Outsourcing

January 29, 2008

  • Other outsourcing/virtual assistant services

    I just read an article in the print magazine Fast Company (February 2008) about how Pfizer used outsourcing to shave costs and increase productivity. They farmed out things like PowerPoint slide program creation and research. This freed up their skilled staff for more essential and profitable activities.
    Here are two resources. Why should the big companies [...]

December 31, 2007

  • Virtual Assistants: Hire a Virtual Assistant in China?

    Virtual Assistants and Outsourcing in China
    At this very moment you are probably using something and wearing something that was made in China - perhaps your shoes, a shirt, or your iPod. Manafacturing outsourcing in China has been going on for decades.
    But what about hiring a virtual assistant in China? Perhaps you need someone to create [...]

September 16, 2007

  • Passive Income and Freedom From Your Computer

    Earlier today I went to the gym to work out. Before I hit the treadmill, I logged into the gym’s public access computer and I took a few minutes to check up on a new website that I recently put up on the subject of “Golf Instruction.” Interestingly, I found that Google listed a page [...]

September 11, 2007

  • Outsourcing to your customers

    Since I have been learning all this new Internet stuff over the past few years, I have been starting to think differently. One of the new ways of thinking is to automate everything I can and make an online system.
    SAVING TIME USING CUSTOMERS AS OUTSOURCERS
    One of the primary sources of income for me is public [...]

August 5, 2007

  • Outsourcing and Virtual Assistants

    In a previous post, Bill O’Hanlon listed several resources for finding a “virtual assistant” and outsourcing some of your business needs. I (Ryan) highly recommend taking a look at the websites that he mentioned, especially Elance and Brickworks.
    Two years ago, when I first hired an overseas outsourcing ompany, I used a small web-design firm in [...]

May 6, 2007

  • Finding a virtual assistant

    There are several sites that specialize in listings for virtual assistants (those people who work from afar to help you accomplish your business tasks).
    Here are some:
    International Virutal Assistants Association
    http://www.ivaa.org/IVAA/memberDir.php
    AssistU
    http://www.assistu.com
    Of course, they are less specialized, but you can find virtual assistants at
    Elance
    http://www.elance.com
    and Craig’s List
    http://www.craigslist.com
    And if you want to go multi-national, you can hire your assistant in [...]