Discussion
Two clients on full-time seats at $13 an hour. One of them sat through an AI SDR demo and came back asking for $9, saying the human is mostly supervising a machine at this point.…
Loss
Signed a two seat agreement with a VA agency in the spring. Two years later I wanted to bring one of them in house directly, and the exit cost was $9,400. I want to be clear that…
Discussion
Been building scripts for the first dialing seat I'm renting and I got stuck on the opening line. The agency gave me a script where the caller uses an American first name and says…
Discussion
Running seven seats across four clients, all hourly, bill rates $14 to $19. Gross margin sits around 41%. Two clients have started asking why they pay for hours when a chunk of th…
Discussion
My agency spent three months building out my renovation pipeline inside their own stack. Draw requests, lien waiver chasing, subcontractor check-ins, all of it running on their au…
Discussion
A pitch landed in front of me for a "full-time real estate VA" at $1,600 a month, 40 hours a week, cold calling and CRM cleanup. Then I went looking on a freelance job board and f…
From the desk:
I own four small rentals and I spend maybe ten hours a week on things that shouldn't take my time. Chasing insurance certificates, updating the rent roll spreadsheet, calling back…
Loss
Construction is my background, marketing is not, so when I decided to send mail on absentee owners in two counties I hired a VA through an agency at $8.50/hr to build the list. Te…