Founded in 2012 by SJ Josenna, GlobalMaxline.org is a virtual assistant company in India with a sales office in the United States. The service targets small business owners and busy professionals, with both task-based assistance and dedicated hourly plans. Global Max Line…
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Get Virtual Services is a complete virtual assistant service provider in Mumbai, India. The company began in 2009, and has grown to serve a variety of clients around the world.
The company works with industry-trained virtual assistants who specialize in all types of knowledge-based and online work like market analysis, e-commerce transactions, advanced online technologies, web-maintenance, e-businesses, web-development, meeting arrangements, product marketing, client contacts, database administration, social media campaigning and more.
Get Virtual Services follows a three-step approach towards building up a simplified workflow, through which customers can submit their requirements. The first step involves filling in a simple contact form that lists down business details, specific requirements and budget.
The turnaround time is 24 hours by which a complimentary consultation is scheduled, according to your convenience. Next, your immediate business goals are identified along with inherent issues that might crop up during execution. Simultaneously, a work outline is also traced out to defy obstacles and successfully complete the job.
Following the initial discussion, you receive a Welcome Packet that contains the Contract, Confidentiality/Non-Disclosure Agreement and Client Questionnaire. Soon after, a phone conversation is set up to gather more information on the first task that needs to be executed.
A couple points on their website confused me. The first was their 400 sq. foot office space with 25 desks. That seems like very cramped quarters and I’m guessing one of those figures is a typo.
The other point was that they provide support 6 days a week, but then on the very next line claim to be available 24/7.
Services
Get Virtual Services offers three service types:
Get Virtual Services offers four types of plans namely, Starter, Light, Part-Time and Full-Time.
All plans are extremely flexible in nature as you are free to upgrade or downgrade your plan whenever you want. The services take a minimum of 2-3 days before it gets activated. You can delegate both their business as well as personal tasks across all plan types.
These rates make Get Virtual Services one of the lowest cost providers. The starter package at $120 for 20 hours ($6 per hour) is among the most affordable VA services for that amount of hours, and a full-time VA for $710 per month is a crazy value.
Get Virtual Services promises fully-trained staff, a reliable infrastructure, and great flexibility and value in terms of plans and pricing with easy upgrade/downgrade option. However, you may still consider other virtual assistant companies in India, including the well-reviewed My Tasker and 24/7 Virtual Assistant services.
Before starting with any of these services, I’d see if I could get on a call with their leadership, describe the tasks you need done, and if possible, see if you can interview the proposed VA they want to set you up with.
Have you ever worked with Get Virtual Services? If so, please share a brief review of your experience to help others make an informed hiring decision.
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As you probably guessed from the name, Virtual Assistants India is an India-based VA company. The company was founded in 2012, and today they serve clients worldwide and handles a multitude of tasks including General Administration, Bookkeeping, Sales and Marketing, Call Center, Website Development, and more.
The primary focus stays on saving time and money and in turn provide you with extra mileage for your business. VAI has virtual assistants who have been part of the industry before and have worked as independent entrepreneurs. Hence, customer satisfaction is something that they seek to deliver across all levels of engagement.
The VAI office maintains the latest modern security measures and hence they are fully equipped to handle sensitive data which forms an important part of corporate relationships.
One thing I liked is how they identify their VAs as entrepreneurs themselves. I’m not sure how accurate that description is if they’re working on your tasks from a corporate office center, but I appreciated the idea.
The first step towards working with VAI is choosing your plan from the Pricing page and proceeding to sign up following which you will be contacted by the Operations Team in 4-8 business hours.
You will be assigned a dedicated VA to get started. This might take a maximum of 24 hours depending on the availability and skill set mapping so that you get the right assistant to handle your tasks. One can send tasks right away after being assigned to a VA.
There are no contracts or long-term commitments. Over time, if your business needs require an upgrade into more hours of support or a higher level plan, VAI ensures that you go through a no-hassle process, in case you need to upgrade or downgrade your plan.
In that case, my suggestion would probably be to start small to minimize your risk, and upgrade as needed. The only challenge would be when your VA is already committed to other clients and can’t add more hours for your work.
Virtual Assistants India works with highly skilled individuals who after capable of adapting to different roles and function effective across all types of engagements. Some of the primary services that VAI provides include:
VAI is essentially a one-stop solution for both personal and corporate needs with pricing $4.98 per hour for a full-time dedicated assistant (roughly $800 per month).
The 20-hour per month plan is around $180, or $9 an hour, and the equivalent hourly rate drops as you bite off more and more hours each month. A half-time assistant would be just under $500 a month.
The company offers a 3-day free trial and a 100% satisfaction guarantee on their service.
Besides choosing from the regular plans, they also will quote short-term or project-based work
Naturally there is some pretty stiff competition amongst VA companies in India. Another couple firms worth checking out are the well-rated My Tasker and 24/7 Virtual Assistant.
Have you ever worked with Virtual Assistants India? If so, please feel free to share a brief review of your experience to help others embrace the service.
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Digi Media Infotech is a virtual back office solution for businesses and entrepreneurs worldwide. The company is headquartered in Udaipur, India, and has been in operation since 2010. Today, dozens of Digi Media virtual assistants serve hundreds of clients from their in-office set-up.
They offer instant access to qualified and skilled professionals and can give any company, small or large, access to the top talent they need. Digi Media Infotech takes responsibility for your back office so you can concentrate on scaling your business.
The name kind of reminds of Homer’s Internet business from The Simpsons, Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net 
The company was founded by Amit Mehta, who also serves as the CEO. Where some VA firms are aimed at the personal market, Amit’s company is after business clients instead.
When I asked what set them apart, he explained, “We are committed to providing high-quality services at low prices and this sets us apart from the competitors. We are proud to stand behind the quality of work we deliver. Our team is a collection of young, motivated and passionate people all brought together for one common goal.”
