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.
Learn more about how outsourcing can grow your business!

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!

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?

Growing your business can be tough in this tightening economy.
You are probably asking: “It is hard enough to get a steady
stream of income, much less start thinking of expansion.” But
nothing could be further from the truth. When most businesses
are cutting back on services and employees, this is a great time
to offer more to your customers. But you have to change the way
you think of “expansion.”

Coupling Internet marketing with outsourcing services you can
reach a whole new audience cheaply and quickly. Using an Internet
savvy virtual assistant you can manage websites, blogs and email
campaigns. Video marketing can open up an entirely fresh perspective
to a worldwide prospect base. SEO services can bring in new customers
by getting your products and services to the top of search engines
like Google. So many of the most powerful Internet marketing
strategies are free and easy to maintain with a minimal staff. Using
the Internet to market your company has a high Return On Investment.
You can see tremendous results for very little financial outlay.

Outsourcing can save you tons of money for the everyday tasks that
you are already doing, or offer services that you may not even have
thought of yet. As your business starts to grow, outsourcing can help
with email marketing, telemarketing, billing and invoicing. You
need not hire expensive labor to keep up with your growing sales and
exposure. Your business can start with as little as one overseas rep
and add more help as needed, part time or full time. The services
that an outsourced rep can provide will give your company powerful
new avenues of income, and help manage the growth down the road for
as little investment as possible.

Financial experts predict that the recession is winding down. Many
companies have folded leaving a absence of service when the economy
swings upward. Using an outsourcing firm now can put your company in
the place of profitability and solvency when the economy corrects
itself. Will you be ready to take your company to the next level of
service?

Social bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious and Reddit are
a place to store and share your favorite websites. Just like
the “add to favorites” tool on your browser, you can bookmark
an interesting website and be able to locate that website when
you log in to your account. You can make friends just like
on Facebook and share those website links with them. You can
favorite any website on Earth, even your own. How does this
help with your website traffic? Let me explain.

Depending on how many friends you have on your bookmarking
site, sharing a link to your new blog post with them can create
an avalanche of traffic as soon as you post it. Anytime you
favorite a site, your friends will be notified through their
“friend’s activity” of you osting and they have an opportunity
to view it. If they happen to borrow the post for their blog,
then all of their readers will see it too and click out on the
links for more information. This link to your blog that other
users leave on their post creates what is called a “backlink”
to your site. Having a lot of backlinks determines how high
a positioning you get on a search engine like Google.

How can you make this time consuming and slightly confusing
Internet marketing strategy a part of a successful online
plan? Outsource it! For as little as $5.00 an hour you can
have an Internet marketing trained overseas rep doing this
kind of work for you. This can be included in a daily routine
of networking tasks that can be performed quickly and easily to
help build your business online. Cutting costs and doubling
productivity are crucial in today’s economic outlook. You don’t
just need another virtual assistant or lazy employee… you
need a partner that has specialized marketing skills to help
your business grow. Outsourcing is the partner of the future.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Internet is changing everyday…and fast! It’s hard
to keep up with all the changes that take place daily that
could benefit your business online. Recent changes include
what is called “social media.” This is the new power of the
Internet and it can deliver the messege of your business
more quickly and completely than typical media outlets of the
past. And with this new media is the opportunity to create a
presence online with lightening speed with virtually no cost.
The costs relative to social media are the training and
labor to implement the tasks. Outsourcing then becomes the
perfect solution.

Consider these costs. Online video can put your business in
front of the eyes of millions of potential prospects for
almost nothing. Video hosting on YouTube, Facebook and
other social sites is free. How much would you spend in
print ads to get the same exposure? The training to learn
to execute these tasks properly can be expensive. But what
if an outsourced rep already had these skills? And since
this social media can be accessed through the Internet,
any employee with a computer could get the job done. Why
pay for expensive American labor when an outsourced rep
can do the same work for half the price?

Half a billion people are part of some social network or
another. They access these sites everyday. They search for
information, build relationships and partake in online
commerce to the tune of over $200 billion a year. Is your
business a part of this growing trend? If not, you may be
left far behind. Outsourcing with Internet savvy assistants
can help skyrocket the sales of your business. You need to
find any and every avenue available to compete in this
tough economy. And you need to save money doing it.

Demystify this online process by hiring an overseas rep
trained in social media. Use the power of videos, MP3’s,
blogging and relationship building to grow your company
image and take advantage of the Internet as a worldwide
marketing tool. Ecommerce is the future. You need to be
a part of it. Help is available to make your business the
best it can be, you just have to know where to look.