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{{Infobox company
| name = TTK Services
| logo = [[File:TTK Services Pvt Ltd.png|TTK Services Pvt Ltd]]
| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
| foundation = 2000
| location = [[Bangalore]], [[India]]
| area_served = Worldwide
| caption =
| key_people = [[Sunder Prakasham|Sunder P]] (CEO), <br />Parasuram Prabhu (Director)
| industry = [[Conglomerate (company)|Conglomerate]]
|products= [[Virtual assistant (occupation)|Virtual assistant services]]<br />[[Real estate]]
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.ttkservices.com/}}
}}

'''TTK Services''' Pvt Ltd, is an Indian business [[Conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] with a presence across the world, In different segments of industry including [[Virtual assistant (occupation)|virtual assistant]] services<ref>{{cite news|work= economictimes.indiatimes.com |title= TTK betting big on life outsourcing |url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2007-12-25/news/28387898_1_outsourcing-ttk-services-concierge}}</ref> and Real estate services,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-10-18|title=TTK Group’s real estate marketplace HomeShikari.com in talks to raise $5M to expand to more cities|url=https://www.vccircle.com/ttk-groups-real-estate-marketplace-homeshikaricom-talks-raise-5m-expand|access-date=2021-08-08|website=VCCircle|language=en-US}}</ref> headquartered in [[Bangalore]], [[Karnataka]]. TTK Services Pvt Ltd is a company of the [[TTK Group]]; The TTK Group was founded in 1928 as an indenting agency by Mr. [[T.T. Krishnamachari]]. The Group also has other [[subsidiaries]] like TTK Healthcare Limited, TTK Protective Devices Limited, Cigna TTK Limited and Prestige Smart Kitchen.

==History==

===Early formative years===
The company's YourManInIndia<ref>{{cite news|work= csmonitor.com|title= Mom in Delhi needs a hand? E-mail yourmaninindia.com|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0802/p01s04-wosc.html}}</ref> service was the first to provide a range of concierge services that enabled Indians living overseas to get things done in India, virtually. In that, they even handled parental care and other errands, back home on their behalf. One such Indian expat in NY, Mr Misha went on to share his experiences with his friend Mr AJ Jacobs (AJ), the editor-at-large of the popular men's magazine ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]''.

===2000–2007===
[[File:YourManInIndia-logo.png|thumb|YourManInIndia-logo]]
[[A. J. Jacobs|AJ Jacobs]], at that time inspired by [[Thomas Friedman]]’s ‘[[The World is Flat]]’ wondered why the benefits of outsourcing should be limited to only the Fortune 500s, why not to an individual like him.<ref>{{cite news|work=abcnews.go.com |title= Editor Outsources Everyday Life to India|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=996544&page=1}}</ref> So he set upon to experiment and approached YourManInIndia in May 2005 with a request to virtually handle his personal life. While the bizarre request did seem to sound like a joke, the company nevertheless went ahead with the experiment. He outsourced his personal life by sending across things he wanted to do in NY to YourManInIndia. AJ went to write a humorous article '''My Outsourced Life'''<ref>{{cite news|work= npr.org |title= Finding the Outsource of Life |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4818754}}</ref> in the Esquire which captured people’s imagination and the attention of the international press.
The experiment gained popularity and was featured on [[Good Morning America|ABC’s Good Morning America]], [[NPR]], [[WSJ]], [[NYT]] and other international [[News media|media]].
Sensing an opportunity, the company formed a separate division for virtual assistant services and christened it as ‘GetFriday.' The service was again featured as YourManInIndia (YMII) in [[Tim Ferriss|Tim Ferriss’s]] New York Times best-selling book ‘The Four Hour Work Week’ published in 2007.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}

===2007–2011===
[[GetFriday, Bangalore|GetFriday]] works round the clock (24/7) across multiple time zones, providing personal and business assistance services in [[English language|English]]. For a brief period of 2 years, it also experimented with providing a German language virtual assistant service that also turned out to be pretty successful. However, the company could not sustain it and voluntarily wound it down due to the scarce availability of [[German language|German]] speaking people in India.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}

===2011 – present===
[[File:Home Shikari.png|thumb|Home Shikari]]
In 2011, TTK Services expanded its services to real estate and launched HomeShikari,<ref>{{cite news|work=thehindubusinessline.com|title=Homeshikari, a TTK Services "Giving brokers the boot"|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/variety/giving-brokers-the-boot/article4877433.ece}}</ref> a real estate portal.<ref>{{cite news|work=gaglers.com|title=HomeShikari – Creating transparency and trust in real estate|url=http://gaglers.com/blog/2013/07/24/home-shikari/#sthash.Ocpexv6m.1D7qSale.dpbs}}</ref> It currently offers property related services across six major Indian cities.

==See also==
*[[TTK Group]]
*[[TTK Prestige]]

==References==
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[[Category:Outsourcing companies]]
[[Category:Real estate companies of India]]
[[Category:Companies based in Bangalore]]
[[Category:TTK Group]]
[[Category:Indian companies established in 2000]]
[[Category:Real estate companies established in 2000]]
[[Category:2000 establishments in Karnataka]]
[[Category:Conglomerate companies established in 2000]]

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