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.

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.

Pricing is usually a major point that a user pays so much attention to. In terms of the price, it is almost the same among three providers. However, the pricing plans between these three providers are dramatically different. As you can see in the pricing chart, iContact provided more than 12 pricing plans which are the most among the three. More pricing plans mean that they are more likely to meet your own demands according to your own actual email list size, so that enable you to make best use of the plan instead of wasting your money on those redundant size. Another point worth mentioning is Pay As You Go pricing plans of Vertical Response. Pay As You Go allows you to send your email without a time limit, which makes your email marketing more flexible according to your own schedule. Pay As You Go is especially suitable for those companies who have a relatively small email list size to send each month. Besides, speaking of free trial, all the three providers have free trial, in which Constant Contact offers the longest free trial, lasting 60 days.

Basic Pricing	Pay Monthly			Pay Monthly
	Email List Size	Monthly Fee		Email List Size	Monthly Fee	Annual Fee
	0-500	$15.00		250	$9.95	$107.46
	501-2,500	$30.00		500	$14.00	$151.20
	2,501-5,000	$50.00		1,000	$19.00	$205.20
	5,001-10,000	$75.00		2,500	$29.00	$313.20
	10,000-25,000	$150.00		5,000	$47.00	$507.60
	25,000+	Call for pricing		10,000	$74.00	$799.20
				15,000	$109.00	$1,177.20
				25,000	$149.00	$1,609.20
				35,000	$239.00	$2,581.20
				50,000	$379.00	$4,093.20
				75,000	$529.00	$5,713.20
				100,000	$699.00	$7,549.20
				100,000+	Call for pricing
Other Pricing	Time Advance	Price Discount	Nonprofit	NGO Discount
	6 Month Prepay	10% Discount	20% Discount	20% Discount
	12 Month Prepay	15% Discount	30% Discount
Free Trial	60 Days			15 Days

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

Let’s analyze it in details:

Environment cost

Consider this: According to a carbon offset broker, a 2005 Toyota Camry driving 50,000 miles a year will emit 33,728 lbs of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Then, there are so many cars and buses running on the road from place to place everyday, the amount of the emitted carbon dioxide?–horrible even to bear our imagination. The environment, which has already been severely battered, must undoubtedly be one step worse.

Time cost

No doubt, it is time-consuming. With the same amount of time you spent during the travel, a large load of work can be done. Moreover, even after you arrive at the place, you cannot engage yourself immediately into the work, for the travel, as we know, can be really fatigue.

Health and Life quality cost

"It affects people’s health and life," said commute management expert Dr. DaveRizzo of Fullerton. Indeed, studies show that stretch travels can lead to both mental and physical problems, including high blood pressure, and increased heart rate and stress levels.

Moreover, long-distance commuting can also contribute to back and neck pain, short-term memory loss, a higher likelihood of frustration, lack of sleep, and an increase in illness and illness-related absences from work.

Additional business travel cost

The company has to cover the cost of the workers’ business travel. That already adds to the heavy burden of the company’s expenditure. But the figure will be much more overwhelming if the workers lack the cost-saving awareness and take the advantage to spend money for personal benefits.

With so much cost in environment, time, health and life quality, and additional workers’ travel expenditure, can we say that a long-distance travel to work is a wise choice? If not, can we think of a way out that is possible to avoid so much trouble but also available to conduct your work efficiently?

BPOVIA-an excellent virtual assistant liable to save your business travel

Here we offer you BPOVIA providing all-rounded virtual assistance services at your convenience. By hiring such a virtual assistant, the managers don’t need to dispatch employees to faraway places for BPOVIA covers business services in many parts all around the world. Plus, the working time can be virtually flexible, because the VA’s working time is totally at the clients’ own disposal. You can add, modify, cancel, or suspend any service at any time based on your business demand. 

With BPOVIA service at hand, your business is very likely to be expanded less time-consuming and more cost-saving.

20% of the U.S workers’ working time is wasted in surfing the internet and chatting online; in specific, an online survey of 2,057 employees by online compensation company Salary.com found about six in every 10 workers admit to wasting time at work with the average employee wasting 1.7 hours of a typical 8.5 hour working day. Personal Internet use topped the list as the leading time-wasting activity according to 34% of respondents, with 20.3% then listing socializing with co-workers and 17% conducting personal business as taking up time.

This is by no means an exclusive story of America; in fact, it is shared by many other countries all over the world. Those net-addicted workers who spend part of their office hours in non-work related online activities are undoubtedly dragging down the workplace productivity. Then how to plug the problem?

At present, the seemingly “most effective” way agreed and carried out by many companies is relying on some technological surveillance means to track the employees’ use of the office internet. But are those policies really “effective”? Unfortunately, issues related to workplace privacy are triggered due to such special monitoring mechanisms, which in turn, induce to unwanted and costly litigations. Therefore, these policies, in the long run, must fail to boost the declining workplace productivity. Then, can we find a way out that can turn out to be really effective?

“Such temptation is always present, especially in fields of employment where one experiences a lot of down time.” said by a supervisor of a chicago-based trading company. Attention please! The key words here are “down time”. It is exactly due to too many “down time” at the employee’s disposal that the private use of office internet becomes easily available. Thus, can the “down time” be cut down? Or can the time of finishing each specific task be at the managers’ disposal? If this is possible, then the workplace productivity is really promising to be rejuvenated.

Fortunately, BPOVIA virtual assistant is very likely to make the dream come true. BPOVIA is the leading virtual assistant firm in the world. BPOVIA is the first and only virtual assistant service provider in the world ever won the prestigious "Top 100 global companies in 2008" awards by Red Herring magazine and "2008 Red Herring Asia 100 Most Promising Technology Companies" Awards. By hiring such a virtual assistant from BPOVIA, working time can be saved to a great extent! This is because the VA’s working time is totally at the manager’s own disposal. The manager can add, modify, cancel, or suspend any service at any time based on his/her business demand. Furthermore, it is even more cost-saving, for there will be no other extra fees such as staff welfare and taxes compared with a full-time employee.

A double-edged sword as the internet is, it is always likely to reduce costs and increase profits for companies. The success secret, however, lies in those wise users who can make the best use of the most efficient on-line assistance services to create themselves the most profits.

“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