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
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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
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Posted by execva on October 18, 2009
Wrong. Just because you see something on the web doesn’t mean you can grab it and pass it off as your own. Recently I was alerted to the fact that someone had taken an article of mine, changed ‘VA’ wherever it appeared to their company name, and then uploaded it as their Benefits page. This [...]
Categories: outsourcing, plagiarism, remote secretary, va, virtual assistant, web content
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Posted by execva on August 1, 2009
Since my last post on What’s in a Name? it seems that confusion continues regarding what a Virtual Assistant actually is. The most recent misconception appeared in Productivity501′s post on whether to hire a remote or local assistant. Whilst the author raises some great points, he incorrectly states: “The most common perception of a virtual [...]
Categories: virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on June 23, 2009
There has been lots of discussion of late 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 cheap labour countries like China and India after the publication of Tim Ferris’ [...]
Categories: administration, business, freelancer, home based business, partner, remote secretary, support, virtual, virtual assistant
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