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 mean that the promotion will be easy. It can take a lot of work to get the word out, create an online presence to sell it and find the right targeted prospects to market it to. Make sure that the commission is large enough to justify your promotion efforts. The number one reason big Internet gurus refuse to take on an otherwise fascinating affiliate program is that the commission doesn’t justify the work involved. Take note of that when you shop for an affiliate program to sell.

There are thousands of affiliate products to choose from when you finally start looking. Everything from ebooks, dating memberships, jewelry and cruise ship vacations. But these commissions are usually very small and the sales too far apart to make real money. You want to look for a substantial sales commission (30% or higher) and recurring billing. Recurring billing creates wealth faster because you only recommend the product once, and the commissions come in each month. Pick a product or service that customers don’t want to give up using. A service that increases their productivity and saves their business money. Outsourcing is that kind of service.

A good outsourcing affiliate program can provide aservice that a customer really needs, has a two tier commission structure and recurring income. Additionally, you can use the money you make to use the outsourcing service yourself. You’ll save money by cutting costs and the service won’t cost you a dime. When it’s time to start promoting an affiliate program for yourself, don’t waste time messing with the small stuff. Your time is far to valuable for that. Choose outsourcing as a wealth building tool and create an online empire for you and your family.

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

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 show how your products can help any industry and make you the expert. Video taping your industry seminars will give a chance for future clients to see how your services and solutions will change the way they do business. With this tough economic outlook, your customers will need as much information as they can get before they commit to spending their long term capital investments with you.

Video not only answers the solutions to giving your clients information, you can use the power of video to get great search engine positioning for your online marketing. Google now specifically uses video and other multimedia types to give their searchers as much well rounded content as they can deliver. This means they actively search for video to deliver certain information. Where is your video presence for your company on the Internet? Do you know how easy it can be to create an online viral marketing campaign using the power of simple videos?

I know. You are thinking that video is too complicated and too expensive to consider. But this is no longer the case. The mechanics of video production has lowered the learning curve almost overnight. For a couple of hundred dollars you could be producing effective videos to promote your business. But the real power of video shines through in it’s ability to market itself virally.

What this means for you is that one video can be distributed across the Internet in very short order. And lucky for you, this is a process that be easily outsourced. Processing, uploading and distributing your videos can be time consuming for you, but an outsourcing solution can increase your Internet visibility for as little as $5.00 ann hour. How? By using an outsourcing company that is trained in video marketing. It is such a simple concept, but one underutilized by most outsourcing firms. But a new breed of outsourcing firms are emerging. Ones that can take your business to the next level if you know where to look. How about starting right here…

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

Your business or particular industry has articles that are regularly published in industry news journals, white papers and quarterly reports. Did you know that marketing those articles on the Internet can create a ton of traffic to your website or create profitable leads to your business? You can use those same articles to send online press releases and create downloadable reports and products to give away to targeted prospects.

Article marketing, writing and posting can be time consuming. Your labor costs are already a concern. But if you could utilize the power of online marketing with a reduced, cost effective labor force, wouldn’t you? Outsourcing is the answer you are looking for. Imagine what the power of generating thousands of qualifies leads for your business could do for your revenues. And imagine if you could have that and other powerful marketing techniques for only $5.00 an hour!

A properly trained outsourcing team of dedicated reps can make this happen for your business. Carefully check out the qualifications of any overseas rep firm before you hire. What kind of marketing training do they have? Can you interview your rep before you pay for services? Besides article marketing, what other important lead generating techniques can they implement to make your marketing strategies even stronger?

123Employee has the outsourcing reps with the most qualified training for an Internet endeavor. Along with admin tasks, medical billing, call center agents and customer service representatives, make partners with 123Employee staff and do more than just cut costs and double
productivity. Let them help you grow your business. The Internet is really the final frontier of marketing. Use the web as your worldwide stage to tell every qualified prospect why they should be doing business with your company. It’s cheap, easy and effective to create a global presence. 123Employee can make it happen.

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

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 letters and chat with people in real time to build customer service and loyalty. Where is your business on Twitter?

Even though Twitter is a free service and fairly easy to learn to use, there are plenty of tactics that can make the most from using the service and boost your Internet marketing strategies. The biggest issue is that it can be very time consuming. Internet marketers all over the world are finding the time constraints to use Twitter to it’s full potential are putting a cramp in their manpower costs. Many have utilized virtual assistant service here in the states, just to find out that VA’s can be very expensive. When belt tightening becomes an issue,as it always does during tough economic times, labor costs are the big expenditure that needs to be addressed.

