In this article, let’s take a look at your office setup regarding printers, faxes, telephones, and cell phones. What to get when and where.
My virtual assistant (va) always saves me a lot of time and frustration with software programs I don’t know how to run, so I can do what I do well, which is wholesale, find birds, and trade houses. In addition to playing and having fun, of course.
The Excel software spreadsheet, which I also have no idea how to run it. However, I need this for my personal spending and financial spreadsheets, which keep all my monthly finances and expenses easy to read at a glance. The VA logs in and sets up those charts and graphs for me, nothing to do!
Remember that time is the greatest asset of a business person. Going when, and how you can afford it saves tons of time and money.
I have a Hewlett Packard or hp printer, fax, scanner and photocopier. Mine is still an older inkjet. But I highly recommend the laser style. Because? Laser is cheap to print and doesn’t smudge. Well, it’s actually much cheaper to print.
It is likely to rain where you are, unlike here in Las Vegas. Rain and humidity are equivalent to staining. The laser can take a second or two to heat up, but it’s well worth the investment. Enough to say about laser printers.
Paper. I buy the good ones at Sam’s Club. Because? Because I’d rather spend a few more cents on good paper that doesn’t jam.
It always happens. You’re trying to get out to work or see that motivated salesperson and you need to print out a contract. You must be on time proving that you are not a flake. But now you are having trouble clearing the paper from the printer.
No, thanks to that cheap paper, you saved a penny.
The office phone. I recently started using Magic Jack for our general phone. So far it works great, it costs 49.00 to buy it, which also pays for the first year of service. Then 19.95 per year after. Much less expensive than using Ma Bell, Embark and more reliable than VOIP. You do not have it? I’d say get it! 🙂
The fax from your office, here is the invaluable advice. I win thirty thousand dollars in cash on a single wholesale draft when I received a fax containing only these words in small print on a large blank 8.5×11 sheet of paper:
I need to sell my house, my number is xxx-xxx-xxxx.
I’m serious like a heart attack, that’s all he said. And yes, I did exactly that amount.
The Lord works funny sometimes, as I was able to pay my daughter’s $10,000 medical bill in one payment.
Maybe just because I had a fax and it worked.
After that I convinced myself to always have a separate fax number and have it work constantly. You should too regardless of cost. So now I have Cox’s Cable as my constant fax provider, and it costs like 15.00 a month.
From then on, I put my fax number, email, cell phone, and web address on all my marketing materials.
Last but not least, the successful real estate investor needs a cell phone and will put that number in all of their advertising.
Oh yeah and ALWAYS answer your phone. I can’t begin to tell you how many deals I’ve gotten because the motivated seller calls other investors who don’t answer. How do I know this, trust me I ask!