Seva Call has had a busy start to the fall season, and it keeps getting better. Officially launching in Boston, Seva Call is ready to help Bostonians find the right professional. We are excited to bring a new service to help the locals of Boston!

Did you know that there are over 10,000 local businesses just in the Boston metro area? It must be a pain to find someone to help with services for your home. Lucky for the residents of Boston, you don’t have worry about spending so much time researching and calling businesses. Seva Call is going to do that for you and connect you to 3 companies that fit your needs. With over 40 industry categories, Seva Call can connect you in an average of 100 seconds. We’ve picked the best help for you based on ratings, location, and availability. All you have to do is answer your phone, it’s as simple as that.

Recently launching in Washington DC, Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and other surrounding cities, Seva Call seems to be taking over the Northeast Coast and Seva Man is excited about that!
“Who’s tryna’ have a tea party?!”, asks Seva Man. “Lets celebrate the launch of Seva Call in Boston – meet me at Fenway Park!”

Stay on the lookout for more city launches, as well as the launch of Seva Call’s free iPhone and Android apps!

Hurricane Sandy is described as “The Perfect Storm”, which caused many devastations for the East Coast earlier this week. The Seva Call team would first like to send out our condolences to those affected by Hurricane Sandy, our thoughts and prayers are with you all.

The Seva Call team has been working hard to help East Coast residents with services after Sandy made her debut. With Hurricane Sandy hitting the New York/New Jersey area hard, we have been able to connect those in need of help to professionals, such as plumbers, to help with homes that have been flooded. As requests are still coming in, Seva Call wants to save you and continue helping homeowners, automobile owners, and the millions of residents who need services done to get back to their normal life. We are ready to connect you to plumbers, heating and cooling professionals, auto repair professionals, electricians, and other professionals that are waiting to help you recover and move forward.

To help you recover in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, we are offering you $20 when you use Seva Call to schedule an appointment with a professional who can help rebuild your home. Visit Seva Call to fill in out request or call 301-876-4913 and tell us what you need help with, your location, and availability. Tree removal services, electricians and other service professionals will call you back as needed. Once you’ve successfully scheduled an appointment, used the service and had a great experience, you can redeem your $20 by posting about that experience through Seva Call’s Facebook or Twitter pages, or by calling 1-877-987-SEVA (7382).

Seva Man, now serving Allentown, Pennsylvania has been on a roll! After a busy summer of serving Washington DC, Richmond, Hamptons Road, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia, Seva Man is ready to help the consumers of Allentown.

With over 2,000 business listings in the yellow pages, it must be a time consuming and frustrating task to
find the right person for the job you need done. That’s why the Seva Call team is overjoyed to be bringing their service to the third most populous city of Pennsylvania. Seva Call is making it easier than ever for consumers to find the right professional. With the click of a button and providing some information, Allentown consumers will be able to talk to up to three companies in minutes.

Seva Call, and especially Seva Man, want to help everyone, including businesses. Businesses have the opportunity to use Seva Call to help expand their clientele. It also allows local companies to accept or reject calls depending on their schedule and the task at hand. Through using Seva Call, Allentown businesses can pick and choose clients that are most beneficial to them.

If you’re in need of a high quality professional, let Seva Call help you. It’s easy, quick, and you can get connected in just a few minutes.

Today is a big day for the Seva Call team because our service launches in Pittsburgh! With the help from three Carnegie Mellon University students and one University of Pittsburgh student,  Manpreet Singh, the president of Seva Call, returns to Pennsylvania to launch a virtual concierge service to the consumers of Pittsburgh. Along with Singh, Seva Call’s founder and CEO Gurpreet Singh is excited to launch their service in Pittsburgh, especially because many of the summer team members attended college around the Pittsburgh area.

Is the Steel City ready for a hassle-free way of getting connected with high quality businesses? No more looking through that local phone directory that has thousands of listings for different businesses. No more spending hours on the phone or computer and being disappointed (more like frustrated) when you can’t get the help you need. Don’t worry, Pittsburgh, Seva Call is here to the rescue! The life of a Pittsburgh consumer will be easier than ever with the launch of Seva Call

This service is not only great for consumers to use, but it is also convenient for local businesses to fill those empty spots in their schedule. Businesses have the opportunity to accept or decline consumers based on their busy schedules.  Seva Call is here to help create more business opportunities for those local Steel City businesses.

Have a problem, Pittsburgh? Use Seva Call to help solve that problem quickly. It’s a simple solution that will get you exactly what you need.

Manpreet Singh, president of Seva Call, takes a trip back to Philadelphia, where he received his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.  However, this time he’s not there to study; he’s there to provide a simpler solution for locals searching for service professionals.

As Seva Call is set to launch in Philadelphia on today, Singh begins to reminisce about his time spent in the city of his alma mater.  “It’s such a great feeling to bring my company to Philadelphia, since I got so much of my business knowledge here,” says Singh.  “I’m proud to offer a solution to Philadelphians who need service help.”

For the two years Singh spent studying in Philly, he lived in Rittenhouse Square. According to Singh, the building he lived in was great at fixing common maintenance issues but his friends, who lived in row houses, were always looking for service help.  Any leaky faucet or broken air conditioning unit meant hours spent searching the Yellow Pages for an affordable, local plumber or HVAC technician who was available in between class times.  Thankfully, that search process is over now that citizens and students of Philadelphia have access to Seva Call.

