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How a Home Service Owner's Cheapest Hire Is Now His Biggest Revenue Line

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello: $200 Million Founder|Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur Columnist

September 23, 2026

Show Notes

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Most home service owners hear virtual assistant and think someone to answer emails. Alyssa Shivers and Mia Juan of Ready Roles think bigger: five callers on $5.75 an hour brought one moving company almost $500,000 in paid estimates in a single month. In this episode they break down what owners get wrong about VAs, why a $3 an hour VA gives you a $3 outcome, the 10-day onboarding that makes a remote hire work, the flat fee model where every dollar after that goes straight to your VA, how many calls a data activator makes a day, and the real reason most VAs fail (it is not the VA). If you are still reading your own email, this one is for you.

Ready Roles: https://readyroles.com | Mia Juan on YouTube: search "Mia Juan"
VA readiness checklist from Ready Roles: [LINK OR ATTACHMENT FROM READY ROLES]

-- 🕐 TIMESTAMPS 🕐 --
- Introduction
- What a VA actually does
- Data activators explained
- The first-hire mistake
- The owner is the problem
- Night shift in the Philippines
- $3 an hour buys a $3 outcome
- VAs and AI tools
- My Home Story Pro
- $500K from five callers
- The pitch and the script
- The Dream 100 list
- The time study
- How to start with a VA
- Ten minutes a day
- What to pay a great VA
- The octopus executive assistant
- Eight steps of delegation
- The owner who blamed his VA
- The Big League Movers story
- What it costs
- 200 calls a day
- Go after the big players
- Closing advice

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