals pays for it. In June, I had 33 move ins. Yes Exactly! Thanks!
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    You need both. Renters who are calling are hot leads looking to rent apartments now. The renters who call are converted to calendar bookings. Call --> Short script --> Send link --> lead books
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    I just hired my answering service. $240 for the week, speaks perfect english.. $6 an hour. my hourly rate is much higher than that so it's a no-brainer currently. They start working tomorrow, let's see how it goes! Thanks for the recommendation. This may save me 5+ hours per day.
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    The thing is the leads are being sent to me via email as well and there is a lot more emails that I get then the calls. The email outreach can be automated. And I can also text those people. But the phone cala that is hard to automate. I actually think that I have worse performance on my tours...
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    Pretty straightforward. Thanks
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    Thanks for answering and if possible I'd love your input further: Basically, what happens is all of the people that opt in on zillow, hotpads, apartments.com, etc are auto-contacted by my text message system. it contacts more than 100-150 inquiries per day with a calendar link to book a tour...
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    Sales People Who Work With Thousands Of Leads - Any Advice?

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    Sales people (or business owners), need advice.. I work in real estate leasing sales and the absolute biggest problem I have is.. That I cannot go 5 minutes without getting a phone call from an inbound lead. I literally feel like I have to be on my phone all day. There seems to be no time to...

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