MeetREVA

After recently launching MeetREVA.com as a platform to help individual real estate agents and small teams manage their transactions, I had an epiphany, of sorts. Certainly not a water out of the bathtub epiphany, but one nonetheless.

Many Realtors hire in person and virtual assistants. As I began to think about how I could attract agents to the site, I realized a real estate focused virtual assistant finder might be useful - after all REVA does stand for “real estate virtual assistant.” Of course, the platform itself might be useful to some of the admins, so it is a win-win as far as I am concerned.

The biggest issue is that two sided market places are the hardest of the hard when it comes to gaining traction. Marketing the “virtual assistant finder” certainly won’t take up the majority of my time from here on out, but with luck some posting in VA groups on Reddit and Facebook can draw a little attention to my project.

Will keep on updating.

After several months of off and on work, I finally pushed a workable (although still embarrassing) version of my new project.

The project is a re-work of a prior version of the same idea, but much simpler. Previously the idea included several partners but they jumped ship when we found a competitor. Since they were the reason behind many of the more complex portions of the site, I decided to restart the project and see if I can get some traction on my own.

The project is basically a project management tool for real estate agents, real estate admins, and small teams to track their listings as they move through to closing. Since I can do most of the coding myself and this is a side project, I can offer it at a lower price compared to competitors. Also, I have a decent understanding of the industry so I think I’ll both enjoy talking to potential customers and will have a good grasp of how to sort through future feature requests.

We shall see.