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What is a Virtual Assistant?

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

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. He can be the perfect solution for a busy business owner.

A virtual assistant offers several advantages over a paid employee. When you hire a virtual assistant you get all the benefits of outsourcing – no employee tax and benefits issues, coupled with the loyalty and steadiness of a company employee.

If you have found that traditional staffing solutions don’t work for you there may be many reasons. Temps are a transient solution, and they can be expensive. If you need someone only a few hours a day or week, a temp can prove more costly in terms of training than he is worth. Most are also looking for full time employment, so as soon as you find someone you like, he has left the temp service for greener pastures.

Paid employees come also come with a host of issues. You not only must provide tech equipment and furniture for them, you also have state and federal obligations, and employer compliance and unemployment liabilities. Then there are the benefits packages – sick leave, vacation time. It is estimated that the true cost of an employee is over double and sometimes triple the cost of their annual salary in terms of benefits and liabilities. There is a better solution. Find out how to grow your business while saving a ton of money.

Daven Michaels is an award-winning outsourcer and author of the book, ‘Outsource This!’ Daven has been honored more than any other individual or outsourcing organization. You can get more information on outsourcing by visiting www.123Employee.com

Outsourcing: How Much Can You Save?

Monday, October 5th, 2009

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 email marketing, social networking, managing your call centers and conducting company research and admin, it can be a overwhelming amount of work that you can get for half the price.

When you weigh the costs of outsourcing against the high hourly wage you pay for employees here in the U.S., it can be literally thousands a month. And if you think that only American workers are savvy enough to handle Internet marketing and call centers, think again. Today’s outsourcing reps have access to specialized training that prepares them for any kind of marketing and admin tasks. In a recent survey of how businesses are changing the way they do things to close the sale in this tough economy, they are overwhelmingly choosing to use an old school technique…the phone.

Just when you thought that no one uses the phone anymore to direct market, today’s businesses have discovered that personal follow-ups by phone to interested prospects can add a human touch to closing the sale. In a tough economy a business needs to show they care and will be there for their customers. This is one avenue that outsourcing can do well. For half the price of American labor. An outsourcing firm worth it’s weight will have the call center technology for quick, automatic dialing that could not only save your company thousands per month, but help close sales and grow your business.

If you could sit right down and go over in your mind just how many tasks could be outsourced, it can be staggering. These are tasks you are paying for right now. And are your employees properly trained in the new horizons of the Internet? Or are you going to pay extra for that specialized training? It’s time to reconsider outsourcing as a valuable marketing and administrative tool.

Daven Michaels is an award-winning outsourcer and author of the book, ‘Outsource This!’ Daven has been honored more than any other individual or outsourcing organization. You can get more information on outsourcing by visiting www.123Employee.com

Social Networking Drives Traffic

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

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 of interested prospects through social media can be a bit time consuming, that is where outsourcing can help.

Your company can represent itself in very powerful ways through the use of social media. Videos, blogging and building networking groups will deliver a multimedia approach to showing your business. Social profiles can reveal anything about your company that builds brand awareness, staff bios and satisfied customers. Clickable links in social profiles are the key to driving traffic to your websites. Most social profiles provide an opportunity to leave a multitude of outbound links that
can give your website not only targeted traffic, but a boost in search engine rankings. Using the power of big networking sites, you can easily get a social profile to the top of a search engine page long before you could get a major company website to the top.

Outsourcing is the solution to this part of your Internet marketing strategies. For as little as $5.00 an hour, reps can create and manage all of your social networking needs. This can be one of the least inexpensive, yet effective marketing tools available today. 60% of people online actively search blogs, videos and social sites for research and information. Social networking provides these tools to help drive a traffic tidalwave to any part of your website that you desire: opt-in pages, sales letters and product pages. Instead of doing this work yourself, hire a Internet marketing trained, overseas staff to maintain this powerful strategy for you. Do your research. Find out if outsourcing is the solution your business needs!

Daven Michaels is an award-winning outsourcer and author of the book, ‘Outsource This!’ Daven has been honored more than any other individual or outsourcing organization. You can get more information on outsourcing by visiting www.123Employee.com

How Can Your Website Get Ahead?

Friday, September 11th, 2009

70% of the U.S. populatisourcing.com 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 you have a very large target market and as long as you have a website, you have a better chance of being found online than in a phone book, flier or other advertisement.

But…

There are over 400 million active websites and the average person only gives a website 10 seconds before deciding whether the site is worth their time. How can your website stand out? Using videos, blogs and social networking, you can bring your website to the top of the search engines by piggybacking off of major sites such as Facebook, Ezinearticles or YouTube. Using the powerful positioning of these sites you can propel your websites along with them to expose your information and services to the world. But do you have the resources and training to make this happen?

