Posts about ‘outsourcing’

I was contacted today by a guy who was nice enough to point out a broken link on this website. Very cool of him (thanks, Tim). After I sent Tim a thank you email he replied with a question about finding a good overseas (inexpensive) service provider who can help with search engine optimization (SEO), [...] (more)

10

Dec


This is part three in a series of posts that we hope will help our readers better understand search engine optimization (SEO), by first understanding what it’s NOT. It’s often the case that business services (like payroll, for example) can be performed in an automated fashion, requiring little oversight from you. It’s a common misunderstanding, [...] (more)

08

May


Some of the more popular posts on this blog lately are regarding virtual assistant (VA) firm reviews. They’re getting more and more views each day. But after being contacted by Chinese outsourcing firm BPOvia, and then today by another firm in India called Arctern I’m starting to think that a big chunk of the individuals [...] (more)

Right around the same time I signed up for my Brickwork India Virtual Assistant, I registered with Get Friday, too. I wanted to work with the two big name Virtual Assistant (VA) firms simultaneously, so I could compare apples to apples. But if you’ll read my Virtual Assistant Firm Reviews (including this one), you’ll see [...] (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)