He added his team has quality control checks in place to deliver error-free outsourcing work on time with consistency. “We have one of the strongest hiring models in the industry insuring that we have the strongest workforce out there. We offer 24/7 round the clock support ensuring you can count on us when you need us the most.”
The company provides a full range of knowledge process outsourcing and virtual assistant services tailored to client’s specific business needs, such as:
As with nearly all outsourcing providers, I think your results will be the strongest if you have a clearly defined process your VA can follow.
I asked if there were any areas of specialization, and my contact Ankit indicated they try and match clients up to the individual best suited to perform the necessary tasks and achieve their goals, whatever those may be.
Digi Media Infotech’s plans come in two flavors: Hourly and Monthly. With the Hourly plans, you purchase and pre-pay for a block of hours ranging from 5 to 20 hours.
The rates are surprisingly affordable, starting at just $7 an hour for a 5-hour package, and only $5 an hour for the 20-hour package.
To be able to get started with a dedicated virtual assistant, maybe for a one-off project, for just $35 seems like a great value.
The company also has 3 tiers of monthly plans available, also with a dedicated virtual assistant. The monthly plans come in 2, 4, or 8 hours a day options, and are priced from $250 to $900 per month.
The rate of $900 for a full-time dedicated assistant is very competitive among other VA companies in India and in the Philippines, and the other packages are straightforward and priced well too.
has a pricing option to fit every budget. There are numerous hourly or monthly plan options available with Digi Media Infotech. These options range from 5 to 160 hours a month. We designed our plans starting from $35. Compare and choose the best plan that fits your need. With this service, there is no long-term contract required and you’re only paying for as much time as you need.
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Of course there is no shortage of small business outsourcing companies in India. Among the highest rated on this site are My Tasker and 24/7 Virtual Assistant. For a similar set-up with buying blocks of time, you might check out VMG BPO.
Have you worked with Digi Media Infotech? If so, please share a brief review of your experience below to help others with their decision.
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VA Talks is a professional virtual assistant provider in India with 24/7 support. The company was formed in 2015 by two veteran virtual assistants who decided to start their own firm.
Despite the inherent “new-ness” of the VA Talks company, the founding partners bring nearly a decade of business process outsourcing experience to the table and are growing a team to serve other entrepreneurs and small businesses around the world.
The goal of VA Talks is to help other companies get their most important tasks done. The team is working from the secure office in Kolkata, India.
Like other virtual assistant companies, they want to earn your trust so you have confidence in the experience and quality of VAs they provide. The target market for these services are for busy individuals, entrepreneurs, small businesses or large corporations interested in freeing up some time or getting access to skilled help for their day-to-day needs.
VA Talks virtual assistants can perform nearly any type of task you might think of online. Whether you require bookkeeping services, administrative tasks, web development, design or search engine optimization, skilled VAs are available to help you.
In addition, clients tap the VA Talks team to help design mobile apps, run marketing efforts, create presentations and proposals, and to do research.
When I spoke with one of the founders, CEO Sanjay (Sam) Gupta — no, not that Sanjay Gupta — he explained that they recruit team members with a variety of skills, but that, “Some of our most in demand VAs are proficient in WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, and many other web development platforms. Our Web team is our main focus but we do have virtual assistants capable of helping nearly any type of company or individual.”
VA Talks pricing starts as low as $120 for 10 hours per month ($12/hour). The larger plan you buy, the lower the effective hourly rate, all the way down to $5 an hour for a full-time dedicated VA ($1000/month).
But don’t bite off more hours than you need just for the sake of saving money; unused hours don’t rollover month-to-month.
If you need our services for under 10 hours a month, they have a Pay As You Use plan for on-demand support at just $14/hour.
All plans except the pay-as-you-go plan come with a 2-hour free trial to test out the service.
When I asked Sam what sets his team apart, he explained, “It’s fairly easy to find a workforce of VAs that are willing to work. But VA Talks goes the extra mile to find staff that will deliver quality work.”
He went on to share that all of the VAs on the team “are our friends who are hand-selected for our clients to service their needs. We work to provide not only the best quality labor in our industry but also customer experiences that will have you consistently coming back for more.”
As far as alternative choices, as you know, you have many virtual assistant companies in India to choose from. Among the top-rated at the time of this writing are 24/7 Virtual Assistant and My Tasker.
Have you worked with VATalks? If so, please be sure to share a review of your experience below to help others with their decision.
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Habiliss (formerly Habilis and occasionally iHabilis) is a virtual assistant service and online lifestyle manager that offers to aid busy professionals and business owners. The company is based in Chennai, India, and primarily serves customers in the US and the UK.
Customers interact with their virtual assistance via telephone, Internet, and/or email. The service is capable of handling both your personal and business needs. Clients who have used the service have expressed their appreciation for its ease of use, timeliness of response and value. A free trial is available at their website.
The site offers services for both business and personal clients. For entrepreneurs, a Habilis virtual assistant can help produce quality presentations, discover new sales leads, and execute web research. With an hourly plan, you can train your dedicated virtual assistant to track emails or work in your business in whatever ongoing basis you need. By outsourcing daily tasks you can free up valuable time for a relatively small price.
The dedicated assistance plans start at 40 hours a month for $350, which is $8.75 an hour with no additional overhead expenses or taxes to pay. An 80-hour a month half-time VA is $600, and a full time dedicated virtual assistant is only $1000 – a full time virtual employee for just $6.25 an hour! This is comparable to other outsourcing services like MyTasker or 24/7 Virtual Assistant.
For personal users, Habiliss offers a range of task-based plans. These are best suited for small one-time projects like ordering groceries, booking restaurant reservations or providing wake-up calls. Personal services can also assist with time management, perform online research, help with keeping appointments, and tracking important dates.
