Scaling at Your Own Pace (LA 1392)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Good day.

Steven Butala:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:

I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California

Steven Butala:

Today, Jill and I talk about scaling at your own pace.

If there's one thing I've learned from all the successful people in the Land Academy Advanced Group, is that they had a plan, they executed the plan. Some of it worked, some of it didn't. They stayed on course. They hit a plateau. They set another goal, scaled up, did what they needed to take, scaled up. They had a plan. We talked about this yesterday just a little bit. You hit that ceiling. Now you understand what you're doing, make some mistakes, healthy mistakes, and you just keep scaling. And you have to do it at your own pace.

I think it's really important, when you're ready, that's the time to scale. There's very rare Type A personalities that can just barrel through this and just become successful at it-

Jill DeWit:

True.

Steven Butala:

... in a couple of months. I'm not that person. I have to do research. This one, maybe. You barrel right into everything.

Jill DeWit:

Feels like a bull.

Steven Butala:

It's important to have a plan and execute, and that's all this is.

Jill DeWit:

It's true.

Steven Butala:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:

Tyler wrote, "Hi, all. I'm looking to outsource work and I'm curious to what work you outsource initially with a VA that was easy to pass off, if you've used VAs before. I'm trying to free up more time to focus on other areas of the business. I appreciate a response."

Steven Butala:

This is a fantastic question and incredibly appropriate for the topic today.

Jill DeWit:

I say the best thing to start with with VAs, are the very mundane tasks that don't involve talking on the phone and don't involve email. They involve looking up things and inputting them into a column and you need a hundred of them or a thousand of them or 10,000 of them. That is a perfect place to start.

Do you want to add to that first?

Steven Butala:

No, keep going. Keep going.

Jill DeWit:

Then from there, you can start assessing what you want done. You could actually go from there to having them do deeds.

Basically, these are all my favorite things you use with VAs. It's just really, no phone, no email, but they're very, very smart so there's lots of things they can do on website. Say you need pictures uploaded, you can do 10 properties at a time. You could have the pictures in a folder, they can grab them, have them already in the order that you want them, and give them those tasks.

The best thing that I have learned with this from Steven, which is, excuse me, it's one of the many great things that I've learned.

Steven Butala:

Oh my goodness. For every one thing she's learned, there's six things she has to undo.

Jill DeWit:

That's true. There is that.

The best way that we have found to communicate with the VAs is via videos, because sometimes it's not the same person and they have questions. It's hard, there is a little language gap, but there's a video. They see where you put in the website where you're going and they see you on the camera, on the video where you're getting the information, how you're putting in state county [apn 00:03:44]. It's usually maybe back tax information, copying it, putting into the column here. That, they can do.

That's it.

Steven Butala:

If you can video it and it's repetitive, that's tier one VA stuff. Video yourself doing it a few times and talking to them, and then send the video out-

Jill DeWit:

Screen capture.

Steven Butala:

By the way, if you need, we have a full-blown company in the Philippines. We probably have six people that work for us full-time in this group,