It originated from ceremonial worship of ancient emperors’ tombs. Latter on, the practice was generally adopted by the public to pay tribute to ancestors. On that day, people visit and sweep forefather’s tomb, recalling love and memory of the late family members. Although Qingming is a festival of mourning, it does not have to be sad. Since the festival falls in spring, it is a great time for outdoor activities such as football, swinging and tree planting. Cuisine on Qingming is special. In ancient times, people did not make fire on that day so they ate prepared cold food instead. Different regions have different specialties: in northern China, folks love date cake and wheat cake while in the south, people prefer green glutinous dumpling and honeyed lotus root stuffed with rice.

In modern China, people rarely have time for this festival due to fast tempo of life. To preserve national tradition and give people more time to rest, the government made Qingming an official national holiday in 2008. The public including staff of BPOVIA love this opportunity for family and relaxation.

This year, Qingming holiday starts from April the 3^rd to 5^th, that is to say, BPOVIA will be on vacation next Monday. Should you have any problem please leave a message and we’ll handle it Tuesday. In the end, wish everyone a nice holiday!

1 venue for workplace: A lot of virtual assistants are home-based freelancers.

2 less recruitment costs: face-to-face interview might be skipped; Generally speaking, one assistant has to do multi-types of work ranging from data entry to WordPress design.

3 “thrifty” on communicational cost: they are cautious about extra expenditure generated by long phone calls and video conference.

Disadvantages caused by above factors such as project delay, failure in communication and lack of focus will generate extra cost for clients, namely, you have to spend more time in order to achieve expected results.

However, some virtual assistance service providers, like Bpovia, are dedicated to providing first-rate service rather than participating in price biding competition. Our services are better with reasonable price. We boast 3 advantages over other companies:

1 Thanks to team work and project based cooperation, we achieve higher efficiency with each one doing the task he or she is good at. For instance, VAs take care of clients; graphic designers work on innovative creation and web programmers focus on site construction and maintenance.

2 Because we work together in the office building, Bpovia is more of a well-structured company rather than a group of home-based freelancers.

3 With Skype, international phone line and video conference operating simultaneously, effective and timely communication with our clients becomes our prestigious advantage.

As the Chinese proverb goes, Cheapness bargains no fine goods; fine goods are not cheap. It is cost performance ratio that rules. And Bpovia is just the kind of provider you are looking for.

In addition, you don’t pay for office expenses such as utilities, desk, chair, computer, and the office space itself.

“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.

Lets start from the buyer’s perspective. I think I made a pretty decent example. I’m a company CEO (or to dumb me down, startup founder) and I needed a business plan made and my website programmed from the ground up. I go to Elance.com, I submit a project that says I need these things done and I want to work directly with the service provider to make it happen. 50 Indians bid on my project, each going cheaper than the one before him, and I realize that they all suck. They don’t know what I’m looking for, so how can they adequately do my project? I want them in front of me so that we can plan the process out easier, but they’re in India and have a language barrier. Great. Now that I’m frustrated, I leave Elance and wasted over $200 in bidding fees for the service providers who bid on my project.”

Good point! Since post a project on elance is free. There are too many fake or dummy projects out there. Some buyers post projects simply to get an idea of the cost or to try to find free work. But bid on project is not free. Service providers will soon find it is waste of time to use Elance.

“From the service provider’s perspective, let’s say that I’m an Indian. I know that I’m good at programming, I know that I’m good at business, and I know that I speak perfect English. Mr. American goes ahead to post his business plan and programming project request for a really stupid idea. I look at it, nod, and make my bid. 49 other Indians bid with me. Mr. American is thinking, where the hell do I even start? How do I know that Mr. Indian can speak perfect english when I have to interview all 50 of these guys to know which one is right. Too many choices isn’t a good thing. Mr. American doesn’t buy from me, I wasted a lot of time and some money on a lost lead.

Of course, all of this is a problem for both the buyer and seller. The lack of quality service providers steers away the quality leads and buyers. Few buyers means fewer qualified service providers. At this point, the marketplace has failed. Elance has been treading water for the past 7 years and haven’t changed their model at all. They went into enterprise software for a few years, but that didn’t go very far.”