Outsourcing your Twitter duties and taking advantage of the lower labor costs is the answer. But only if your outsourcing company’s reps are properly trained in social networking strategies. To be honest with you, very few are. And Twittering becomes most effective when it links to other social web structures such as blogging, Facebook and YouTube. The whole point of Twittering is to share as much of your other web marketing resources with as many fans and like-minded consumers as you can. This brings up the issue: are your outsourcing reps trained in these other social strategies as well?

No matter how simple Twittering looks, you can’t just hand the duties over to just anyone. 60% of people who originally signed up with Twitter have abandoned their accounts because they couldn’t figure out how to make it work for them. The other 40% use it daily to make significant inroads to the Internet marketing. These people are ready and waiting to hear the message about your product or service. Outsourcing your Twitter duties to trained and qualified overseas assistants can make a huge impact on your marketing campaigns. You’ll save a ton of money and get in on one of the most influential websites of the era!

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

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 to help them. At that time, it becomes a testimonial. And a good testimonial will sell a service like hotcakes.

Ironically, the same service that could make your business solvent is the one now making you cash flow. But it really depends on the service. Is it really that good? Can you prove the quality to others? What do the owners of the business provide to help you sell it to others? Do they provide advertising tools, website banners, sales letters and quality advice to help get you started? These things make a huge difference when it’s time to sell the service to one of your friends or colleagues.

And what about the price? All to often affiliate programs are small potatoes when it come to commissions. 25% of a $17.00 ebook or dating membership sign up will not create a solvency for your business. A substantial commission will be one that will make large amounts of cash, then turn into a recurring income, all while giving you the means to actually participate in the service yourself, leading to the tools you need to cut costs in your business!

How many sales you make all depends on the quality of the service itself and how efficiently the company owners guide you along the path of information advertisement. If they could sell you on the product, you could feel good about recommending it to others.

Labor is expensive. This economy is not being kind to your bottom line. Your business is hemorrhaging cash and outsourcing could be the only solution. When your business saves money, you can pass the savings on to your customers, bringing you back to solvency. Recommending an outsourcing service that serves you well and pays you well could be the solution you have been looking for.

Outsource Your Business Tasks AND Earn Big Affiliate Cash!

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

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 days like many Internet marketers). Then, finally, divide that by 8 hours to come up with your hourly rate. In this example, your hourly rate would be $20/hour.

What this means is that if you are doing tasks that would cost you less to outsource, then you are HEMMORHAGING money by doing it yourself!

Some of the excuses Internet marketers come up with to avoid hiring a virtual assistant include:

Excuse #1: I don’t trust anyone doing my work for me.
Excuse #2: I can do it faster myself.
Excuse #3: I don’t have time to train an assistant.
Excuse #4: I don’t know if I can come up with 40 hours worth of work for them each week.

So, let’s just get these out of the way, shall we?

1.”I don’t trust anyone doing my work for me.” What this means is if you don’t trust others doing work for you, then you’ll end up doing everything YOURSELF. And while, yes, this is quite obvious, did you consider that you would then be making yourself a slave to your work for the rest of your life? Also, that you’d end up losing out on any possible leveraging of your time or energy and would lock yourself into the dreaded “Time = Money” equation, where you can never make more money than you invest into work with your own hours.

2.”I can do it faster myself.” Depending on the task, perhaps you can. But even if it took your virtual assistant twice as long as you to do the same task at $5 per hour, you’d still GAIN $10 per hour if your hourly income was $20. If you did it yourself, you’d actually LOSE $10 per hour.  So, you might as well grab a stack of $10 bills and set one on fire every hour that you decide you can do it faster yourself.

3.” I don’t have time to train an assistant.” What you’re really saying here is that you’d rather do the same repetitive task over and over and over again instead of training an assistant just ONCE so they can do the task for you FOREVER without further investment of time on your part. Think about the power of investing just a few minutes to train your virtual assistant to complete a task that drains away countless hours of your time. This is the ultimate leverage. Provide your VA with a system to follow just once, and you’ve automated that process for yourself for the rest of your LIFE! So the question is, can you afford to NOT train your VA in repetitive tasks that suck away your time and energy?

