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Building Your Ideal Employee

mcanty — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:17:42 +0000

Finding the best employee online can be quite tricky when some other factors are considered. For everyone with a business, the major factor is money. When looking through a list of possible candidates, aside from the skills, the credentials or the portfolio, the employers also needs to evaluate the price that they’re going to pay for the services they need. It shouldn’t be a surprise that those candidates with the best credentials with regard to knowledge, skills and experience will cost a lot.

Well, here’s an alternative for those who are looking to save on the expenses. How about you build your own employee? And no, we’re not dealing with robots here.

Have you ever considered hiring those with lesser experience and much narrower skill set? I think you really should. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that those with lesser experience have lower rates. You can take advantage of this. You see, the important thing here is that you have to be able to determine the potential of a candidate and that you are willing to train.

First thing is to make sure that the candidate has the fundamentals required for the job. After that, determining the potential of a candidate is as easy as giving a trial job, to see how he or she performs. Evaluate the finished results and check for the willingness to learn. If you’re satisfied, then you can provide training so that he or she can carry out the tasks that you’ll be assigning.

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What Makes Us Tick?

mcanty — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:39:38 +0000

Our company approach is designed to develop real strategic business value.If you’re reading this entry, you most likely already appreciate and understand the advantage of recruitment outsourcing – external experts managing the process of recruitment, effective targeting, better employment of sources of talent, faster recruitment, cheaper hire cost, and most especially saving your core management resources.

But as the pressure on Human Resource to deliver more value rise, recruitment outsourcing has to take it to a whole new level – to the strategic talent management parallel to company’s business strategy.This new way of recruitment outsourcing calls for a real partnership between client and provider that addresses efficiency. A partnership that focuses not just in acquiring of talent, but more importantly in planning, engagement, development and retention in Business Process Outsourcing. A partnership offers assessable increase in clarity, productivity and performance of the business. A partnership with Virtual Jobs.We offer phased services to our business partners, from operational recruitment outsourcing, resource management up to talent management with each phase designed to convert our client’s resource function value from operational efficiency measures to strategic business value.Acquisition
The struggle in finding those qualified individuals who can make direct impact on a business company is the bottom line of this website, whatever the state of the market or economy there is.
VirtualJobs works with clients to come-up with a strategic approach for their recruitment needs, and this will give them the measurable competitive advantage over their competitors on their niche.Ochre House works with clients to develop a strategic approach to recruitment which will give them a measurable competitive advantage over their competitors. We do this through a wide range of tools and practices including:Planning:
VirtualJobs work with HR and line management to establish maximum workforce planning. The goal of this is to do better targeting and getting the right individuals for a more effective hiring.

Segmentation:
We narrow the choices not just by reading through the candidate’s resume, but more importantly on what drives them to fit them job. We use pinpoint targeting through advertising the job vacancies, networking, PR and search, significantly lowering the overall cost per hire.

Talent Pooling:
Finding applicants with the best talents, senior levels and high specialties in their area of expertise can be difficult. Here at VirtualJobs, we resolve this issue by developing constant contacts programs, utilizing various job sites and searching for qualified individuals for direct approaches all at once.

We use performance-based assessment and work with our clients to ensure that individuals being recruited are based, as much as possible, on a direct alignment between the business’ needs and his/her abilities, experience and goals of the candidate.

remoteworkmate.com closely manages all the aspects of recruitment process to ensure successful results for both parties.

Engagement
People apply to companies for variety of reasons; culture, corporate reputation, etc. And all these things are acknowledged right from the recruitment process; from the financial and non-financial rewards the company promised to people they meet. Remoteworkmate.com makes the hiring process far more effective by addressing all these aspects right from its ever-growing portfolio of practices and tools, including:
Developing the right culture – where we show compelling aspects of company’s culture to prospective staff through internal communication, perception research, value audits, training and PR.

Capability and Competency framework – VirtualJobs help clients identify the skill-sets, abilities and personal characteristics of individuals applying for the job. This is to ensure that both clients and the prospect/s are in perfect ‘fit’.

On boarding – for new staff, particularly those highly experienced and in senior levels, to become efficient in shortest possible time, the company needs to engage to the opportunity immediately. Here at VirtualJobs, we work with the individual’s transition smoothly from one employer to the next, minimizing culture shock and laying out all expectations to all relevant stakeholders.

