Outsourcing:Everybody’s Doing it!

You are a modern-day, small business owner. You’re hip to the market trends that impact your niche, and you’re savvy to the notion of best practices. How is all that working out for you so far? Are you able to spend all the time you’d like on each and every aspect of your business? Are you accomplishing everything that you need to fast enough?If you’re like me, you can always use another pair of hands to get through the day’s To Do list. Also, if you’re like me, you cringe when you have to spend money on something that doesn’t show an immediate cashflow positive return. As we say around here, todays outgoing dollar better come back as two tomorrow.Do you know how your competition is getting it all done and staying on budget? I know. It;s simple. Your competition is using outsourcing. The cost of an outsourced staff is marginal compared to what ...
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Consider the Philippines for Outsourcing

Perhaps you’ve never considered the Philippines as a place to find outsourced resources. Now is the time. You need a workforce at a fraction of the cost you’re being quoted by local workers. Our representatives at 123Employee are fluent English speakers with solid skills who can make your dollars go further.Reliability is what you need. Dedicated to your workflow, the assigned representative or team of representatives will be committed to your business, and your business only. With that kind of focus, tasks are completed quickly and the progress this brings to your business is fantastic. Data entry, follow-up calling, client support, and many other activities you need help with will be handled by your new staff. And your budget will still be in the black.Right now we’re all trying to get by on less cash, so there’s no way hiring a traditional workforce for your sm...
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Get Affiliated! Outsource Now!

Get Affiliated! Outsource Now!If someone were to offer you the possibility to earn a substantial residual income, would you take it?Well, that depends, you say.The better you understand how our affiliate program works, the more enthusiastic you will be for the opportunity. It’s truly a no-lose, no-risk, share-the-wealth kind of scenario. And I know we’re all looking for a little extra income with the least amount of effort.We provide technical and managerial support to make your affiliate income stream easy to manage and maintain.Working with your existing client base you simply market and give away our book “Outsource This!”.  We give you all the tools you need, including the ability to track your leads and sales.  This way you can see where a prospect is in the process of hiring representatives from us.Here’s how it works. Your prospects click on...
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What’s the Point?Let Outsourcing be the answer

Monday, January 26, 2009 was dubbed Bloody Monday by the media for the 50,000 jobs that were cut from the workforce of the United States that day. This is a sad reality that we are facing here in America, but it does not stop within our boarders. As jobs are cut here, the wave ripples out to negatively impact the job market around the world.Our mission as outsourcers is one of positive impact. We are here to create jobs, share the wealth, and help grow businesses. As assertive advocates of small business, we offer the opportunity for immediate action against a crumbling financial situation. While there is a lot of talk out there about stimulating the economy to get it back on solid ground, we are here actually doing something.I know there are many one-man and one-woman shows struggling out there to get it all done every day, struggling to finish all the work tasks that stack up never end...
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Outsourcing – Test the Water

At the outset of a new endeavor, a combination of anxiety and caution are warranted. It’s more comfortable if you don’t have to make a big commitment while you kick the tires and go for the test drive. You need a period of time to try out new ideas and practices for your business, and in that period of time you either gain confidence or decide it’s not your best choice.This should be your approach if you are new to outsourcing as well. Don’t jump in with both feet and decide that you’re going to hand over all your bookkeeping and customer support in one fell swoop. Rather, move slowly toward a planned goal of outsourcing all the tasks that you can.The best way to start with outsourcing is with just one. Start with just one outsourced employee at first. That is exactly what I did.After doing my research to find an outsourcing company I felt confident with, I ...
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Be Cautious About Outsourcing?

A statement from the Federation of Small Businesses (http://www.fsb.org.uk) urges small business owners to be cautious about outsourcing:People should make sure they are getting the right service for the size of company they are. They should not have to shell out for blanket coverage. It is about striking a balance.What kind of balance are you striking in your business? Are you finding that you are paying high prices for help with your business tasks, but you are not getting the results you had hoped for?When you choose a plumber to fix the pipes in your home or a dry cleaner for your business suits, you are looking for a good value and quality service that you do not have to think twice about. Once you have chosen a company to the work, you want to confidently move forward without having to reevaluate the decision. This should be your approach in getting help with your business as wel...
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Outsourcing and American Management

Over the course of these articles, we’ve pointed out some important elements to consider when looking for the right outsourcing partner. Here’s another that bears great consequence: who’s managing the operation?Let’s cut straight to the chase. You’ve got to have someone on your side who can advocate for your interests within the outsourcing company. This person should be someone you can relate to and rely on.What I’m getting at is the recommendation that while you’ll find your outsourcing company located overseas, you must make sure it’s run by an American. This might sound like an unnecessarily bold warning, but trust me, you’re going to appreciate the ability to be understood and get the kind of help you need when issues arise.“But wait!” you cry. “I thought if I follow all your advice, there won’t be any iss...
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Outsourcing-The Interview Process

This week I’ve got something really basic and yet super important to share with you about outsourcing. The reason I say, “really basic” is that I expect you might say, “duh!” when you read it. But it’s also fundamentally important to your success, and most people thinking about outsourcing don’t realize that this suggestion is a must do.If you want to hire a staff here in America, you place ads, receive applications and resumes, weed through the pile to find the best candidates on paper, and then set up interviews to meet your top three to five choices. This is the right approach. Even if you use an agency to post the position and screen the applicants for you, you ultimately conduct the interviews directly with the people you will potentially hire.This should be the case with outsourcing as well. Do not work with an outsourcing company that does...
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Outsourcing- Good for America’s Economy?

That’s right . . . outsourcing supports the economic recovery of the U.S. I promise.Don’t believe me? Well, here are a few solid reasons why outsourcing is a good thing:Keeps American entrepreneurs and small businesses in business, even when money is scarceEnables American small businesses to grow, thereby providing more jobs for American workersHelps small businesses and solo entrepreneurs compete with big business—competition grows American business, which leads to more American jobsKeeping America in Business through OutsourcingWe all understand that employees can be outsourced for a lower cost overseas, and that bone has meat on both sides. Although you’ve heard the assertion that outsourcing takes jobs away from American workers, I want to convince you that it will ultimately bring jobs home to America. But first let’s focus on the fact that if a busine...
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The #1 Way Internet Marketers Throw Away Their Time, Energy & Money

By now, just about every Internet marketer knows they ‘should’ be using a virtual assistant to free up their time for more important matters like strategizing, organizing campaigns, arranging JVs, creating new promotions, fine-tuning offers, etc. But, still, many marketers continue doing all the little things themselves. This is like bending over to pick up a penny while dollars drop out of their pockets — and they end up with a big rip in their pants!Can you afford not to hire a virtual assistant? Let’s take a look…What is your yearly income? Please write down that amount, because it’s important.Now let’s say you wrote down $50,000 per year. Have you ever figured out what that means in terms of your hourly rate? It’s easy to calculate. You simply take $50,000 and divide it by 52 weeks. Then you divide that by 6 days (assuming you work 6 d...
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Philippines: A reliable resource

Perhaps you’ve never considered the Philippines as a place to find outsourced resources. Now is the time. You need a workforce at a fraction of the cost you’re being quoted by local workers. Our representatives at 123Employee are fluent English speakers with solid skills who can make your dollars go further.Reliability is what you need. Dedicated to your workflow, the assigned representative or team of representatives will be committed to your business, and your business only. With that kind of focus, tasks are completed quickly and the progress this brings to your business is fantastic. Data entry, follow-up calling, client support, and many other activities you need help with will be handled by your new staff. And your budget will still be in the black.Right now we’re all trying to get by on less cash, so there’s no way hiring a traditional workforce for your sm...
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Virtual Assistants Zap Stress and Pack Internet Marketing Punch

There are many ways to promote a Website. The most common ways are search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising and email marketing.Additional methods of marketing include promoting through social sites such as Squidoo, Twitter, WetPaint, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and a whole host of others.Another very effective way to promote your site or sites is through article marketing and blogs, and through voice broadcasting, where you can send a prerecorded message out to thousands of targeted prospects in minutes.With so many ways to promote your Website it can easily become overwhelming trying to do all your marketing yourself. There’s just way too much to do.And that is where a virtual assistant comes in.What if you could take 75-95% of your marketing tasks and delegate them to a trained assistant for as low as $5-7/hour?Notice I said a ‘trained’ assistant.Which wo...
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Outsourcing: Retailing in a Tough Economy

