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How to Securely Share Your Password Using LastPass

Posted on November 12, 2014 in Common Requests, Getting Started

Do you want your assistant to log into an account of yours, but you don’t want to give them your password, or create a temporary password that you’ll have to switch back when they’re done? You can do this using LastPass. How does the assistant log into your account without having your password? Once you securely give access to an assistant through LastPass, the assistant uses the LastPass browser extension which automatically fills in your username and password when the assistant visits the login page. The assistant never sees the password, and you can revoke access anytime you want.

To securely share your password, follow the steps below.

Create a LastPass account at www.lastpass.com
Log into your new account and select “Add Site” as shown below
Fill out the site’s login details as shown below
Click the “Share” button associated with the newly added site as shown below
Share it with the email address of the person you want to have access to the site. Be sure to “Share” and not “Give” so your password remains a secret, as shown below

That’s it! You can give anyone with a LastPass account secure access to any of your login information without them ever seeing your password. Pretty great tool.

Perssist Assistant Profile: Nikolay

Posted on November 12, 2014 in Perssist Profiles

Nikolay is from Ukraine and speaks English, Russian, and Ukrainian. He has a Master’s degree from the National Technical University. He defended his dissertation on easy to clean vitreous enamel coatings and was granted a candidate of technical sciences degree. In addition to working with Perssist, Nikolay works as a junior research fellow in the University. He enjoys going to the movies, reading interesting books, or playing some video games.

Nikolay is one of the many smart, friendly, and helpful virtual assistants that will be supporting you when you sign up for Perssist at www.perssist.com.

Lead Generation & Contact Discovery

Posted on October 7, 2014 in Common Requests

Finding emails and contact information for people of interest can be either costly or time-consuming. Have Perssist find leads and contact info for you, and get back to more important things. But if you want to do it yourself, see what it takes…

Find the people that fit your parameters

Do you want to find all the COOs in technology companies with less than 200 employees? Maybe you want to collect the work email addresses for people based in the US, with the job title “project manager”?

You can use connect.data.com or www.linkedin.com to filter through and find contact names and companies, and filter across many parameters including title, geography, industry, company size, and plenty more. It’s pretty quick to get a long list of relevant contacts, sans actual contact information. You can pay data.com for the contact info at $5 a pop without their costly subscription. Or, you can look up contact info manually.

Find the email addresses

Look up contact info manually by Googling for the person’s name along with the back-half of a potential email address in quotes, for example, try Googling:
Tim Cook “@apple.com”

Another method for figuring out someone’s work email to is figure out the format of email addresses at that company. You can do this by searching for other people’s email addresses at the company by Googling something like:
email “@jpmorgan.com”
You’ll see on the first search page for that example, an email address that shows you the email format is first.last@jpmorgan.com, which usually can be applied to anyone else you know works at the company.

Another way to discover company email format is to check one of the following resources:

Verify the email addresses

Verify an email address using the Rapportive gmail extension. If you enter an email address in the To: field while composing an email, Rapportive will show you any social profiles connected to that email (like their LinkedIn, or Facebook profile). It’s a great way to confirm you have the right email, or to guess someone’s email address and see if it pops up, but it’s not 100% foolproof. If nothing shows up it doesn’t mean you have the wrong email, it may just mean that email isn’t associated with any social accounts tracked by Rapportive.

You can also Google for the email address (in quotes) you think is the right one and see if it pops up in any search results.

Get Perssist to Do It

You can save your own time and just submit a request like this to Perssist and we’ll get somewhere between 10-30 contacts per hour, depending on the difficulty of finding the specific contacts.

Perssist Assistant Profile: Laur

Posted on October 3, 2014 in Perssist Profiles

Laur is from Romania and speaks English, Romanian, and some French. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the Romanian-American University and a Master’s degree in Capital Markets, from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest. He’s worked in a bank and for the city council before working for himself, and joining Perssist. He enjoys listening to music, watching movies, reading, and spending time with his dogs.

Laur is one of the many smart, friendly, and helpful virtual assistants that will be supporting you when you sign up for Perssist at www.perssist.com.

Perssist Assistant Profile: Britt

Posted on September 30, 2014 in Perssist Profiles

britt Britt is from Belgium, but has lived in Australia, Malaysia, and now lives in England, and speaks English, Dutch, and some French. She has worked for an events company, a cruise line, and as a translator before joining Perssist. Britt graduated with a degree in Graphic Design from PIKOH in Hasselt, Belgium and enjoys playing tennis, swimming, watching movies, and spending time with friends.

Britt is one of the many smart, friendly, and helpful virtual assistants that will be supporting you when you sign up for Perssist at www.perssist.com.

Perssist Assistant Profile: Silvina

Posted on September 29, 2014 in Perssist Profiles

Silvina is from Argentina and speaks English and Spanish, and studied Business Administration at Universidad Empresarial Siglo XXI. She worked in customer service, project management, and supply chain management before joining Perssist. She enjoys spending time outdoors (especially walking her dogs, Ramon and Doris), hanging out with friends, reading, and watching a good TV series or movie.

Silvina is one of the many smart, friendly, and helpful virtual assistants that will be supporting you when you sign up for Perssist at www.perssist.com.

Getting Started with Perssist: A Beginner’s Guide

Posted on September 14, 2014 in Getting Started

What are you going to have Perssist do for you?

Consider all the things you need or want to get done. Ask yourself if someone could take care of any of those things remotely.

Call customer service
Figure out details for an upcoming trip
Find a home cleaner
Figure out the answer to a question you put off researching
Help out with office work like proofing and admin

What’s on your to-do list that you aren’t looking forward to?

Get inspired by other common requests here.

Better, Faster, Stronger

You have to get comfortable with letting other people do work for you, even if at times they don’t do it as well or as quickly. Consider the value of having it done for you over the time it takes.

Delegation is a skill worth learning. It helps you keep focused on what’s important, rather than trying to juggle a bunch of secondary tasks.

World’s Best Boss

When you ask Perssist to take care of something, try to keep in mind what questions someone with zero context might have. There’s a balance between providing too little detail, and spending time providing so much detail that you may have well done the task yourself. You’ll figure it out. We believe in you.

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