How to Hire a VA, That Pays for Themselves

This isn’t meant to be click bait, but if it worked, let me know…

Honestly I wanted to get a few thoughts out on how to have a VA literally pay for themselves. 

The simple reality is if you, a solopreneur, business owner, or consultant wearing all the hats of your small business off loads just 20 hrs per week by hiring a virtual assistant for your business and then replaces those hours with income producing activities, you WILL recoup the salary of hiring a virtual assistant.

Let’s use an example of a consultant. They hire a virtual assistant for 20hrs per week to do all their social media marketing. The editing, posting, optimizing, liking and following is all taken care of, freeing up the consultant to create one new webinar per week. 

Webinars are a great source of new clients for this consultant, and with one new webinar every week, the consultant is able to find ONE additional client each month.

Let’s see how a VA can pay for themselves with a little simple math. 

Assume you pay a VA $10/hr, which is actually pretty high - most of our clients are paying $7-$9/hr fees included. Let’s now also assume our consultant can turn 4 new webinars in a month, from the freed up time they now have thanks to the VA, to one NEW client paying $800/mo.

VA Salary  = $200/wk (20hrs X $10/hr) X 4 week = $800/mo. 
One NEW Client, from webinars = $800/mo. 

Now this might be an oversimplification, and maybe you hate doing webinars.

The point remains true, if you replace busy work, admin tasks, social media posting, video editing, copywriting, and website maintenance for income producing activities - webinars, cold calling, demos, following up, attending networking events - your new team member will pay for themselves. 

- Taylor Gilbertson