The task-based plans start at just $10 which covers your first 5 tasks. If you have a lot of small tasks to get done, you can realize some savings by buying a larger package. Habilis sells a 30-task plan for $50, or just $1.66 per task. This is comparable to Efficise and slightly more affordable than a US-based service like Fancy Hands.
If you want to try out their services, a limited free trial is at iHabilis.com. Aside from your subscription plan, there are no start-up costs when signing up. To cancel using this virtual assistant service, simply call, email or unsubscribe utilizing the portal provided before the next billing cycle is initiated.
Habilis has received positive accolades from Good Morning America and the Wall Street Journal. Good Morning America found the company to have the fastest response times of the virtual assistant services they tested, which included Red Butler and AskSunday, but found the quality of the work a little lacking.
Have you worked with Habiliss? If so, please share your experience below!
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AskSunday.com is one of the most well-known virtual assistant companies, earning an endorsement from Tim Ferris in the wake of the massively popular 4-Hour Workweek. The company received boatloads of positive press, was named one of Time Magazine’s top 10 websites of the year in 2007, and called themselves the “most award winning personal assistant service in the world.”
Around the time I started Virtual Assistant Assistant, Ask Sunday went through a rocky change in ownership, and you can see this black mark in their history evidenced in the early reviews on this site.
Today the company is headed up by Jagdish Rangwani from their New Jersey office. The team of assistants are located in a modern contact center facility in Hyderabad, India. Their goal is to make life easier by providing personal assistance via the Internet and telephone for members anywhere in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
Since taking the helm, Jagdish has directed AskSunday to focus more on small business and startup clients rather than just busy individuals as they did early on. He wants to be your one-stop-shop for a range of tasks including:
When we spoke, he explained that many clients were also looking for support in areas like website development and graphic design, so they added personnel with those skills to accommodate the demand.
Ask Sunday VAs can help you with research for your content creation tasks, but are probably not well-suited to actually writing the articles or content from scratch.
The company is currently divided into 4 teams that serve clients and support one another: the Research Team, the Web Design Team, the Document Management Team, and the Quality Assurance Team.
The QA Team is responsible for checking all work before it gets returned to the customer.
Ask Sunday offers 2 levels of service: Dedicated Assistance and On Demand.
Dedicated Virtual Assistant
As the word suggest, this service will provide your own dedicated virtual assistant to readily assist you with your ongoing requirements such as web research, data entry, phone calls and many others. Your dedicated assistant will be available from 10:30am to 7:30pm EST by email and phone support. Dedicated plans range from 10 hours a month for $119 up to full-time 160 hours a month for $1099 (less than $7 an hour).
Their most popular plan is the 20 hour a month plan for $199.
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If you go over your hours, additional time is available at competitive hourly rates, or you can opt to renew your plan early. This service is ideal for a full or part-time virtual employee. You’ll be able to make use of their robust and secure online portal to assign tasks and manage your VA’s work.
On Demand Assistant
AskSunday on-demand assistance is just $29 a month. It includes two hours of agent time billed in 15 minute increments, meaning you can outsource up to 8 small tasks a month for this price. One advantage of this set-up is your tasks are not limited to 15 minutes, as they are with some of the other VA companies.
Tasks are assigned based on expertise and availability, and agents are on-call 24/7. If you need additional time, it’s billed out at a rate of $15 an hour.
But like any service, it’s only worth it if you really use it. To ease this anxiety, Ask Sunday offers 3-hours of free dedicated assistance as a “test drive” for customers to try our their service without any commitment.
The advantages of AskSunday’s virtual assistant service include their reasonable price tiers, quick response time, great customer support, easy to use interface, and wide range of services offered.
For the dedicated service, your top alternatives will be companies like My Tasker and 24/7 Virtual Assistant. For the On Demand service, I’d take a look at Efficise or OkayRelax.
Have you had any experience with AskSunday.com? If so, please share it here.
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Task Affair is one of the newest virtual assistant companies on the landscape, having only started operations earlier in 2015. However, the team behind the company are experienced with freelancing and virtual assistant services. They earned their first clients on freelance platforms and successfully grew into an “official” agency.
Being a new company and keen to make their mark on the industry, the future may just be a bright one.
The company was founded by Ajay Varma, and their operations are based in India. They aim to help out busy business owners by assigning a virtual assistant to handle tasks assigned by clients.
I was able to chat briefly with the founder and CEO Ajay Varma, and I found out a lot about the company and their objectives.
TaskAffair offers dedicated, qualified virtual assistants to carry out a range of administrative and personal tasks for entrepreneurs and business owners. Ajay himself keeps a close eye on operations, and along with their on-site business managers they are keen to point out they keep a close relationship with their clients.
With communication between VAs and business owners being one of the top complaints I hear, it’s refreshing to see this is one of their top priorities.
Much like most virtual assistant companies, TaskAffair is quick to point out that their team of VAs can handle a wide range of tasks. They list admin assistance, data entry, preparing spreadsheets, scheduling appointments, handling emails, expense management, online research, travel assistance, CRM, social media, bookkeeping, calendar management, and transcription among their key skill sets.
Their virtual assistants are available starting at 10 hours a month and scaling upwards. They also offer full-time dedicated assistants that you can hire to work exclusively for your business. Each task submission from a client is overseen by management, and daily, weekly, or monthly updates are reported back to the client.
TaskAffair offer 3 hours free as a trial period for clients interested in trying their services. This is a great way to test their services before committing to a price plan. They have dedicated IT staff to ensure client confidentiality, and add some reassurance that client data is secure.
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Their pricing structure is very straightforward. The plans are broken down by how many hours you are paying for per week. There are currently four hourly plans as follows:
There is also the option to hire a full-time virtual assistant. This costs $950 a month, and essentially you get a full-time employee working 8 hours a day.
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All plans include a US toll free number and Skype support. TaskAffair put a lot of emphasis on keeping the lines of communication open and clear, and make it easy for clients to communicate directly with their VA.
