Short YouTube monologue arguing that small California businesses can significantly cut marketing costs by hiring virtual assistants (VAs) in the Philippines for about $1,500/month instead of paying ~ $60,000/year for a U.S. employee. The speaker lists AI tools (ChatGPT, Synthesia, DALL·E 3, video AI, Jasper) that enable one VA to perform tasks formerly done by a larger in-house team, and cautions businesses that failing to adopt this model risks business viability.
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We got this really cool kind of thing that we're talking about in our workshops. I'm seeing a wholesale change where in California, the average employee is about 60,000 bucks. So figure your marketing manager. 60,000 bucks. If you're a small business, your margins are tight. You're paying more for gas, more for everything, more for milk, eggs, cottage cheese, you name it. Margins are razor thin. And you have the choice between a team of four people here in the U.S. maybe in California, or a virtual assistant in the Philippines for fifteen hundred dollars a month. And he or she has access to six different apps. Well, what would they be? ChatGPT, Synthesia, Dall E3, a video AI Jasper. She's got everything she needs to create your ads, your blogs, your emails, your videos do you need. And she's got the training to buy your ads and optimize your ads. And she can use some of those tools to optimize your ads and help her where she couldn't do it before. That's an entire team. All those apps, one VA for 1500 bucks. Businesses are going doing that right now and they're wiping out their marketing teams. And if they haven't done that, they're probably going to be doing it soon or they're going to risk going out of business. What's your.