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The honest comparison

A raw VA is cheaper per hour. So why does it cost you more?

The dialing is the cheap part of any booking setup. What you actually pay for is everything around it — recruiting, training, coaching, monitoring, replacing. Here’s where each option puts that work.

What it takes to run a booker
Nuvora Link
Managed operation
Raw VA
Upwork · OnlineJobs.ph
Typical agency
Generalist, multi-industry
Hourly rate
$15–20
$5–10
$25–50+
Recruiting & vetting
Finding someone who can actually book
On us
You do it
~
Generic pool
AIL-specific training
Mobile Planet, scripts, cementing
Day one
You teach it
Rarely — 50 industries
Weekly call coaching
Listening back, adjusting, drilling
Our job
You do it
~
Varies widely
Attendance monitoring
Did they actually show up & dial?
~
Catches dial-count gaming
Burning dead leads to inflate activity
You catch it
Rarely
Replacement coverage
When this one stops working out
~1 week, on us
Re-hire from zero
~
Often slow
Daily activity report
Every dial, reach & book — structured
~
"good day!" message
~
Monthly deck
Live agent dashboard
Schedule, appointments, callbacks
Instant book alerts
Telegram the moment it cements
One-tap show checks
No-shows route back same day
Focus
One thing, done fully
AIL booking only
Whatever you brief
6 services, 50 industries
Contracts
None
None
Often locked in
Handled for you~ Inconsistent / depends Falls back on you / not offered
The real math

A $7 VA isn’t $7 once you add your own hours.

The rate on the invoice isn’t the cost. The cost is the rate plus every hour you spend recruiting, training, coaching and policing — hours you weren’t in appointments. Compare what each option really takes from your week.

Raw VA
$7/hr on paper

+ Your recruiting time

+ Your training time

+ Your weekly coaching

+ Your monitoring & re-hiring

+ The momentum you lose off apps

= Cheapest rate, most of your time
Typical agency
$35/hr on paper

+ Attention split 6 ways

+ Generic, non-AIL bookers

+ Monthly reporting, not daily

+ No live visibility

+ Often a contract

= Highest rate, least focus
Nuvora Link
$15–20/hr all-in

Recruiting, training, coaching, monitoring and replacement already inside the rate — plus the visibility layer no one else gives you.

= Fair rate, your time back

When a raw VA or another agency is genuinely the better call.

We’d rather say this up front than three weeks in. If any of these is you, no hard feelings.

Lowest possible rate is the priority. A raw VA on Upwork or OnlineJobs.ph genuinely costs less, and that can be the right call.

Your lead flow has dried up. A booker can't manufacture appointments from a worked-out list. Get the lead side healthy first.

The workflow is non-AIL. SaaS, dental, real estate, commercial B2B — a generalist agency will know your world better than we will.

You expect guaranteed show rates. Nobody can honestly promise those. If that's the deal-breaker, we're not it.

Not sure which column you belong in? That’s the whole point of the call.

Twenty minutes. We look at your lead flow and current setup, and tell you honestly whether we — or someone else — are the right fit.