There are a large amount of virtual assistant companies operating out of India. Some of the longer established alternatives include My Tasker and 24/7 Virtual Assistant.
The angle that TaskAffair’s founder Ajay Varma thinks separates his company from these alternatives is their “hunger for growth and desire to make our mark on the virtual assistant map.”
If you take TaskEveryday up on their 3 hour free trial, or have worked with them in any other capacity please leave your reaction and comments below.
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Tasks Everyday is a virtual assistant company based in Mumbai, India. The company was founded in 2003, and now employs more than 250 virtual assistants who help clients all around the world.
As an early mover in the world of personal outsourcing, Tasks Everyday has received a lot of positive press, exposing new potential customers to the possibilities of hiring a virtual assistant.
The Tasks Everyday website has improved a lot over the past year. It used to have disorganized styling, jumbled texts and graphics, and unclear pricing options. If I was in a rush, the unprofessional look would have been a quick excuse to eliminate them from my search, so it’s good to see they’ve done some work there.
I found the auto-play videos annoying (although the testimonials are good), an encountered some pages with keyword-stuffed title tags a mile long. Their company blog was once a depository for pure nonsense garbage content, but has since been cleaned up considerably. This is the first impression they’re making to potential customers, and it was probably enough to have most running in the opposite direction.
Among the services that Tasks Everyday virtual assistants specialize in are your typical online research tasks, bookkeeping, appointment making, and email and phone customer support tasks. Beyond that however, Tasks Everyday also provides expertise in database management, web design, website maintenance, and sales and marketing.
Tasks Everyday charges around $7 an hour for their services, and although this is not particularly clear on their website, offer an array of plans depending on the how many hours you expect to use. You can even hire a Tasks Everyday virtual assistant without an ongoing commitment, if you just need a specific one-time project completed.
Their rates certainly compare favorably with hiring full time staff in the US, but of course there are challenges with managing any remote worker.
Another nice thing about Tasks Everyday is that you are assigned a dedicated virtual assistant, so you can build a relationship with one person. Your virtual assistant will be available 5 days a week in the time zone of your choosing; the Mumbai office operates several shifts and is open 24 hours a day.
For more transparent pricing options, you might consider My Tasker, which is one of many other virtual assistant companies in India.
One bit of disclosure: On two occasions Tasks Everyday customers have left negative comments here, only to ask them be removed a few days later. Normally when the companies themselves ask, I decline and ask them instead to respond to the accusations publicly. But when customers ask, I tend to honor that request because I would want other webmasters to do the same for me.
The complaints centered on poor communication (both in language and timing), and poor quality of work — specifically related to web development. I don’t have the full story in either case but can speculate that having the negative reviews removed was part of some parting-ways negotiation with the company.
If you’ve had any experience, positive or negative, with Tasks Everyday, please share it here.
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Get Friday is an outsourcing company that is based in Bangalore, India. They are best-known as the virtual assistant division of Your Man in India, the famous personal concierge company. Get Friday caters to the needs of individuals who have hectic schedules, by offering virtual assistants who can deliver high quality work on administrative tasks.
If you’re curious, the name “Get Friday” is inspired by Daniel Dafoe’s classic Robinson Crusoe. In the novel, the title character has an assistant he calls Friday, who becomes his right-hand man and is critical to his survival.
Get Friday has been around since 2005, and now employs 200 energetic and professional virtual assistants who help clients around the world conquer the challenges of business and everyday life.
As one of the longest running VA companies, they’ve served more than 11,000 clients in over 40 countries.
Some examples of the kind of tasks Get Friday does best would be setting appointments, making travel arrangements, and moderating websites. Beyond that, their virtual assistants have even helped find a customer’s lost dog and plan a wedding! Where else are you going to find a wedding planner for this cheap?
Get Friday offers an array of virtual assistant service plans that start from Pay-As-You-Go at a rate of $15 an hour, all the way up to Full Time (160 hours a month) at a rate of $1120 a month or just $7 an hour. All the plans over 40 hours a month include “rollover” time, so unused hours can be applied to next month’s service. There are no long-term contracts; you can cancel, upgrade, or downgrade your plan at any time with 30 days notice. Get Friday also will quote prices for one-time projects if you send them a description of what needs to be done.
Hiring a virtual assistant is a big decision, and Get Friday offers a 7 day free trial period to ease some of that anxiety. If you’re not happy with the service, just cancel without any obligation.
One thing I noticed when opening my Get Friday account is the sign-up process is kind of a pain. They make you do a phone verification, which is automated but something normally reserved for banks. Then you have to print, sign, and fax (or email) back a copy of the contract. I haven’t seen those kinds of sign-up requirements from any other VA company.
Your Get Friday virtual assistant is available 5 days a week, during the hours you choose. This is valuable because of the time zone difference between the US and India. Weekend and overtime hours are charged out at 1.5 times your normal hourly rate.
In the summer of 2014, Get Friday introduced Get Friday Ace, a VA service specifically aimed at the small business market.
I think it’s a smart move since they already have the staff and infrastructure in place, and businesses are used to spending money on support services. Get Friday Ace lists web design and development, bookkeeping, marketing and SEO, and other business process tasks among their new menu of services.
Check out some of the other top-rated virtual assistant companies in India, including My Tasker, the one I’ve been using for the last several months.
If you’ve had any experience with Get Friday – positive or negative – please share it below.
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UPDATE: I think Rent A Smile is out of business. I haven’t heard from them in years. Please see below for Rent A Smile alternatives.
Rent A Smile is a virtual personal assistant and small business outsourcing company based in New York and with offshore facilities in India. The company is actually a division of Octagon, a global business process outsourcing firm that was founded in 1999.
Rent A Smile offers two levels of service: Personal and Business.