Very good point. The lack of quality service providers steers away the quality leads and buyers. Since 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 is just middleman or marketplace so they have no control about the bidders at all. More and more dispute happened on elance. Serious business can’t depend on freelancers for outsourcing.

Some real life experience about elance users:

http://highfade.com/2008/09/27/elancecomterribleexperience/

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/elancecom-c55889.html

http://www.lawguru.com/cgi/bbs/message.php?i=265026830

BPOVIA takes the concept of “eBay of Outsourcing” to next level. All BPOVIA virtual assistants are full-time employees working in the central service center. BPOVIA brings corporate employee management, state-of-the-art IT infrastructure and sophisticated project management system together to ensure the high quality, reliable and cost-effective service.
Why we are better?

1. Quality and Reliability of Service.
Most of the bidders are typically freelancers, self employed and work at home. The reliability and quality of service are highly unpredictable. All of BPOVIA employees work full time in our central service center. We have dedicated quality control department.

2. Availability.
We are real company. We are always available when our clients need us. You won’t get that luxury when you work with freelancer or part-timers.

3. One-stop solution.
We have the capacity to provide one-stop solution of essential business services like administrative task, website design, graphic design, internet research, market research, data entry, accounting, CAD, word processing etc. Our clients don’t need to deal with multiple freelancer bidders at Elance anymore. That eliminates a lot of headache and management overhead for our clients.

4. Support
Freelancers at Elance maybe suitable for One-Off project。
We are trying to build long term win-win relationship with our clients. When you need us in the future, we are here to support you.

Elance, ODesk and Guru maybe suitable for someone who only care about the price. But if you are more serious business owners who are looking for a cost-effective solution, you should think about BPOVIA.

100 winners are from 20 countries and regions.

BPOVIA is the leading Virtual Assistant and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China . Established in September 2007, BPOVIA had already made a big impact on the virtual assistant industry. BPOVIA is the first virtual assistant and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China to ever be nominated for this prestigious award.

Red Herring Global 2008, 100 Winners

To see Red Herring Global 2008, 200 Finalists, please click here.

Nanjing, China (PRWEB) December 31st 2008

The nomination puts BPOVIA in the league of prestigious companies globally who have pioneered innovation, and used technology to transform the way we do business.
"Being selected a Red Herring 100 Global finalist not only shows that our hard work has been noticed and acknowledged by the world, but also be a good testament to the growth and effectiveness of feeds for BPOVIA customers. " said James Huang, CEO of BPOVIA. "We are privileged to have been nominated with the best in the world and BPOVIA is the first and only Virtual Assistant service provider in the world who has ever won such a prestigious award."

As a newly start-up, BPOVIA undergoes fast development with the joint effort of all the staff in the past year. It provides on-demand, cost-effective and one-stop solution service to clients all over the world and helps them to centralize all their support services into a single support infrastructure. BPOVIA can handle almost all the tasks which do not need physical presence including virtual assistant, website design, graphic design, internet research, market research, and data entry service with a very reasonable rate.

Outsource is never the privilege of large companies. Small and medium sized companies, even busy individuals can find appropriate service packages for them here. BPOVIA helps its global clients run their businesses more efficiently and professionally while minimizing overhead costs and liabilities.

Red Herring 100 list is an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of growth and innovation. Red Herring Global is the culmination of a year’s work of scouring thousands of privately held companies from around the world The finalists this year included entries from North America , Europe and Asia.

The finalists companies will be celebrated at the Red Herring Global event in San Diego, CA, on January 14-16, 2009. The 100 winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony on January 15. Red Herring Global is an exclusive event honoring cutting-edge private technology companies from across the world. The event brings together an elite roster of entrepreneurial and global venture investment firms to showcase excellence in innovation. Peter Chan, vice president of BPOVIA, is scheduled to give a speech on January 15.

About BPOVIA
BPOVIA is the leading Virtual Assistant and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China. BPOVIA provides global clients with an on-demand, cost-effective, and one-stop solution of essential business services including virtual assistant, website design, graphic design, internet research, market research, and data entry among others.

Established in September 2007, BPOVIA had already made a big impact on the virtual assistant industry. BPOVIA is the first virtual assistant service provider to ever be nominated for this prestigious award.

