How Outsourcing Works To tell you honestly, virtual assistants have been going live since the beginning of 21st century although most of these computer-specialized staff are usually in-house during those times.
The reason is because most big companies are still mired on having them in conventional way in the office, spending a lot for equipment, hands-on and full time supervision as well.
Although these reasons have also led to certain company adjustments to manage the workforce since the economic regression has come into different industries today.
By then, outsourcing has started to defeat unemployment and improve the quality of work even you're working at home.
Definitely, it has also given space in the amount of traffic around streets, highways which are all crowded with people from around companies.
Starting can cover a whole lot of load for you although once you've got the best staff to handle your systems and all projects have been planned, done and automated in place, all can be as easy as traveling to somewhere without even worrying of bringing your laptop to respond over your customer enquiries, technical issues and so forth.
Now, if you haven't contemplated yet what it is to hire your offshore virtual staff, here are 7 benefits that I could share with you from my experience: Benefit 1: You're only paying for what you need Your virtual staff starts the clock as long as you've given them project to be finished.
Now, if you're worrying of spending too much on hiring, start with 1-3 staff mainly for admin, programming and graphic designing as they are the core elements in the business.
Once you've started working with them, they'll eventually log their hours which are billed accordingly.
In my case, I have always been on track of their accomplishments since one of my requirements is for them to submit their accountability report and time sheet in daily basis.
With that, I can easily manage how productive they are in managing time with these weekly tasks assigned to them.
Also, you'll be confident that you're spending fairly and happily as you're also seeing the results.
Benefit 2: Experiencing Broad Skills Set The dilemma over traditional assistants might get you stuck when dealing outside of their skills so you'll have to hire another employee.
Yet when you hire virtual assistants, I can say they are all open to explore new tasks which some may not be really under their field but because they're willing to learn, they are able to understand every bit of new information very well.
This is also the reason why I can have my team to work for me at least 5 major tasks that they could finish full time daily.
I've given my virtual staff their weekly tasks containing minor to major projects as well that they should target everyday or in a week so by having that strategy, I can also determine how well they sustain good service with handling routine activities.
Benefit 3: The Relief Of On-The-Go Assistance Worrying too much of the project when you're leaving? How about if you'll have to meet the family on holidays? When you've got your virtual staff working with you, you wouldn't have to worry because in this case, your business stays in action and your team has already known how to handle these off-the-keyboard situations.
Benefit 4: Saving on Benefits Hiring a full time virtual staff overseas would free you in paying their health benefits for instance.
From the wage they receive themselves though, they can easily provide their own health benefits as well.
On the other hand, some of these people would also work for you based on the duration of projects but you can still work with them full time and continue giving them the payment that they deserve like they are also continuing to experience the benefits.
Good thing as well is you don't have to spend on their equipment, internet connections, etc because they have these in their own homes.
Benefit 5: Goodbye Sick Day Excuses If you remember those "office days" and you've had a phone call from one of your assistants wearing that hoarse, sneezing voice and saying that they cannot meet the deadline, then this cannot be an excuse for them to ruin a project unless all are advised beforehand or an emergency of good reason may be accepted.
Benefit 6: Your Count On Reliable Service You can hire part time virtual assistants which can do admin tasks for you unlike those events when you have hired temporary ones in different agencies but couldn't achieve good service and consistent reliability because of all those irregular comings and goings that may interrupt their activities.
With your virtual assistants in place, they can be quietly reliable even for 5 to 30 hours a week without complete supervision because they work along arranged schedule both convenient on your parts.
While being basically trained on the tasks you give them, they can easily produce good results in no time as well.
Benefit 7: Eliminating Office Drama Remembering those times that every time a new employee comes in the office, it at the same time adds more personal dynamic with every different member in the office environment.
Some may want one and some may annoy one - eyeing on each other's performances that may affect one attitude from another.
But with the help of having virtual staffs in a virtual office just like your project management systems, your team wouldn't anymore have to mind about each other's different personality.
Thus, assigning projects should be congruent with their skills and roles.
Developing Right Outsourcing Strategy With The Team You can say outsourcing is useless as long as you're not using the right outsourcing strategy that I've been talking about.
I can tell you, you could even outsource but that doesn't mean you can instantly be earning from it when you haven't drawn the right strategies in dealing with your virtual staff overseas.
A good outsourcing strategy would be starting to look for good offshore environments that could provide you cost effective, reliable and well-trained staff to work for your business.
Additionally, you have to have good background to that area so that you can easily know their basis of wage, time zone as well as the culture behind them that would qualify to your outsourcing cost savings.
