Interviewer: Welcome back to Wink News at noon. Now, remember when Sundays were actually a day of rest. You did not have that long to do with that keeps getting longer and if you cannot remember a time when you did not have a lot on your plate, you may need a personal assistant and that was possible for everyday people like you and me to get one. So, joining us from New York City are the guys who where behind the website Asksunday.com. Steve Ludmer and Avinash Samudrala. Hey guys how are you doing?
Avinash&Steve: Good, how are you?
Interviewer: I am doing great. So tell everybody what Asksunday.com is. How does it work?
Avinash: So, Asksunday.com is a revolutionary 24/7 personal assistance service divided into a couple categories. After consumers go to our website and sign up, it takes about 5 minutes to sign up, they have accessed to a personal assistant team. Through the team, we will help you with your to-do-list and help you with appointment setting, general reservations, travel bookings and for small businesses, we can help with more dedicated tasks such as market research, sales and marketing and a broader way of other general necessary task.
Interviewer: It definitely sounds like the possibilities are endless even if you are doing I guess maybe a wedding or you had sometimes a bigger event. You have people use your services for that?
Steve: No, quite often. We are currently have a member right now who are planning almost every cash right of the wedding so it is quite fun to be able to help people with significant event such as that in their lives.
Interviewer: So, how did you guys come up with this ideas, it is a really great idea that helps a lot of people, how did you think of it?
Avinash: Steve and I, as busy professionals in New York City where free star for times. So, we thought it would be great to come up with a service to bring time back in our life and help us with our personal task. We were always under the gun and not able to do some of the things that we wanted to get done. One way to find out an option is to help us and not use our immeasurable resistance at our work place.
Interviewer: So the big question that probably everyone was wondering is it expensive or affordable. I mean, how with the pricing like?
Steve: I think one of those surprising things about asksunday is the support ability. We have plan to started $29.00 a month for 30 requests and $49.00 a month for 50 requests. So, it really gives everybody out there the option to have their own personal assistant.
Interviewer: So, this point, how many customers do you have and what type of customers kind of take advantage of this.
Avinash: So, at this point, we have customer in the thousands and we have a broad of customers from business professionals to stay at home moms to people who are traveling the world all take advantage of our services.
Interviewer: And I read that you guys were recognized this Time Magazine’s Top 10 website of 2007, Congratulations on that. That is a great honor and I have to notice you guys are pretty young so tell me about starting up this business just making your dreams happen.
Steve: Oh, it is been quite of an event just so far. Avi and I are childhood friends, so it is always great to go on a business with someone that you have a close relationship with and you really trust. So, starting our business at this young age has been one of the most tremendous opportunity of our lives.
Interviewer: Absolutely, well, thank you very much for joining us this afternoon. Good luck in all your endeavors
Avinash & Steve: Thank you.
Interviewer: And we put a link of honor website winknews.com. So you can go check it out.
Male Interviewer: Hello there are young entrepreneurs was a really great to see but also I think there is a dinner reservation on Saturday and Sunday.
Interviewer: I know right, by the way leave the dog taking out the trash
Male Interviewer: They will call and remind you of the things too. Does that work out?
Interviewer: Maybe, I think so they have a wake up and a reminder services as well.
Male Interviewer: That is great!
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