Employee surveys – We provide employee surveys to help shape ours and our client company’s culture, this is to attract and retain the best people inside the company.
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Development

Simple financial reward is hardly enough to attract and retain the best people for the job. This is the very reason why we include development and coaching programs, to tap each staff’s or prospective staff’s true potential. We work with our clients various strategic approach for this challenge and use wide range or practices and tools including:

Leadership development – we help clients develop leadership ability at all levels and apply it in practical and day-to-day workplace.

Retention

Every business company from any industry will experience some degree of staff attrition once in a while. However, what most organizations fail to realize most of the time is the reason why employees leave and how can they attract and retain high quality employees in the future.

Exit surveys – we give employees exit questionnaires which will help the company pinpoint and remedy the drawbacks that caused failings in procedures, processes or even culture.

Employee surveys – we construct ongoing employee surveys that can help us and our clients address such failings before they lead to bigger problems like staff moving on.
Outplacement –we also mind the welfare of outplaced individuals through our full outplacement service and help them find and re-establish their careers elsewhere.

Keep-in touch programs – if the employee’s departure is managed and effectively, they can be a very good potential source of new talent or business.

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5 Easy Steps To get A Good Virtual Assistant Writer

mcanty — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:30:52 +0000

5 Easy Steps To get A Good Virtual Assistant Writer

Are you looking for ways to be more productive in managing multiple sites and blogs and writing for a living? Then hiring a virtual assistant writer is for you.

Writing articles and blogs, updating multiple sites and blogs, researching for their keywords, posting them in various sites and doing article marketing is an exhausting task, and if you want to meet the demands of all of your clients, you have to think outside the box and ask for someone to do some tasks for you.

Virtual assistant writers are specialized VAs who can boost your daily productivity. They are well-versed in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), online marketing and article marketing. Most firms even provide their writers training and tools for keyword research to get your sit to good positions in SERPs (search engine results page).

But with all the writers and virtual assistant firms flocking the world today, how can you really find one that suits all your needs? Here are 5 easy steps to help you narrow your search to the good ones:

Check Their Website

The website serves as the bread and butter of every outsourcing company everywhere in the world. This site serves as their “office” for business where both clients and VAs meet. The contents and blogs for the website should be your hint of how good their writers are.

Set-up For An Online Interview

One of the best ways to get to know more about the writer/s that will be assigned to you is to set up an online interview. You can do this through phone calls or Skype. Online interview will help you evaluate the knowledge, skill set, experience and character of the candidates given to you. You don’t want to work with VAs with bad character, right?

Ask For References

Ask your applicant/s to send you copies of their past works. You can do this during the interview.

Ask for His/ Her Field of Expertise

Know your virtual assistant writer’s area or areas of expertise, or particular niches he/she specializes in. Of course, you need to let her know of your own field of expertise, the business you’re in and the kind of project/s you want him/her to handle.

Sum-up The Cost

The average cost of a virtual assistant writer is $7 to $12 per hour. Of course this depends on the skills and experience of the writer and the amount of work you want him/ her to handle. Consider these things and calculate amount you are about to pay. Outsourcing for a task like this can greatly help you save time and money, but never forget the old saying – ‘you get what you pay for.’

When it comes to giving competent and highly skilled virtual assistant writers, remoteworkmate has everything covered for you. This firm provides quality work, cost effective and good ROI (return of investment) to its clients. Visit the website today and see how this firm can help you boost your productivity.

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Tips On Finding Your Virtual Assistant

mcanty — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:51:51 +0000

Tips On Finding Your Virtual Assistant

Now that you’re Tweeting, Linking in and posting status messages and blogs in your Facebook group or business fan page, most often than not, you will have no time to handle all of your correspondence or keep your books updated as you run your business. There are thousands of virtual assistants out there waiting to help do the dirty job for your business.

But with millions of VAs out there in Google’s search results, how can you narrow your search and get the best virtual staff that suits your needs? This post will give you some tips you can do for a competent and quality VA.