Personal Assistance is incredibly economical, starting at just $39 a month. For that price, you can send up to 15 requests per month. Typical requests may include basic online research, restaurant reservations, appointment setting, travel plans, and other administrative tasks that would take up to 20 or 30 minutes. For $59 a month, you can make up to 30 of these requests. If you have 30 twenty-minute tasks to unload, you could save over 10 hours a month (a full day of work!) – all for just $59. Now you have to start giving some serious thought to how much your time is worth.
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Business Assistance from Rent A Smile offers affordable dedicated virtual assistant service. Business assistant is better suited for entrepreneurs looking for help with content writing, social media management, and ongoing business-related tasks. With a dedicated resource, you have a familiar person to communicate with on a daily basis, and you can train them to do whatever remote tasks you need done.
Rent A Smile has Business plans ranging from 9 hours a month for $99 ($11/hr), all the way up to full-time 160 hours for $920 a month ($5.75/hr). All of these plans are very competitive for what is essentially a virtual employee of your company.
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There are no start-up fees or long-term contracts. If you’re ready to give Rent A Smile a try, check out their 3-day free trial.
If you envision having more than 30 virtual assistant tasks a month, you might consider Efficise, a new kid on the block offering 50 tasks a month for just a small amount more.
Another alternative to look into would be My Tasker. They have similar pricing, positive feedback, and have been a bit more responsive than Rent a Smile lately.
If you have worked with Rent A Smile, please share your experience using the rating form below.
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MyTasker is a relative newcomer to the virtual assistant industry, but brings years of experience to the table. The India-based company was founded in 2012 by three veteran VAs.
Since the MyTasker team spent the time in the trenches, they know how to take care of clients and were able to recruit high-performing professional virtual assistants to join their team.
They started out as a contract service on Freelancer.com, and after gaining some traction on that platform decided to launch as a standalone operation.
My Tasker offers a dedicated virtual assistant service starting at 10 hours a month.
This plan, dubbed Professional Assistance, plans target entrepreneurs who need affordable help in their business.
Your dedicated MyTasker VA can handle everything from customer support (online or over the phone), transcription, social media management and online marketing, online research, website maintenance and more.
Naturally, your virtual assistant can handle general administrative tasks as well such as appointment setting, travel or restaurant reservations, or other back-office tasks that can be completed remotely.
With My Tasker, you’re assigned a qualified VA based on the anticipated roles you need filled. You can communicate via phone, email, or Skype, and delegate tasks on a recurring or on-demand basis. For each task you delegate, they’ll either tackle it themselves, or request help from a qualified team member.
Your pre-purchased hours expire at the end of each billing cycle, but there are no long-term contracts and you can cancel at any time.
Your VA’s hours are tracked inside MyTasker’s internal dashboard so you can always log in and see how much time you have left for the month.
The rates for Professional Assistance start at $120 for a 10-hour a month plan, and go all the way down to $7.50/hr for a massive 160-hour plan.
That means you can have a full-time 40-hour a week VA for just $1200, which is a strong value for ongoing business support. If you want to take the service for a test drive, I suggest selecting one of the smaller plans to start with, and then scaling up your engagement from there. (Use the discount code below!)
Pricing Table (accurate at press time):
If at any time you go over your plan’s hours, additional time can be purchased at $15 an hour (assuming staff availability).
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I asked Ronny, the COO, what sets My Tasker apart from the competition, both in India and elsewhere. He explained that the team’s extensive experience in the industry, especially on the customer service side, gives them an advantage.
“We have the freedom to go that extra mile to make sure our customers are satisfied,” he says, implying that other larger VA companies don’t necessarily afford that freedom.
Have you worked with MyTasker? If so, please share your experience below and help others with their decision.
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Task Papa is a virtual assistant company based in Mumbai, India. The company was founded in 2012, but have been flying under my radar until recently.
Their company philosophy is to provide virtual assistants, or ‘task officers’ as they call them, to busy business owners. They provide a cost-effective solution and free up time for the business owner as their task officers handle some of their workload.
Task Papa operates out of the economic heart of India, Mumbai. All of their workers are based in their offices and managed in-house. I spoke with Amit Joshi, Sales Manager for Task Papa, he commented, “We strongly believe in giving awesome results to our clients and this is only possible when you have an in-house workers.”
Their team is currently 40+ strong and growing, with several on-site project managers, and an additional layer of operations management to oversee all the virtual assistants.
The company founder, Devang Selani, has over 10 years experience in the customer service industry. He was inspired to start Task Papa after visiting and experiencing working with clients in the US.
Amit described their target customers as, “anyone and everyone who wants to save time. This could be anyone from businessmen to self-employed workers to freelancers.” As for their areas of specialization, personal assistants and admin officers seem to be where they place most of their focus.
Getting started with Task Papa couldn’t be easier. You can sign up via their website for a free quote, or to enquire about any special requirements you have. Plus, they offer a free trial period, with no credit card information or commitment asked of you.
If you know what you want, they have set hourly packages of 40, 80, 120 and 160 hours. With the hourly rate reducing per the more hours you sign up for. They also offer a pay as you go option, with a minimum of 5 hours per week.
Naturally, the task officers at Task Papa can handle a wide range of administrative tasks, such as:
Task Papa currently has five different payment plans. They have four different hourly plans and a pay-as-you-go plan.
Their hourly rates start at $9.95 per hour for a 40 hour package, with the rate dropping to $6.95 per hour with their maximum 160-hour package.
Their pay as you go plan is $10.95 per hour.
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When I asked Amit what sets Task Papa apart from their competitors, he gave me a few points to consider.
Free Trial Period – Not all virtual assistant companies offer a free trial. Task Papa does, and it’s a great way to get a feel for their services.
Experienced Team – Task Papa has a strict filtering process to ensure they are matching their clients needs with the most appropriate virtual assistant.
Guarantee – They offer a guarantee that 100% of the work will be completed to the client’s satisfaction.
Dedicated Task Officers – At Task Papa they do not use shared task officers. When you hire an officer, they are the only person you are working with.
