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Virtual Assistant Services | Flexible Hour Virtual Assistant Model
Sales teams have a well-documented problem: reps spend only 28% of their time actually selling. The rest goes to CRM updates, email follow-ups, meeting scheduling, proposal formatting, and reporting. Every hour your closer spends on admin work is an hour they're not closing.
Hiring a dedicated sales admin at $40,000–$50,000/year assumes consistent workload. But sales cycles have peaks and valleys — end-of-quarter pushes, seasonal demand shifts, product launch surges. A fixed headcount doesn't match variable sales velocity.
TaskBullet's Flexible Hour Virtual Assistant Model gives your sales team a dedicated VA who handles the admin layer — CRM, follow-ups, scheduling, proposals — with Buckets of Hours that scale with your selling season.
What a Sales VA Handles
Pipeline Support (Your Dedicated VA)
- CRM management: Data entry, pipeline updates, stage advancement, activity logging
- Lead follow-up: Email sequences, call follow-ups, meeting scheduling, response tracking
- Appointment setting: Coordinating meetings between prospects and closers, calendar management
- Proposal preparation: Formatting quotes, building proposal decks, customizing templates
- Sales reporting: Pipeline summaries, conversion metrics, activity reports, forecast updates
- List building: Prospect research, lead enrichment (email, phone, title, company data)
- Meeting prep: Research on prospects, company background briefs, competitive positioning notes
- Post-meeting notes: Call transcription, action item extraction, CRM updates
Advanced Sales Support (Specialist Routing)
When a task requires specialized skill, your account manager routes it to a specialist — same Buckets of Hours:
- Sales deck design: Custom presentations, pitch decks, one-pagers
- CRM configuration: Custom fields, automation rules, reporting dashboards
- Email campaign setup: Sequence building in HubSpot, Outreach, or Salesloft
- Data analysis: Win/loss analysis, conversion rate optimization, territory planning
- Contract formatting: Redlining support, template standardization, DocuSign prep
One bucket covers daily sales admin and specialist work. No separate contracts.
The Follow-Up Problem
Studies consistently show that 80% of sales require five or more follow-ups, but 44% of reps give up after one. It's not laziness — it's bandwidth. When a rep has 50 open opportunities, 200 leads in nurture, and 15 meetings this week, follow-up #4 on deal #37 gets deprioritized.
A dedicated sales VA solves this by maintaining the follow-up cadence:
- Day 1: Your closer has the meeting. VA logs notes and next steps in CRM.
- Day 2: VA sends follow-up email with meeting summary and proposed next steps.
- Day 5: VA follows up if no response. Flags for the closer if the prospect engaged.
- Day 10: VA sends value-add follow-up (case study, relevant article, pricing summary).
- Day 20: VA follows up with scheduling link. Moves to nurture if no response.
Your closer re-engages only when the prospect is warm. The VA handles the cadence that turns "maybe later" into booked meetings.
Sales VA by Team Size
Solo Founder / Solopreneur
You're the closer and the admin. A PH Starter bucket (20 hrs/month) gives you a VA who keeps your CRM clean, sends follow-ups on your behalf, and schedules meetings — recovering 5+ selling hours per week.
Small Sales Team (2–5 Reps)
A PH Light or Part-Time bucket (40–84 hrs/month) supports the entire team with shared pipeline admin — lead assignment, CRM hygiene, reporting, and follow-up coordination. Your reps sell; the VA handles the system.
Growing Sales Org (5–15 Reps)
A PH Full-Time bucket (168 hrs/month) provides dedicated sales ops support — territory data, onboarding new rep CRM access, automation maintenance, and management reporting.
The Variable Sales Workload
Sales intensity fluctuates predictably:
| Period | Sales Admin Load | Fixed Hire | Flexible Hour Model | |--------|-----------------|-----------|-------------------| | End of quarter | 30+ hrs/week | Overwhelmed | Deploy rollover hours | | Post-launch surge | 25–35 hrs/week | Hire temp (no context) | Scale bucket | | Normal months | 10–15 hrs/week | Pay 40 hrs, idle | Use what you need | | Summer / slow season | 5–8 hrs/week | Expensive bench time | Bank hours for Q4 push | | Annual planning | 20–25 hrs/week | Diverted from daily work | Specialist routing for reports |
Pricing for Sales VA Services
| Bucket | Hours | Monthly Rate | Effective Rate | Best For | |--------|-------|-------------|---------------|----------| | PH Starter | 20 hrs | $210/mo | $10.50/hr | Solo founder CRM + follow-up | | PH Light | 40 hrs | $325/mo | $8.13/hr | Small team pipeline support | | PH Part-Time | 84 hrs | $599/mo | $7.13/hr | Daily sales ops | | PH Full-Time | 168 hrs | $1,099/mo | $6.54/hr | Full sales admin coverage | | US Starter | 10 hrs | $270/mo | $27.00/hr | US-hours calling + scheduling | | US Light | 40 hrs | $1,000/mo | $25.00/hr | Enterprise sales support |
All plans include 90-day hour rollover, specialist routing, management oversight, and the 60-day unused-hour guarantee.
How to Get Started
- Choose a bucket based on your team size and pipeline volume. Solo founders typically start with PH Starter; teams start with PH Light.
- Onboard in 2–3 days: Share CRM access, email templates, follow-up cadences, and pipeline stage definitions.
- Start with CRM hygiene: The first week, have your VA audit and clean your pipeline data. This builds context fast.
- Expand to follow-ups and scheduling: Once your VA knows your pipeline, add follow-up sequences and appointment setting.
TaskBullet's 10 free trial hours let you test sales VA workflows before committing. No credit card required.