I want to raise our minimum wage for virtual assistants to $10 an hour.

That’s $1,760 per month– which is literally 10 times what most VA companies pay their people.

This is not a slam at Virtual assistant agencies, who bill out at $15/hour but pay their people $3/hour.

Just because you live in the Philippines or Pakistan doesn’t mean you should be paid less.

I don’t care if you’re 15 years old or 55– if you can do the work, you should be paid what that task is worth.

Look at Talen Leaf, who is only 15 years old– and pushed 54 articles through our system this week.

If you’re black, Muslim, short or whatever– doesn’t matter to me.

We can measure exactly the business impact you generate for local service companies.

How many more calls are coming from our SEO efforts, Google Local Service Ads, regular Google ads, and social media.

In the 4 stage Content Factory framework– we trace content efforts all the way to the customer revenue in ServiceTitan or whatever CRM.

So when you have analytics that tie traffic to revenue, it’s not about how many articles were posted or videos edited.

In the last 5 days, I’ve met with some incredibly talented digital marketers who happen to be from Pakistan.

Some of them are making $5,000 or even $20,000 a month— not because they know how to “sell”, but because plumbing/HVAC and pest control companies can see the increase in calls.

Why would you still pay people based on how many pieces of content they can pump out when ChatGPT can beat us at that game?

Bad Wifi? Doesn’t Matter.

If you’re in a developing country– perhaps living in a remote village with weak wifi– this is your opportunity to make a great income to support your family.

But you must qualify via the standards in our group (Digital Marketing With Dennis Yu)– active listening, team skills, and all 4 stages of the Content Factory. The training for all this is free for you.

If you’re local service business in the United States, it’s time to own your own marketing– whether it’s with an in-house or an agency.

To have ownership and control of your accounts and a clear audit path– via the 5 steps we outline here:

People are afraid that AI will eliminate jobs, which is not exactly true.

What will happen is that the most competent players will be more effective with an arsenal of AI tools. Since these AI tools help advise us, process existing content, and optimize campaigns….

Not to generate new content out of thin air, but help us leverage what customers already say about us– especially our existing photos, videos, and reviews.

The quality of the digital marketers necessary to operate this AI machinery (AI tools across all 4 stages of the Content Factory process) requires empathetic understanding, not technical skills in a single tool.

The people who just edit video or just build websites or just run ads– no matter how expert at their favorite tool– they will be replaced by generalists using AI tools, who understand the industry– like what plumbers do.

I can see a day where millions of Virtual Assistants in developing are making $10,000 a month– after having gone through our training, qualifying to enter our program at $10/hour.

I’ve been meeting with leaders of the top universities and NGOs to put our Content Factory training in the curriculum.

And we are excited for the virtual assistants as well as US-based young adults who are growing their niche agencies by managing these teams.