Many users of virtual assistance service set strict time limit for each task according to their own estimation. In some cases, the time limit is reasonable and acceptable but in other cases, the estimated time are not enough to finish tasks let alone that the task will be done excellently. It appears shrewd setting strict limits to prevent VA from wasting time; however, doing so, you are holding a double-edge sword with one threatening your interest. Haste makes waste. It is very likely that your project is done but with defects due to lack of time for QC.

In fact, the amount of time for task is calculated based on manifold factors of which many cannot be exactly quantificational gauged by time scale. At Bpovia, we take following aspects into consideration:

1 Get familiar with the task and fully understand the instruction.

2 Time spend on communicate.

3 Time spend on task.

4 Time spend on writing report, if necessary.

5 Time spend on quality control, if necessary. We have internal quality control procedure in order to provide high quality service to our clients.

The above five factor together determine how much time should be allocated to each task and ensure that the client will get a satisfactory outcome.

Bpovia has work out project plans for different kinds of task in order to help you with time control issue. For instance, 10 hours are enough for 1-2 researches, simple graphic design, translation etc. Technical support such as Website Maintenance, HTML / CSS modification, Blog / WordPress Maintenance and Online Forms/Widgets are best done on project basis of 40 hours. We also recommend full time (8hours 5days/month) service for clients who wants customized application designs, or is interested in China Business Development. (Click here to see the pricing)

Time is the core issue of virtual assistance service. Therefore both sides–clients and service provider—want to make the most of it. As a leading provider of virtual assistance service, Bpovia ensures state-of-the-art service using proper amount of time. Through years of perspiration and efforts, we won customer trust by integrity and professional way of doing business. We commit to employing client’s time in economical manner and all we want is your trust in our profession intuition.

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In virtual assistance industry, it is very likely that the less you pay for your assistant, the more it will cost you for the remedy of an unsatisfactory task. However, seldom are virtual assistance service providers ready to admit this, insisting that alluring low price and state-of-the-art service can come side by side. Uncovering some providers’ low-price tags, you’ll see how they cut costs in the following aspects:

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.

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Email Marketing is one of the most important marketing technique for both online and offline businesses. If you have a targeted, and verified email list, opportunities are endless for both marketing and branding purposes. Among various email marketing providers on the Internet, Constant Contact, iContact and Vertical Response have been acknowledged to be three most widely used providers.

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According to Telework Exchange, “If white-collar employees who feel they could do their jobs from home began to telework twice a week, the United States could conserve 9.7 billion gallons of gasoline and save $38.2 billion a year.” These calculations are based on 50 miles round trips in vehicles getting 24 miles per gallon, with gasoline at $3.94/gallon.

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

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Every company nowadays is eyeing for business expansion. Therefore, employees are dispatched or even the managers themselves are driven at an increasingly frequent basis to various places around. But is that the most efficient way? Have any of those company managers and employees ever calculated exactly how much would that long distance travel cost?

Let’s analyze it in details:

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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 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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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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For 10 years, 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.

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Nanjing, China (PRWEB) December 31st 2008 – BPOVIA, China’s leading Virtual Assistant Service provider, has been selected as one of this year’s Red Herring Global 200 finalists. It is another prestigious award BPOVIA get after its winning of the Red Herring 100 Asia Awards in December 2008.

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