Virtual Assistant Business Outsourcing

Guest Speaker Mikelann Valterra, Director of the Womans Earning Institute, addresses the topic: How NOT to Undersell Yourself in a Down Economy.

The Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce is hosting a complimentary teleseminar featuring Mikelann Valterra, Director of the Woman’s Earning Institute.  She will address self-employed service professionals who are struggling in these tough economic times.  The teleseminar is being held Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 8pm EST.  This event will last for 1 hour and the cost is free. Register online at: http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/teleseminar.htm

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Getting The Results You Want From Your Online Business Investment?

If the answer is no, you need some help marketing and optimizing your website.  Many online business owners have great products or services to offer, but lack the understanding of how to increase the visibility of their website, i.e. attract more visitors.

Putting up a website is easy.  Making it highly visible in a major search engine like Google or Yahoo requires a certain degree of skill and expertise.  Online entrepreneurs often find a major draw back to operating a web-based business is getting lost in the “online shuffle” of competing businesses.  Exposure is the key to solving this problem. 

Enter the Virtual Assistant.

Achieving high search engine positioning for your targeted search term(s) is a science that requires precise knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO) and a fair amount of time.  Outsourcing this task to a highly skilled virtual assistant will bring increased traffic (visitors) to your website in the most cost effective way possible.

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Executives whose companies have been impacted by the current global financial crisis are urgently searching for ways to find greater efficiencies to lower operating costs.  Many of these executives are beginning to look at outsourcing finance and accounting (F & A) as a way of cutting costs.

As events of the current financial crisis have shown, a poorly-managed accounting department can cause irreparable harm to an organization.  By utilizing outsourced accounting services, a business can save a large amount of money on labor resources, have more accountability and transparency and better manage their overall manpower resources.  Thanks to advances in technology and accounting software, accounting tasks are one of the easiest business processes for a company to outsource.

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The past few weeks have been some of the most turbulent times in the United States financial markets since the Great Depression. As usual during times like these the doomsayers are predicting major chaos and financial ruin.  One area where many people are predicting a slowdown is outsourcing.  Many experts believe that outsourcing will decline sharply in these tough economic times, while others feel that the current economic climate will actually help to increase certain types of outsourcing.

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Emerging-Market Companies Now Compete Directly Against Affluent-Market Companies To Make The Flat World Even Flatter

A new book by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) titled Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything examines this new era of international business competition.  The focus of the book is how companies in countries with rapidly-developing economies are now challenging developed-country companies that have dominated globalization 87 for the past two decades.  The BCG authors conclude that both the incumbents and challengers will discover themselves competing with everyone (including suppliers and former partners) from everywhere (in both developed and emerging markets) for everything (including customers and employees).

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