Virtual Emily

Posted by Mica Harvey / Virtual Assistant Companies

Virtual Emily is a US-based virtual assistant company that has been in business for 10 years.

Their head office is based in Miami, Florida, and their assistants work remotely all over the world.

About Virtual Emily

Virtual Emily ReviewThe company is owned by Vantech Group, a consulting and outsourcing company specializing in providing sales and outsourcing operations for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and executives.

CEO and founder Jose Da Silva has more than 10 years’ experience in the financial sector and started. He said he created Virtual Emily to provide a “Virtual CEO experience” to entrepreneurs and business owners, regardless of where they are located.

Their target customers are entrepreneurs and small business owners who are looking to outsource some of their workloads at a lower cost than employing someone in-house.

How Virtual Emily Works

Virtual Emily supply either part-time or full-time assistants, which they refer to as “Emily’s”.

Virtual Emily recommends getting started by taking a 4-hour free trial and say it will, “change the way you look at outsourcing forever.”

Assuming you’re happy with their service, you can discuss your requirements in more detail. Then, a member of their team will pick the best-suited Emily to work with you.

Once you’ve been introduced to your Emily you can then start working with them and communicating directly with them from there.

Services

Virtual Emily’s assistants are ready and willing to take any tasks off your hands that can be completed remotely.

To give you a better idea of the areas they specialize in, they group their Emily’s into the following categories of skill sets:

  • Admin Emily – Invoicing, documents, admin work, calendar management, and more.
  • Marketing Emily – Social media management, webmaster tasks, marketing campaigns, and more.
  • Data Emily – Research, data entry, lead generation, and more.
  • Sales Emily – Business development, following up leads, sales calls, and more.

Plans and Pricing

Virtual Emily’s pricing is very straightforward.

You can either hire a part-time or a full-time assistant, and the same flat hourly rate of around $9.40 applies.

The two monthly plans are as follows:

  • Part-Time Assistant – $750 per month for 4 hours a day.
  • Full-Time Assistant – $1,500 per month for 8 hours a day.

Virtual Emily Pricing

If you sign up for a part-time assistant you will be assigned several Emily’s. This allows them to offer a wider set of skills, and they share your workload working up to 4 hours per day.

Their full-time plan gives you access to a dedicated assistant if you so wish. This is the plan for those who want to develop a working relationship with the same assistant and really integrate them as part of their team and business.

They offer a 4-hour free trial and recommend taking this as an introduction to their service.

Virtual Emily Alternatives

Virtual Emily is not completely transparent in regard to where their assistants are based, just stating that they are able to “live anywhere and get hired.” (Though the rates do give you a hint that they’ll be located in lower cost-of-living countries.)

If those rates are within your budget, Uassist.ME (El Salvador) and My Tasker (India) might be worth a look.

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SEOLix

Posted by Mica Harvey / Virtual Assistant Companies

SEOLIX is a digital marketing company offering a wide range of virtual assistant services. Although they supply part and full-time virtual assistants to help with day-to-day business tasks, as their name suggests, they specialize in SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

The company has been in business since 2009. They are a global company, all of their staff work remotely from locations including the US, Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, and Luxembourg.

About SEOLIX

SeoLix ReviewThe company was founded by current CEO and Chief Consultant Dean Mayor. They have the headline, “World’s best digital marketing company 3 years in a row,” on their homepage, so it’s fair to have high expectations.

When asked what services they provide, Dean told me, “We provide end-to-end digital marketing solutions; some of them are web designing, SEO, backlink creation, social media marketing, Facebook advertising, and providing services of virtual assistants.”

Browsing their site, the core of their services are SEO packages — building links and social signals to give your site a boost in the search engine results.

They list their competitive advantage as the cost-effectiveness of their services. And based on their SEO packages, it does look like you’re getting a lot for your money. This is due to them using overseas staff in the Philippines and India.

Services

You can hire a part-time or full-time virtual assistant and work with them directly handing over just about any business task that can be completed remotely.

If you have a Shopify store, they have assistants specializing in the Shopify software so you can hand over the day-to-day maintenance of your store and focus on growing your business.

