Hiring remote, without the guesswork.
Practical guides on hiring, pricing and managing Filipino virtual assistants and remote specialists. Written by the people who do it every week, with no invented numbers.
Start with what you are deciding right now. Every guide links to the service page that covers the work it describes.
Published rates for Filipino virtual assistants disagree with each other by an order of magnitude. Most of them are accurate. They are measuring different things. Here is how to read a quote.
Read the guideMost failed VA hires fail before anyone is hired. The scope was vague, the test was a conversation, and nobody wrote anything down. Here is the process that avoids that.
Read the guideWe are an agency, so read this with that in mind. There are situations where hiring a freelancer directly is clearly the better call, and they are worth naming.
Read the guideThe usual answer is a list of 101 tasks, which is useless because the question is not what can be delegated. It is what to delegate first.
Read the guideCost is the obvious difference and the least interesting one. Time zone, cultural context and the type of work decide this more often than price does.
Read the guideAgents do not lose deals because they are bad at selling. They lose them because a lead sat unanswered for nine hours while they were at a showing.
Read the guideRemote hires rarely fail loudly. They fail quietly, over about six weeks, while everyone involved is being polite.
Read the guideMost SEO is not strategy. It is a long list of specific, checkable tasks that nobody gets around to. That list is exactly what this seat is for.
Read the guideTell us where your hours go. On the discovery call we map those hours to the right seats and say honestly which one pays back fastest.