Posts about ‘brickwork’

Last Thursday I was contacted by a China-based virtual assistant (VA) firm, BPOvia, and was asked to give their service a trial run…the first 10 hours without charge. The CEO, James Huang, came across my VA firm review blog post and sent me an e-mail, offering a free trial of their VA service. I happened [...] (more)

Like a lot of people who have read The 4-Hour Workweek (review), right when I finished it I told myself “I have got to get a virtual assistant.” I imagined all kinds of time consuming tasks that I could get off my plate. But offloading tasks to VA’s comes with its own set of challenges [...] (more)

Below are some of the Virtual Assistant (VA) firms, Outsourcing, and Freelance networks that I either have used in the past, currently use, or plan to use. Some of them have proven to be great resources for some tasks (like Elance). Some I would never use again (like BPOvia). I’ll tell you which is which [...] (more)

Hiring offshore virtual assistants (VA) is the biggest craze to hit the solopreneur world since the Blackberry. The main difference being that Blackberry’s work. Don’t get me wrong; in concept VA’s are great – relatively cheap labor that works while you sleep. I just think it’s getting a lot more hype than it deserves – [...] (more)