Social bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious and Reddit are a place to store and share your favorite websites. Just like the "add to favorites" tool on your browser, you can bookmark an interesting website and be able to locate that website when you log in to your account. You can make friends like on Facebook and share those website links with them. You can favorite any website on earth, even your own. How does this help with your website traffic? Let me explain. Depending on how many friends you have on your bokmarking site, sharing a link to your new blog post with them can create an avalanche of traffic as soon as you post it. Anytime you favorite a site, your friends will be notified through their "friend's activity" of you posting and they have an opportunity to view it. If they happen to borrow the post for their blog, then all of their readers will see it too and click out on the links for more information. This link to your blog th ..Continue reading.. »

Blogging is one of the hottest ways to market your products and services on the Internet today. Over 60% of people searching for information on the web do so through blogs. That's because they know the content is fresh, up to date and relevent to their needs. Blogs are also by nature very personal and entertaining. Blogs are used for promotion of services or ideas, so that they generally link to further resources where visitors can find a myriad of information. Is your company using its blog effectively? There are many techniques to make your blog stand out from the others. The use of images and videos are typically underemployed by most bloggers and the proper use of keywords will help visitors and search engines find the blog easier. Posting every couple of days will keep your blog fresh and guarantee a good ranking in the searches. The use of tags keeps your blog connected with all of the other blogs on a particular network so visitors can click out to post after post like a chai ..Continue reading.. »

It doesn't matter where in the world your business is located, taking advantage of outsourcing is within your reach. That's because overseas reps are available anytime your business needs them. Access is just an Internet click away. Outsourcing provides the needed serviced that can help your business grow, online or offline. Billing, call center management, social networking and research are just a few of the services that your business can use and save tons of money on labor costs. For some businesses access to a reliable labor force may be difficult for logistic reasons. What if your company is not located in a large city? If you have a mail order, online service or information based business, you can do well with catalogues or the Internet. But where can you find additional employees when it's time for your business to grow? With outsourcing the answer is clear. Any business task can be easily outsourced to an overseas rep specially train ..Continue reading.. »

With the economic downturn driving companies to look for cost cutting solutions, callcenter outsourcing has become a viable option for companies looking to deliver quality service for their clients, while lowering operating costs at the same time. Call centers can be very expensive to operate for companies that have found the worsening economic conditions sending their accounts into the red. Dwindling resources have made corporations weigh the options of relocating their call center operations overseas. Additionally companies that do not have their own call center operations are finding that they can outsource these services to facilities in the Philippines at a significantly lower cost than creating a center. Companies that outsource at first to save money are finding extended benefits with these services. Benefits not only include lowering costs, but also more flexible hours, higher productivity and better handling of peak traffic. With ..Continue reading.. »

How is your retailing business faring in this tough economy? Are you spending more on your IT department, just trying to keep up with burgeoning technologies, than on your mechandising and marketing departments? Are the revenues during this economic downturn keeping up with your ever growing expenditures? Retailers are turning more and more to outsourcing as a viable option in the fields of Internet marketing, billing and call center operations. Online sales have exploded during this recession as consumers look for alternatives to brick and morter stores going out of business. Some of these retailers on the verge of bankruptcy are turning to online only sales and outsourcing a majority of the IT work as a way to stay afloat. Businesses are using technology to manage non-critical operations such as Internet branding, inventory management and vendor billing. Although retailers will be outsourcing more during a recession, many will find a pe ..Continue reading.. »

Growing your business can be tough in this tightening economy. You are probably thinking: "It is hard enough to get a steady stream of income, much less start thinking of expansion." But nothing could be further from the truth. When most businesses are cutting back on services and employees, this is a great time to offer more to your customers. But you have to change the way you think of "expansion." Coupling Internet marketing with outsourcing services you can reach a whole new audience cheaply and quickly. Using an Internet savvy virtual assistant you can manage websites, blogs and email campaigns. Video marketing can open up an entirely fresh perspective to a worldwide prospect base. SEO services can bring in new customers by getting your products and services to the top of search engines like Google. So many of the most powerful Internet marketing strategies are free and easy to maintain with a m ..Continue reading.. »

Outsourcing management involves hiring an outside party to take over the management of a particular process in a company. The primary purpose for outsourcing management of particular services is to lower the amount of cash and resources deployed to a given business process in house. This also gives the management more time to concentrate on core processes and enhances the business flexibility to meet various business targets. When outsourcing management, the business hands over the management and control of a process to another service provider but it still retains overall ownership and responsibility of the process. While it is true that the business will have a contract with the service provider, it still has to ensure everything is done in a way that does not jeopardize its relationship with customers, shareholders, employees and regulators. This is important for businesses to realize since the third-party service providers may not be dr ..Continue reading.. »

There are benefits associated with outsourcing services such as reduced costs, improvement of product quality and access to highly skilled personnel. This is on the client side. For the service providers, it helps create employment and is a source of foreign exchange inflows where the outsourcing is offshore. But a process outsourcing company in the developing world also faces a number of risks and challenges. An outsourcing company can only succeed if it knows the risks and finds a way to deal with the obstacles it meets during the course of business. One of the greatest challenges facing the process outsourcing company today is the ever-increasing levels of competition. While in the early throes of the outsourcing services industry in developing countries there seemed to be more opportunities than there were businesses to provide them, that is not the case today. There are new companies making thei ..Continue reading.. »

Bookkeeping is a word that scares a lot of people in the United States, which is why a lot companies have chosen to outsource their bookkeeping tasks. Many businesses choose to outsource their bookkeeping tasks because it affords them the opportunity to focus on their core or other business activities. These other important tasks may include producing products, marketing their products, client liaison, procurement, human resource management, and a host of others tasks. You will feel very comfortable knowing that an expert bookkeeper is handling the business requirement of your company. America is a land of opportunities and a lot of people want to leave their countries and take up permanent residence in the United States. Thanks to the Internet, people from poor or developing nations do not have to leave their countries in search of a job in the U.S., they can simply telecommute which is one of the things that makes outsourcing really interesting. If you have decided to ..Continue reading.. »

You have made up your mind to start outsourcing – well done! You will quickly notice the positive impact that outsourcing will have on your business, and go on to wonder how on earth you ever managed without it. Outsourcing is very important; if you really want to grow a lucrative business you cannot do it all by yourself. It is time to build a network of competent individuals around you that you can outsource daily projects to. But where do I start outsourcing?! For a couple of people, making up their minds which aspect(s) of their business they should or could outsource is pretty simple. To these people, it makes sense to decide which regular activities to outsource. But for some other people, they are absolutely clueless as to how to start the whole outsourcing process because there is no aspect of their business that stands out as being more easily outsourced than any other part of their business. Start by keeping a log of your d ..Continue reading.. »