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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Facebook, online chat, SNS, twitter, Virtual Assistant
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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BPO industry, BPOVIA, Elance, ODesk, virtual assistance
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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BPO, BPOVIA, getfriday, Outsourcing, Virtual Assistant
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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BPO, BPOVIA, Brickwork India, China, getfriday, Outsourcing, rollover, Virtual Assistant
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
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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administrative assistant, China, executive assistant, graphic design, Knowledge Process Outsourcing, kpo, personal assistant, secretarial services, Virtual Assistant, website design
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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administrative assistant, BPOVIA, China, executive assistant, Knowledge Process Outsourcing, kpo, personal assistant, Red Herring, secretarial services, Virtual Assistant
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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BPOVIA, China, company, economy, Red Herring, service, Virtual Assistant
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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BPOVIA, Elance, Guru, ODesk, Virtual Assistant
Situated in the northern part of Jiangsu Province, China and under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Suqian, Siyang County is an old city with a civilized history of 5,000 years and a county history of 2,000 years. It was once the capital of Sishui State during the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD24). Yanghe Daqu, one of the eight famous Chinese liquors, originated from here. It is also the only “County of the poplar tree”. The Jinghang Canal and the ancient Yellow River cross Read more…
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bid, China, county, economy, Jiangsu, notice
As a senior railway official said on March 24, 2009, the two high-speed railways that opened on April 1 amazingly shortened the travel time between the hinterland and the coastal areas.
The Hefei-Wuhan passenger railway and the Hefei-Nanjing lines, which opened last year offered the shortest link between Central China and Yangtze River Delta region of East China. Both of them last over 350km. Read more…
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China, economy, official, passenger, rails, travel
Qin Tian had lost 6,000 RMB ($882) before he got the warning that swindlers could get his money off his credit card magically without even touching his card.
At first, Qin suspected it was due to the insecurity of the bank to have his information leaked, but then he realized it was his own negligence to give out his own information through phone. The scammer claimed to be a bank employee, but only he was not. Read more…
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bank, China, credit card, economy, information, security
Over half of almost 800 wealthy Chinese who have been surveyed hold the opinion that the growing financial disparity between the rich and the poor also leads to the appearance of an upper class in the country.
Best Life, a life style magazine, carried out the survey, interviewing 792 wealthy Chinese in 62 cities from 27 provinces with the help of local chambers of commerce. The interviewed people were private entrepreneurs possessing property of over 10 million Yuan, i.e. 1.4 million dollars. The magazine said in June, over Read more…
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China, city, crisis, economy, property, province
The meeting of the finance ministers and central bank chiefs of G20 countries in March drew great attention. That’s because of the great influence of the global financial crisis.
The most important thing discussed at the meeting was how to deal with the financial crisis, rebuild the present financial system and reform the international financial organs. Read more…
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China, crisis, economy, G20, IMF, influence, reform
China and Russia may join together to build a $4-billion oil refinery in the north of Tianjin municipality to meet the growing domestic demand, according to the local government.
The project, which will be located in Binhai Industrial Zone of Tianjin, is developed by China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Russia’s OAO Roseneft. It is capable of processing 10 million tons of crude oil every year. Read more…
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China, economy, government, oil, refinery, Russia, Tianjin
Yang Chao, Chairman of China Life Insurance Co Ltd, said yesterday that the company plans to have a try at the property market to diversify its investment lay out. He said China Life would seek to invest in infrastructure, equity, fixed-income securities and the property market.
According to Yang, China Insurance Regulatory Commission is expected to permit insurers to invest in infrastructure and real estate soon and is drawing up guidelines concerning it. China Life is waiting for the inaction of these regulations and making preparations for their Read more…
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China, economy, industry, insurer, investment, market, risk
According to a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report, because of more Chinese Financial institutions expanding their business, the financial services M&As in Asia will be more active.
215 senior financial services executive, of which 20% come from the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, finished the survey.
The survey showed that comparing with 2008, the figure of respondents intending to make an acquisition increases 4% this year. Most Chinese mainland and Taiwan respondents like to use M&A deals.
Nelson Lou, transaction partner, PwC, said that the keenness in China should owe to stronger balance sheets and fewer use of outbound M&A activity in the past few years. Read more…
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Asia, business, China, economy, Hong Kong, M&A, service
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: 
