Deliver Me Experts – The Weird Side of the Internet

Deliver Me Experts – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

I got a got a problem. I can’t solve it. For the sake of argument you can’t solve it for me. I need a human delivered that can answer my problem. And now there’s hope. Okay, so this company called TopMate pulled a fast one in their hype. They don’t actually “deliver” humans, but they claim to have over three hundred-thousand experts and professionals from every area, and they aim to connect you to the expert you need in ten minutes.

I have my misgivings. Essentially, they’re selling opinions. I tend to trust experts, but unless they’ve just done some study, or you’re talking about a narrow band of interest, they’re just giving you their opinion. This company is out of India, so I have to wonder if, say, the expert I need is a lawyer, will I get someone who’s a member of the bar?

Another misgiving I have is that experts, on the open market, are pricey by the hour. Two hundred-fifty, three hundred an hour for a lawyer, and that’s not at the top range. So what kind of price would a ‘dial an expert’ have on it? If it’s too high, it wouldn’t be worth the money, and if it was too low, how could you trust the experts?

But imagine, if you will, this company working out. Dial an expert. Consider that four out of five businesses fail. Imagine if you could dial up a marketing expert of Monday and a business expert on Tuesday. Even still, I feel like this would be the cautionary tale of the business owner going through death by expert and not seeing that his brick and mortar was three miles from foot traffic.

Imagine it was so cheap that you could just have them on the line while your commenting on peoples’ posts, correcting them and being an ass.

I would check this out, see how much. My life, even twenty dollar experts might be able top mold some clay.

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