Discounted rates for NGOs – Task Papa are proud to support NGOs and offer some discounted packages. Contact them directly for details.
Looking at virtual assistant companies based in India, My Tasker might be worth a look. Other well-rated firms to consider are Uassist.ME in El Salvador or Task Bullet in the Philippines.
Have you worked with Task Papa? If so, please leave a review of your experience below to help others with their decision.
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Buizoffiz is a virtual assistant company based in Chennai, India. They are a relatively new company in the virtual assistant space, starting operations in March of 2015.
They aim to provide virtual assistant services to business owners and entrepreneurs. Offering an extensive list of the services covered in their plans.
Not sure how to pronounce their name? Yeah, me neither.
The founder of Buizoffiz (who apparently wishes to remain anonymous) formerly worked at Habiliss. After leaving in January 2015 he started work forming his own company, Buizoffiz. He officially launched the company in March, and to-date has assembled a team of 13 staff based in their Chennai office.
The company also has developers and designers based in Berlin and the US working remotely.
One thing I thought was a little shady was on their website, their client list looked eerily similar Zirtual’s. And by eerily similar, I mean exactly the same. Take a look and see what you think.
Zirtual:
Buizoffiz:
When I called them on this, they quickly updated the image, but if they’re faking their social proof how can we know they’re going to be honest in other areas of their business?
According to Alex Michael, who heads up Business Development for Buizoffiz, the company’s unique selling proposition is in their extensive list of services. While a lot of virtual assistant companies summarize their services or put them under general headers, Buizoffiz lists all the individual services they cover, giving prospective clients the confidence that they handle the exact tasks they are looking to outsource.
The company supplies virtual assistants who are trained in a wide range of areas, and handle tasks like calendar management, research and reservations, bookkeeping, and managing your inbox.
I also appreciated them specifically listing out the tasks they DON’T do, like content creation, design, inbound call answering, sales, or SEO.
They are also planning to launch a new service called Analytics. This is a service targeted at small companies who can’t or do not have their own in-house business analyst. Their Analytics service pulls raw data from the client and processes it through their own dashboard, giving the client a clear summary of their information without the need for their own systems or any technical knowledge.
Buizoffiz have four different pricing plans to choose from.
The Basic package starts at $350 a month and is targeted at individual business owners who are starting to outsource some tasks. For this price you get 40 hours of virtual assistant time covering secretarial, administrative, bookkeeping, and content creation. You get your own dedicated assistant with Skype support.
The Standard package is $700 a month, and is targeted at busy professionals. This package offers all the services in the basic package along with 80 hours of time and graphic design support.
While their Business package is $1000 a month and tailored for small companies and startups. This package gives you 120 hours of assistant time with the added features of transcribing and BBM/Whatsapp support.
One interesting element is they also offer a pay-as-you-go option that’s listed at $2 per task, which would be cheaper than Fancy Hands and similar to Efficise, but without the monthly subscription.
This allows the client the flexibility to submit tasks on an ad-hoc basis and pay for the amount of tasks they submit.
Aside from Fancy Hands and Efficise mentioned above, I see companies like It’s VA Time and VA Talks with a similar suite of services.
My Tasker is another virtual assistant company based in India with similarly priced packages that I would check out.
Have you worked with Buizoffiz? If so, please leave a review below to help others with their decision.
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eLuminous Technologies is a professional virtual assistant company. The company is a partnership firm owned by Sandeep Aher and Hrushikesh Wakadkar, and they have been operating since 2002.
Being in business for over 13 years makes eLuminous Technologies one of the more established virtual assistant companies in the industry.
The company is based in Nashik, India, where they operate out of a huge facility with a team of over 80 staff. They work around the clock to accommodate all the timezones of their clients, offering services during EST, PST, GMT and AEST timezones.
As you would expect with a company of this size, eLuminous have a large pool of skills within their 80+ staff. They have split into several different departments, and aim to match clients up with the most suitable assistant or team.
Their target customers range from small business owners, to managers and CEOs of large organizations. eLuminous Technologies find that most of their clients work in industries like web development, Internet marketing, eCommerce, eBay and Amazon sellers, and other online businesses.
eLuminous breaks down their services into four main categories, and have a separate department for each of the following:
So depending on the client’s type of business or requirements, they can direct them to a department specializing in that area.
Their virtual assistant services cover all the day-to-day business tasks you would expect. As I always advise, you should provide a detailed list of the tasks you’re looking to outsource and check they have experience with each task before committing to a price plan.
Their web development team specialize in maintaining and building websites. They have a dedicated mobile app development team, which is a service not offered by many virtual assistant companies. Finally they have a SEO and SMM department, ideal for outsourcing your social media accounts.
For their virtual assistant service, eLuminous Technologies charges a flat rate of $7 per/hr, and have six fixed packages to choose from.
Their entry package includes 20 hours of virtual assistant time, with their other packages offering 40, 80, 120 and 160 hours. They also have a WordPress and CMS support package, aimed at businesses wanting ongoing website support.
When paying for a package you are purchasing a number of hours. The hours will be used up as your tasks are completed, and you can keep an eye on the progress.
When I asked eLuminous what sets them apart from their competitors, they cited their 15 day money back guarantee, quality of service and flexible payment options.
The virtual assistant marketplace is a competitive and crowded one. If you’re looking at virtual assistant companies based in India I’d look at My Tasker or VMG BPO as viable alternatives.
They offer similar pricing and it’s worth getting a custom quote from more than one company with your task requirements.
Have you worked with eLuminous Technologies? If so please leave a comment below to help others with making an informed decision.
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UrBackOffices is a virtual assistant company based in Bangladesh, and the company was founded in 2014. They don’t offer the usual wide range of virtual assistant services you’d expect from a virtual assistant company, instead specializing in providing virtual assistants to business in the real estate industry.