The core of SEOLix’s business, however, is their set price SEO packages, and there are literally dozens of different packages to choose from.

Most are related to generating backlinks, which are an important ranking factor to improve your organic reach in Google.

Their two “flagship products” are:

  1. Google Frontier 2.0
  2. Internet Marketing Legion

Both of these are SEO packages that include various backlinks from web properties, social signals, content creation, and all the other elements that go into improving the authority of a website or the individual ranks for specific keywords.

Looking through some of the other services they have various “bundles” including a number of web 2.0 links, directory submissions, social bookmarking, and so on.

It’s worth keeping in mind that there are no guarantees when buying SEO services.

A combination of great content, links, and proper on and off-page SEO techniques is the recipe for improved keyword rankings, but a company cannot, and should never try to guarantee you’ll rank at the top for your chosen keywords.

Plans and Pricing

You can hire a part-time virtual assistant for $295 per month and a full-time assistant for $495 per month. Yes, that’s incredibly inexpensive, and probably the lowest price I’ve seen for a full-time VA.

SeoLix Pricing

Most of their SEO packages are in the $100-$300 per month range. As I mentioned above, there are a lot of different packages to choose from and they scale up the number of links as the price increases.

SEOLix Alternatives

Due to the importance of SEO to web-based businesses, most virtual assistant companies offer SEO support or packages. Wervas is another firm that specializes in SEO.

If you’re looking to outsource overseas there are a number of highly rated companies in the Philippines worth checking out.

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Invisible Technologies

Posted by Mica Harvey / Artificial Intelligence Assistants

Invisible Technologies (inv.tech) is a virtual assistant company that utilizes a mix of human and AI-powered bot technology to complete your tasks.

The company has been operating since 2015, and claim that “starting at $15 per hour, you can automate your entire life and business and save up to 41% of your time.” Pretty impressive mission statement, though I’m curious how exactly they calculated the 41% 🙂

About Invisible Technologies

Invisible Technology ReviewThe company was co-founded by CEO Francis Pedraza and CTO Keenahn Jung. They started Invisible Technologies as a solution-first business, focusing on solving customer pain by using AI to automate those daily time-consuming tasks that are keeping you from doing the types of tasks that only you can do.

They employ agents that work remotely all over the world, but the main purpose of their agents is to streamline your tasks into what they call their “Digital assembly line.”

This is Invisible’s globally distributed workforce combined with their advanced machine intelligence to help complete your tasks faster, with less human resource, and a lower cost to you.

Inv.Tech Workflows

They break down their workflows into three different “lines” as follows:

  • Process Line – This in their process to carry out those repeatable and repetitive tasks that do now require any creativity and stay the same. Such as answering emails, finding leads, and transcribing notes.
  • Specialist Line – This is their process to complete one-off tasks. Things like building a website, fixing website issues, creating job descriptions and so on.
  • Strategist Line – This process involves working directly with a member of their staff to solve a specific problem that can then be handed over to the Process Line to execute on going forward.

Invisible specialize in the kind of tasks that can be easily automated and handled mostly, if not entirely by their AI.

You’ll get the most return out of using their technology and not the human side of their business, so it’s a good idea to speak to a member of their team and see how well this fits with the kind of tasks you’re looking to outsource.

How Invisible Technologies Works

There is just a 3-step process from making contact with a personal bot that’ll be working with you to receiving notice that your tasks have been completed:

  1. You will be introduced to your bot via email, you can then communicate through texts and emails to send them the tasks you want to be completed.
  2. Your bot, and a member of their team will work together to find the most efficient way to complete your tasks on their digital assembly line.
  3. Your bot will send you updates and tell you when your work is complete.

