You may have heard about BPO (business process outsourcing) or KPO (knowledge process outsourcing), but currently the hottest new word is PPO.

This PPO is not Preferred Provider Organization in health care systems. According to James Huang, CEO of www.bpovia.com, PPO means Person-to-Person Outsourcing. James Huang, who is the founder of www.bpovia.com, which is one of the first and largest person-to-person outsourcing service providers in China targeting English speaking outsourcing market, says the Person-to-Person Outsourcing will have big impact to a lot of individual’s everyday life and may change the way some small small or medium sized business operate.

Small offices, home businesses and even individuals are utilizing Person-to-Person Outsourcing services everyday through various means such as data entry, online tutoring and web design. Even invitation cards for weddings and other parties, personal assistant secretarial services like scheduling appointments and maintaining calendars are now being outsourced.

For the past few years, thousands of companies, outsource their business needs – and saved themselves valuable time and money. Now individuals can benefit from the outsourcing trend.

According to James, because the number of potential Person-to-Person Outsourcing end consumers and small businesses is enormous, the total PPO market in the US alone can easily exceed $10 billion.

Recommend books about this topic:

• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and best-selling author gives a bold, timely, and surprising picture of the state of globalization in the twenty-first century. This is the new updated version will be released on July 24, 2007. I can’t wait to read this book.

• Techonomics: The Theory of Industrial Evolution (Industrial Innovation) by H. Lee Martin

• Business Process Outsourcing: Process, Strategies, and Contracts by John K. Halvey and Barbara Murphy Melby

• The Black Book of Outsourcing: How to Manage the Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities by Douglas Brown and Scott Wilson

• The Manager’s Step-by-Step Guide to Outsourcing by Linda Dominguez

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(CNN) — The Internet has revolutionized many business sectors and has single-handedly created one — virtual assistance.

By Nick Easen for CNN

Over the last decade, thousands have swapped corporate jobs to provide services for new bosses who they may never actually meet.

(CNN) — The Internet has revolutionized many business sectors and has single-handedly created one — virtual assistance.

Over the last decade, thousands have swapped corporate jobs to provide services for new bosses who they may never actually meet.

These home-based workers help out with anything from bookkeeping, Web design or travel arrangements via phone, e-mail or fax.

And the industry is now so big that there are trade groups and Web sites that assist virtual assistants (V.A.s) — and try to attract potential clients.

“The growth is fastest in the U.S. There is also a substantial base in Australia, Canada and the UK,” Bronwyn Robertson a virtual assistant for British arts companies, told CNN.

“Many employees who suffered from downsizing discovered they could offer their skills on a self-employed basis.”

Even though the concept has been around for a while, according to some virtual assistants, many bosses are only just beginning to realize administrative support can easily be done virtually.

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