The company is headed-up and run by Mohibul Bhuiyan, along with a small but growing team of experienced virtual assistants in Bangladesh. Their target customers are real estate professionals, attorneys, credit companies, insurance companies, and companies in need of data entry support.
They offer support updating ad postings and property details for real estate companies, loan modification and bankruptcy, and large data entry projects. As a relatively new company and in such a specialized area, most of their client’s come from referrals and repeat business at the moment.
I think it’s good to see a company offering experienced VAs in a particular niche. It makes the process of evaluating if the skillsets match up with your tasks a little easier.
UrBackOffices group their services into the following areas:
As you can see from the above their virtual assistants are skilled and experienced primarily in the real estate industry. UrBackOffices isn’t the kind of VA company that provides general virtual assistants for everyday tasks for a growing business.
This gives real estate companies that added peace of mind that they are in the hands of experienced assistants that will be familiar with the industry jargon and practices. It’s still always good practice to ask a lot of questions and be as thorough as possible when communicating your needs however. This will ensure you have the best possible understanding and working relationship with your virtual assistant.
UrBackOffices has three different price plans.
They are Starter, Standard, and Professional. All of the plans offer all of the services as mentioned above, the difference being the amount of hours in each plan. The pricing structure is very straightforward, you pay a flat rate of $6 per hour to start, with price breaks depending on how many hours a month you commit to.
There is a free trial available so you can sample their services for two hours with no obligation. All you have to do is fill out your details on their website and someone will get back to you within 24 hours with further details.
There are no shortage of virtual assistant companies operating out of South Asia, with My Tasker being among the top-rated. However, targeting their services at real estate professionals sets UrbackOffices apart from most of the other companies. Two others I know that serve a lot of real estate clients are Uassist.ME and My Outdesk.
Have you worked with UrBackOffices? If so please leave a short review below to help others with their decision. Thanks.
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Remplo enables small business owners and entrepreneurs to outsource tasks to their team of virtual assistants. The company has a large team of hand-picked virtual assistants (primarily based in Sri Lanka) with a range of skills to meet their clients’ needs.
Remplo have been providing virtual assistant services since 2006.
Being in the virtual assistant space for that long and still going strong is testament to a good reputation and a lot of satisfied clients. The company is headed up by Roshana Mallawaarachchi, and their target customers are small businesses and entrepreneurs.
They claim to have worked with over 1,000 clients, and saved them time by having their skilled virtual assistants handle their tasks at a cost effective and competitive rate.
Roshana pointed out that they have, “minimized issues associated in working with staff in autonomous and distant locations by keeping the contractors accountable and productive no matter where they are working from in the world.” That’s a mouthful, right?
He added that their hiring process utilizes a 10-step process designed by Richard Branson’s former executive assistant.
Remplo’s assistants are located in Sri Lanka, with sales offices in Australia and the UK.
The company provides clients with VAs ready to tackle any day-to-day tasks a business owner would look to outsource. They do however group their virtual assistants’ skill sets into six categories as follows:
If your needs fall under any of the categories above, or you just have routine tasks you want to outsource, provide Remplo with as much detail as possible. The more detail you provide upfront, the better the communication and understanding is going forward.
One potential customer service hiccup: their “live chat” widget said they were online (“We are here!”), but after several minutes of no response to my message, it said no agents were available.
Remplo has three easy to understand pricing plans.
Their Startup Plan costs $120. For this you get 20 hours of VA time @$6/hr to be used within one year.
Their Small Business Plan costs $400 for 80 hours of time, giving you a reduced hourly rate of $5/hr.
Their Dedicated Plan is $640 for 160 hours of time or $4/hr.
$640 for a full-time dedicated assistant is among the lowest rate I’ve seen. (Most other overseas virtual assistant companies charge in the $1000 per month range.) One reason for this is the lower overhead; Remplo assistants work from their home offices instead of from a dedicated call center-type cubicle farm.
As is common, the more hours you pay for upfront the better hourly rate you secure. All of their plans comes with a free consultation and setup to familiarize yourself with the company, and you can choose to have a dedicated virtual assistant.
There are no long-term contracts and each plan comes with a 30-day money back guarantee.
Among Remplo’s top competitors are companies like My Tasker and TaskBullet, but you’ll pay a slightly higher hourly rate at either of those.
Remplo has been in business for a long time and they do have a lot of experience in the virtual assistant space which goes a long way. I always recommend doing some due diligence and making contact with companies to see how they fit with your needs.
If you have worked with Remplo, please leave a review below and share your experience. This helps others with their decision, thanks.
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Neyox is a virtual assistant company based in New Delhi, India. The company was founded in 2010, and have since matched up thousands of customers across the globe with virtual assistants to help with their businesses.
The company is headed-up and run by Neeraj Parnami. They have a team of virtual assistants all based in New Delhi. They operate with a project manager supervising projects, so you have a point of contact above the virtual assistant if necessary.
Neyox list their target customers as, IT and ITES companies, law firms, doctors, accounting firms, web design and social media companies, real estate companies, and travel companies. If you don’t fall into any of those categories, don’t let that put you off contacting them.
There is often a good deal of negotiating space with virtual assistant companies, and only after explaining your business and your own requirements can you gauge how well-matched the relationship is going to be.
Neyox has a number of guiding principles. One that stood out to me was, “At Neyox, customer satisfaction is essential to our success. We always first understand the customer’s requirement and deliver it flawlessly to achieve complete customer.”
It’s always reassuring to hear companies saying all the right things.
In-line with most virtual assistant companies, Neyox covers a wide range of tasks that their virtual assistants are capable of taking on. They list IT and software consulting as their area of specialization, but have a long list of skills on their website, including:
Their virtual assistants are available from 20 hours a month upwards. There are no additional fees, just a flat rate per pricing plan. Each task you submit is overseen by a line manager, and you will have updates reported back to you.
