General Virtual Assistant Business With Simple Hourly Packages
Originally published Sep 24, 2026 — The Virtual Savvy
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You offer everyday admin help to small business owners remotely: inbox management, scheduling, customer service, data entry, spreadsheets, social media DMs, blog formatting and similar tasks. The creator, Abbey Ashley, suggests listing 10-30 services you can do or learn (she uses ChatGPT to brainstorm them from any background), then selling simple monthly hour bundles at about $30 an hour, such as 20 hours for $600 or 40 hours for $1,200. You set up an onboarding routine with a discovery call, contract, payment method and a password-sharing tool, then find clients mainly through your personal network.
She says she has trained over 7,000 VAs and that most people can replace a full-time income with four to seven clients. She argues experience is not required because small business owners already do these tasks and will show you their systems, and that people you know are the best source of first clients.
Organized, reliable people, including parents and career-changers, who are comfortable telling their network about their services and talking to clients on calls.
Virtual assistant work is a real, established service, and the advice to keep pricing simple and use contracts is sound. Getting the first client is the hard part and depends on outreach to friends, family and local contacts. The video is a lead-in to the creator's free training and paid 90-day accelerator, and she uses a referral link for Dubsado, so it is partly a sales funnel. Stories of six- and seven-figure agencies involve hiring subcontractors and are not typical results.