How is your retailing business faring in this tough economy? Are you spending more on your IT department, just trying to keep up with burgeoning technologies, than on your mechandising and marketing departments? Are the revenues during this economic downturn keeping up with your ever growing expenditures?Retailers are turning more and more to outsourcing as a viable option in the fields of Internet marketing, billing and call center operations. Online sales have exploded during this recession as consumers look for alternatives to brick and morter stores going out of business. Some of these retailers on the verge of bankruptcy are turning to online only sales and outsourcing a majority of the IT work as a way to stay afloat.Businesses are using technology increasingly to manage non-critical operations such as Internet branding, inventory management and vendor billing. Although retailers&n...
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Need a Virtual Assistant But Can’t Afford It?

Businesses today need all the help they can get. The state of the economy is stretching every last resource from very thin profit margins. Outsourcing your office labor could be the final step to solvency and keeping your head above water. You have seen the costs of a virtual assistant and it can range from somewhat affordable to somewhat ridiculous, but how do you know what you will get?Sometimes the best programs that you think you can’t afford are the ones you could make a lot of money from, just by recommending the program to others. How great would it be to make a ton of commissions recommending the very programs that would solve your cash flow dilemmas. What I am talking about is called an affiliate program. You can make a good cash flow by advertising a product or service to your colleagues and clients. And the best recommendations come from people who really use the service...
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Outsourcing For Your Business: SEO Tactics

I know how much you realize that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can help bring new customers to your business. But have you priced the services for SEO lately? It cancost a small fortune. Do you know how successful the results are going to be? Depending on your business topics and niche keywords, the results can vary from spectacular to dismal. Getting natural search placement in Google, Yahoo and Bing is where all the new customers come from on the Internet. This “natural” search positioning can bring in tons of money for your business. Think of what a search position above your competiton could mean for your revenue. But with the belt tightening going on in every industry, coming up with the cash to spend on SEO may be a problem. Outsourcing is the solution.That is if the companies you outsource your work to are trained in SEO. What SEO tactics are involved to make your b...
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Call Center Outsourcing Solutions

With the economic downturn driving companies to look for cost cutting solutions, call center outsourcing has become a viable option for companies looking to deliver quality service for their clients, while lowering operating costs at the same time.Call centers can be very expensive to operate for companies that have found the worsening economic conditions are sending their accounts into the red. Dwindling resources have made corporations weigh the options of relocating their call center operations overseas. Additionally companies that do not have it’s own call center operation are finding that they can outsource these services to facilities in the Philippines at a significantly lower cost than creating it’s own center.Companies that outsource at first to save money are finding extended benefits with these services. Benefits not only include lowering costs, but also more flexi...
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Outsourcing Data Entry

Data entry is an important core area of any company. Hiring an outsourcing firm to carry out this critical task is important decision that companies face as they look further to cut labor costs. Professional data entry companies only hire experienced pers...
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Outsourcing Your Twitter Duties

Everyone has heard of Twitter. It is the big thing on the Internet right now and even large corporations are using the power of Twitter to keep their customers informed. Tweets can help send your customers links to new products, training videos, sales let...
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Outsourcing Concerns: Issues Of Culture

We’ve discussed a lot of issues in regard to how outsourcing can save your business money. Reducing labor costs and increasing productivity is just a start. But today, I would like to address cultural issues of working with a particular country when...
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Outsourcing: How Much Can You Save?

Outsourcing is a great way to get tasks done when times are tight. Do you have any idea just how much you could save outsourcing the work you are already doing? It’s probably a lot more than you think! When you add up all the hours for tasks such as...
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Outsourcing Affiliates and Seminars

Becoming an affiliate for outsourcing services and speaking at seminars can be a lucrative business opportunity for you. Recommending an affiliate program to a live audience is the fastest and most profitable way to make sales. Just posting articles and v...
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Making An Income With An Outsourcing Affiliate Program

The way to creating real wealth with an affiliate program lies in a great word of mouth campaign and making sure the commission is large enough to validate the work involved. Just because someone else spent the time creating a great program, doesn’t...
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Outsourcing Video Solutions

