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“This honor affirms our work and also gives us more responsibility and motivation”, said James Huang, CEO of BPOVIA, “and we feel very delighted and honored to be awarded as a Rising Star in the global outsourcing industry.”

The Global Outsourcing 100 and its sub-lists are essential references for companies that are seeking new and expanded relationships with the best companies in the industry. The lists include service providers and advisory companies around the world that provide the full spectrum of outsourcing services. Not only do the outsourcing services include information technology and business process outsourcing, but also facility services, real estate and capital asset management, manufacturing and logistics. The 2010 evaluation team, composed of IAOP member professionals, was led by Michael F. Corbett, the chairman of IAOP. The team is comprised of experts from the buyer side of the outsourcing industry, as well as renowned academic leaders in the field.

Before this prestigious honor, BPOVIA had also been awarded the Red Herring Top 100 Global Company Award in 2009 and Red Herring Asia 100 Most Promising Technology Companies in 2008 by providing innovative virtual assistant and remote workforce solutions to more than 10,000 clients from all over the world. BPOVIA provides global SMEs and individual clients with on-demand, cost-effective and one-stop solutions of essential business services like administrative service, website design, graphic design, internet research, market research, data entry, accounting, CAD, word processing, etc.

Technological advances make remote work and virtual teams more feasible. Current business processes are allowing companies to mix and match services much easier than ever. Not just cost-effective, some companies have found that work done by a virtual workforce may be of better quality than what they were used to getting from their in-house employees.
Outsourcing is no longer a privilege for big multinational companies. BPOVIA provides small business and even individuals an easy and affordable way to enjoy the benefits of outsourcing just like fortune 500 companies.

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!

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.

Geely, an independent automaker that has struggled to raise its profile in overseas markets, has long coveted a stronger foothold in Europe. Coincidently, Ford has been trying to sell Volvo since late 2008 to focus its resources on managing its core Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands. The deal is China’s biggest overseas auto purchase and represents the most ambitious move by a homegrown auto brand. Geely Chairman Li Shufu said “Today represents a milestone in the history of Geely.”

In fact, it is not only a milestone of Geely, but also an epoch-making point of Chinese national industry and Chinese investors. The acquisition demonstrates to the world that China is ready for overseas expansion, in other words, Chinese enterprises are looking for a larger share of world market with full pocket of capital.

Today’s China surpasses the role of “World Factory” and is moving towards a major “World investor”. If you are looking for investments for your enterprise, China is definitely a must-visit destination. Many people complain about losing direction when searching into China market. The problem can be solved through BPO (business process outsourcing). Bpovia is a leading virtual assistance provider in China. It can help you do market research, find business partner and investors through virtual support. Using advanced techniques such as  online marketing and SEO (click here to check out its services), Bpovia can get you closer to the target market, client customer and financier. There is a sea of business opportunities in China but few foreign business men can fully explore them. Since no one knows Chinese way of doing business better than Chinese themselves, it is to your advantage if you hire a team of marketing personals native to the country.

If webs in the 90s mainly appealed to client, webs in 21^st century target at search engines. Alexa statistics show that show that among top 10 websites in the world, search engines take a large share with Google ranked 1^st , live.com 5^th , baidu.com 8^th. The power of keyboard is rising so quickly that any ambitious website could not overlook it. It is high time that one did SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to attract search engines’ attention.

So how does SEO work and what’s its commercial value? Google will crawl your blog to find contents and keywords and when Google finished crawling through your blog, the content from your blog will get indexed in a large database where researchers can retrieve your content by searching with keywords using the Google search engine. By adding relevant keywords in your articles, SEO try to achieve the highest position rank possible. SEO also establish back links which will drastically help you to achieve a higher Google page rank. Higher ranking means more business opportunity since almost every netizen use search engine to find information. SEO can:

1. Appeal to potential client using search engine to visit your site thus getting their target goods on your site.
2. If not selling goods yourself, you can take advantage of clickstream to recommend business partners.
3. Bulks of traffic volume can let more people know your brand and cooperate image thus achieving publicity success.
4. Clickstream and ranking are indexes of authority and potential of a site. The more visitors you get, the easier you’ll get sponsorship by advertising agencies.

In one word, SEO is a great promoter of business opportunity. The earlier you realize the commercial value of keyboard, the more you will reap from search engines.

Since most of our work is done on or through the Internet, lack of interpersonal communication seems a concern for the success of projects. To reduce misinterpretation, we employ every possible means to get in touch with client personally. Phone calls, live chat and conference are daily practice in office. Virtual assistants of Bpovia will timely and considerately make adjustments as long as you tell us about your latest ideas. Effective and Nice interaction and communication will lead to win-win results, this is what we are deeply convinced of.

Worth mentioning is our web construction and graphic design and SEO services. Apart from formatting according to customer needs, we also focus on innovative and original designs for concepts and proposals. If you have a great idea in mind but could not execute it on your own, talk to us and we can help you with it on project basis. Creativity constitutes the core value of Bpovia team and we believe that it is the fundamental force behind company’s development.

Bpovia aims to push the envelope of virtual assistance provider and you will see how hard we are working to offer more than you expect once sign up as our client. It is our honor to support and help you on your way to success.

As the world leading virtual assistant and knowledge process outsourcing service provider head-quartered in Nanjing, BPOVIA hold the celebration party at its Nanjing office. The Chief Executive Officer of BPOVIA, James Huang said, “We are so excited to know that Nanjing will host the 2014 Youth Olympic Games. BPOVIA supported Beijing Olympic games at 2008 by sending our employees work as volunteers. This time, I am pretty sure BPOVIA will send more volunteers because this is our hometown. BPOVIA headquarter locate in Nanjing. All the people here at BPOVIA are very proud to be part of this great city. We are looking forward to seeing the young athletes from all over the world come to Nanjing. See you at 2014.”

