
Here are some tips to help you get the most out of Kaori-san.You can avoid frustration by thinking about the type of request Kaori-san will be able to do and how long it will take her to do it.
THE TYPE OF STUFF WE CAN DO
- Find a doctor or service person in a specific area
- Translate a business email (Additional cost required as we use Gengo.com )
- Research an aspect of a blog post
- Buy and send flowers to your loved one
- Arrange for a housekeeper to clean your apartment
- General research gathering
- Make reservations & appointments on your behalf
- Distill product reviews into recommendations
- Make a list of businesses/vendors/venues for you
- Find hotels and get price quotes for you
- Find the lowest-cost flights for a trip
- Purchase something up to $200 on an online shop which does not require membership registration
- Try to track down an item that you lost
- Call your cable, phone company, or any vendor
- Schedule conference calls
- Add appointments to your Google calendar
THE TYPE OF STUFF WE CAN’T DO
- Anything that requires your credit card number
- Write and post an entire blog post for you
- Sales lead generation – cold calls, spam emailing, wholesaler negotiation, etc.
- Make list of more than 10 (we can’t make a list of all companies in Japan)
- Book flights, hotels or rental cars (we can get info & price quotes)
- Paint your house (but we can find you a painter)
- Pick up your laundry (we can find a place that delivers, though)
- Extensive travel planning
- Tasks involving a language other than English or Japanese
- Highly technical tasks (software support, programming, HTML, etc)
- Give you legal and/or financial advice (we can provide you with non-binding research)
- Recurring tasks or tasks with a strict, near-term deadline
- Find confidential contact information for high-profile individuals
- Break our Terms of Service or those of other businesses
- Anything sexual including research on sex related services
The key to effectively using a outsourced assistant is to break request up into small chunks. Come into the office with a list of 10 things you need to get done, and assign 10 separate task to Kaori-san instead of one huge task with 10 request.