Posts Tagged ‘Business process outsourcing’

Outsourcing: List Building Creates Business Wealth

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

 

Outsourcing your list buiding services with an overseas virtual assistant will save money for your business. Learn more about taking your company to the next level:
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Outsourcing: Internet Savvy Reps

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Here are just a few of the things you can have an internet savvy outsourcing rep help you with:

Press Release Writing & Submissions

A good press release can get you newspaper, radio and television interviews. It can also get you free online publicity and links. If the VA is also a writer you can have her write and submit the press releases. Every time something new or exciting happens with your business have your virtual assistant prepare a press release

Autoresponder Setup & Maintenance

If you have an online business then having an autoresponder is pretty much a necessity. An outsourced rep who specializes in internet marketing should have the skills and knowledge to set up your autoresponder system. This includes the setup of your opt-in forms as well as plugging in all the messages you’ll want to go out to your list.

Article Writing & Submissions

Article Marketing is an excellent way to get quality links and traffic to your website, not to mention it presents you as an expert in your industry. Again, if the outsourcing rep you work with writes articles, have them write and submit 1 to 2 articles per week.  If you make this into a routine task, in a short time you’ll see a steady flow of targeted traffic to your site.

Web Directory Submissions

Don’t’ confuse this with ‘Search Engine Submissions’. You should never pay someone to submit your site to the search engines because there is just no need to. The search engines will find you!

Submitting to website directories on the other hand can help you gain better rankings in the search engines. Some virtual assistants will have a list of directories to submit to. All you need to do is provide the sites you’d like submitted and the assistant can do the rest.
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Outsourcing For Business: Why Testimonials?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

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 name of their business to
help get search engine positioning and show other prospective clients
who your business has worked with, how it has helped them and how the
particular product or service can improve their business. These videos
are available for viewing all over the world, creating an exciting
brand image that would cost a fortune otherwise. Using the low cost
of outsourcing and free video hosting sites, you have increased the
awareness of your company a hundred fold over what you could afford with
print ads or other expensive media.

You have a great product. Show the world what your customers think about
your business by soliciting their testimonials. For as little as $5.00
an hour, you can create a powerful marketing strategy that will pull
in prospects from all over the world. Learn how outsourcing can make
your business shine!

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Outsourced Facebook Tasks: Interactivity

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

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 friends, fans or group members enough. When you neglect
reaching out and networking, your profile and everyone that’s
a part of it becomes a superficial and two dimensional social
friendships.

Networking takes time, but that is how the strength of Facebook
comes to light. This is where outsourcing your social networking
tasks can help. I know that you are too busy to constantly stay
in touch with your friends, but if you neglect this powerful
marketing tool your missing out on what big companies already
know…networking with real people builds trust and sales on the
Internet. Outsourced reps trained in social networking can give
you the relief you need to stay on top of busy tasks like this.

Are you already paying for social networking duties from an in
house employee or virtual assistant? Add up the costs and see how
much outsourcing can save you. Virtual assistants trained in
Internet marketing can cost a small fortune, but you can’t deny
the power of having an online presence and spreading the message
of your business or service. Outsourcing helps grow your business
globally for as little as $5.00 an hour and you only pay for
what you need. This is the kind of partnership your company cannot
do without.

Taking your Facebook interactivity to the next level will create
the results you need for big strides in sales, opt-ins or customer
service. Imagine the money you could be saving with Internet trained
overseas reps. No matter how the Internet changes, interacting
with your prospects is here to stay. This has been a staple of
business forever…the Internet is finally catching up. Are you
going to be apart of it?

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Business Research Brings New Business

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

 

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? Researching
emerging tech trends is vital to your online business success.
As a business owner it can be very costly to use American
labor to do these important research tasks, but outsourcing
can be the answer you have been looking for.

Outsourcing this kind of time consuming labor to an overseas
rep firm can make a huge difference in whether your online
business is utilizing powerful strategies of marketing.
Traditional marketing has always been a challenge. Online
marketing changes far too quickly for most companies to
keep up, much less take full advantage. An Internet savvy
virtual assistant can make life easier and more profitable.
Internet assistants are already using many of the software
and applications to stay in touch with the growing trends,
and they have ready access to updates, online news features
and networking with thousands of other users. How much time
have you got to stay in touch on this level?

For as little as $5.00 an hour, you can have a rep working
for your company that can do the critical research required
to stay on top of changes. Here are some things you may have
missed:

* Ebay no longer allows selling of digital products. Are there
any alternatives?

* There are over 10,000 social networking sites. You need to be
on at least 10. Which ones are a waste of time?

* There is a search engine that has taken over Yahoo as the
second most used engine except Google. Do you know what it is?

These are just a few of the things you need to know to stay on
top of the Internet marketing game. Research will bring results.
Outsource your research tasks and stay on your game!

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A World Away, At Your Fingertips

Monday, September 14th, 2009

 

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 have
changed. You can have virtual assistants on the other
side of the world doing manual tasks that you paid a
fortune for here in the states. And you can see them work
in real time, access their phone logs and keep track of
their progress right at your fingertips, 24/7.