Services

Here are some of the core services their AI can help automate and turn around quickly and efficiently:

  • Calendar management
  • Lead sourcing
  • Onboarding team members
  • Inventory upkeep
  • Scraping and research
  • Formatting spreadsheets
  • Generating statistics and reports

Plans and Pricing

Invisible Technologies have different pricing plans to choose from:

  • Pay-As-You-Go – $15 per hour, this gives you access to your own dedicated relationship manager, 30-minute weekly meetings, and access to the strategist line.
  • Subscription Plans – $10-$12 per hour, you get the same perks as the pay-as-you-go, along with access to the specialist line. This plan is ideal if you need between 20-150 hours per month.
  • Bulk Packages – $9-$12.50 per hour, this plan includes all the perks of the other plans and is the best value for heavy usage of 150+ hours per month.

Invisible Technology Pricing

There are no onboarding fees, you need to pay $40 upfront when you sign up for one of their plans then you’ll be charged prorated for the number of hours you’re using.

Invisible Technologies Alternatives

The introduction of AI combined with human resources is still a new concept. While it has some advantages, if you’re on a budget or would prefer to work with a human assistant, I recommend checking out some of the virtual assistant companies based in the Philippines.

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SupportNinja

Posted by Mica Harvey / Philippines Virtual Assistants, Virtual Assistant Companies

SupportNinja is a company that finds, recruits and onboard the perfect candidates for you and your business so you don’t have to

The company is based in the Philippines and all the staff they recruit are based in their offices. They also have some management staff based in the US to help smooth out the communications.

About SupportNinja

Support Ninja ReviewThe company was founded by Cody McLain in early 2014 and was originally called SupportMonk.

The business was based in India at the time, however, when they grew to more than 50 employees Cody found offices in the Philippines and continued to grow the business there.

Fellow entrepreneur Connor Tomkies came onboard as CEO, and today the business has more than 250 people working in their offices in the Philippines.

Support Ninja specializes in finding you a “Ninja”, as they call their staff members, to fit a role you need filling in your business. (Or multiple ninjas, should you need them.)

They do all the searching, vetting, training, and manage them in-house. That saves you a lot of legwork, so you can spend your time focusing on other areas in your business.

They support a range of businesses all over the world, from Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley to small startups looking for help to grow their team and scale up their operations.

How SupportNinja Works

Support Ninja has a fairly rigorous vetting process that includes several rounds of testing, in-person interviews, group interviews, and finally a vote to narrow down the candidates to the best-suited person for the role you’re looking to fill.

Their process looks like this:

  1. Support Ninja post the position you are looking to fill on job boards and look at their own database of pre-vetted candidates.
  2. They put candidates that have applied for the position through a series of tests to evaluate how suitable they are for the position.
  3. They then interview candidates in person that pass the first round of tests to further evaluate them for suitability.
  4. You receive the resumes of candidates that have passed the vetting process so you can narrow down the applicants.
  5. The applicants you have approved for final selection are invited for a group interview setting.
  6. When the final round of background checks is complete, the recruitment team at Support Ninja hold a vote to determine the best-suited candidate, they then send out a formal job proposal offer.

Services

Their core service is finding and managing staff based on your requirements. They specialize in finding staff with the following skill sets and job roles:

  • Customer support
  • Lead generation
  • Content moderation
  • Back-office support
  • Research analysis
  • Image moderation
  • Data entry
  • Human resources

You also have the option to include a “Samurai”, a team leader that will work with your staff. Clients can also add a Ninja Success Manager, a US-based team member who serves as a liaison between you and your team.

Plans and Pricing

Support Ninja does not currently have any set pricing plans. Each recruit is handled on an individual basis depending on your specific requirements.

SupportNinja Alternatives

There is no shortage of virtual assistant companies based in the Philippines offering a wide range of skills and job roles at competitive rates.

If you’re after more of a headhunting service to fit a specific job role then I recommend checking out Cody’s other company, AssistNinja. AssistNinja is geared toward smaller organizations and offers a simple virtual assistant recruiting service.

If you’re comfortable doing the recruiting yourself to see what’s out there, OnlineJobs is your go-to spot for that.

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Retail-Outsource

Posted by Mica Harvey / Customer Service, UK/Europe Virtual Assistants

Retail-Outsource is a virtual assistant company specializing in providing quality customer service assistance and back-end admin support to e-commerce businesses.

