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"Hire A Helper is a new site that has created a Guru-like marketplace for household labor.\nThe purpose of the site is actually to match up college students that need extra cash with home owners that could stand to catch a break.  When exploring the site, though, I did find a good amount of businesses that don't appear to be run by college students, but are in fact established businesses for house cleaning, etc.  The main categories on the site are Lawn, House Cleaning, Moving, and General help.  Start with any of these categories to initiate your search, and provide your zip code.  You can then pick a date that you'll need help and you'll get a list of search results in your area.  \nEach result has a description and a price for the labor.  You can get additional details, like if there are any traveling fees included, and how much it would cost for three people instead of one.  There's also a link for reviews, which shows the average rank of that individual or business, the number of jobs completed, and any comments other users have left in regards to their service.  \nThe ranking and review system seems sub-par for this type of marketplace matching system, which I would expect to find much more information regarding jobs, and include a more in-depth ranking system.  There's also no way for requested jobs to be posted, meaning the home owner will need to do all the work for finding labor, as opposed to the marketplace working the other way around. A similar, more feature-rich service is DoMyStuff.\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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