That kind of access was unheard of just a few years ago.
Even for your own employees! The Internet has made it
so much easier to get a number of tasks done in a short
amount of time. Call center staffing, business research,
social networking and billing are just a few of the services
that can be profitably outsourced to an overseas rep. You
are the one that will benefit by utilizing the inexpensive
labor, high tech infrastructure and common cultural aspects
of working with someone overseas. What could cutting your
costs in half while doubling productivity mean for your
business?

This kind of power to grow your business for half of what
you usually spend on in-house labor will be the saving
grace of your bottom line. The economy has yet to fully
recover. The experts say it could be 2 more years of
lean times. Are you in a position to wait it out? Do
you need serious business solutions right now to keep
your company afloat? Most businesses do. And outsourcing
is a solution worth considering. Everything you need to
get the job done, stay in touch with your reps and save
serious cashflow is right at your fingertips. You have
the choice to empower yourself if you know where to look.
Do the research. Let outsourcing be the tool of business
growth and financial stability that will see your business
through the uncertainty of the future. The way business
will operate in the future will be decidedly different
than you’re used to. Will you be there?

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Predictive Dialing Increases Efficiency

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

 

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 and getting the most from their
outsourcing needs.

- This tool can increase response by 30 times due to increased
  productivity.

- No more agent fatigue from dialing.

- Automation keeps the agent focused on the message.

Predictive dialing works by an agent sitting at a desk
and loading up a list of clients. A full list can include
names as well as numbers. The agent hits “Go” and our system
starts dialing. When the rep hears the client answer the phone,
the rep immediately addresses the client: “Hello, Mr Smith..”
and pitches the message. This is an effective way to keep
call center messages flowing in an efficient manner.

Imagine the increased productivity your rep can get when
dialing a large amount of phone numbers becomes automatic.
This saves a tremendous amount of time over dialing each
client one at a time. The rep can easily stay alert and
focused by letting the automation do the manual work.

Increased telemarketing productivity is directly linked
to increased revenue. Manual dialing time can eat up valuable
resources. This fantastic tool will give your outsourced rep
the freedom they need to stay on top of their game. Is your
business ready to step up to the next wave of automation?
Contact your 123Employee representative now to find out
how your company can benefit from predictive dialing
technology.

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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.

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Growing Your Business With Outsourcing

Friday, September 4th, 2009

 

I know this is probably a difficult time in the economy
to talk about growing or expanding your business. But
opportunities abound that may make it the perfect time
to invest in yourself. In a tough economy, businesses
that are below par in their streamlining and customer
service will be weeded out. This leaves an open
opportunity to grab market share for companies that
can find ways to cut costs, offer additional services
and find new avenues of exposure.

Outsourcing can offer all of these economy busting
strategies that your business will need to stay on
top of your competition. This is the perfect time to
look at offering additional services to your clients.
As your competition reduces services because of the
weakened economy, you can use an outsourcing firm to
expand your offerings for a very limited amount of
investment. This is also the perfect time to start
expanding your company’s image and exposure to the
world by utilizing the Internet. Social media, video
marketing and Internet advertising can give your
company the boost it needs to attract new customers
and increase brand awareness. The right outsourcing
firm can help partner with your needs and grow your
brand beyond anything you have had access to for as
little as $5.00 an hour.

If you could cut costs by half, double your productivity
and create new channels of exposure to the world,
what could that mean for your business? Wouldn’t
that create new opportunities for growth? This is
not the time for cutting back on services. This is
the time to step up your company image and offer
your customers the quality services that they
have come to expect. Outsourcing, more than ever, is
the solution to staying afloat in a weakened economy.
When you start to research outsourcing solutions,
you’ll see it is the only viable answer to your needs.

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Outsourcing Concerns: Issues Of Culture

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

 

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 searching for potential overseas reps. India,
Asia and even Africa have gotten into the outsourcing game
as it becomes easier for these countries to access the Internet
and local communication and infrastructure improves. But that
is not the final picture when working with outsourced reps.

Cultures vary greatly in emerging markets such as Asia. It may
be difficult to research just what kinds of work ethics,
holidays and marketing understanding a particular culture may
have. It is best and easiest on you to work with a culture
that is as similar to an American society as it can get.
The Phillipines has a structure very similar to the US in
terms of their government, work ethics and technological
understanding. Many workers in the Phillipines speak
English quite fluently and have visited the US or may have
even gone to school here. They are familiar with the American
way of doing things and many companies emulate the US vision
of commerce.

Some cultures are so different from ours that a number of
problems can arise for an American company looking to
outsource. Communication can be very touchy in places such
as Asia where it may be easy to offend one of your reps.
Ways to communicate in the US would not fly in many Asian
cultures and who wants to offend their workers? Researching
these differences could take forever. Other factors such as
religious practices, the threat of terrorism and even privacy
laws and the court systems can create a major headache for
businesses interested in outsourcing.  Business conduct,
greetings, forms of address, gestures, value systems and
punctuality vary widely around the globe. Choosing a culture
that may be more familiar to our way of life will create a
easier situation when it’s time to make your decision.

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