Virtual personal assistants have made great in-roads into mainstream U.S. business over the past five years. With various productivity and outsourcing gurus promoting the idea leveraging your valuable time by hiring out for tasks which don’t require your expertise or personal attention, both domestic and foreign providers have stepped up to meet demand.
Now there’s a new service which you might find better suited to your budget: Fancy Hands is a virtual assistant service which allows you to hire on a per-request basis.
From an article on Read Write Web on the service:
“Need an appointment made for you? Research done on Fantasy Baseball players you might want to draft onto your team? Roden has hired more than 100 people based in the US and England who can perform almost any quick, legal task for you, within minutes, at any hour day or night. You can send them 15 emails with task requests per month for a $30 fee. An algorithm sorts the tasks and routes each one to the most appropriate person.”
You can check out Fancy Hands for yourself here.
To learn a bit more about Fancy Hands and the brains behind the ingenious new service, check out the article on Read Write Web: