Sep 20, 2011
Virtual Office Tip: Outsource to TaskArmy
You are a virtual office users. You have a smartphone, a laptop (maybe even an iPad). You work from your home office much of the time, but you’ve been considering coworking facilities, especially during your business trips.
You need help. You are using a virtual receptionist, but the traditional virtual assistant doesn’t really have the skill sets you need to get the job done. What’s a mobile entrepreneur to do?
A Better Virtual is kicking off a series that looks at some of the best outsourcing sites where you can find freelancers to handle specific tasks. Today, we’ll explore TaskArmy, which bills itself as “frictionless outsourcing.”
TaskArmy takes the notion of a virtual assistant to new heights. The site lets you search for freelancers who provide 635 services that will improve your Web site, from logos to WordPress to SEO and beyond. There’s no bidding, a safe online payment mechanism, and the promise of quality programmers.
“Today TaskArmy focuses at fixing the outsourcing of tasks as opposed to projects. A task is ‘I need an icon done for my iPhone app,’ a project is ‘I need an iPhone app,’ says Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli, founder of TaskArmy. “Because of that, we can put the focus on services rather than jobs. You need a new WordPress website? Search for ‘wordpress’ on TaskArmy and you will find all the WordPress related services that freelancers can do for you at a fixed price. It is as easy as going to the supermarket.”
Of course, you can also find a good old fashioned virtual assistant at Task Army, as well as voice over artists, translators, illustrators, tax assistance, book designer, and, well, many other sorts of virtual work support. TaskArmy promises to screen all service providers before you ever see them.
“Having lower prices is not the priority on TaskArmy. We don’t encourage the freelancers to push their prices down, we banned the bidding system you see on all the outsourcing websites because it is an abomination,” Gaurat-Apelli says. “Anyway, another way TaskArmy reduces that gap is by focusing on details. Every single notification you will get from TaskArmy, you will be able to reply to directly from your e-mail client. This is big because it means that you are now working with your outsourced team members the same way as with your employees.”
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