Blog Hopping Tour Questions!

We’ve had some great questions come in about the VA industry for the blog hopping tour and I’ve posted them below.
Remember that on April 16 (that’s April 17 for Australia) the Blog Hopping VA Sharon Williams will be visiting the blog to respond to your questions about the VA industry and the Online International VA [...]

Insourcing the Outsourcing

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 understand [...]

What’s a Virtual Assistant?

And the discussion continues…. regular readers of the blog will recall my What’s in a Name and Confusion Continues posts.
Recently the Sunday Life’s Sarah Wilson blogged about hiring ‘a virtual assistant in India’.  *sigh*
Yet again an Australian reporter encourages Australian business to head offshore for their ‘virtual assistant’ needs. Again, a professional virtual assistant is [...]

Register All Your URLs

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 and [...]

Outsourcing Takes Interesting Turn

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!

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