Outbound Appointment Setter / Business Development VA — Local Business Outreach (Austin, TX Market)

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: TYPE OF WORK

Part Time

: SALARY

$3 per hour plus commission

: HOURS PER WEEK

15

: DATE UPDATED

Aug 12, 2026

JOB OVERVIEW

We're a fast-growing Austin-based startup marketplace connecting local businesses with content creators. We need a sharp, personable Virtual Assistant to handle outbound outreach to local business owners via email and social media (Instagram, Facebook), book them onto short video calls with our team, and manage timely follow-up communication before and after those calls. This is not a copy-paste, mass-messaging role — every message needs to read like it was written by someone who actually looked at that specific business.

Responsibilities:

Research and identify local Austin-area businesses (restaurants, gyms, salons, retail, and similar categories) as outreach targets
Send personalized cold outreach via email and social media DM (Instagram/Facebook) — no generic templates, no obvious mail-merge language
Book qualified businesses onto Google Meet calls with our founders using our scheduling tool
Send calendar confirmations and same-day SMS/email reminders to reduce no-shows
Follow up with businesses who attended a call but haven't yet completed our signup form
Track every contact, response, and outcome in our shared tracker (Google Sheets/Notion)
Report weekly on outreach volume, response rates, booked calls, show rate, and completed signups

Requirements:

Excellent written English is mandatory — near-native fluency, natural sentence structure, correct grammar. This role represents our brand directly to US business owners; broken or stilted English will lose the account.
Strong verbal English also preferred, in case any phone-based confirmation calls are needed
Demonstrated cold outreach or appointment-setting experience — SDR, lead generation, telemarketing, or virtual assistant experience specifically involving outbound prospecting
Proven ability to personalize outreach at scale — you will be asked in the interview to research a real business and write a cold message from scratch, live, with a time limit. Messages that read as generic, templated, or obviously AI-generated will not pass.
Comfortable using AI tools to assist research and drafting, but every message sent must be edited and personalized by you, not sent as raw AI output. We can tell the difference and it matters to us.
Experience with or willingness to learn: Google Sheets, Calendly, Notion, Instagram/Facebook messaging
Must be willing to work hours overlapping with US Central Time business hours (approximately 9am–5pm CT), which will require a shifted/night schedule in the Philippines
Self-motivated and comfortable with rejection — cold outreach has a high no/ignore rate and we need someone who doesn't lose energy or quality over repetition
Prior experience in real estate, marketing agency, or small business sales outreach is a strong plus

Compensation:

Base pay: $3/hour (negotiable based on experience), part-time
Bonus: $3-$5 for every booked meeting the business actually attends (no bonus for no-shows — this rewards quality booking and follow-through, not just calendar filling)
Milestone bonus: $50 for every 10 businesses who complete our waitlist signup as a result of your outreach

To Apply: Please do NOT send a generic application. In your application, include: (1) a short voice recording (even from your phone) introducing yourself in English, and (2) a sample cold outreach message you would send to a fictional local coffee shop called "Cosmic Grounds" inviting them to a quick call about a new marketing opportunity. Applications without both will not be reviewed.

SKILL REQUIREMENT

Email Marketing Lead Generation Calendly

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Outbound Appointment Setter / Business Development VA — Local Business Outreach (Austin, TX Market)

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HOURS PER WEEK

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