Fancy Hands

Quick Summary

Fancy Hands is a U.S.-based virtual assistant service that provides on-demand assistance for founders and CEOs. Founded in 2010, the company specializes in handling a variety of tasks remotely, aiming to help clients manage their time more effectively.

I am highlighting “Founders and CEOs” as their target demographic seems to be 100% based around these high value clients.

Pricing

They dance around the talk of pricing a lot, but here is the math:

• Standard requests are up to 20 minutes of work
• You get 15 requests a month for $125
• Each request is about 20 minutes of work
• That’s 300 minutes of work for $125
• 5 hours of work / $125
• That’s $25 an hour

The initial pricing is $25.00/hr

The dedicated assistants are a separate service offering and is pretty much just like the other US based virtual assistants.

Who is this for?

From the looks of the testimonials on the home page, this is outsourcing personal assistants for founders & CEOs.

”- We can find the best SAT tutor for you kid”

The press area featuring articles from the NYTimes highlights the key use case:

Farming out personal tasks, like dinner invitations, intimate e-mails and such is daunting, she said…” she said.

And again, this note from the founder:

Ted Roden, a former technologist for The New York Times, developed Fancy Hands in June 2009 not long after his wife gave birth to their first child. He said he needed help with day-to-day minutiae like scheduling baby sitters and resolving problems with his cable bill.

Key Takeaway

If you’re rich and want a virtual assistant, this seems like a good service to use. Everyone else, pick another company from our companies list.

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