Let's outsource to Vietnam

A video that talk about outsourcing to Vietnam.
Let outsource to Vietnam now because:

- Price: Vietnam's labor costs are significantly lower than those of many other companies.

- Labor Force: Vietnam's labor force has a 96% literacy rate and high scientific and technological knowledge.

- Socio-Economic Stability

- Economic Stability: Vietnam has very high GDP growth, with significant foreign investment and membership in the World Trade Organization.

- Ethnic/Religious Stability: There are no ethnic/religious conflicts in Vietnam.

- Language: Most college graduates in Vietnam are fluent in English, which is the second-most popular language in the country, in large part thanks to Vietnamese's use of the Latin alphabet.

INTRODUCTION TO CRAIGSLIST.ORG

Craigslist was started by a software engineer named Craig Newmark in 1993, as a way to let people know about events happening in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. To his surprise people quickly began using the service for things other than events, like posting jobs and selling things. Through word of mouth the number of subscribers to the site exploded and in 1999 it expanded to Boston. Later that same year, Craigslist incorporated, simultaneously expanding into nine major U.S cities. The service continued its amazing growth and in 2003 began to go global. In 2004 Ebay was impressed and concerned enough to buy a 25% stake in the company. Today Craigslist receives over nine billion page views per month and it is the ninth most visited website in the United States. Craig remains active as an employee and major shareholder; his primary focus today is keeping Craigslist free of spammers and scammers.

Although Craigslist is very famous and celebrated, there are still some who don’t know about Craigslist. These people are missing out on a wonderful chance to be a part of a growing and continually evolving online community. This site is an excellent resource to search information, seek jobs, find friends, dates, and do businesses. This article will introduce to Craigslist by briefly describing major sections on Craigslist.

1. Community section:

The community section of Craigslist is very useful for finding a great deal of local information. This may include activities, events, activities and lost and found just to name a few. This is absolutely the section to see if you are looking for things to do or see in a certain area.
For example: you are looking for Garment and Textile fairs or a Virtual Assistant meeting that is hold Vietnam. You can choose this section in vietnam.craigslist.org

2. Personals Section:

The discussion forums provide a place for people to share their opinions, answer questions and exchange information. This section is divided into a number of different categories to make it easier for users to find others who share their interests. Certain categories allow users to post without logging in while other sections require users to log in before posting.
For example: In this discussion forum, you can ask everyone a question like “Do you believe Virtual Assistant services are necessary in the modern life?”

3. Housing section:

This part offers many options related to lodging. People can find apartments or homes available for rent, vacation rentals, office space for rent, house or apartment swaps, sublet opportunities, real estate sales, and even storage, potential roommate situations…

4. Sale Section:

The sale section of Craigslist is largely self explanatory. Like most sections, it is divided into a number of different categories. Each of these categories describes the types of items which are offered for sale within the category. Additionally, there is a wanted section where users may post advertisements seeking to purchase particular items. Not all of the items listed in the for sale section require a fee to be paid to receive the item. Some of these items are available for free or in barter situation.

5. Services Sections:

In the services section, service providers may place advertisements for the types of services they offer such as Virtual Assistant (VA), Data entry, and other Outsourcing Services... Advertisements should be placed in appropriate categories but if there is no appropriate category the advertisement may be placed in the generic small business section.
Related: WHAT IS THE DATA ENTRY?

6. Jobs Section:

Like other sections, this section is divided into a number of different categories to make it easier for users to search for potential career matches. Users may find full time as well as part time opportunities in this section as well as telecommute positions and contract positions.

7. Gigs Section:

The gigs section is similar to the jobs section but for short-term jobs.
For Virtual Assistant, Data entry or Web research services, these are more appropriate when posted in this section.

8. Resumes Section:

The resumes section enables job seekers to post their resumes.
For example: If you are a Virtual Assistant, but you are available for hire right now, you will post your information in this section and wait for someone hire you when they are attracted by your resumes.
Related: Steps to choose your Virtual Assistant

Using Pinterest for Travel Businessand Travel Agencies

Today, Pinterest is a social network with high speed of development. By sharing pictures, connecting people by images, Pinterest is very appropriate to develop travel business; as well as advertise and support for SEO of travel agencies; websites.
Let’s register on Pinterest.com and make your own an account on Pinterest. And, with 9 tips below, you will see that Pinterest and social network in general are strong tools to develop online business.

