AirPersons presents its new viral video with a retro scent

AirPersons, another European startup hoping to move to The Valley, presents its new viral video with a retro scent.

AirPersons is another European company that is packing to move to The Valley seeking financing and Venture Capital. Airpersons allows you to connect through live video chat to any type of professionals: lawyers, doctors, psychologists, math teachers, language teachers, personal shoppers, and so… up to more than 1000 categories. Services are person-to-person and billing is for the minute. Android and iOs apps will be available throughout next month of April.

To introduce itself, Airpersons has posted a video with a retro feel and a touch of humor/criticism to the manner in which services are currently hired. They exploit the concept that there is no point doing a search in 0.025 seconds if you can’t get an appointment with a doctor or an attorney for less than 10 days.

Do you remember Charlot? We don’t give any clues; you better watch the video.

The website works in 25 languages and, according to its founders M. Lewis and L. Lauper, its objective is to globalize the world of services, offering the possibility of purchasing services online at the best price anywhere in the world, benefiting from currency exchange. For example, you can find 30 minutes Chinese classes for only $3! And a 15 minute medical consultation in English with an Indian doctor from $10.

‘We are aware that other websites are trying to do similar things, the difference is that on AirPersons you already can find services in 25 languages. We will soon launch the Android and iOS apps, which will allow users offering services to earn extra money on the go, and those buying services to do so 24/7 at the best prices. We offer free services worth up to $40 to the first 100,000 users who register on the web’ says Mr. Lewis.

AirPersons is actually a cross between Ebay, LinkedIn, Ask, and a video chat system. You can view the profile of service providers; ask free questions before paying for a video chat session, and do advance service searches according to many criteria.

The web has Business Accounts that allow companies to offer a service and let it be handled by different people. For example, a law firm can offer a legal online advice service and associate it to several of its lawyers. Airpersons detects which attorney is online whether on the website or on mobile through the iOS and Android applications, and redirects the service query to one of those online. Service creation is so simple you can create a service in less than 30 seconds and post it worldwide.

The founders wish to keep the development team in Europe and have an office open in the Valley to make direct contact with investors, other startups, close collaboration agreements, etc. ‘Truth is that we would love to take the development team to the Valley with us, but then we would shortly have to look for a whole new team since at the Valley good professionals jump from one company to another very quickly and our team is really good". In Europe access to VC is more difficult but fortunately development there is up to 60% cheaper and staff turnover is lower" says Mr. Lauper, who studied in Indiana.

AIRPERSONS.com gives away $ 40 in consultations, services and classes to the first million who register in English on the website.

On airpersons.com you can find a 1-hour psychological consultations for $10, Chinese language classes for $5 and 30-minutes advice with an attorney for only $10!

 AirPersons.com is a website for person-to-person services via video chat and mobile phone. The website is available in English and offers credit worth of $ 40 to spend in services to all those who complete the registration process as a welcome gift.

The gift can be used for doctor consultations, lawyer advice, language teachers, psychologists, etc., worth for $ 40.

There are more than 1000 different professional categories: doctors, psychologists, lawyers, language teachers, teachers of any subject, business services, personal shopper, personal trainers, etc. All services are live, person-to-person.

On AirPersons billing is by the minute. The price per hour of each service ranges between $15 and $55.

There are services at very affordable prices at airpersons.com such as:

- Psychologists consultation for $10 / hour, with Argentine or Uruguayan psychologists.

- Chinese classes for $5 Euros with a native Chinese citizen.

- 30-minute advice with an attorney for about $10.

AirPersons.com is also the place to earn some additional income. Anyone can offer services from their computer at home with an internet connection, or from their mobile phone downloading the Mobile APP (available in March-April 2013) from the APPLE STORE and GOOGLE PLAY.es.

    

1000 services in less than a month!

1000 services in less than a month!

A 30-minute consultation with a psychologist for only $5!

AirPersons has already completed its first month in beta phase. During this month there have been more than 1000 users from more than 10 different countries.

 The categories with the most services are:

- Health

- Psychology

- Law, lawyers

- Spirituality (tarot, horoscope, etc)

- Teaching

- Business

In this first phase the platform is positioning as a professional network in a 90%. Leisure and Languages categories are taking more time to start spreading the word. Since there is a lot of competition in the online learning sector that was expected. Our intention in this initial phase is to position AirPersons in the languages queries sector, and distance ourselves from online courses.