Video marketing is the most effective way to promote your products and services on the Internet. Prospective clients get a chance to see you in person and see your products in action. Video testimonials from your satisfied customers are a great way to sho...
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Build Your Database With Outsourcing

Outsourcing is a great way to utilize social media to build a database of potential customers. By using the power of video marketing, Twittering and blogging you can build a list of prospects in quick order. The Internet gurus and millionaires say that &l...
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Outsourcing Your Email Marketing

Email marketing is the key to selling more products and keeping your business image fresh in the minds of your customers. Email marketing creates a rapport and trust with your clients that increases the customer service level you need to compete in this t...
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Outsourcing Affiliate Program Tips

An outsourcing affiliate program is a great way to create a real income for you and your business. But not all affiliate programs are alike nor are all outsourcing companies alike. The proper combination of company and program and the proper education of ...
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Outsourcing Your LinkedIn

According to a statistic in the Wall Street Journal, 80% of businesses have used LinkedIn to search for employees. LinkedIn has over 50 million active users that create profiles to look for employees or to find a job themselves. The groups on LinkedIn are...
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Outsourcing Concerns: Issues Of Culture

We’ve discussed a lot of issues in regard to how outsourcing can save your business money. Reducing labor costs and increasing productivity is just a start. But today, I would like to address cultural issues of working with a particular country when...
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Predictive Dialing Increases Efficiency

123Employee is introducing a call center software tool that will change the way you outsource your telemarketing tasks. Predictive dialing is an auto dialing system that can benefit any telemarketing client or prospect interested in telemarketing services...
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Outsourcing Vs. Virtual Assistance

Virtual assistants are everywhere these days. It is one of the fastest growing sectors of online business help. Why are there so many virtual assistants all of a sudden? With the complexities of running a business online and balancing billing, call center...
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Business Research Brings New Business

Staying on top of the fast growing Internet technologies can be very difficult. Things change very fast in the online world. Have you been able to keep up? Researchingemerging tech trends is vital to your online business success. As a business owner it ca...
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A World Away, At Your Fingertips

Outsourcing to an overseas rep firm is one of the best cost cutting, marketing solutions that is available today. Because of the Internet, look at how things havechanged. You can have virtual assistants on the other side of the world doing manual tasks th...
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How Can Your Website Get Ahead?

70% of the U.S. populatisourcing.comn regularly use the Internet Over 1 billion people in the world are online The average adult spends 3 hours more a day online than watching T.V. These are all encouraging statistics for small business owners. It means y...
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Business Research Brings New Business

Staying on top of the fast growing Internet technologies can be very difficult. Things change very fast in the online world. Have you been able to keep up? Researchingemerging tech trends is vital to your online business success. As a business owner it ca...
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Social Networking Drives Traffic

Social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn are great ways to drive traffic to your websites. These free and easy to use services can build brand awareness and put your products and online business in front of the eyes of the world. Building a network o...
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Outsourced Facebook Tasks: Interactivity

Are you interacting with your Facebook friends like you should? Are you letting friends just sit there without reaching out and connecting? If you aren’t, your not alone. Most Facebook users don’t spend enough time interacting with their frien...
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Outsourcing: How Much Can You Save?

Outsourcing is a great way to get tasks done when times are tight. Do you have any idea just how much you could save outsourcing the work you are already doing? It’s probably a lot more than you think! When you add up all the hours for tasks such as...
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Outsourcing: Internet Savvy Reps

Here are just a few of the things you can have an internet savvy outsourcing rep help you with:Press Release Writing & SubmissionsA good press release can get you newspaper, radio and television interviews. It can also get you free online publicity an...
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Outsourcing For Business: Why Testimonials?

Most customers love the fact that you would ask them for a testimonial. It means that their business and their opinion is important to you. They can also get a link back to their website from their testimonial that they send you. You can tag them or the n...
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Outsourcing Scheduling Tasks For Business

Facebook is the 12th largest site on the Internet with nearly 300 million active users. Savvy marketers all over the world use Facebook everyday to create exposure for their businesses and build lasting relationships that convert to sales. Is your company...
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What is a Virtual Assistant?

An outsourced rep or virtual assistant is specialized in the tasks that can help grow your business. Internet marketing, networking, call center management, research, inventory and billing are just a few of the duties that your personal rep can perform. H...
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