You didn’t hit your ceiling.
You hit the top of the VA ladder.
There’s a career level above VA work. It has a name, a rate, and a seat at the strategy table, and in 90 minutes, you’ll know exactly what it is and how ready you are for it.
Find Out If I’m OBM-Ready · ₱749₱999 · ₱749 early bird until September 18, and your ticket credits toward OBM Pros founding enrollment.
Fully booked. Trusted with everything.
Still priced like a task-doer.
The experienced VA
Your title still says Virtual Assistant. But listen to what your client actually asks of you:
- → what the team should prioritize this week
- → to organize the work when all they have is an idea
- → to follow up when deadlines slip
- → to fix the process that keeps breaking
- → for your recommendation before they decide
- → to keep the business moving while they’re away
Somewhere along the way, you stopped being the person who completes the work, and became the person who decides what work needs to happen. Your title, your offer, and your rate just haven’t caught up.
The corporate professional
You’ve run projects, led teams, managed operations. On paper, your project, operations, and people management experience already has real value online. What is usually missing is the translation: how founder-led businesses actually run, and how they buy support. But every path in seems to start with “become a VA first,” and you are not starting over at entry level. You shouldn’t have to.
Both of you are stuck at the same invisible line. The OBM Launchpad is 90 minutes that shows you exactly what’s on the other side of it, and whether you’re ready to cross.
The role is called Online Business Manager, and international founders are already paying for it.
A VA owns her tasks. A project manager owns a project. An OBM owns the operations: the systems, the team, the priorities, so the founder can stop managing and start growing. The difference isn’t seniority. It’s ownership, and it comes down to one question: can you make the call when the founder isn’t in the room?
It’s work you may already be halfway doing. What’s missing is the title, the positioning, and the rate: in the international market, experienced OBMs typically charge in the $35–$80 per hour range, a different bracket entirely from VA work.
Honest note, because we don’t do hype: those are market rates, not a promise of what you’ll earn. Reaching them takes real skill, real positioning, and real work, and your results depend on your effort and situation. What we promise is clarity about the gap and the path.
Where that range comes from: published industry sources quote higher figures for established OBMs. OBM School, the international program Annikka trained through, cites $65 to 180 per hour, and US-based OBMs commonly at $65 to 120 or more. We quote a deliberately lower band because it better reflects what a newly positioned OBM is likely to command when first entering the international market. We would rather under-promise a number you can actually reach.
Walk out with the clearest picture of your next career move you’ve ever had
This is a real class, not a 60-slide pitch. You’ll leave with answers to three questions most VAs and PMs never get answered honestly:
What the role actually is
VA vs. project manager vs. OBM: who owns what, what a founder pays each one for, and why the OBM is paid for outcomes and judgment, not hours. Plus what a real week in the role looks like, from someone living it.
How ready you are, honestly
The three gaps between where you are and OBM-ready: identity (doer → leader), skills (systems, team, growth operations), and positioning (how you price and present to Western founders). You’ll score yourself live, and leave with a written readiness result: strengthen leadership first, expand from projects into operations, or already OBM-level without the positioning to match.
What the path forward is
The honest version: what it takes to move into operations leadership, how long it realistically takes, and the next step for those serious about competing at a global standard, not as high-level VAs, but as operations leaders. No overnight-success stories. Real skills, real work, real career.
You keep more than notes
This isn’t a class you sit through and forget. You walk away with tools you’ll use long after October 10.
The OBM Readiness Scorecard
A guided assessment you complete during the class. Not a personality quiz, but an honest audit of your operations judgment, systems thinking, team leadership, and positioning. You leave with a written result: what’s strong, what’s missing, what to build first.
The VA / PM / OBM One-Pager
The role comparison you’ll wish you’d had years ago: responsibilities, scope, and how founders think about each role. Yours to keep and reread.
7-Day Replay Access
Can’t make it live, or want to rewatch the scorecard section slowly? You have a full week with the recording.
Learn it from someone doing the job right now, not teaching from memory
Annikka Aborro started as a Registered Nurse. Then she ran operations, largely solo, for a US-based events company, coordinating contractors across 23 countries and traveling to about 20 of them to pull off international education expos. That’s where she learned that operations either has a system behind it or it depends entirely on one exhausted person remembering everything.
