Here's my review of firstpage's service. I've started using his service last thursday.
Here's what happened, I approached firstpage on tuesday. The free trial wasn't mentioned in the thread at all. He replied back in about an hour (we're in the same time zone, and from chatting to him, he appears to be online day and night?), we chatted a bit, and I say sure let's do it, and he say, "try us first, then if it's okay with you we can begin". Free trial? Why not? So I hit up on his offer, and the next day he got one of his staff on day shift, to transfer to night shift to help me.
I used his trial for 2 days, then signed up on a monthly contract with him, paying each week. Task was keywords research, and link building, and forum posting.
My worker's shift is 9 to 6, and he sometimes starts earlier than that, but he always says bye to me at 6pm! However, he does get his work done, and I get a daily report in excel (I initially requested google docs format, but we found microsoft excel to be more time efficient in the end)
Firstpage's english is top-notched, my VA's english is passible. However I understand Firstpage have better english speakers, if you want blogging needs, which I don't. I only needed link building, and my VA is pretty fast at it.
The most important factor with working with firstpage, is that he is contactable on skype most of the time for me, and any messages I left him he answers out.
His price is also on par with Indian outsourcers, and I'd pay that extra $0.15 for the improved english quality.
- 1timedeal of WickedFire.Com