1. Make a board for your own products:

You can pin the images directly from your website or upload the images. If the images are beautiful and unique sights, they will be received more re-pins from your friends. Once the images appear on your friend’s boards, there are more opportunities to the images will be spread out to your friend’s followers.
Moreover, when you insert your website address into the images, you will get more traffic to you website.
















In general, Pinterest likes a showroom that you can introduce your tours freely.

2. Taking the pictures of customers and “pin” them:

Pictures about the customers who are happy in the tours are necessary evidences to create belief and trust for your potential customers.
Also, you can allow other people can pin in some your “open board” to increase the interactions and the variety of your pictures.

3. Connecting to Influencers:

Actively re-pin, like and comment on Influencers’ boards. This is a chance for you to build the relationships and perhaps, some amazing opportunities will come.

4. Pin more on other interests:

Don’t focus only on your tours. Create more relative topics/interests that may be useful for your target market. It will attract more people to your Pinterest page. Of course, and more people will know about your tour, your travel agency, your website.
However, don’t pin too much on other interests. Keep in your mind that you pin other interests, but they must serve the target market.

5. Consider carefully before providing price information:

You can pin the images and the price information. But, I suggest that you shouldn’t provide price information because many people dislike a business on Pinterest.

In general, Pinterest and other social networks are appropriate to share images, information and ideas…rather than direct selling.

6. Take the advantages of description on Pinterest:

You should spend more time to provide more information in your Profile. You can add your website address and other social networks’ addresses.
In addition, the images, pictures that are pinned should be had enough description and maybe proper Keywords and Hashtags to support for SEO.
                    Related: 15 key ingredients to get more pins on Pinterest

7. Arrange boards properly:

The important boards should be on top, in the most attractive positions. You also should choose a proper cover for the board. The best cover must describe exactly the content of this board.

8. Don’s pin too much:

If you pin too much, other people will feel unpleasant, and easy to leave your page. Let pin pictures what you actually like.

9. Using beautiful pictures and high quality:

Absolutely, it’s true. With beautiful sights, high quality pictures will give the potential customers great experience.



Finally, let see a sample Pinterest page about Vietnam beautiful sights.
http://www.pinterest.com/lnguyen0090/welcome-to-vietnam/


Source:  Using Pinterest for Travel Businessand Travel Agencies

How to hire and train Virtual Assistant

Virtual Assistant

When it comes to running a successful business there are a ton of administrative tasks that have to be taken care of every day.

All of these tasks are easily manageable by any business owner, however all together the tasks add up to be very time consuming. When you then pile them on top of an already heavy to-do list even the most organized business owner begins to feel overwhelmed.

If you are finding yourself in this situation, the solution is to hire a cost-effective virtual administrative assistant.

Today, let see how to hire an d train a Virtual Assistant.

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[Infographic] Reasons to outsourcing

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15 key ingredients to get more pins on Pinterest (Vietnam Outsourcing)

HOW TO CREATE PIN THAT PEOPLE LOVE TO SHARE ON PINTEREST?

I. About some Internet and Marketing aspects:

1. Label images:

Label images and add your details (name, logo, website,…).
Instead of labeling your image as Image 1 or Image 2 (or any other random name), label your image with a relevant name, specific to your image. It’s worth taking the time to do this, at least for the most prominent images on your site.

2. Add a link:

Add a link to the pin description that leads to the webpage to drive more traffic.

3. Write long description:

Pins with description about 200 characters long get the most repins.