UPenn students and homeowners alike can now rest assured that their service needs can be solved with the click of a button, with Seva Call.

Turban Tuesday, originally a part of July’s Appre-Xi-Ation week, took on a whole new level of meaning last Tuesday, August 8.  This time, rather than just sporting turbans for fun, the Seva Call team made a statement by showing their support for the victims of last Sunday’s shooting in a Wisconsin Sikh Temple.

The team, made up of members speaking 13 different languages and representing countless different cultures, showed that it doesn’t matter where you come from, what you practice, what you speak or what you wear; we all have one thing in common: we are Americans.

“It means a lot that all these people from such a wide range of cultures and backgrounds were willing to make this kind of statement in support of my culture,” said Cofounder Gurpreet Singh.  The three founders, all of whom are American Sikhs, spent part of the day teaching employees and interns about their religion and, of course, how to tie a turban according to the traditional art of Sikh turban tying.

Seva Call’s founders dedicated time and resources to creating WhoAreSikhs.com, a website designed to raise money for the victims as well as awareness of Sikh culture in general.  Since the event on Sunday, the campaign has raised approximately $150,000.

The Seva Call team taught an important lesson last Tuesday, that many American citizens would benefit from learning.  We encourage you to follow in the Seva Call team’s footsteps and speak out to make a difference.

Call me, maybe?  No; call me, definitely.  With Seva Call launching in Richmond, VA, today, August 2, service professionals in the area should expect an influx of phone calls coming their way.  It is Seva Call’s goal to find the right professional for every consumer in need, in turn creating more business opportunities for Richmond’s business owners.

The goal of every accountant, dentist, roofer or electrician is not to sit around all day waiting for clients; it is to make sure their schedule is completely booked.  Especially in tough economic times like the present, companies can’t afford to lose any service, and could definitely afford to bring in some more.

According to a statistic we found in a 2011 Fonality.com report, employees waste 74 minutes per day trying to get in touch with customers.  Additionally, 36% of wasted time is spent trying to contact people, find information and schedule meetings, and 14% of time wasted is spent dealing with unwanted communication.  This is where Seva Call comes in.  By allowing businesses to pre-screen leads, employees have the option to decline consumers who need help when they’re booked, and accept consumers whose requests fit into their busy schedules.

By serving business in over 40 service categories from computer repair to plumbing, service professionals of Richmond can rest easy, knowing that Seva Call is here to, once again, save the day.

Seva Man has had a very busy summer saving consumers all over the D.C. area.  His next stop?  The beach!  Seva Call is set to launch in the Hampton Roads Region today, Tuesday July 31.  This means citizens of the Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Chesapeake areas no longer have to waste their time and money searching for the right service professional.

We asked Seva Man what he plans to do when he gets to the Hampton Roads Region.  His response is given below:

“Well, after saving all of the consumers in need of help, I think I’ll hit the beach.  I hear Virginia Beach has lots to offer when it comes to fun in the sun.  I’ll probably try my luck at surfing, take a fishing trip, or maybe even go horseback riding.  After that I’ll head over to Norfolk and check out the Botanical Garden.  I hear it’s awesome.  Before I go, I’ll have to drive down to the Chesapeake Golf Club and hit some balls.”

Citizens of the Hampton Roads Region- be on the look out for Seva Man.  And of course, don’t hesitate to ask if you need his help!  Stay tuned for where Seva Man can be spotted next, and what he plans on doing when he gets there.

The Seva Call team is on their way to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to celebrate our official launch in Baltimore, Md.  Among the team members are co-founder Amandeep Bakshi, the infamous “Seva Man” superhero, and a handful of interns.  The team plans to hand out promotional merchandise while spreading the word about Seva Call to Baltimore locals.

Citizens of Baltimore can expect demos of our product, along with the possible siting of your friendly neighborhood Seva Man.  Interns will circulate the inner harbor with their iPads, iPhones and Android phones to offer test spins to interested consumers.  Co-founder Amandeep Bakshi is looking forward to returning to Baltimore, where he spent two and a half years getting his master’s degree and Johns Hopkins University.  Go Blue Jays!

Baltimore is the second major city Seva Call is launching in this summer.  We plan to launch in several other cities before the end of the summer and be nationwide before the end of the year.  Stay tuned for news about our upcoming launch in Philadelphia, as well as the launches of our iPhone and Android apps.

Here in the Seva Call office, we’re always trying to keep things interesting.  In honor of our “super intern” Xi Zhang, we’ve decided to name this week Appre-Xi-ation Week!  Each day of the week has been named something different, similar to how “spirit week” was in high school. Here’s a rundown of this week’s themes:

Monday – Serious day: dress your best! Working at a startup, there are rarely occasions where we need to dress nicely. Seva Call employees and interns showed up to work this morning dressed to impress.

Tuesday – Cultural day: because we have more than 10 different languages spoken in our office, Tuesday is dedicated to honoring each member of the Seva Call team’s culture. Interns will give a brief lesson on their particular ethnic background.

Wednesday – Dress like someone in the office day: pretty self explanatory.

Thursday – Retro day: a blast from the past! Dress like your favorite decade.

Friday – Seva Call day: wear your Seva Call shirts! Friday is dedicated to showing Seva Call team pride.