To get the most out of the relationship with a virtual assistant company you need to be as detailed as possible with your requirements. Communication is key to the mutual success of you as the customer, and the company.
Neyox has four different price plans.
They start with a Trial Pack, which costs $240 for 20 hours of virtual assistant time in the month. This works out at $12 per/hr, with no extra fees added on.
Their Economy Plan works out at $10 per/hr with an upfront cost of $400 for 40 hours.
Their Standard Plan is $9 per/hr with a cost of $720 for 80 hours, and finally they offer an Executive Plan at a total cost of $1280 per/mth. This give you 160 hours of virtual assistant time at $8 per/hr.
It should be noted that their Trial Pack allows you to get started for just $240 and does not come with any contract commitment. However, the Economy and Standard Plans come with a two month contact, and their Executive Plan requires a three month commitment.
Looking at other virtual assistant providers in India, MyTasker offers similar pricing plans and skill sets, along with TaskAffair and 24/7 Virtual Assistant.
My suggestion would be to reach out to two or three companies on your short list and see how you like your interactions with them. Will they let you interview your prospective assistant(s) in advance? Do they have someone on their team who can handle your specific needs?
Have you worked with Neyox.com? If so, please leave a review below for the benefit of others making a decision.
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Brickwork India is probably the most famous of all virtual assistant companies. Brickwork India was featured prominently and favorably in two bestselling books: Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat, and Timothy Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Work Week.
Founded in 2004 with just 5 virtual assistants, Brickwork has grown to over 200 employees and now serves over 2000 clients around the world.
The company is based in Bangalore, India, which has become a true technology hotbed – India’s Silicon Valley. From their modern facilities in Bangalore, Brickwork India has attracted customers ranging in size from busy sole proprietors to Fortune 500 companies.
Brickwork India virtual assistants are diligent and focused professionals who can accomplish a wide variety of tasks, including everything from basic administrative work, to human resources, database management, and even social media marketing campaigns.
Because of India’s deep talent pool of educated workers, you can get well-qualified help that knows how to get the job done with little additional training.
The service menu consists of 3 main areas of service:
Admin Services: Here a team of executive assistants specialized in business support, accounting & taxation takes care of all your day-to-day routine back-office work, sales & marketing support, web based support, HR support, office management support, report generation, social media support, secretarial help, accounting and bookkeeping services, etc.
Knowledge Services: The team consists of highly qualified & experienced business analysts who are qualified MBA’s, CPA’s and Engineers, specializing in providing insights and solutions to clients through business research, investment research, procurement and sourcing services.
Technical Services: This team is populated with professionally qualified software engineers and graphic designers with expertise in a wide range of technologies offering technology assistance ranging from simple technical support to creative web and graphic designs, web applications, desktop and database applications, Ecommerce solutions, CRM & ERP solutions and Mobile apps.
Beyond the category of services needed, you also have the flexibility to choose from several engagement options:
Subscription rates start around $15/hour, with dedicated assistant plans at the 40, 80, and 160 hour per month levels.
Rates improve with the more hours you buy. The time you buy does not rollover if you don’t end up keeping your virtual assistant busy, so it might be best to start at a lower amount.
For project-based tasks, Brickwork India will provide a bid specific to your tasks so you can compare with other options.
Make no mistake; their rates are higher than other virtual assistant companies in India. In fact, their hourly rates are higher than you might expect to pay for a local US high school or college-aged intern.
The difference is you get the well-known “brand name” of Brickwork, along with their infrastructure and security, and you don’t have to worry about additional payroll tax and employment filing requirements.
For a couple lower-priced alternatives in India, check out MyTasker or VMG BPO.
Have you worked with Brickwork? I encourage anyone who has used their services to rate and review their experience below.
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Athandz Research is a Sri Lankan based company specializing in carrying out customized research and business intelligence.
The company has been in operation since 2003. They gather data as per client instructions, filter and summarize the information and return it in an easy-to-use format. This gives clients the information they need to improve on their own KPI’s and the performance of their business.
The company is based in Sri Lanka. They work with clientele all over the world, with the majority of their clients being based across Europe.
Their services are aimed at companies or individuals who want to outsource any form of research. Searching the internet for information and formatting the results is a time-consuming process. Athandz Research has a team of people who specialize in these areas, and can do this at an affordable rate.
When asked what their areas of specialization were, Athandz said “medical related web research.” Their services are not limited to the medical field however, having worked with clients in the banking, software, telecom, pharmaceutical, insurance and consulting niches to name a few.
If you currently spend a lot of time carrying out research tasks or have a large task coming up, the starting point is to provide details to Athandz along with your budget to receive a quote. As with any virtual assistant services you need to weigh up the opportunity cost of tying up your time against other tasks within your business you could be focusing on.
Athandz carry out a wide range of research and intelligence services. They can gather information on your competitors to help you better understand how others in your industry are performing. Helping you make comparisons with your business, and look for areas where you can improve.
They also carry out all kinds of online research, such as finding news articles, events, products, vendors, and any information as specified by yourself. You can ask for lists of information to help you with research you’re carrying out or help you put together a list of contacts to email.
Athandz Research specialize in the medical niche. If you are in this space you can use their services to data mine and summarize medical information for research and educational purposes. As well as carrying out medical transcriptions, formatting large volumes of information, and performing ad-hoc research.
Their rates vary per project based on the individual requirements of the task.
Their hourly rate is usually $10 to give you an idea of how much a task will cost. To get an accurate quote I suggest you contact Athandz with as much detail about the tasks you want carried out and they will call or email you to discuss the project and provide you with a quote.
With most virtual assistant companies you will be able to hire a virtual assistant and have them carry out research tasks for you. What separates Athandz Research apart from virtual assistant providers is that they specialize in research and business intelligence. If you are after research only and not the general VA assistance I would check them out.
For general virtual assistant services companies like My Tasker and OkayRelax offer very competitive rates.
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