They are a relatively new company, starting operations in October 2018, although their management team have a number of years’ experience in online business.

About Retail-Outsource

Retail-Outsource ReviewThe company is headed up by Company Director, Joseph Sebastian, and Head of Operations, Aaron Baker.

Their head offices are based in London, and all of their virtual assistants are located in contact centers in India.

Retail-Outsource specializes in providing customer support to e-commerce businesses. Primarily eBay sellers, Amazon sellers, and e-commerce sites fulfilling their own products.

Their agents are available 24-7 to handle incoming questions and queries, either by phone or web chat, and they can handle a wide range of other customer support services that can be handled remotely.

Retail-Outsource say all of their agents are experienced in handling multiple chats at a time, skilled with a number of software applications and computer languages and have at least 2 years’ experience in their roles.

How Retail-Outsource Works

When you sign up with Retail-Outsource a member of their team will give you instructions on how to set up and use the software and systems they use.

Retail-Outsource uses Urban Seller to integrate their client’s online selling channels with theirs, Outsource Live Chat to manage web chats, and Posting Schedule to integrate social media channels.

From there you hand over all of your customer services needs to their team in India as per your instructions. They work 24/7 Monday to Sunday, so you have covered around the clock.

Services

Retail-Outsource provides a wide range of services to help manage the customer services behind e-commerce businesses.

They can take live web chat, emails, and messages off your hands, as well as handling your social media accounts.

You’ll receive daily, weekly, and monthly reports detailing all the calls and messages that have been taken, as well as transcripts and performance indicators.

Plans and Pricing

Retail-Outsource have three different pricing plans for each of their core services; answering messages and providing a live chat service.

Their message packages are priced per the number of messages their agent’s answer in the month, and are as follows:

  • Bronze M Package – £150 ($190) per month for 500 messages answered.
  • Silver M Package – £250 ($322) per month for 1,500 messages answered.
  • Gold M Package – £450 ($580) per month for 3,000 messages answered.

Retail-Outsource Pricing

This works out at $0.38 per message for their Bronze Package, and halves to $0.19 for their Gold Package.

Their chat packages are priced per the number of unique chat interactions they handle on behalf of you and your business, these are priced as follows:

Chat Packages

  • Bronze C Package – £50 ($65) per month for 50 unique chat interactions.
  • Silver C Package – £140 ($180) per month for 150 unique chat interactions.
  • Gold C Package – £250 ($322) per month for 300 unique chat interactions.

This works out at $1.30 per chat interaction if you sign up for their Bronze Package and reduces to $1.07 per chat interaction with their Gold Package.

Retail-Outsource is also willing to create custom packages based on your individual needs. There is a form on their site where you can leave some details about your business and the type of support you’re looking for and a member of their team will contact you.

They also offer a 14-day trial with no commitment, so it’s worth taking a closer look and taking a trial if you’re interested in their services but not sure if it’s the right fit for your business.

Retail-Outsource Alternatives

For e-commerce support, FreeeUp is a leading provider of freelance virtual assistants. Ur Tasker can help manage your Amazon, ebay, or Shopify stores, but they don’t specialize in customer support for e-commerce businesses.

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LegalZoom

Posted by Mica Harvey / Legal Assistants

LegalZoom provides a range of legal services online at an affordable price. They help you create a range of legal documents without the need for a lawyer.

And should you need more personalized attention, they also have a network of attorneys experienced in business and personal law ready to help.

The company was founded in 1999. By 2015 they had helped 3.6 million customers, and in 2016 they began operating as a full-fledged law firm in the UK.

About LegalZoom

LegalZoom ReviewThe company was founded by Brian Liu, Brian Lee, Edward Hartman, and Robert Shapiro. They started the company to make legal services, “Clear, simple and affordable.”

In 2001 LegalZoom released 10 web-based products, making getting legal advice and generating legal documents more accessible and affordable.

Their range of services has continued to grow and they have been building a network of independent attorneys across the US over the years.

How LegalZoom Works

LegalZoom tries to make it as quick and easy as possible to generate legal documents online or connect you with an attorney that can help resolve your issue.