Know What You Need

The cost of every VA may vary from the skill set, experience and the amount of load you want him/her to do. Web content writers VAs for example, are paid $12 to $15 per hour, data entry VAs on the other hand cost $10. Some VAs have specialized skills like writing, or web design, web developers, etc. Their costs usually vary from their experience and the size of the project. The bigger the project, the more it needs expertise, the higher the pay. But as you can see, it is still a lot cheaper and reasonable to hire a VA, as you need not to worry about his/her benefits, insurance, vacations leaves and sick leave pays, helping you cut your operating cost up to 60%.

Set-up an Interview

There are lots of ways for you to get the best virtual assistant for you. One is by meeting your candidates in person. If you and your VA lives in the same town, it can be really handy for both of you to just meet up and do a quick interview. Set a date for a brunch or lunch meeting for you two to meet and discuss the things you want for your business.

However, if you don’t have the luxury of time to do things like this, you can always find professional and skilled VAs from Philippines. Philippines is currently ranked number 1 in the world in outsourcing and its the first choice of most western countries for outsourcing needs.

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Most Important Things To Look For When Hiring A Virtual Assistant

mcanty — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:12:27 +0000

Most Important Things To Look For When Hiring A Virtual Assistant

By: Edwin Sinsona Jr

As a business owner, you treat your business as your child, you gave birth to it and nurture it for it to grow, and that requires a lot of love and hard work. So when it comes to handing over your business to someone else, he/she better be someone you can trust, someone you can get along with and help your business go where you want to bring it to. Virtual assistant can definitely provide a lot of things for your business, but finding the right VA can be a daunting task as well. However, it’s definitely worth the effort to be able to hire someone you know can help.

In looking for a virtual assistant, you have to make sure that he or she possesses all the qualities you need. A well-rounded VA can easily beat a VA with only one expertise. You know that first impressions last, so you need to have someone in the front lines that can handle many things and represent your company in many ways.

Here is a checklist of a good and well-rounded VA:

Personable

Your VA should be easy to talk to, pleasant and approachable. He/she doesn’t have to be drop-dead handsome or gorgeous, all you need is someone with good smile and jolly personality, as you will be working with him/her for quite some time.

Professional

Every little thing matters, from the way he/she dresses when meeting with the clients, communication skills, etc. A VA with high level of professionalism represents business better.

Confident

Confidence is a good sign of skills and mindset of a person. A confident individual knows how to carry himself and address particular situations right. You don’t need someone who will constantly second guess, as that can be unproductive and scary.

Positive

Positive attitude goes hand in hand with confidence. Positive people don’t whine much often, rather they uplift people around them. They can see the good side of things and try to make the best out of it. After all, you can always use a ray of sunshine to help you get through a bad day.

Self-Driven

A good and effective VA is a self-starter, and he/she doesn’t need to be pushed to get things started. He/she should understand everything and how things should be done.

Open-Minded

Open-minded individuals are always easier to work with as they’re always willing to see the better side of other people’s opinions. You need someone like this in your team to accommodate other ideas and different ways of doing things around. An open –minded VA don’t have any issue in culture, customs and traditions, and this is very important, especially if your business is dealing in the international business scene.

Humble

Your VA is your partner in your business, thus, he/she should be accountable for his actions, whether right or wrong. Humility is an honorable quality, and it doesn’t make a less of a person to show his integrity.

Trustworthy

Most of the time, you will hand your log-in accounts to various online accounts to your VA, like your email and business log-in name and password. You will be entrusting a whole lot of things to your partner, thus he/she should be worthy of your trust.

Patient

As an old saying says – “patience is a virtue,” and this may sound cliché, but as an online entrepreneur, you should understand that there are no shortcuts to success. Projects take time to get through, and even if things are not showing results in the first days, your VA should never give up in pushing the project through. This is a very important attitude, especially if you are working with Clients and Associates. Remember, your VAs are your business representatives.

Creative

Being innovative is a form of expression and a reflection of how the mind works. As great Albert Einstein said – “Imagination is better than knowledge.” People who can think outside the box can add a really good boost to your goals, and help you come up with amazing things you’ve never thought of.

Remember, your business is like your child, and like looking for a daycare, you spend time investigating for the safety and welfare of your child while you’re away. It can be daunting to hire a virtual assistant, and it may take time, but just follow your checklist and you’ll understand that’s it really is worth the wait.