4.”I don’t know if I can come up with enough work for them.” A superior outsourcing firm will always provide work for your virtual assistant in their “down time” that will actually monetize them for YOU. That is, when you don’t have work for your VA, the outsourcing company will provide work for them on your behalf — such as promoting an affiliate program where YOU would get paid ongoing commissions for sales they help you generate — without your even assigning work to them. So, in theory, you could end up earning more per month than you actually pay your VA, without your even assigning them a single task. In addition, a client-centered outsourcing firm will offer a variety of monthly plans to suit your needs, so if you only needed 10 or 20 hours of weekly support, that would be all you’d pay for.

There are literally hundreds of tasks that your virtual assistant can take off your plate immediately and handle for you on any given day. Imagine all the time that will free up for you.

As you finish your day you make a list of your priorities for the next day. You notice that at least half of your tasks can be easily delegated to your virtual assistant. So, you send him or her an email with instructions on what’s to be done for the day. By the end of the day your assistant emails you, letting you know that your tedious, repetitive tasks were completed for you — while you invested TWICE the amount of time into far more valuable, money-generating tasks.

If you’re ready to hire a virtual assistant then choosing the right outsourcing company is crucial. One of the main reasons Internet marketers start out with a virtual assistant and let them go is because they went with the wrong company.

123Employee.com prides itself on providing top-notch outsourced employees eager to work for you. We also provide flexible monthly plans to suit your needs and even provide daily tasks for your virtual assistant that monetize them on your behalf in the direction of generating ongoing passive, residual income for you if for some reason you didn’t have any tasks to assign them on a particular day.

To learn more about outsourcing check out my new book, ‘Outsource This!’ For a limited time your book purchase will be refunded when you sign up for service. You can order your copy of ‘Outsource This!’ at www.OutsourceThis.com.

123Employee is the Low Cost leader in outsourcing to Philippines . It offers offshore outsourcing services from its American managed facilities in the Philippines. For just $897 per month each, you can have a full-time dedicated employee or team of employees with the skills you need.

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.OutsourcingOutsourcing.Com.

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 scarce

Enables American small businesses to grow, thereby providing more jobs for American workers

Helps small businesses and solo entrepreneurs compete with big business—competition grows American business, which leads to more American jobs

Keeping America in Business through Outsourcing

We 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 business can hire outsourced workers for a smaller wage overseas, then that business can stay in business.

If an American business stays in business, it can continue to sell products and services on the American and overseas markets, which pulls money into the American economy. This cycle is the foundation or the raft of our economy. It keeps everything else afloat.

Growing American Business through Outsourcing

While a business is afloat, the next area of focus for the entrepreneur is growing that business. Picture the solo entrepreneur or solopreneur, perhaps like yourself, working more hours than you ever imagined and still not getting it all done. And I’m just talking about the regular day-to-day requirements of keeping an existing business going. This kind of regimen leaves no time for acquiring new business or developing new products and services. If a business grows, it will need to hire more employees.

By hiring one outsourced worker, an entrepreneur can leave the paperwork and the administrative details to that outsourced employee. The entrepreneur or solopreneur is now free to focus on making new deals, acquiring new business, developing strategic alliances, and marketing. In this way the business grows and turns a profit more quickly. Growth of the business and more profit means there are more jobs to be filled by American workers and money available to pay their wages. And so our American economy grows.

Beating the Competition—The American Business Dream

Outsourcing is good for the bottom line and a strong bottom line is what creates and feeds our capitalist model of competition. Competition provides for more innovation and better products and services. By hiring an outsourced workforce for business process tasks like chat support, scheduling, data mining, telemarketing, and the like, the solopreneur /entrepreneur saves money on taxes, office overhead, and employee benefits allowing for more competitive positioning.

The ability to grow and profit more quickly gives the American entrepreneur the edge. An American business that profits faster and handles more demand eventually needs a larger, smarter, onsite, American workforce. Once again, the money comes home and our American economy grows.

Outsourcing makes smart business sense. We at 123Employee want to help your business stay afloat and grow during these tough economic times. Let us provide you with outstanding service and the ability to grow your business, bringing good-wage jobs back home to America.

Visit our home page to hear a recent interview I did on national radio in which I discuss how outsourcing is good for the U.S. economy.

