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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.

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.

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.

The virtual assistant industry is booming. Most of virtual assistants aren’t physically located in the same place as their employers. They communicate with their employers via email, phone, Instant messaging tools and fax. Most of them are typically self employed and work at home. The services they provide are limited by individuals’ education and expertise. Most of them only provide secretarial service. The reliability and quality of service are highly unpredictable.

BPOVIA takes the concept of virtual assistant to next level by transforming this self employed, work-at-home practice to more serious business. All BPOVIA virtual assistants are full-time employees working in the central service center in China. 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.

BPOVIA is also one of the first virtual assistant firms who can provide one-stop solution of essential business services like secretarial task, website design, graphic design, internet research, market research, data entry, accounting, CAD, word processing etc. BPOVIA can handle almost all the tasks which do not need physical presence.

The hourly rate of BPOVIA is only $10 per hour or less. Clients can purchase BPOVIA service hours Pay-As-You-Go, or signup for monthly plan. There are no setup fee, no termination fee. The typical clients of BPOVIA are small and medium sized companies, solo entrepreneur and busy individuals. They find BPOVIA can not only help them save cost, some have even found that work done by virtual assistants may be of better quality than what they were used to getting from their in-house employees.

“Being selected a Red Herring 100 Global winner shows that our hard work has been noticed and acknowledged by the world.” said James Huang, CEO of BPOVIA. “Virtual assistant and telecommuting are reinventing the traditional notion of a job. BPOVIA gives businesses and individuals access to an on-demand, scalable workforce. We are very proud that BPOVIA is the first and only Virtual Assistant service provider in the world who has ever won such a prestigious award. We will try our best to help our clients run their business professionally and efficiently with minimum overhead and liabilities.”