Dakota Robertson · Client Story
Hire a Virtual Assistant From $1,000/Month
Virtual Assistant · Part-time · Placed by HireUA
20+ hours a week, back. VAs from cheaper platforms needed hand-holding. Kate, the VA HireUA placed for Dakota, took over his DMs, content repurposing, engagement groups and monthly swipe file. He had five interviews booked in under a week.
“I show her stuff once and she’s just on the ball. You don’t have to hand-hold her.”
Dakota Robertson · Personal-brand consultancy
Your Time, In Perspective
Your Company Does $1 Million a Year. Why Are You Still Doing $5 Tasks?
Your inbox. Your calendar. Your CRM. All somehow still your problem. You didn’t start a business to become its administrative assistant.
$1,000,000
a year in revenue
÷
2,000
founder work hours a year
=
$500/hr
what an hour of your time is worth to the business
Now count the hours that went to email, rescheduling, CRM updates and invoices. 15 hours a week of admin is 780 hours a year: nearly 20 full work weeks. (Illustrative revenue-per-hour math, not a valuation of founder pay or VA wages.)
Real Clients · Virtual Assistant Hires
What Happens When You Get the Right Person.
Not a hypothetical benefit. Actual HireUA clients, on camera, with their own numbers.
Simply Scale
15 hrs
Saved every week
His first hire ever, decided in 10 days.
Jordan Nelson was running his business and a community on his own. His VA, Valeriia, now schedules speakers, runs events, posts videos and sends invoices. “I haven’t had any trouble with timelines, time zones, English — anything like that.”
HealthTech2Care
300+
Sales calls booked
A VA for sales who owns the follow-up.
Bert Fernandez hired Natalia in 2022 to run lead follow-ups, handoffs and client reporting. When the business grew from 3–4 clients to 10–12, he came back and hired Maria. Natalia now mentors her.
The DIY Hiring Trap
You Need One Great VA. Not 700 Resumes.
You wanted someone to save you time. Instead you became an unpaid recruiter.
Do it yourself
Write. Sort. Interview. Hope.
- Write the job post
- Sort hundreds of applications
- Interview strangers and build your own tests
- Cross your fingers it works
With HireUA
Meet a Short List of People Worth Talking To.
- Tell us what’s eating your time
- We search, screen and interview (10,000+ interviews and counting)
- Vetted candidates within 5 days of kickoff
- You pick your person
The Handoff List
Imagine Never Having to Do These Again.
Stop hiring for the vague idea of “help.” Hire for the recurring work that drains your day.
01 / ADMIN
Inbox & Calendar
Email triage, scheduling, appointments, reminders and routine correspondence.
02 / SALES
Sales & CRM
CRM updates, prospect follow-ups, research, meeting confirmations and pipeline hygiene.
03 / CONTENT
Marketing Support
Repurposing posts, social publishing, newsletters, content calendars and video uploads.
04 / CUSTOMERS
Customer Support
Support inboxes, tickets, order questions and routine customer requests.
05 / COMMERCE
eCommerce Operations
Product uploads, Shopify admin, order processing, inventory and vendor coordination.
06 / OPERATIONS
Research & Admin
Data entry, documents, spreadsheets, research, reporting and follow-through.
Quality Over Cheap
The Cheapest VA Might Be Your Most Expensive Hire.
What’s the point of saving money if you spend ten extra hours a month fixing mistakes? Dakota had tried cheaper VAs before HireUA.
“You really have to hand-hold them with stuff and walk them through how to do things, and a lot of the time you have to do it multiple times.”
Dakota Robertson, on the VAs he hired before HireUA
WE SCREEN FOR
Clear communication
No guessing what they meant, in writing or on a call.
WE SCREEN FOR
Relevant tools
Less time teaching basics: CRM, Google Workspace, Notion, Canva, Shopify.
WE SCREEN FOR
Follow-through
Work moves without constant nudges. Good humans over impressive resumes.
Simple Process
Tell Us What You Need. We’ll Find the Person.
Candidates are presented within 5 days of kickoff.
01
Tell Us What’s Eating Your Time.
Your business, the recurring tasks, budget and working-hour needs.
02
Meet Vetted Candidates.
Within 5 days of kickoff: people worth talking to, not a mountain of applicants.
03
Pick Your Person.
Interview your finalists, choose who fits, and start handing work off.
The Objection We Hear
“It’s Faster to Just Do It Myself.”
In the moment? Maybe. Over the next 12 months? Probably not. Start with two or three repeatable tasks. Record how you do them. Review the first few attempts, then let your VA own it.
STEP 1
Show.
Record the task once, the way you do it today.
STEP 2
Supervise.
Review the first few attempts. Correct once, in writing.
STEP 3
Shut Up.
Let them own it. Check the result, not the process.
Jordan Nelson found the same thing: getting his work into a system for his VA helped him as much as it helped her.
The Global Advantage
Why Limit Yourself to One Country?
Most VA companies recruit in one market. HireUA recruits across 40+ countries. Role first, market second.
01 / LATIN AMERICA
Your Hours, Live.
Worth starting here when real-time US overlap matters: calls, same-day handoffs, customer conversations.
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Argentina
- Brazil
02 / EASTERN EUROPE
Tech-Comfortable Operators.
Experienced remote professionals for operational and tool-heavy work. Kate and Valeriia were hired here.
- Ukraine
- Serbia
- Bulgaria
- Romania
03 / THE PHILIPPINES
Deep Admin & Support Pool.
A large, established talent pool in administration and customer support.
- Admin
- Customer support
- Async work
04 / SOUTH AFRICA
English-First, Customer-Facing.
Another market to consider for English-language and customer-facing work.
- Support
- Sales support
- Client-facing
The Economics
What Does a Good Virtual Assistant Actually Cost?
Hand off 15 hours of admin a week and you get back roughly 60 hours every four weeks for sales, customers, or getting home earlier.
Virtual Assistant pay
~$1,000–$1,500
per month · paid to your hire
~$1,000
per month, part-time
~$1,500
per month, full-time
What moves the number
- Hours: part-time (about 20 a week) or full-time
- Tools and experience: CRM, Shopify, Salesforce, design
- Spoken English for customer-facing work
- Market and time-zone overlap
FAQ
Still Have Questions?
Do I need a full-time Virtual Assistant?
Not necessarily. Dakota and Jordan both started part-time, around 20 hours a week. Some companies have a full-time workload from day one. We’ll talk through the real workload first.
What does a VA cost?
Around $1,000 a month part-time and $1,500 a month full-time, paid to your VA. It moves with hours, tools and experience.
How quickly can I hire?
Candidates are presented within 5 days of kickoff. How fast you hire after that depends on your interviews and the candidate’s availability. Jordan decided in 10 days.
What if I don’t know what to delegate?
Start with work you repeat that doesn’t need your judgment: scheduling, CRM updates, inbox triage, document prep, customer follow-ups. You don’t need every task mapped before the call.
Will my assistant speak good English?
We screen communication for the actual job. A customer-facing role needs different spoken English than internal admin work.
VA or Executive Assistant: what’s the difference?
A Virtual Assistant runs recurring tasks and processes. An Executive Assistant uses more independent judgment, manages competing priorities and anticipates what you need next. We’ll help you scope the right role.
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You Already Know What Needs to Change
Your Inbox Will Still Be There Tomorrow.
So will the spreadsheets, the invoices, and the hundred little things that apparently can’t get done without you. Unless you do something about it.