Research Outline

Hal Target Market

Goals

To identify precise locations where the company Hal could sell its virtual assistant services, made up of real people, for $10 a month.

Early Findings

  • The New York based entrepreneur Matt Holmes writes in builtinnyc.com that he hires his virtual assistants from ‘Online Jobs’, which is a community of remote workers ready to be employed by US employers.
  • UpCity.com provides the list of top seven virtual assistant services companies in New York, NY. Currently, these top seven companies are: GYST, Fancy Hands, Lambent Services, Cyber City, AskSunday, Boldly Jobs, and qcfinance.in.
  • For each of these companies, UpCity.com provides a profile page where information essential to know before selecting the company are listed.
  • These essentials include website address, user reviews, and other necessary business information, such as the number of employees, commercial focus of the company, service area details, platforms supported, exact address of the company, etc.
  • UpCity.com has also listed 5 virtual assistant services companies in Los Angeles that are top according to them. These companies were VaVa Virtual Assistants, Buying Time, The Pocketbook Agency, Red Butler and California Concierge.
  • Other than UpCity.com, virtual assistant services companies also use review platforms such as clutch.co to reach out to the potential consumer.
  • For example, Clutch.co provides listicles such as: ‘Top Virtual Assistant Services in Canada’ or ‘Best Virtual Assistant Services in New York
  • Sites such as themanifest.com also help virtual assistant services companies to reach out to their client-base.
  • The list titled ‘Top 25 Virtual Assistant Companies’, compiled by themanifest.com, has got companies listed from diverse markets, such as Worldwide 101, Wishup and Noon Dalton for New York City; Affiliated Outsourcing and Worldwide 101 for Los Angeles; and Noon Dalton for Miami.