Funny Patlive Story
I thought this was sort of funny because I’m sure their are real estate investors that still use their cell phone to handle all their calls. I hope you get a laugh from it.
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Hey Cory,
Anyway you can give us an idea of how much you spend per month for a live operator? We do alot of volume as I know you do as well, so I just want to get an idea of how much you might be spending for this service.Thanks.
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Re: Cory & PatLive
Date: October 20, 2007 07:30PM The average is 3-5 minute on completed calls.50 calls = $150-$250
100 calls = $300-$500
200 calls = $600-$1000
+ your monthly $79.95.
here is the link
www.patlive.com/signup/SSF
We vary in call volume, but this gives you some idea.
Don’t forget to consider this. When you use Patlive you get 24/7 day a week live operator service. That means when a rough neck comes in a 2AM from a 7 day on work schedule and stressed about a house payment. They can call 2AM and someone picks up to talk with them. It is pretty crazy to look at the call times and imagine you probably would have missed that call if someone didn’t pick up to speak with them.
Take that and the fact that Patlive takes the place of 2 employees …you consider how much they could be worth to you.
I know when I was still answering my cell phone for every call I did it because I didn’t want to miss a single opportunity. In fact, get this. At one point my per minute usage on 3 cell phones was 12,000 (YES THOUSAND) minutes per month. Isn’t that crazy? I was running two businesses. Believe me when I say I KNOW the feeling of not missing ANY calls.
However, the incredibly freeing thing about using a live answering service is the customization of scripts. You would be surprised on how this one, little thing DRAMATICALLY changed my real estate investing perception. You see, when you are not using a system to funnel calls in volume you are setting yourself up for a MASSIVE headache! The very thing YOU WANT is the very LAST THING YOU NEED when you don’t have a system in place to handle the call volume. You want tons of sellers to call you? NO YOU DON’T! …not unless you have some system in place to handle the flow and prescreen the ones you can ACTUALLY SERVE.I am passionate about using Patlive because I trust them, been with them for over 3 years and like how responsive they are when people call. They usually pick up within 10 second…sometimes longer…most of the time even faster.Another quick thing. I have an attorney/investor friend that constantly hears me talk about Patlive. He finally says to me.
“OK Cory… I have 7 employees to answer the phone, why would they benefit me? Which I replied, “when do they go home?” He says, “5PM” ….there was some silence and then he smiled and said …”OOOHHH… OK. So I can just forward to them after 5PM and stop forwarding at 8AM…right” I say, “BINGO!!”Don’t mean to bore you with the story, but I thought it was funny.
I hope this helps. here is the link
www.patlive.com/signup/SSF
Life Has Ups and Downs so
Endure and Grow from the Experience,
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Cory Boatright
Loss Mitigation Specialist
www.shortsalefundamentals.com/blog