4. Use Hashtags and Keywords:

Use hashtags and keywords to make your pins more searchable. The top 5 most pinned word are “love”, “home”, “things”, “style” and “ideas”.
The simplified definition of hashtags is like keywords which can be used to organize messages on a social network. This then facilitates the searching and grouping of messages with given hashtags. Hashtags are preceded by the pound sign (#) and can be a word or a short phrase.
For example:
In order to make a hashtag at Vietnam and Outsourcing in any social network, let type # before “Vietnam” and “Outsourcing” (no space character between # and the word you want to hashtag).
And the result is:

Three common mistakes to avoid:

1. Hashtagging every word (i.e. #I #am #so #excited #today)
2. Hashtagging the same word more than once (i.e. It is my #birthday. Here is a photo of my #birthday cake, my #birthday presents, and my awesome #birthday party!)
3. Separating keywords. If your keyword is “Virtual Assistant” your hashtag should be #Virtual Assistant. If you write it as #Virtual #Assistant this will give you two different keywords: “Virtual” and “Assistant”.

5. Display Price:

Display your price of the product on the pin.

6. Use the right board:

Share your pins on the most relevant and engaging boards to receive maximum exposure.

7. Time it correctly:

Time your pins to go out between 2 PM and 4 PM in the afternoon and between 8 PM and 1 AM at night to get more repins.
 

II. About aesthetic aspects:

8. Multiple Dominant Colors:

Images with multiple dominant colors receive 3 times more than images with only one dominant color.

9. Using Vertical Images:

Images that are vertical in shape with an aspect ratio between 2:3 and 4:5 get 60% more repins than extremely tall images.

10. Use Medium Light Saturated Images:

Medium light images are repined 20 times more than very dark images.
50% saturated images received 10 times more than de-saturated images.

11. Reddish-Orange vs. Blue:

Reddish-orange images receive 2 times more repins than blue ones.

12. Alter background:

Images with less than 10% background receive 2-4 times more repins than images with more than 40% background.

13. Smooth Beats Rough:

Smooth textured images receive 17 times more repins than rough textured images.

14. Remove faces:

Images devoid of faces are repined 23% more than images with faces.

15. Be unique:

While keeping your audience in mind create unique images that standout.

Anyway, let me now how you feel about our logo and how our logo appear on Pinterest? Is it proper to all 15 things above?
 





                                                  

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Social network in 2014

People are moving away from Facebook, the question is - to where?
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WHAT IS DATA ENTRY?

In the Information Age, Digital era, it has become common in today's world; all the business has been automated. No paper works exist as everything is made computerized, that makes your work simple and easy. That why data entry job appears.

I. The concept/definition of Data entry:

From Wikipedia.com, the definition of a Data entry clerk is: “A data entry clerk, sometimes called a typist, is a member of staff employed to type data into a database using a keyboard, optical scanner, or data recorder. The keyboards used can often have specialist keys and multiple colors to help in the task and speed up the work.” Data entry clerks are also known as Customs Entry Clerk, Data Input Clerk, Data Keyer, Data entry Keyer, Data Processing Clerk, Data Typist.

To be more specific, Companies that need to file many legal documents, images, and/or other information will benefit greatly from having a data entry clerk. Software can interpret much information from documents, but it's not always accurate thus the data entry clerk makes sure the information is filed in the correct manner. Normally companies look for individuals with an aptitude to perform repetitive tasks, and have above normal typing skills. Many large organizations really need data entry workers to keep the company running smooth and prevent investing large amount of time locating documents (some may be in an archival system).

II. WHAT SKILLS ARE REQUIRED FOR A DATA ENTRY CLERK?

Through data entry projects that we have done, we came to the conclusion that there are 3 essential skills for a data entry clerk.

1. Office Software, Written (including Grammar) skills:

They must possess certain essential software skills like using word processors, spreadsheets, database, and other related record management software.

2. Fast typing speed:

The speed for a data entry is about 40-50 words per minute. Don't be worry about this speed because you can improve it by several ways that we mentioned in article "HOW TO IMPROVE TYPING SKILLS FOR A FRESH DATA ENTRY?"

3. Patience and concentration:

As they have to spend long hours in the same seating position doing the same job, patience and high concentration is extremely important. Having high levels of concentration and patience is not just another attribute for data entry clerks; as in case they lack this attribute, they would feel doing a thankless job, resulting in low quality output.

III. The trend of data entry jobs:

Nowadays, most of data entry jobs are outsourced to outsourcing service agencies because companies which use data entry services can focus on their competencies; save money, save time, increase the productivity and level of quality. And of course, outsourcing services agencies will do the best in order to accomplish the jobs with the highest quality, highest accuracy.