Precisely, it’s been published in the WSJ a very interesting article about the difficulties online courses-oriented business models are having. Here is the link

This first month has proved the concept of globalization of services really works, for users sharing a language can buy services and benefit from currency and income differences between countries. For example, it is already possible to buy a 30-minute consultation with a psychologist for only $ 5.  

It’s also possible to purchase a Tarot Reading for just only $ 3!

How to find a service or a class in AirPersons.

If this is your first time accessing AirPersons you'll appreciate this entry.

In our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/user/airpersons) you can find video 3 (see below) explaining the basic functions when searching for services, consultations and classes in AirPersons.

When using the top search bar, you will be choosing the default search settings, which display the search results as follow:

- Online users first

- Lowest price per minute first

- User with better rating first

That’s all for the main default search system.

Advanced search

On the right of the ‘Search’ button, there is a link to the ‘Advanced Search’ window, which allows you to:

-Search users according to their accepting payment method (Cash and/or AirPersons Credits)

-Select users who provide a service in any given country and/or who speak one or more selected languages.

-Set the maximum price you are willing to pay for half an hour of that service, consultation or class,

-Use the search criteria to filter by gender, age, studies, degree and more.

In another entry, we'll explain the ‘Search users’ option.

No press notes until DISRUPT NYC 2013!

We’re eager to tell everyone: AirPersons has just launched its beta version onJanuary 1st. We would like to launch a press release in 30 languages... but WE CAN’T! These are the rules of TechCrunch, not a single press release before the NYC Disrupt!

Why? It’s very simple; the event organizers want to serve as the international launching place of the projects presented there. That will make NYC the capital of the entrepreneurship and start-up world for a week.

So the only thing we can do until then is to write in this blog and hope we’ll be in NYC presenting our project. Until then, those first registering to AirPersons will come from the viralization of those first invited: friends, family and team members.

If you have received an invitation and are reading this blog, that means the viraltool works!

AirPersons.org

 Airpersons.com donates 5% of its profit each year to Airpersons.org. The purpose of the Airpersons Foundation is to install computerized classrooms in remote villages without economic resources in third world countries. Classrooms will be multipurpose and will be used for teaching, traininga and remote consultation with doctors, specialists, teachers, legal counsellors, etc..

Airpersons projects will have a duration of three years each. The goal is that in that time the classroom will get local donations to finance itself, once the community realises of the benefits it brings being in a such support program and receiveing free help from doctors, teachers and other professionals.

The foundation's goal is to create specific projects and sustain them over time. To do this, Airpersons.org combines solidarity jobs with classroom training through the web page Airpersons.com to achieve:

- Telemedicine remote queries

- Foreign language training support

- Computer training and programming languages

- Person-to-person mentoring and tutoring school children

The founding ideals of Airpersons.org encourage time donations over money donations. Airpersons.org asks every user of Airpersons.com to donate a portion of their time to help other less fortunate people anywhere in the world.

If forty doctors give away two hours a week of their time, a village doctor can have eight hours every day of video-chat to consult. I wish we could have a doctor in person in every village, but that’s not possible, costs are high. We believe Airpersons.org is the best solution when there are insufficient financial resources. In addition, we expect in not too long the development of new hardware and peripherals for computers such as cameras with built-in high resolution light, portable scanners, etc., which together with Airpersons will allow an almost infinite number of new applications for videochat services.

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 How to make money in AIRPERSONS working from your phone.

Airpersons users may soon make money from their mobile phones. We are developing the ANDROID and iOS versions of our application.

Initially, the functions of the ANDROID and iOS Apps will be the following:

- Receiving calls from Airpersons users and provide your services via video, voice and video chat. Earning from your clients will be credited to your Airpersons account.

- Service searching by keyword, listing and viewing.

- Contracting a service

- Paying by credit card, Pay Pal or Google Wallet

- Rating the service at completion.

The mobile version of Airpersons is going to be simple and convenient. Users who already have an Airpersons account and provide a service will simply need to download the application from their mobile Apps store.

From that moment the application works like Skype or any other videoconferencing service, when you receive a call, you are notified of who is calling and the service they wish to buy. After accepting the call, it works similarly to the web, the first two minutes are always free, and after that the user is charged according to your established price.

If you're reading this post, go to our website at:

http://www.airpersons.com/airpersons-mobile.php

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