You can find outsourcing tips in my new book ‘Outsource This!’ Check it out.

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.OutsourcingOutsourcing.Com.

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 issues.” My friend, there are always things that come up. You’ve heard it before: “stuff happens.” The thing is, if you’ve thought ahead and partnered with a company managed by someone you can identify with and count on, you’ll be in good stead.

So here’s the game plan. When you’re doing your research to find the perfect outsourcing partner, find out who’s running the show. Is that person someone you can contact directly? Get in touch with them as part of your vetting process and make sure the rapport is right.

Another very significant consideration is the location of the management. You want this manager to be on location in the building with the outsourced employees. This person is your ‘man on the ground’ directly handling and resolving any matters of concern that arise between your company and the employees you’ve hired from this outsourcing company.

Generally speaking, the companies most likely to have American, onsite managers are the bigger players. There may be some smaller ones that meet this requirement, but it’s less likely.

Let’s be perfectly clear here. You do not want an intermediary who is brokering the services of an outsourcing provider. You want to go direct and have first hand contact with the person overseeing your prospective employees. This requirement ensures that the management will be able to resolve issues for you, because they will know what is truly going on in the work environment with the actual employees.

This is the kind of management and service we provide at 123Employee. We meet this requirement and are ready to be your preferred outsourcing supplier. Let us provide you with outstanding service!

You can find more of these tips in my new book ‘Outsource This!’ To get your copy, click here.

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.OutsourcingOutsourcing.Com.

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 not allow you to directly interview prospective employees. Why should they prevent you from this interaction? Whose interest does that serve? Not yours, for sure.

It’s great that the outsourcing company can compile a list of candidates that strongly match the specific criteria you are looking for in an employee. This service alone saves you valuable time and energy. But it is up to you to make sure that the suggested matches are truly right on. Without this step, you are destined to waste time sorting through a few employees that aren’t hitting the mark for your business.

Get your outsourcing company to provide you with at least three strongest matches for each position you need to staff. Meet with each of these individuals, presumably on the phone, and ask them pertinent questions to confirm that they understand and can deliver exactly what you need from them. This in-person exchange also gives you the opportunity to ensure the quality of their English if that is one of your important criteria.

Additionally, speaking directly with prospective outsourced employees provides a view into the personalities that will be a part of your team. As with onsite employees, these people will be the virtual face and voice of your business to your customers. Confirm that they can project the impression you want to make.

At 123Employee, it is our policy to support the direct interview between potential employee and employer. We know the importance of this step and wouldn’t have it any other way. Take advantage of us as your preferred outsourcing supplier. We’re here ready to help!

You can find more of these tips in ‘Outsource This!’ To get your copy, click here.

123Employeeis the Low Cost leader in outsourcing to Philippines . It offers offshore outsourcing services from its American managed facilities in the Philippines. For just $897 per month each, you can have a full-time dedicated employee or team of employees with the skills you need.

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.OutsourcingOutsourcing.Com.

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 used them to help me find my first employee to try out. As far as finding the right outsourcing company for you, I will get to that in an upcoming article.

To screen prospective employees for me, I gave the outsourcing company a list of what I was looking for in an ideal employee. Once the company had some candidates for me, I interviewed them myself, and then picked the one that I hoped could deliver what I needed.

So, get that first employee and give it try. How is that employee meeting your needs? Is this outsourced employee displaying the qualities and qualifications that you must have in order to continue your business success? Does the employee understand what you are asking them to do? Are they doing it right and making progress for your business?

If you are answering yes to these questions, congratulations! You have found a winner and a keeper. On the other hand, if you are answering  to any of these questions, go back to the outsourcing company and have them find you another employee to try.

Once you have found one outsourced employee that works well for you, it will be easier to find more. You will have more clarity about what you are looking for in your interview process and in your specifications to the outsourcing company.

And, believe me, once you have found an outsourcing company that can deliver quality workers for your business, you will wonder why you did not outsource sooner. Your business will be growing right before your very eyes. Just take that first step and try its.

You can find more of these tips in “Outsource This!” To get your copy, click here.

123Employee is the Low Cost leader in outsourcing to Philippines . It offers offshore outsourcing services from its American managed facilities in the Philippines. For just $897 per month each, you can have a full-time dedicated employee or team of employees with the skills you need.

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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.OutsourcingOutsourcing.Com.