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Virtual Assistant Services for Internet Marketing

mcanty — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:58:07 +0000

Virtual Assistant Services for Internet Marketing

How VAs can improve your business’ presence

By: Edwin Sinsona Jr

Philippine virtual assistants are acquired not just for administrative tasks, and creative and technical assistance, but more importantly for internet marketing. As an online entrepreneur, you will definitely have lots of things to juggle at the same time, thus you need someone to do the dirty job for you so you can focus more on other important things. Skilled virtual assistants with expertise in online marketing can help you build your online presence and make your name and site visible to potential business opportunities in as many places online as you wish.

We all know that setting up a website for your business is no longer an option; it is a must-have to help your business survive in today’s fierce competition, and I can’t stretch the value of having an online presence for your business in this post.

So is there really a good market for virtual assistant companies in internet marketing?

All business from all sorts of industries needs advertising, and there’s no other channel for better advertising today than the internet. With 800 million active users in Facebook and 200 million active Twitter users, Internet and social media surely have a huge percentage of any business’s consumers, and there’s no other way to reach these potential customers than through these platforms.

The idea of making and implementing internet marketing strategy is to reach with as many potential customers as you can. As a business owner, you most likely not have the expertise or the luxury of time to manage your site and to promote it in various social media platforms and business listings. This is where the need of acquiring a VA with online marketing skills comes into picture.

There are no shortcuts for internet marketing success, and many business sites have wasted time in using trial and error tactics just to find out which works for them. With an experienced and skilled VA, the step by step process can generate positive results.

Here are some services your website need from a web marketing virtual assistant:

Article marketing
Direct mailing campaign
Email campaigns
Keyword analysis
Link building
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Pay-per-click advertising (PPC)
Social networking

There’s a variety of virtual assistant services you can get from SEO firms. You can hire a one man team (of course that VA should be well rounded and an expert in his field) or a team with members of specified expertise to give immediate results. SEO firms know what to do with your site, and they can focus on things you want, such as traffic, search engine ranking, etc. They usually have the tools and software programs to jumpstart the task.

Hire a virtual assistant now and bring your business a step ahead from your competitors!

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Better and Practical SEO Methods for Online Presence Building

admin — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:55:20 +0000

Apart from the reputation and experience of your SEO marketing services, your business should receive the updated methods of SEO building in the web. From time to time, keep your search engine optimization services in track with your company’s goal and expectations. Target market or niche clients should be aware that demands of their enterprise should be constantly monitored to have an effective marketing campaign online.

1. Knowing what the customer wants and finding ways to place your business in their option views are the main pointers for having a real and practical slice of the market industry. Getting across the right audience can increase your ROI in the long run. Here are some SEO methods that you should ask your service provider to implement in your online marketing strategy plans.

2. Aim for good web structure optimization. According to SEO experts, using flash and frames in a website is discouraged because they tend to drive web spiders away from the site. Web structuring should be tempered with competition analysis so that contents can appeal to the target audience. Richness in content and keyword are most attractive to search engines and can drive traffic to your website.

3. Develop your branding. A distinct company signature like logos and business tag lines can stay with your audience and make your company stand out among the rest of the competing companies. Your SEO services company should be able to maintain this own personal signature to build a credible branding for your online business presence.
4. Grow and expand your social community. Business online have harnessed the social networking sites for reaching their market and tap potential customers. Social sites are more personal and tend to make ideal connections and recommendations which are both beneficial for your business online.
Old methods of SEO have been taken advantage by black hat scheming SEOs. That is why new and practical strategies and course of actions should be with the trends and friendlier with the search engines.

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Email Newsletter and Leads Generation for Your Business

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:49:07 +0000

A well-planned email newsletter strategy can help in keeping customers ad reaching potential new leads in a scheduled basis and with lesser costs. Most companies who want to touch base with their clients can use email newsletters to provide updates and relevant information to recipients with about 90% of target delivery ensured.

Customer loyalty can be hard to maintain due to the many business process outsourcing companies that are readily offering their expertise online. Rendering information on a weekly or monthly basis using email newsletters can create a sense of substance and consistency. Avoid endorsing too much of your business services to prevent being tagged as spam or giving out hard sales.

