When a VA doesn’t cut it anymore: what’s the difference between a VA and an OBM?

It's not a coincidence that every VA you've ever hired suddenly stopped producing high quality work 5 months in.

Our client Julia came to us having worked with not one but two VAs who started out great—they showed up, went above and beyond, got the job done and truly wanted to impress. Then 3-5 months later, like clockwork, they pulled a 180.

• They started forgetting things they never used to forget.

• They started not having the bandwidth to get her projects done.

• They started saying they needed more hours to do work they used to complete in less.

Because here’s the thing about the $20/hr VA…

The $20/hr VA needs 20 of you to make half-decent pay, and doesn't earn any margin to cover added expenses to scale.

She's drastically underpaid.

Possibly underqualified to make much more.

And struggling to stay in business-much less stay motivated to show up in the best energy for you day in and day out.

Even if she wanted to get help, she’ll never be able to hire quality subcontractors, because their take-home is more than she’s making from your retainer.

So you become a number...

Competing for her time...

Without the systems to make her business truly scalable without dropping standards.

And she suddenly is missing things she never used to miss.

These are allllll problems YOU CHOOSE to entertain when you choose to pay someone an unlivable, non-freeing wage.

Can you do it? Sure.

But don't blame the person trying to people please to keep your business, offering work at the lowest buck, and overwhelming herself with work that doesn't light her up (or even pay the bills).

Recognize that $20/hr is the unofficial new minimum wage of the person flipping burgers and NOT what it costs to have an expert behind your business.