Source: AM Outsourcing Services Agency Website

LinkedIn- professional social network that will support you in SEO campaign.

LinkedIn is a social networking website for people in professional occupations. There are several different purposes to use your network on LinkedIn:

• To keep in touch with the people within your own network and to always have updated information about their current occupation.
• Via one of your network contacts, you can be introduced to an employer or business associate of choice.
• Employers can search for qualified people, and also get them recommended from contacts the employer can trust.
• It is possible to find contacts from a company where one would prefer to work, and to find information of the work environment.
  

Because of these useful functions, LinkedIn becomes the largest professional network. Therefore, using LinkedIn is one of the ways to help you improve your website’s SEO.
There are 3 crucial things you must keep in your mind:

1. Joining in LinkedIn groups:

A lot of the groups that you can join here are regularly read and linked too. This makes them very powerful social signals should you successfully create your own discussions and link them back to your website.

→ Joining in groups: the more the better.

2. Getting more connections:

The more connections you get, the bigger the following you have on your profile. You can target CEO’s or managers, and this gives you some control over what the demographic will be of the people you are connected to. Whenever you gain a connection, you are well advised to go through their connections and invite them to connect to you, as long as they are in the industry or demographic that you will find useful to contact in the future.

A large number of connections mean that you can post content for their attention much the same as you would on Twitter or Facebook, absolutely, it will help you in SEO.

In addition, perhaps one of people in your connections will become your customer in one day.

→ Getting more connections: The more the better.

3. Group discussions can be like guest posts:

Answer questions is the way you can PR for your business and at the same time, you can build backlinks.

→ Group discussions: The more the better. However, remember that your answers must be useful for the askers, otherwise, they will be spams and other people will not appreciate you.

With 3 main things above, LinkedIn helps you improve your website’s SEO. Anyway, you also should create your profile and company’s profile professionally and it will be easier to attract other people.

Source: http://www.outsourcing2vietnam.com/blog/116-linkedin-com-some-ways-to-improve-your-website-s-seo.html

HOW TO IMPROVE TYPING SKILLS FOR A FRESH DATA ENTRY?

For a data entry, the speed and accuracy of typing is one of the most essential skills. A good data entry typing speed is usually considered to be between 40-50 words per minute (40-50 WPM). How to improve the typing skill? There are several different techniques that you can do to help improve typing skills:

1.Proper placement:

The first rule for a fresh data entry is that learn to type the proper way (no typing with one or two fingers). This means your fingers should be on the home row keys A, S, D, and F with the left hand and J, K, L with the right hand.

2.Type more and practice:

The second rule for data entry is typing and practice typing more will obviously help the most. The more you type the more familiar you will become with the computer keyboard and the position of the keys.

3.Chatting:

Online chat can be a great place for a fresh data entry to learn to type and is also usually fun at the same time. But, keep in your mind, if you're really wanting to learn to type more efficiently while chatting make sure to use proper capitalization, punctuation, and do not use chat slang.

4.Practicing through online typing tests:

Run through each of the online typing tests several times. Not only will doing each of the different tests help improve your typing, you will be able to catch your errors and notice your progression. Remember the goal: “A good data entry typing speed is usually considered to be between 40-50 words per minute”.

There are several websites providing typing tests such as:

http://www.careerstep.com/free-typing-test

http://10fastfingers.com/typing-test

http://www.calculatorcat.com/typing_test/

5.Type pages of a book with lots of text:

Although not an option that is as fun as some of the other suggestions but typing everything on that page is a great way to help improve your typing.

6.Create your own blog:

Sometimes, with a data entry, typing is exceedingly boring. Why you don’t turn the boring work into something interesting? You can share your information, emotion with other people by typing a paragraph each day. Beside practice typing, it also helps you release stress after a hard-working day.

 With 6 techniques above, you also must remember “PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT”, practice typing more; the most likely you become a successful data entry in near future.

 By the way, when do a job as data entry, prepare eye drops to protect your eyes from eyestrain.

Source: http://www.outsourcing2vietnam.com/blog/111-how-to-improve-typing-skills-for-a-fresh-data-entry.html