For example, if you want to start a company you need to go through some legal hoops to make sure the company name is available, and you’re all set to trade legally.

You can do this on their site by searching a company name and seeing if it’s available. Then you can choose the type of company you want to start, fill in your details, and selecting one of their payment options.

The idea is that it’s a lot quicker and less expensive than booking an appointment with a local attorney in person.

Plus, if you have any questions or issues you’re not sure about, you can request to speak with one of their attorneys anyway.

Services

LegalZoom can help with just about any kind of business or personal legal issue. If you can’t find a form on their site to help, you can request to speak with an attorney.

Some of their most commonly requested topics for legal advice include:

  • Starting a business
  • Searching and registering trademarks
  • Writing a will
  • Power of attorney
  • Pre-nuptial agreements
  • Buying and selling a property

LegalZoom is actually the service I used way back in 2008 when I formed my current company!

Plans and Pricing

With such a wide range of potential legal queries and questions, LegalZoom has a long list of pricing options for various tasks that are worth browsing.

They do offer a couple of monthly plans to make ongoing contact with one of their attorneys more affordable however, these are:

  • 6 months plan – $11.99 per month. Access their network of attorneys, unlimited 30-minute calls on new legal matters, and review of legal documents up to 10 pages for no added cost.
  • 12 months plan – $9.99 per month. All the same perks as the 6-month plan, along with an annual legal checkup to assess your estate plan.

LegalZoom Pricing

If you want to get help a specific legal issue, I suggest contacting them to get a quote or find out if they have a set price for what you’re looking for.

To give you an idea, here are some of their more commonly requested services and how much they cost:

Common Business-Related Legal Products

  • Setting up an LLC – $79
  • Forming a corporation – $149+ state filing fees
  • Setting up a DBA – $119
  • Basic trademark registration – $199

Common Personal-Related Legal Products

  • Basic last will and testament – $69
  • Basic living will – $39
  • Financial power of attorney – $35
  • Pet protection agreement – $39

LegalZoom Alternatives

If you want to look at other companies offering a similar range of legal services online, I recommend checking out Rocket Lawyer.

Rocket Lawyer is also a good option for ongoing legal advice, and they also have a 7-day free trial.

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Agentology

Posted by Mica Harvey / US Virtual Assistants, Virtual Receptionist Services

Agentology is a lead engagement and qualification platform for real estate agents. They have a developed mobile and web referral networks to help real estate agents to engage and convert their leads.

The company is based in San Diego, US, and started operations in 2014 under the name of My Agent Finder. They re-branded as Agentology in November 2015.

About Agentology

Agentology ReviewThe company was founded by David Tal and Avi Tal. They formed Agentology to take the time-consuming task of chasing leads off the hands of real estate agents, allowing you to spend more time working on the hot leads.

They say their clients experience up to a 300% boost in conversion rates letting their trained agents handle the outreach. They can forward hot leads to you via phone or make appointments in your calendar for you to follow up on.

How Agentology Works

There are four steps to the process from signing up with Agentology to closing deals on the leads they’ll be referring to you:

  1. When you sign up for one of their plans, a member of their team will help you setup your profile on their platform and show you how it works.
  2. One of their concierges respond to leads as they come in. They follow up 10 times via email, SMS, and phone.
  3. They live transfer leads that can speak there and then, or they can book appointments in your calendar for a more convenient time.
  4. You can refer any leads you don’t want back to Agentology. You’ll receive a 25% referral fee on any referrals they close.

Services

Agentology have a team of concierges trained in contacting and converting real estate leads. They synchronize lead sources and CRMs, contact leads via email, SMS, or phone, and forward information on to you when they have leads that are ready to talk about a deal.

This means you and your team can spend more time on the buyers and sellers that are ready to talk seriously about a deal and leave the chasing up to the team at Agentology.

Plans and Pricing

Agentology has three different monthly pricing plans to choose from:

  • Starter – $395 per month for 50 leads
  • Pro – $595 per month for 100 leads
  • Team – $795 per month for 150 leads and 3 team members.

