The Assistant Files by Elizabeth Gilbert
Tips, Advice, and Insight for Real Estate Administrative Professionals
Are you the type of person who reads the instruction manual all the way through, and then assembles the things step-by-step according to the instructions? Or are you the type of person who sees the picture on the box and…
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If you haven’t been using Google Forms, here’s a fun and easy way to get started. Before I had this Listing Docs Request Form, my listing agent would just email me to tell me who needed a listing agreement and…
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Keller Williams has a training program for real estate agents called BOLD. It’s an acronym for Business Objective: A Life by Design. It’s based on the premise that life is not something that happens to you. Life is something that…
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What are you still doing just because “that’s the way we’ve always done it?” It’s actually a poor excuse to do anything. I’m not suggesting that you question everything you do in life every time you do it. What I’m…
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Do you ever get clubbed over the head with an idea so powerful it nearly knocks you out? And usually that idea is probably something you’ve heard before, but you hear someone say it in such a way that it…
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Watch the video to see how I turn my square profile photo into a circle. And to see how I created my cool Gmail signature, click here.
I just created this new email signature for myself using Google Docs, and it’s super simple! First, open a new Google Docs document. Then, click Insert > Table and create a 2×1 table. Insert your photo in the left box…
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There are lots of things that matter in life and business. In life, we can say that the important things, the thing that matter, are family, finances, faith, health, friends, personal growth, etc. In a real estate business, we can…
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I came across this piece of advice today, “Accept chaos as a pre-existing condition, and avoid struggling against it.” As executive assistants in real estate, we are going to experience chaos on a daily basis. There’s no getting around it….
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If you’re having communication issues with the people on your team, it could be that you are unapproachable. When you’re unapproachable, this results in team members not giving you information in a timely manner, avoiding you unless you approach them…
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