Posts belonging to Category outsourcing
Posted by execva on August 16, 2011
From time to time the question arises on various Virtual Assistant (VA) lists around the world about what VAs should be calling themselves. Basically, the problem appears to be that after the term ‘virtual assistant’ was hijacked by outsourcing companies from cheaper labour countries and emerging economies like China, the Philippines and India after the [...]
Categories: outsourcing
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Tags: Elance, outsourcing, Timothy Ferriss, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on April 16, 2010
We welcome the Blog Hopping VA, Sharon Williams, President of The 24 Hour Secretary and chair of the OIVAC steering committee, who is here answering your questions on the virtual assistant industry and OIVAC! Here are Sharon’s answers to the questions posed over the last couple of days. If you have further questions or would [...]
Categories: business building, business development, home based business, online networking, online training, outsourcing, remote secretary, va, virtual, virtual assistant
| Tags: business services, business support, education, oivac, remote secretary, va, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on March 30, 2010
Thank you Warwick Merry, guest blogger, for sharing your experiences of outsourcing versus insourcing. For VAs, Warwick also shares his tips on promoting your value as opposed to getting into an ‘Us v Them’ war. Really, offshore providers as I’ve said before service an end of the market many of us don’t really want. And [...]
Categories: facebook, outsourcing, transcription, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on March 5, 2010
It’s happening again! Apparently now some UK companies are letting the team down by plagiarising content, taking business names of established businesses and their URLs – or something very close thereto – and swiping content. Regular readers will recall my October post about an international company who had plagiarised an article I wrote in 2004 [...]
Categories: business, outsourcing, plagiarism, virtual assistant
| Tags: business marketing, business services, outsourcing, plagiarism, va, virtual assistant, web content
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Posted by execva on January 14, 2010
Regular readers will recall my post on outsourcing services to cheap labour countries like India and the Philippines and my follow up article. Here’s an interesting (and humorous) look at other services that may soon be available in these countries! © Lyn Prowse-Bishop, http://www.execstress.com/
Categories: outsourcing
| Tags: outsourcing, remote secretary, remote support, va, virtual assistant
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