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by polyfractal 5239 days ago
You might have good luck just hiring some cheap Virtual Assistants to do this work for you. oDesk or elance are pretty good for these types of administrative tasks
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Thanks! Do you know anyone in particular?
Alas, I don't have any personal experience with hiring a VA - I've just listened to Rob Walling talk about them a lot.

I've used oDesk several times though for other things and it works fairly well. My suggestion is to write up a short "test" project and hire out five or six competent looking VAs. Give them a hard deadline (two hours tops, etc) and see who completes the job in a satisfactory manner.

Some will totally suck, some will never get back to you, and a few will be awesome. If your entire group sucks, ditch them and move on to a new group of candidates.

Once you find someone that is good and in your price range, give them a larger task and see how it goes.

thanks! I'll try that