Some recipients can pick out the information that they might be looking for in your email newsletters. This can create your company’s reliability and credibility to the readers and might earn you a few business inquiries in the future. These inquirers view your business as an expert in the industry when good content is always presented in the newsletters. This is how electronic newsletters attract new client listings.

Interactive or community centered email newsletters can produce a virtual community that shares a common interest or goals. To the business owners, these communities are composed of the niche market that they are targeting or create an entirely new niche that they can service.

Costs for putting up an email newsletter campaign can be minimal, the big investment going to email servers and newsletter generation service providers. Fortunately, an outsourcing company can provide email newsletter services that can be customized according to your nature of business. Find a reputable outsourced company that has a good track history of internet marketing service.

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Improving Richness Both Content and SEO for Better Results in Article Marketing

admin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:40:57 +0000

Article marketing has been utilized for many years by internet marketing companies to promote their clients. These clients have businesses that would want to reach a top rank in the common search engine results in the web. Having high ranks in search engines mean getting quality traffic to their

article writing

company websites and could only mean better chances of having customers for their business. Inbound links are more preferred by spiders in search engines and can score bigger in the algorithms used by search engine page rankings.

Therefore writing articles in the hope of attracting potential readers into becoming possible sales leads for online companies should be done properly and with the right goal in mind. Combining good content and better SEO richness in these write-ups can up the chances of getting the attention of web spiders. These web spiders can detect top keywords that can be reflected in the page ranking of web search results and thus improving inbound links to a company’s website. So what are the necessary steps in writing a friendly SEO article?

Keyword Research. Using free tools online, like Google Adwords Keyword tool to find out the top keyword searches in the business industry. List the most common words you find in traffic rich competitor sites and enter them in the corresponding box of the keyword tool page. Get the first fifty top ranking keyword searches listed by Google Adwords. KEI or Keyword Effectiveness Index can be considered in fine tuning the most competitive keywords in the web.
Write good content and keep it rich with keywords. Good flow of relevant information can keep viewers interested enough to visit you client websites. Insert some keywords and strategically placed keyword paragraphs.
Calculate keyword density. Having a keyword density of about 0.5% can be a good measure for search engines. For example, for five hundred words article, mentioning about two to five times keywords in one article to reach the 0.5% keyword density goal.

Writing articles that are fit for marketing strategy companies can give generous compensation from article marketers online. There is still a big demand for rich SEO and good content article writing in the web because each day, thousands of businesses open their promotional campaigns online.

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Smart Blog Commenting Attract Traffic To Your Site

admin — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:36:43 +0000

Blog comments can either make your business credible or a dead lead. Using blog commenting to make your web presence known should be a well-accounted SEO marketing strategy and a good representation of your company. Bloggers are not just after the number of comments in their posts but they give greater weight to the content quality of each comment.

So how can you make your blog comments work for you and drive genuine inbound links to your website? Here are some tips to guide you in smart blog commenting.

First comments do not necessarily mean many clicks. Most blog commenter has the wrong notion that being the first to post a comment on blogs can motivate readers to follow their lead. What usually happens is that they post irrelevant opinions that make the comment look dumb and that is enough for viewers not to click included link.
Curiosity clicks cannot keep the interest of viewers. Comments that are usually short and interesting one-liners can make a curious reader click a link but it cannot keep their attention to be able to get a good lead. They will shortly find out that your lead do not have the information they need and leave your trail in seconds. Venturing in sneaky link building methods like this is categorized under black hat SEO marketing.
Kissing up to bloggers does not ensure traffic. If the comments posted are all ego praising to the blog owner, then it serves no use to the other viewers who reads the blog. Lead content is always the key to have real traffic driven to your site.

A blog is a social media tool. In this context, blogging demands a building of social interaction and relationship building with other bloggers. Getting links in social networking sites, re-posting in other blogs, re-tweets, bookmarked in social bookmarking sites, and votes in social media is the only way to generate leads that matter. Comment content should therefore be with substance that can appeal to most general audience in regards to your topic. It does take time to make a following even in blog commenting but they are worth the investment of resources.

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