About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology research, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information, visit www.redherring.com.

Contact BPOVIA
Jenny Jiang
Director of Public Relations
contact@bpovia.com

200 finalists are from 24 countries and regions.

BPOVIA is the leading Virtual Assistant and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China . Established in September 2007, BPOVIA had already made a big impact on the virtual assistant industry. BPOVIA is the first virtual assistant and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China to ever be nominated for this prestigious award.

Congratulation for all the 200 Finalists!

According to the agencies from China, the recent terrorist attack has triggered seriously negative effects. The violence has made some projects delayed. In addition, the unusual social orders also raise the costs there. The tourism suffered a terrible hit, for most of the tourists have to avoid the danger and many companies may now have to buy higher insurance for their staff in India, especially in Mumbai.

On the contrary, India’s neighbor China has more benefits to win the investment from other countries. Due to the stable social environment and strongly support from central government, surely, it is an ideal place for the foreign capitals to get the profits. Around the time of 30th celebration of China’ s reform and opening-up policy, even if the impact of the global financial crisis, Chinese people own the determination and courage to conquer the barriers and make a leap in the new era. The great public security status would absolutely bring more priorities for china to attract more investment.

As the extraordinary flagship in the regions of the Chinese BPO industry, BPOVIA is the winner of the “Red Herring Asia 100 2008″ Awards. And it is the first and only virtual assistant service provider ever won this prestigious award. There is no doubt that investing in China and choosing the virtual assistant service in BPOVIA at the same time can be wise choice.

Are you interested in the business opportunities in China?

China is one of the world’s great growth markets and is likely to be for many years to come. Foreign companies often face difficulties in assessing Chinese market demand and enacting effective strategies because of the language barriers, culture differences, and high expense.

BPOVIA is the leading virtual assistant and Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China. BPOVIA is the only virtual assistant company ever been nominated for the prestigious “Red Herring 100 Asia” Awards 2008. Combines international perspective with local know-how, BPOVIA can provide our clients China business development service and help our clients doing successful business in China.

Please visit http://www.BPOVIA.com/ for details about our service.

BPOVIA is a client-oriented and responsible company. In the last year, not only numerous clients enjoyed our high quality and highly efficient service, but also the staff from BPOVIA positively to donated their money to the Sichuan earthquake area and participated in the volunteer jobs in the Beijing Olympics.

As the leading Virtual Assistant and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China, we always spare no efforts to assist our clients to release from the time-consuming work and heavy burden. In addition, the unique work team and ubiquitous service will always bring our client amazement.

Admittedly, the world suffered the ups and downs during the recent years. The impact of the subprime crisis has warned the world that we should save for the rainy days. Meanwhile, spreading of the financial crisis teaches us to be thrifty and never try to be greedy to grasp the fortune. And the donation of Sichuan megaseism and the achievement of Beijing Olympics also told us the world is a unity, we should always believe that cooperation and solidarity is the only method to conquer the setbacks and meet new challenges.

Hence, close relationship between distinguished clients and BPOVIA should never be suspected and it stands the test of time. A large number of clients choose our project based plan and full time monthly plan. Moreover, most of them have become our long-term customs and often come to our various services. What is more important, our competent and enthusiastic virtual assistant could always make the customs satisfied. Because our destination is always helping others to save time and cost.

Even if we have made a miracle in such a short time, however, it is not the right time for us to celebrate and we still have a long journey to go and to become the flagship enterprise in BPO industry.

Thank you for your concerns in the recent unusual year. You have witness the every step by BPOVIA; you have experienced the spirits of BPOVIA; you have enjoyed the service from BPOVIA. So you should never be regretted having chosen our service and never be hesitated to join us!

China is one of the world’s great growth markets and is likely to be for many years to come. Foreign companies often face difficulties in assessing Chinese market demand and enacting effective strategies because of the language barriers, culture differences, and high expense.

BPOVIA is the leading virtual assistant and Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China. BPOVIA is the only virtual assistant company ever been nominated for the prestigious “Red Herring 100 Asia” Awards 2008. Combines international perspective with local know-how, BPOVIA can provide our clients China business development service and help our clients doing successful business in China.

Please visit http://www.BPOVIA.com/ for details about our service.