Agentology Pricing

All their plans come with 24/7 instant response 365 days a year. You get live transfer hot leads, appointments are added to your calendar, and you can buy additional leads for $5 each.

If you’re interested to learn more before committing to a plan you can book a demo. Once you’re on a plan you can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel anytime.

Agentology Alternatives

Another company offering a similar range of services is Opcity. The main difference is that instead of charging a monthly fee you only pay them when you close the deal.

Alternatively, a cost-effective way to achieve similar results would be to talk to virtual assistant companies and ask if they have any staff experienced in dealing with real estate leads.

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Pink Spaghetti

Posted by Mica Harvey / UK/Europe Virtual Assistants

Pink Spaghetti is a virtual assistant company based in the UK. They describe their business as giving busy people, both business and domestic, a 25th hour in the day by taking some of your workloads off your hands.

The company started operations in 2009, and in 2012 started franchising their business model across the UK.

About Pink Spaghetti

Pink Spaghetti ReviewThe company was founded by co-founders Caroline Growing and Vicky Matthews. Pink Spaghetti is based in Cheshire, England, and they now have franchises all over the country.

Pink Spaghetti’s target customers are individuals and small businesses. With their areas of specialization being handling social media for businesses, administrative work, bookkeeping, online research, and other day-to-day tasks involved in running a business, or just managing a busy schedule.

How Pink Spaghetti Works

With so many franchises based all over the UK, you have the added benefit of being able to choose an office near to you. That means the assistants working there are more likely to have intimate knowledge of the area or business practices in your field.

When you sign up with Pink Spaghetti a member of their team will give you a call to discuss your requirements and they will provide you with a quote based on the type of work and estimated time needed.

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Services

Pink Spaghetti break their services into two categories; service for your business, and services for your home.

This means you can use their virtual assistants to help with online research, administration, and any of those other day-to-day business tasks taking up way too much of your time.

On the personal side, your PA can help with shopping online or arranging parties and holiday bookings.

Some of their most popular business services include:

  • Online research
  • Social media management
  • Marketing
  • Newsletters/free listings
  • Admin tasks
  • Scheduling and organizing your calendar

Some of their most popular domestic services include:

  • Party planning
  • Ad-hoc projects
  • Running errands
  • Special events
  • Shopping and research

Plans and Pricing

Pink Spaghetti have an hourly rate of £25-£30 per hour ($31-$38) depending on the types of tasks and service you’re using.

Pink Spaghetti Pricing

They provide no-obligation quotes up front, there are no other charges, and you only pay for the hours you use.

Pink Spaghetti Alternatives

Time ETC is one of the largest virtual assistant providers based in the UK, and their rates are a little lower so it’s worth checking them out for a quote.

However, Pink Spaghetti say one of the things that separate them from the competition is their knowledge and networking of the UK market, so there are some benefits for businesses based in the UK.

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Lawtrades

Posted by Mica Harvey / Legal Assistants

Lawtrades is an online platform that provides affordable lawyers to help individuals and businesses of all sizes with any legal issues, tasks, or questions.

It works by sending details of your requirements via their website, then they use their technology to match you with the best-suited lawyer to help you.

About Lawtrades

LawTrades ReviewThe company was founded by Ashish Walia and Raad Ahmed. Raad said they started Lawtrades with a mission “to improve access to legal services through really disruptive technology.”

If you are self-employed or run a business, you’ll almost certainly need legal help in some capacity. Finding reliable lawyers can be time-consuming, Lawtrades have the technology in place to connect you directly with lawyers experienced in the areas you need help with.

They only work with Lawyers that have 10 years of legal experience and are alums of respected law firms and corporations, and in most cases interview them in person before adding them to their database.

How Lawtrades Works

Lawtrades offer a free consultation at a starting point to find out what your requirements are.

All you need to do first is complete a short questionnaire online. This covers what kind of legal services you’re after and some background on your business so they can do some research before one of their lawyers gives you a call.

From there you get a quote for the work and can work out the details with the lawyer.

Services

Their lawyers cover a wide range of topics, and it’s worth pointing out they are not just available for business-related legal inquiries.

