Marketing assistant helped his CEO earn $43,000 in just one day

7 min readFeb 4, 2021

Awarded Top 1% U.S. financial advisor, Marvin Mitchell, built an innovative lead generation process by learning what businesses listed in Forbes 500, Inc. 5000, and Top 1000 RealTrends Teams are doing. He is a top-five finalist for National Retirement Advisor of the Year and a MyOutDesk client. He earned the Elite Advisors Group award from Advisors Excel.

Mitchell shares, “financial advisory firms are like dinosaurs.”

As founder and CEO of Compass Retirement Systems, Mitchell built an innovative inbound marketing process, and now he’s closing multi-million-dollar clients weekly.

How? Just like how top-producing Forbes 500, INC 5000, and Top 1000 RealTrends Teams are doing it — with virtual assistants.

“Attraction marketing is something that has to take place. So, I began to looking into information for who is doing this right — and that was the real estate world,” Mitchell explained.

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Sales & Marketing Flow: Making a 20x ROI with Virtual Assistants

“My virtual assistant made me $43,000 in commissions in less than half an hour. The return on investment (ROI) on our virtual assistants is amazing — I’m definitely going to finish the year with over 20 times ROI.”

The current flows in your sales and marketing processes could keep you from generating more leads, traffic, and revenue. As a business leader, you can see optimal results on your marketing and sales development when delegating your processes efficiently.

“Once we get a lead, that’s where my virtual assistants come into the picture. They follow up on those leads, gather information, get them on my sales team’s calendar, and make our time more efficient. It saves us hundreds of hours of time because we don’t have to find the most qualified people ourselves.”

We all know that it takes good structure to reach top-producing levels and to gain market share. Thus, top producing teams are bringing in the right help & knowledge so that sales representatives can focus on closing more deals.

“When my virtual assistant landed this client — that alone paid for two virtual assistants for an entire year.”

Talented Labor Without Local Limitations

CEOs & entrepreneurs realize, now more than ever before, that many functions can be done remotely and don’t require physical space. Virtual assistants for sales development, recruitment, marketing, and administrative roles are cost-effective. They allow more freedom for the company to focus on closing more deals, too.

These business leaders see that hiring and adding virtual assistant talent to the mix. By doing so, they can lower overhead costs (at up to 70 percent savings (compared to hiring a traditional employee).

If the highest-performing financial advisor in the nation is leveraging virtual assistants, shouldn’t you for your own business growth?

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
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Our consultations are part of the reason that MyOutDesk is rated #1 in virtual assistant services by TechRadar! Our strong clientele base who believes in us includes Forbes 500 & Inc. 5000 companies, as well as the top 1000 ranked REAL Trends teams.

Virtual assistant roles in Marketing Operations & Departments

When you don’t lift a finger outside of your role, highly vetted virtual assistants have the core competency and skills (at up to 70% less) for:

operations coordination
content production
social media coordination
campaign coordination (email, socials)
bookkeeping assistance & collections
customer service
lead generation
sales development & prospecting
public relations
project & task coordination

Virtual Assistants are up to 70% less than the cost of a traditional employee and will work or you on a full-time basis. Virtual Assistants are the powerhouse behind quality podcasts, webinars, Youtube videos, Tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram photos, and Linkedin articles.

If you want to launch a high-quality podcast, but need to protect your valued time … you can launch your podcast and upgrade your online presence with a MyOutDesk Virtual Assistant!

Marketing with a Virtual Assistant — Everyone is doing it!

The not-so-secret business strategy that sets high-reputation social media accounts apart is … leveraging virtual assistants (in many cases, more than one). Virtual assistants work for you full-time at up to 70% less cost than a traditional employee. Here’s what it takes to outcompete competitors.

When you do the math, you can get up to 3 full-time virtual assistants for the price of one traditional assistant. Leave the grunt work of each department to a team of assistants. Save time for more important things by hiring a MyOutDesk Virtual Assistant

Lowering operating costs for marketing agencies — Outsourcing

Since 2004, our client’s marketing agency has operated in a remote team setting (saving $40,000 each year in real estate costs) and delegated his marketing operations to full-time virtual assistants — who work for a fraction of the cost of a traditional employee (saving $50,000 per year per individual). With the help of outsourcing through MyOutDesk, you can confidently scale your operations and find the right, consistent talent & professionals with lower lowered head costs.

A marketing agency can have virtual assistants fulfill these roles:

marketing coordinator
graphics designer
traffic coordinator
digital campaign manager
content creator & coordinator

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Remote Work: How optimized & productive marketing looks like:

Our client’s marketing team has been operating remotely for over 16 years — and this CEO has learned that productive teams have multiple ways to communicate, meet on a variety of touch points, and emphasize accountability. When emails, calls, and texts can get buried — a project management tool can make it easier for remote teams in marketing agencies to follow tasks and find exactly where progress lies are and what still needs to be done.

Don’t box yourself! Outsourcing opens up your world to talent that’s more affordable and probably more fit with your needed skill sets, saving you tens of thousands from additional office space, and other significant expenses related to in-house hires.

“Outsourcing makes the hustle better — because you’re not burdened with many/growing expenses that you’ll need to figure out how to cover and hit profit”

ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR MARKETING BUSINESS

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & marketing agencies owners with tools, strategies, and virtual employees — and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

MyOutDesk proudly provides additional free business growth guides, books, and strategy calls.

See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

Did You Know? MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VAs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”

Focus on your growth & scale your operations

ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & business owners with tools, strategies, and virtual employees — and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.