Outsourced Wednesdays: Find Old Contacts
Outsourcing April 9th, 2008Around the time when my wife and I went to Mexico, I was thinking about people who had influenced me earlier in my life. I imagine everyone has a list of people they keep telling themselves they need to get in touch with. My sister-in-law’s grandfather related a story where he finally went and visited an old acquaintance from high school after 60 years, and they had a pleasant meeting. Well, I had a list of people that I wanted to at least contact by sending a thank you card or brief email.
I decided to have my assistant George track down contact information. I tried to provide quick details for some of the contacts, like where I knew them from, where they worked, or if they might have a new last name through marriage.
Two weeks later, George gave me an update on his progress.
Jed,
I have contact info. for 10 of the 13 listed. For the other three, I have made some progress. I have provided two listings for xxx which are in the same area. I have emailed someone who might be able to provide an email for xxxx, but his info. is otherwise unlisted. Finally, I have had little luck tracking down xxxxx because I don’t have her new last name. I can dig a little more on this one if you would like, but I’m not certain I could find her contact information if I did.
-George
I asked him to spend another 30-40 minutes on the last contact, and he provided me with two possible listings. Neither of them were the person I was looking for though.
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April 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I am loving these posts about how you use your assistants. I’ve had one for a few years and have certainly benefited.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
You’ve convinced me that having a George would be fantastic. The challenge, however, is finding a George.