James also said that BPOVIA will try their best to provide any possible support to make sure the successful held of the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games and continue to make contributions to Nanjing Sports section and service industry of the world.

About BPOVIA:
BPOVIA is the leading virtual assistant and Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) service provider in the world. BPOVIA provides global SMEs and individual clients with an on-demand, cost-effective and 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.

The majority of BPOVIA’s clients are SMEs and individuals from United States, UK, Australia, Canada, etc. Not only just cost saving, BPOVIA helps its global clients run their business professionally and efficiently with minimum overhead and liabilities. Outsourcing and globalization is no longer privilege for Fortune 500 companies. BPOVIA provides SMEs and individuals an easy and affordable way to enjoy the benefits of globalization and outsourcing just like fortune 500 companies.

BPOVIA headquarter locates in Nanjing NewTown Science & Technology Park, Jianye District, Nanjing, China.

On Friday, the health officials said that the program will begin on Nov 16.

The program means the capital is the first city in China who is going to inoculate all of its registered permanent residents, some 12 million people.

The 12 million vaccinations is about one fifth of total inoculations nationally in China by the end of this year.

Till Nov 6, 2009, Beijing had inoculated 440,000 residents. Most of them were students and people who worked in important service departments. But interest in vaccination has varied.

A medical worker surnamed Liu who worked for Beijing Beanstalk International Bilingual School said that there were less than 20 percent of students who had signed up for the inoculation. The school has, include both elementary and secondary school, more than 300 students from 20 countries worldwide.

She added many of the parents of international students do not trust the quality of the Chinese made vaccines.

The vaccine has been tried and tested and had proven effective with little and harmless side effect, said Zhao Tao, director of the emergency response office under the Beijing Health Bureau. So far, the H1N1 vaccination program nationwide has arrived over 5 million.

However, Zhao emphasized all the choices will be respected.

Some 402 clinics will be opened across the city from Nov 16 to Dec 13, during the whole extended vaccination program. People will be able to get their free shots any available day before the end of the program.

Till now, the injections could only be used to people younger than 60.

Zhan said non-Beijiners living temporarily in the city who worked in important public service departments in the city could also be able to get their free shots.

Besides 12 million official residents, there are around 5 million people in Beijing who do not have a hukou. For them, the chance to have inoculation is slim. The pandemic has caused some 52,000 people in sickness, killed 16, in mainland China.

The way of recording H1N1 deaths will change, the ministry announced on Nov 6, 2009.

Under the new rules, people who appear to be cured of H1N1 but who die of preexisting conditions and of mixed flu virus infections, including the H1N1 strain, will be counted as H1N1 deaths.

Fend Zijina, director of the emergency response department at the Chinese Centers of Disease Prevention and Control, said that it is in line with international practice and is more accurate in reflecting the pandemic situation here in China.

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.

Citing people familiar with the situation, the report in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday pointed that Morgan Stanley had asked potential buyers to submit indicative first-round bids for its 34.3 percent stake in CICC.

It reported the deal may obtain more than $1 billion.

Two people work for the US investment band and CICC, who both would like to keep anonymity, confirmed separately the news, saying that the CICC stake sale was a signal to Morgan Stanley setting up another local joint venture.

The Chinese government will not agree with the new joint venture, unless it sells the CICC stake, the sources added.

Morgan Stanley is going to form a joint venture securities firm with Shanghai-based China Fortune Securities Co, which it will have more management say.

Morgan Stanley was the first foreign investment bank who entered the country in the year 1995 when it invested $35 million in partnership with State-owned China Construction Bank to form CICC.

As one of the China’s biggest investment bank, CICC has specialized in clear up Stateowned firms in front of initial public offerings.

However, Morgan Stanley did not have much influence over CICC’s management led by Zhu Yunlai, the president of the enterprise, and had limited control to the operation of the brokerage during the past ten years.

The time that the US firm began to selling its stake was in 2007. Several international private-equity firms all included in the final bidders, such as Bain Capital, TPG and a consortium comprising General Atlantic, Starr International and JC Flowers.

However, early in the year 2008, this process came to an end after offers came in below expectations amid the onset of the global credit crisis.

The Financial Times reported, quoting people familiar with the situation, by the end of the first round, the original offer of more than $1 billion for the stake had dropped to around $600 million.
This followed a due-diligence process when bidders fond that the CICC management was unsatisfied with the current shareholding arrangement.

Under the structure, non-voting shares were allowed by the management which entitled them to paid dividends and could effectively dilute Morgan Stanley’s shareholding to around 27 percent.

But on Nov. 5, 2009, a source from CICC announced that this time around, it was very likely that Morgan Stanley is going sell its 34.3- percent stake for $1 billion since China’s booming stock market could propose considerable bargaining power on the seller’s side.

In 2007 the CICC’s net profit was 1.24 billion yuan, however, in the year 2008, the net profit dropped 49 percent to 627.4 million yuan. Net profit is expected to climb this year amid a rebound in China’s capital markets, one of the few bright spots worldwide. CICC has taken on little debt and has concentrated on fee income, leaving it with a strong balance sheet.

After inheriting the stake originally held by China Construction Bank, China’s sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corp, became its largest shareholder with a 43.35- percent stake. Government of Singapore In vestment Corp, another sovereign wealth fund, holds a 7.35-percent stake.

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.