For this project, our client needed assistance summarizing “counts” on an ongoing basis. We would take the raw data provided by the client, and insert it into a standard Excel template. This made the raw data much more readable, and aesthetically pleasing.
Initially, we completed this work by hand, manually searching, then entering the data into Excel. However it didn’t take long before we came up with a more efficient way:
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Summarizing a full count by hand would take us about 25 minutes. As the video shows, this work can now be finished in just a few seconds. Considering that we only bill our clients for the time it takes us to finish a task, some might say that we have just shot ourselves in the foot… but we don’t really feel that way.
The sappy truth is that to us being honest, and keeping our clients best interest in mind is more important than anything else.
It’s been such a great experience to work with Manisha! Every conversation with her seems to leave me with a smile on my face. The work we have helped Manisha get done has been a run of the mill variety of virtual assistant tasks.
Basic things like:
- Uploading YouTube videos of Manisha’s television appearances on PBS, CNBC, CNN, ABC, Fox, ect.
- Researching the best online backup services.
To more complicated tasks like:
- Adding hidden fields to Manisha’s various newsletter sign up locations, which makes it possible to keep track of where her subscribers are joining from.
- Using a FileMaker Pro relational database to automatically tag newsletter contacts into groups.
Here are a few kind words from Manisha:
“…in one month [LongerDays oversaw] literally 6 months of “backlog” work I could not get anyone else to do. I have found every single piece of communication with [LongerDays] to be professional, timely, detail-oriented, responsive”
“If every single piece of my business worked as smoothly as my interaction with Longer Days, ahhh…. what a beautiful life that would be. And huge kudos should go to Chad – he really has been an ABSOLUTE delight to work with.”
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