The Home Service Expert Podcast

← The Home Service Expert Podcast23 sept · 1 h 08 min

How a Home Service Owner's Cheapest Hire Is Now His Biggest Revenue Line

How a Home Service Owner's Cheapest Hire Is Now His Biggest Revenue Line23 sept1 h 08 min

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Most home service owners hear virtual assistant and think someone to answer emails. Alyssa Shivers and Mia Juan of Ready Roles think bigger: five callers on $5.75 an hour brought one moving company almost $500,000 in paid estimates in a single month. In this episode they break down what owners get wrong about VAs, why a $3 an hour VA gives you a $3 outcome, the 10-day onboarding that makes a remote hire work, the flat fee model where every dollar after that goes straight to your VA, how many calls a data activator makes a day, and the real reason most VAs fail (it is not the VA). If you are still reading your own email, this one is for you.

Ready Roles: https://readyroles.com | Mia Juan on YouTube: search "Mia Juan"

VA readiness checklist from Ready Roles: [LINK OR ATTACHMENT FROM READY ROLES]

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00:00 - Introduction

00:55 - What a VA actually does

02:13 - Data activators explained

05:56 - The first-hire mistake

08:01 - The owner is the problem

10:00 - Night shift in the Philippines

13:47 - $3 an hour buys a $3 outcome