As the leading virtual assistant provider based in China, we got a lot inquiries about the comparison of our virtual assistant service with our competitor from India: GetFriday. BPOVIA virtual assistant team did online research of BPOVIA and GetFriday. With all due respect to our competitor, BPOVIA gains a comprehensive competitive edge against GetFriday.
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BPOVIA Full Time Monthly Plan:
Our most popular plan! You can hire a professional BPOVIA Virtual Assistant to work full time for only $900 per month. Your BPOVIA Virtual Assistant will work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, like a full time employee.
BPOVIA Pay-As-You-Go Plan:
Our most flexible plan! The Pay-As-You-Go plan works well with clients who are unsure of their administrative needs and are not ready to commit to a set number of hours per month. Your rate will depend on the services which you require. The Standard Rate for the service of a BPOVIA professional Virtual Assistant is $10 per hour.
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Recently, Harris Interactive conducted a nationwide online poll among 3,388 hiring managers and human resource professionals and 6,842 U.S. full-time employees between August 21 and September 9, 2008. The result was released on October 22, 2008. According to the survey, a third of U.S. workers say that they have called in sick with fake excuses at least once this year.
The survey also found that one in ten people who work as full-time employees skipped work to avoid a meeting or avoid the ire of a boss Read more…
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BPOVIA, the leading Virtual Assistant and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China, was named as Finalists for the “Red Herring 100 Asia” Awards 2008. BPOVIA is the first virtual assistant service provider to ever be nominated for this prestigious award.
Nanjing, China October 28th 2008 — BPOVIA, the leading Virtual Assistant and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China, has been selected in the list of 200 companies that are Read more…
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For 10 years, the Red Herring’s editorial team has diligently surveyed entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers have regarded the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation.
Red Herring released 200 Finalists for the “Red Herring 100 Asia ” Awards 2008 at October 16, 2008.
200 finalists are from 13 countries and regions. Read more…
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BPOVIA, the leading Virtual Assistant service provider, today announced that it has been awarded as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies. Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies are chosen from winners and finalists of the previous North America, Europe and Asia Red Herring Top 100 Companies. Out of 1,800 successful and highly eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process to drill-down the best companies first to 200 finalists, then to the top 100 winners of this global award. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration. Read more…
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Elance, ODesk and Guru are trying to the “eBay of Outsourcing”. The idea is great but there are fundamental flaws in this model: Most of the bidders on those sites are typically freelancers, self employed and work at home. The reliability and quality of service are highly unpredictable. Elance, ODesk and Guru are just middlemen or marketplace so they have no control about the bidders at all.
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The following article is one of the best analysis of why Elance failed. You can read the original post here.
“Several important factors involved with their failure include: Too much competition, little service provider differentiation besides price, high service provider fees, no locality of services, ambiguous project descriptions, cheap Indians, as well as cheap Indians, and last but not least, cheap Indians.
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Reducing costs and increasing profits top the originally positive results expected from the internet in business industry. Indeed, the thriving of the internet has absolutely generated prodigious benefits to numerous companies. Nevertheless, while enjoying the bountiful fruits, more and more company managers are showing their deep concerns towards the adverse impact spawned by the double-edged sword. Shopping on-line, private e-mailing…–the convenient access to the internet at work unexpectedly tempts many employees to conduct various impersonal affairs on company computers-and on company time. Take a brief look at the following figures:
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The International Olympic Committee released the evaluation report of three cities vying for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games on February 11. Nanjing China overwhelmed Guadalajara Mexico and Poznan Poland, and is successfully selected to host 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games.
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Beijing is ready for extend H1N1 vaccination program which will open to everyone who has a Beijing hukou.
On Friday, the health officials said that the program will begin on Nov 16.
The program means the capital is the first city in China who is going to inoculate all of its registered permanent residents, some 12 million people. Read more…
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Morgan Stanley, global financial services giant, is still trying to sell its entire holdings in China International Capital Corp (CICC), the country’s first and most profitable investment bank, confirmed by both the US-based financial advisor and CICC on Nov. 4, 2009.
Citing people familiar with the situation, the report in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday pointed that Morgan Stanley had asked potential buyers to submit indicative first-round bids for its 34.3 percent stake in CICC. Read more…
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Invitation for Bid
Date: November 4, 2009
Loan: 2428-PRC: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project
Contract No. and Title: 0701-092000030032: Xushui Wastewater Treatment Plant
Subproject: Procurement of the Goods and Related Services. Read more…
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According to several speakers at the First China Overseas Investment Fair on November 4, 2009, China’s tremendous overseas investment helps the global economy, especially the economies of developing countries to recover from the world’s financial crisis.
Chinese officials pressed for foreign countries to create a convenient and fair environment to make it easier for Chinese investors to continue to invest.
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On November 3rd, 2009, the biggest universal search engine Google Inc launched a Chinese language voice search service, which expected to attract users from domestic rival Baidu Inc in the world’s largest mobile market.
The new service is aimed to help Chinese users use Google’s existing search services like Web search and Google Maps via cell phones.
Till now the Chinese version voice search provided by Google can only be used for Nokia’s S60 series, which includes 46 models of handsets. Read more…
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China, Chinese, economy, Google, mobile, search
Nearly 3.8 million people in China have already been vaccinated to prevent the potentially fatal H1N1 influenza virus.
Comparing with the 390 million people within the country who are considered at high risk of the disease, the vaccine supply is limited, Liang Wannian, deputy director of the emergency response office of the Ministry of Health, said on Nov 1.
So far, almost 52.9 million doses of the vaccine, which produced by eight domestic manufacturers, have been approved by the top drug authority. According to the ministry’s plans, 65 million people will be inoculated by the end of the year.
Now total cases and fatalities are both increasing sharply, it considered as the pandemic peaked in the Read more…
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Invitation for Bids (IFB)
Agriculture Technology Transfer Project
Loan / credit number: 4773-CHA
Bid No.: 0620-0910N112B156
1. This Invitation for Bids follows the General Procurement Notice for this Project that appeared in Development Business, issue no. 664 of Oct. 16, 2005.
2. The People’s Republic of China has received a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development toward the cost of Agriculture Technology Transfer Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this loan to Read more…
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That was an awesome Halloween, the time to get away from monotony and pressure of everyday work to embrace the fun recipes of Jack O’Lantern.
There is an old warehouse along Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, things here go bump at night, decapitated ghouls and Nosferatu float around in creepy darkness. It’s a night full of shrieks in a house full of hair-raising, heart-throbbing creatures and gadgets.
They call it “Shanghai Read more…
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As the H1N1 flu spread all over the world, the share prices of domestic vaccine makers rose on surging order for vaccines, even the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 2.83 percent.
The vaccine producer Hualan Biological rose 2.47 percent to 57.7 yuan in Shenzhen on Oct 27 while Layn Natural Ingredients rose 2.93 percent to 44.94 yuan.
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