Comments on: Our GetFriday Virtual Assistant, part 2

By: GetFriday Alternative Makes the New York Times | The Newly Rich

GetFriday Alternative Makes the New York Times | The Newly Rich — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:09:13 +0000

[...] fellow named Dan Fost. He was originally interested in hearing about my experience in shifting from GetFriday to a domestic assistant. In the course of our conversation, I ended up filling him in on the secret [...]

By: The Newly Rich » Blog Archive » Outsourced Wedesdays: Going Local

The Newly Rich » Blog Archive » Outsourced Wedesdays: Going Local — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:40:51 +0000

[...] started in India, then moved onshore. A few weeks ago, we added a new assistant to the roster, and he lives right [...]

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By: The Newly Rich » Blog Archive » Forget Friday

The Newly Rich » Blog Archive » Forget Friday — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:16:57 +0000

[...] had a decent experience with our first GetFriday virtual assistant, so this isn’t intended as a criticism against them. But I couldn’t [...]

By: Matthew C. Richards

Matthew C. Richards — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:51:53 +0000

It sounds like you’re on the right track because I can tell you learned something from the experience. You are daring to question the norm by approaching life in a different way, so it really can’t be looked upon as a failure.

I’m very computer savvy as well and actually enjoy doing a lot of the things that most people would WANT to outsource. While I recently wrote my first ad for an overseas assistant, I haven’t found anyone yet.

HOWEVER, in lieu of a VA, I’m outsourcing: my lawn care ($40/mo to a friend of mine who could use the cash), house cleaning (team of two cleaners @ $50/visit, just twice a month), and laundry ($0.60/lb, but it won’t sit around for 3 weeks waiting to be done now).

I’m not sure what you have in your life that could be outsourced locally. Think small, as in something you really hate to do. Do you have to stand in line at the post office a lot? I think I’m gonna add a mail service to my wish list…