Once you're packed with research, resources and the right approach to outsource your business, definitely, you could use your effective outsourcing strategy to deal with your virtual staff in the long term.
The reason is because most big companies are still mired on having them in conventional way in the office, spending a lot for equipment, hands-on and full time supervision as well.
Although these reasons have also led to certain company adjustments to manage the workforce since the economic regression has come into different industries today.
By then, outsourcing has started to defeat unemployment and improve the quality of work even you're working at home.
Definitely, it has also given space in the amount of traffic around streets, highways which are all crowded with people from around companies.
Starting can cover a whole lot of load for you although once you've got the best staff to handle your systems and all projects have been planned, done and automated in place, all can be as easy as traveling to somewhere without even worrying of bringing your laptop to respond over your customer enquiries, technical issues and so forth.
Now, if you haven't contemplated yet what it is to hire your offshore virtual staff, here are 7 benefits that I could share with you from my experience: Benefit 1: You're only paying for what you need Your virtual staff starts the clock as long as you've given them project to be finished.
Now, if you're worrying of spending too much on hiring, start with 1-3 staff mainly for admin, programming and graphic designing as they are the core elements in the business.
Once you've started working with them, they'll eventually log their hours which are billed accordingly.
In my case, I have always been on track of their accomplishments since one of my requirements is for them to submit their accountability report and time sheet in daily basis.
With that, I can easily manage how productive they are in managing time with these weekly tasks assigned to them.
Also, you'll be confident that you're spending fairly and happily as you're also seeing the results.
Benefit 2: Experiencing Broad Skills Set The dilemma over traditional assistants might get you stuck when dealing outside of their skills so you'll have to hire another employee.
Yet when you hire virtual assistants, I can say they are all open to explore new tasks which some may not be really under their field but because they're willing to learn, they are able to understand every bit of new information very well.
This is also the reason why I can have my team to work for me at least 5 major tasks that they could finish full time daily.
I've given my virtual staff their weekly tasks containing minor to major projects as well that they should target everyday or in a week so by having that strategy, I can also determine how well they sustain good service with handling routine activities.
Benefit 3: The Relief Of On-The-Go Assistance Worrying too much of the project when you're leaving? How about if you'll have to meet the family on holidays? When you've got your virtual staff working with you, you wouldn't have to worry because in this case, your business stays in action and your team has already known how to handle these off-the-keyboard situations.
Benefit 4: Saving on Benefits Hiring a full time virtual staff overseas would free you in paying their health benefits for instance.
From the wage they receive themselves though, they can easily provide their own health benefits as well.
On the other hand, some of these people would also work for you based on the duration of projects but you can still work with them full time and continue giving them the payment that they deserve like they are also continuing to experience the benefits.
Good thing as well is you don't have to spend on their equipment, internet connections, etc because they have these in their own homes.
Benefit 5: Goodbye Sick Day Excuses If you remember those "office days" and you've had a phone call from one of your assistants wearing that hoarse, sneezing voice and saying that they cannot meet the deadline, then this cannot be an excuse for them to ruin a project unless all are advised beforehand or an emergency of good reason may be accepted.
Benefit 6: Your Count On Reliable Service You can hire part time virtual assistants which can do admin tasks for you unlike those events when you have hired temporary ones in different agencies but couldn't achieve good service and consistent reliability because of all those irregular comings and goings that may interrupt their activities.
With your virtual assistants in place, they can be quietly reliable even for 5 to 30 hours a week without complete supervision because they work along arranged schedule both convenient on your parts.
While being basically trained on the tasks you give them, they can easily produce good results in no time as well.
Benefit 7: Eliminating Office Drama Remembering those times that every time a new employee comes in the office, it at the same time adds more personal dynamic with every different member in the office environment.
Some may want one and some may annoy one - eyeing on each other's performances that may affect one attitude from another.
But with the help of having virtual staffs in a virtual office just like your project management systems, your team wouldn't anymore have to mind about each other's different personality.
Thus, assigning projects should be congruent with their skills and roles.
Developing Right Outsourcing Strategy With The Team You can say outsourcing is useless as long as you're not using the right outsourcing strategy that I've been talking about.
I can tell you, you could even outsource but that doesn't mean you can instantly be earning from it when you haven't drawn the right strategies in dealing with your virtual staff overseas.
A good outsourcing strategy would be starting to look for good offshore environments that could provide you cost effective, reliable and well-trained staff to work for your business.
Additionally, you have to have good background to that area so that you can easily know their basis of wage, time zone as well as the culture behind them that would qualify to your outsourcing cost savings.
Once you're packed with research, resources and the right approach to outsource your business, definitely, you could use your effective outsourcing strategy to deal with your virtual staff in the long term.
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