To a lot of people outsourcing might seem like a waste of money and precious time, as well as an unnecessary complication. After all, why should one send business abroad when the same job could probably be done better right at home? To anyone running for office, the topic on outsourcing serves as a real objection to “taking work” away from “our citizens.” Compassion towards this topic will only elicit a couple of votes and nothing more.

But to all businessmen and women, outsourcing is a modern day boon, period. Outsourcing offers all types of businesses the liberty to dump non-core but still important sectors of their administration on firms that specialize in those individual aspects – leaving business owners the freedom to totally focus on those areas of their business that bring in the real dough.

The most alluring advantage of outsourcing is the cost effective feature. Information Technology and human resource services in Europe or the US is not exactly cheap. Let’s simply say that outsourcing is typically an alternative that provides these services at a much lower cost by providing a cheap yet highly productive work force.

Let’s take Asia (India in particular) as an example. Thousands of highly intelligent people graduate in different fields every year. The truth is that almost all of these graduates speak impeccable English and dream of earning good income in a short period of time. Thanks to the boom of BPOs in the past ten years, it has given them the opportunity to realize their dreams. It provides them with the great opportunity to stay close to their home and earn almost the same income as they would if they worked abroad. An individual would earn on average about 300 to 500 dollars each month. Yes, it may not be much to an average American but believe it or not, an Indian would be quite contented with that salary taking into consideration the conversion rate. So it is a win-win situation for your company as well as the firm that you are outsourcing to.

There is something wonderful about Americans: a lot of American business men and women will never take advantage of outsourcing if it means that it is going to mean that other people will be working their fingers to the bones without being duly compensated.

Daven Michaels Author of the book Outsource This!

These days, people talk about outsourcing. A lot of people say that it saves you money and precious time. Is this really true? Let’s take a look:

Virtual assistants only charge for the specific time that they have worked.

Virtual assistants will only use their own equipment

You do not have to worry about paying sick pay, employment insurance, worker’s compensation, employment insurance, or retirement plans.

You do not have to pay agency fees. Temping agencies are known to charge an agency fee to be able to work with them.

You can also benefit from time zone advantage, your virtual assistant is working for you while you are sleeping.

You do not have to think about paying training expenses for specialized skills because virtual assistants are already qualified.

Here are a couple of the tasks you can delegate to your virtual assistant:

a.A virtual assistant can go to your company’s website and add press pages to it, every website should of course have a press page. A virtual assistant can even create a press page and also add links to articles that feature your company on a daily or regular basis.

b.A virtual assistant can post your company’s video on the internet (on YouTube). Yes, YouTube is known to reach over one billion views per day. You would agree that it sure makes a lot of sense that your company’s video get posted online and get advertised on YouTube.  A virtual assistant can help:
Set up an account for you
Post your company’s videos
Send out links on Twitter and Facebook
Embed the videos to your company’s website

c.Assists you in distributing your company’s articles and press releases on various directories. It is very pertinent to write articles and press releases regularly. But, it is also very important that these articles and press releases are distributed to people who actually read them. A virtual assistant can distribute them to different directories on the internet.

d.Help to translate your company’s website. Are your doing business with a lot of clients who do not speak English (which happens to be a universal language)? There are virtual assistants who are multilingual and can easily translate your website into different languages. Okay, they may not be certified translators, but they can also offer the same quality for a very pocket-friendly price.

Daven Michaels Author of the book Outsource This!