Outsourcing is the answer to giving your business the online access to the world that it needs. Think how many targeted prospects you could reach with an outsourcing team that is trained in social networking and Internet marketing. You can save major training costs, labor costs and keep up with tech changes by utilizing overseas reps.

If you are considering using Internet marketing to grow your business, you’ll need a team to partner with. Do your research before making an outsourcing decision and make sure that your reps have the training and Internet savvy to keep up with all the major changes that you’ll need to stay on top of the search engines. Your business is everything. Be proud of it and show it to the world!

Daven Michaels is an award-winning outsourcer and author of the book, ‘Outsource This!’ Daven has been honored more than any other individual or outsourcing organization. You can get more information on outsourcing by visiting www.123Employee.com

Outsourcing Vs. Virtual Assistance

Monday, September 7th, 2009

 

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 staffing and inventory control a small
company can get overwhelmed. A specialized labor
force can help ease these tasks. But how much
does a virtual assistant cost?

There are various types of virtual assistants and
various types of fees. Administrative assistants
can handle tasks such as word processing, document
creation, billing services and scheduling. An a
assistant like this can cost $15 – $30 a hour.
“Web savvy” assistants can help with your
Internet marketing duties such as social networking,
blogging, and ecommerce. This kind od assistant
can cost you $20 – $40 an hour. Then lastly
there is a business manager assistant. They can
handle tasks such as website design, creating business
plans and event and trade show representation. This
assistant can cost you $25 – $50 a hour and up!

But what if there was an overseas outsourcing firm
that could do a majority of these tasks for as
little as $5.00? What would this mean to your
business and your bottom line? Think of the costs
you would save your business and the productivity
you could increase with a program like that. Virtual
assistants are popular. They are there not just to
get a job done, but to help you grow your business.
Internet savvy outsourcing will create a partnership
with you to make your business successful for a
fourth of the cost of employing a domestic assistant.

In the past, there may not have been overseas
outsourcing reps trained in Internet marketing.
There may not have even been the need. But it is a
whole new ballgame now. Find out how Internet savvy
outsourced reps can take your business to the next level.

Outsourcing Your LinkedIn

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

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 banded together by industry making the groups a hotbed of networking and activity. Where is your company’s presence on LinkedIn? Who would you like to find?

As with any social networking site making contacts, creating profiles and answering emails can be very time consuming. Outsourcing this kind of work can be very beneficial and profitable for your business. Just having a presence at all on these social networking sites can help give your business a boost in the search engine rank making it easier to be found with keywords. Where are you in a Google search?

Outsourcing is not only a way to save money. You can use a good outsourcing company, one that has the proper training, to help grow your business by creating social networking profiles. Each one is another opportunity to be seen as part of your Internet marketing strategies. Using a site like LinkedIn, there are numerous places to put further information, build a database of potential customers and interact with the clients you already have. It is just plain, good old customer service to able to identify your client’s needs and give them easy access to your company resources.

Rethinking your outsourcing needs from just cost cutting to creating a partnership with your overseas rep, opens up new opportunities for growth and profitability. Researching the right outsourcing company will make all the difference in the viability of your business in this tough economy. Outsourcing is the answer!

Daven Michaels is an award-winning outsourcer and author of the book, ‘Outsource This!’ Daven has been honored more than any other individual or outsourcing organization. You can get more information on outsourcing by visiting www.123Employee.com

Build Your Database With Outsourcing

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

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 “your list is gold,” meaning that a database of targeted prospects can be marketed to over and over, sending them new product launches and email campaigns. Your customers may not be ready to buy when they visit your site for the first time, but capturing their email addresses means you can build brand loyalty, keep your image fresh in their minds and market to them when they are ready to buy.

An Internet savvy and knowledgable outsourcing rep firm not only saves you a lot of money in labor costs, but uses free social media sites to funnel visitors to an opt-in page where the prospect fills out a “name and email” form for freebies or additional information. This technique works efficiently to capture emails and the chance to market your products and services over an extended period of time. I’m sure that each and every one of us has signed up for a free ebook or white paper giving us valuable info on our topic of interest. A database is the #1 marketing tool for successful Internet businesses.

An outsourcing rep or virtual assistant can create profiles on sites such as Twitter or Facebook, upload powerful videos to popular sites like Youtube and create opt-in pages that generate targeted traffic. This traffic clicks on the links that are embedded in the pages and are encouraged to sign up for a variety of free info products. Does your outsourcing firm provide this kind of service? If they don’t, you are missing out on the most powerful conversion tool on the Internet. Without a list, you have no one to market to. Visitors to your website who are not yet ready to buy will disappear, never to be seen again. Don’t let this happen to your business. Hire a outsourcing firm that not only saves you money, but builds your business like a partnership.

Daven Michaels is an award-winning outsourcer and author of the book, ‘Outsource This!’ Daven has been honored more than any other individual or outsourcing organization. You can get more information on outsourcing by visiting www.123Employee.com

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