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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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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BPOVIA, the leading Virtual Assistant service provider, today announced that it has been awarded as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies. Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies are chosen from winners and finalists of the previous North America, Europe and Asia Red Herring Top 100 Companies. Out of 1,800 successful and highly eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process to drill-down the best companies first to 200 finalists, then to the top 100 winners of this global award. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration. Read more…
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2009 is the year of Ox which is the symbol of auspiciousness in China. We want to take a moment of Chinese New Year holiday to thank all BPOVIA clients for past and continuous support to us. Read more…
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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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Relying on the shrewd observation to the global hi-tech industry as well as impartial and independent selection process for more than 10 years, Red Herring, which is honoured as risk investment vane, has established the absolute authority of “The Bible of Silicon Valley”.
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Thanksgiving Day has come. It is the time that BPOVIA should express their gratitude and thanks to our honored clients and website visitors. Without your support, we may not accomplish so much in the last year; without your unreserved trust, we may not be lucky enough to be nominated as the Finalists for the “Red Herring 100 Asia” Awards 2008. BPOVIA is the first virtual assistant service provider in the world to ever be nominated for this prestigious award.
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For 10 years, the 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.
Red Herring released 200 Finalists for the “Red Herring 100 Asia ” Awards 2008 at October 16, 2008.
200 finalists are from 13 countries and regions. Read more…
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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.