You can use their services to help with will writing, real estate deals, and other personal issues.

To give you an idea, some of the areas Lawtrades specialize in includes:

  • C-Corp Formation
  • LLC to C-Corp COnversion
  • Trademark Searches
  • Response to Trademark Office Action
  • Incorporating, reviewing contracts, creating wills

Plans and Pricing

Most of their legal services are going to be bespoke per your individual requirements, and as such, the price will vary.

To give you an idea of what you can expect to pay, they do have a price estimator you can use to find an estimated cost for the services you’re looking for.

Otherwise, you can fill out a form on their site, even stating your budget, and a lawyer will contact you to discuss your task.

Looking at some of the more common legal services and pricing using their estimator, I found these services and prices to give you an idea:

  • C-Corp Formation – $1,280
  • LLC to C-Corp Conversion – $850
  • LLC Operation Agreement – $400
  • Trademark Search – $220

LawTrades Pricing

Lawtrades Alternatives

Another online planform offering legal advice is Rocket Lawyer.

They operate on a slightly different business model. You can pay for their monthly membership plan if you anticipate the need for ongoing legal help, and they offer a 7-day free trial so you can sample their services before committing.

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Handy

Posted by Mica Harvey / In-Person Assistants

Handy is an online platform that connects individuals with independent service professionals to help with all kinds of hands-on tasks around the home.

Formally known as Handybook, the company has been in operation since 2012. Their headquarters are in New York and their service professionals work across the US. (Check the website to see if available in your area.)

About Handy

Handy ReviewHandy was founded by Oisin Hanrahan and Umang Dua while they were both attending Harvard Business School.

They wanted to provide a practical solution to an age-old problem – finding top-rated service professionals to complete common household tasks, quickly, and easily.

The platform acts as an online marketplace connecting professionals with people seeking out their services.

You can find a skilled professional to help with anything around the home really. From a regular house cleaner to a one-off task assembling some furniture or wall mounting a TV.

For each task, you fill out a form with details of the work you want to be done. Their technology then pings the job to service professionals with the skills to do the work, and they then send quotes to you.

Looking at their list of locations, it looks like they have professionals in just about every city across the US. They have also expanded into parts of Canada and the United Kingdom.

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How Handy Works

To get started, select the service you want, such as house cleaning, then type in your zip code, some details about the size of your home, preferred date and time you want a cleaner, and click submit.

You will be emailed details of available cleaners and prices. You can then accept, decline, or change any of your details.

Once you’re happy with the quote and have accepted the price the work will be carried out as per your agreement.

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Services

I think it’s fair to say that you will find someone to help with any job around the home that you’d expect a professional handyman to be able to do.

Some of the core services listed on their website include:

  • Home cleaning
  • Furniture assembly
  • Interior painting
  • Moving help
  • Handyman services

Plans and Pricing

There are no plans or pricing as no two jobs are the same. You can request a quote for any of their services in a matter of minutes with just some basic details on the job with no obligation to commit.

I tested Handy out for a house cleaner. As you might guess, the prices depend on how big your house is. I found ranges from $80-$200 per cleaning, and you can get lower prices by signing up for a recurring cleaning plan.

handy pricing

Other cleaning services I considered had a lot more “friction” in the process. You had to call them up, ask for a quote, sometimes they wanted to come out and see your house, and in general it was just a big pain. Handy definitely appealed to me not wanting to deal with that — they made it very easy, and offered a nice discount on the first cleaning.

For other services, just use the quick quote tool on the website or app.

Virtual Assistant Assistant Bonus: Get $40 off your first booking!

Handy Alternatives

TaskRabbit is probably the best-known company for in-person assistance, and they operate on a very similar business model. With more than 140,000 vetted taskers in their database, you shouldn’t have any problems finding what you’re looking for.

Another company that might be worth looking at is Alfred. They offer a subscription model, and for a monthly fee, you can have your very own “Alfred” visiting your home and helping out with chores.

Not quite the handyman on-demand service, but something to consider for help with ongoing tasks such as cleaning and shopping.

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