Has anyone ever outsourced their mundane online (or even offline) tasks?

Asked by NoCatharsis (207

) February 2nd, 2010

I’m in the process of buying a house, getting married, working longer hours in the office, and generally feeling suffocated by lack of time. What’s new?

I heard a podcast and I’ve read a few online blogs tauting the benefits of online outsourcing. I think one of the sites was www.domystuff.com among others. Basically a way to connect normal busy people with temporary assistants on a per-job or per-hour basis.

Anyone have experience with this? What did you outsource? What were the results? How was the cost? Would you recommend it?

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I would highly recommend outsourcing! I have used Guru.com to find people all over the world to do everything from polishing PowerPoint presentations to conducting interviews over the phone and taking notes for me to read over. It can also be very helpful if you need to mine for lots of data. It is usually quite inexpensive – $15–20 an hour for someone in the US and much less for someone in India.While I have only ever used Guru.com for work-related projects, you can find personal assistants on there available by the hour to make calls, set up appointments, etc – all remotely. My boss used to have a personal assistant based in Nashville while he lived in Chicago and worked on consulting projects all over the country – I’m not sure if they ever even met!

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Cool, well that’s exactly the type of thing I’m looking for. I would like some other resources similar to Guru.com for comparison’s sake before I decide which way to go though. Thanks for the advice.

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