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How the “$99 Virtual Seat” Made It Possible for U.S. Businesses to Hire Full-Time Support Staff for Under $12K/Year

Updated on : 19 Jun 2025

I’ll get straight to the point.

Hiring full-time support staff in the U.S. is expensive. I’m talking $30K–$40K per year for roles like customer service reps, executive assistants, and bookkeepers—and that’s before taxes, benefits, and compliance headaches.

That’s why I created something called the $99 Virtual Seat—and it’s already helping hundreds of businesses hire full-time, university-educated, English-speaking remote staff in the Philippines for around $8K/year in salary.

Even after adding the $99/month seat fee, you’re still nowhere near what you’d pay locally for the same role.

This week, I broke it all down in a short newsletter:

"How the $99 Virtual Seat Made It Possible for U.S. Businesses to Hire Full-Time Support Staff for Under $12K/Year."

Inside, I've shared:

  • Why traditional outsourcing is broken (and how it’s bleeding businesses dry)


  • How this model works legally, ethically, and transparently


  • What kind of roles businesses are filling—without BPO markups


  • How much you could actually save by scaling smart

👉 [Read the Newsletter Here]

I even made it risk-free to try—2-week money-back guarantee, no strings attached.

If you’re tired of overpriced BPOs or the mess of DIY hiring, this could be exactly what you’ve been looking for.

One Seat away from reliable, affordable staff.

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Michael Brodie

Founder of VirtualStaff.ph — Creator of the VirtualStaff Seat System​

Michael Brodie is the founder of VirtualStaff.ph and the creator of the VirtualStaff Seat System, a modern alternative to traditional outsourcing and offshore staffing agencies.

After years of seeing business owners struggle with inflated markups, recruiter-driven hiring, and unreliable offshore models, Michael set out to build something different — not another job board, not another BPO, but a system.

The result was VirtualStaff.ph: a plug-and-play way for businesses to build dependable, full-time back-office teams in the Philippines — without salary padding, outsourcing firm markups, or long-term lock-ins.

Through VirtualStaff Seats, businesses can add reliable Filipino staff directly into their operations — one Seat at a time — for roles like customer support, admin, billing, bookkeeping, and back-office operations.

Today, businesses across the US, Australia, and the UK use the VirtualStaff Seat System to build stable, long-term teams that simply work — while staying in full control.

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