She made the VA-to-OBM transition herself, the same ceiling, the same “am I actually qualified to lead this?” question you might be sitting with right now. She trained through OBM School, a leading international OBM program, and is currently completing an international accreditation, a personal investment of around US$7,000, because she won’t teach a standard she hasn’t paid to learn and doesn’t practice daily.
Today she leads operations for established US and international online businesses through TAP Virtual Solutions and TAP OBM, as a working OBM, right now. Her longest client relationship has run more than eight years. In this line of work, that’s the proof that actually matters.
She’s building the Philippines’ own OBM training ground, to a deliberately global standard. Not more high-level VAs. Filipino operations leaders who can sit across from any founder in the world, hold their own, and price accordingly.
— The Philippine OBM Academy
What founders say about working
with Annikka as their OBM.
These are clients of her operations practice, not students. They are here so you can see the standard of work behind the teaching.
“ Before working with Annikka, we didn’t have clear SOPs in place, and our scheduling process lacked structure. We also ran into technical issues that slowed things down and took time away from operations.
Since partnering with Annikka, things have become much more organized. She helped us build out SOPs, improve how we manage scheduling, and quickly resolve technical challenges when they come up.
Annikka has brought real clarity to our day-to-day operations. There’s better organization, smoother communication, and more consistency across the board.
If you’re looking to create structure, improve efficiency, and have reliable support behind your team, Annikka is a strong partner to work with. ”
“ Annikka was the first person I brought into EliteFlow, and she played a big role in helping us get the business off the ground.
At the beginning, a lot of the ideas were still just ideas. We knew what we wanted to build, but it needed structure. Annikka helped take the consulting side of the business from concept to actual execution.
She helped set up the tools, systems, workflows, and team structure we needed to start moving. She also helped hire the right people and made sure the work kept progressing instead of staying stuck in planning.
What I appreciated about Annikka is that she could take what was in my head, organize it, and turn it into something the team could actually follow.
EliteFlow has a much stronger foundation because of the work she did. ”
“ Annikka has played a vital role in the growth of this company. I would not be able to successfully publish courses without her. ”
“ BRILLIANT! One of the best people I’ve ever found to work with! 1,000% recommended. ”
“ Annikka is a gem!!! We call her the Systems Jedi. Her ideas are always on point. She loves automating processes that make the business more efficient. She keeps track of us and makes sure we hit our goal. ”
This class is deliberately not for everyone
This is for you if:
- You’ve been a VA or freelancer for 2+ years and you’re doing work that feels bigger than your rate
- You’re a corporate PM, ops lead, or team lead who wants skilled online work without starting over at entry level
- You want the honest picture (the role, the gaps, the work required) before you invest in any bigger step
- You’re willing to score yourself honestly, even where the answer stings a little
This is not for you if:
- You’re brand-new to online work. Build your experience first; the Academy’s free community is a better starting point
- You’re looking for passive income or a quick jump in earnings without new skills
- You want someone to promise you clients or a salary. Nobody honest can, and we won’t
- You collect webinars instead of acting on them (kidding. Mostly.)
Reserve your seat
Saturday, October 10 · 8:00 PM Manila · Live on Zoom
Early bird · ends September 18
- The full 90-minute live class with Annikka
- The OBM Readiness Scorecard (fillable)
- The VA / PM / OBM role comparison one-pager
- Live Q&A · bring your real situation
- 7-day replay access
Honest answers to honest questions
There are free webinars everywhere. Why is this one paid?
I’ve been a VA for years, but I’ve never had a “manager” title. Am I really ready for this?
I’m in corporate, not freelancing. Will this apply to me?
What if I can’t attend live?
Is this just a long sales pitch?
Will this get me OBM clients?
May certificate po ba?
How do I pay, and what if the schedule changes?
You already suspect you’re capable of more.
Spend 90 minutes finding out exactly how much.
You may discover you’re already carrying OBM-level responsibility. You may discover there are gaps to close first. Both answers are worth knowing, because both come with a next step you can actually act on. ₱749 until September 18. One evening. An honest answer.
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