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Disadvantages of outsourcing

Mar 292012

Outsourcing is not all a bed of roses and has it’s pitfalls. The key disadvantages of outsourcing are: Security concerns: If you are handling your customers personal information, you have to be very careful about maintaining the confidentiality of such data. You must make sure that your outsourced partner understands and upholds this confidentiality. Confidential information about your own business is another important area that you don’t want compromised. Before you outsource, you must consider ‘what if’ scenarios. How serious a blow it will be if your business secrets are compromised. Can you risk that? Communication: What you mean is not necessarily what the other party understands. You may ask for one thing and get an entirely different deliverable. [Read More ...]

Growth of offshore outsourcing and small business

Business Strategy & Methods

Mar 282012

Growth of offshore outsourcing and small business

Offshore outsourcing refers to moving jobs from high wage countries to lower wage countries. Some companies outsource entire departments while others follow a more scaled down version. They have a team lead in their home office and his team is offshore, at times spread across several countries. They meet via web conferencing and they follow odd work hours but human beings are very adaptable and work gets done – at a lower cost and at times in a more timely manner. Language is a key issue in offshore outsourcing of white collar jobs. While China is the king of manufacturing jobs, it doesn’t do too well in offshore outsourcing of office jobs as their work force is not that good [Read More ...]

Is Link Building Dead?

Social Media

Mar 272012

In Feb / Mar 2012, Google started de-indexing private blogging networks whose sole purpose was to provide backlinks to their paying members. You paid to join the blog networks and they would provide you thousands of backlinks from their network of blogs to your website. That made your website look like a popular site to Google and they would rank it higher in searches as compared to other competing sites. It worked for a while but not any more. There is a lot of information out there as to what private blog networks were, their pros and cons and why they have been de-indexed so let’s not spend too much time on that. The question is, is link building dead? [Read More ...]

What is outsourcing

Business Strategy & Methods

Mar 252012

Outsourcing as we know it is obtaining goods and services from outside sources instead of internal sources. In this article, we will talk about outsourcing white collar or office jobs. The industrial / manufacturing jobs have been outsourced since the 1960s to lower wage countries. Outsourcing white collar jobs is a more recent phenomenon. In the 80s, many large corporations started outsourcing IT functions and Call Centers to third parties to save costs. Due to union structures and employee moral, they did not want to cut salaries. Instead, they cut whole departments and the same functions were now being performed by third parties at a significantly lesser cost. Corporations saved money, the bottom line looked better and everyone was happy. [Read More ...]

Free Classified Sites

Business Strategy & Methods

Mar 152012

List of free classified sites – advertize for free All right. You asked for it and I obliged. Here is the list of free classified sites from around the world. Classified ads are free advertisements and can help you sell products and services or if you are like me, you can post ads just for the link juice back to your website. Enjoy! http://www.craigslist.org http://www.freeclassifieds.com/ http://www.backpage.com http://www.famousfunda.com/ http://www.gumtree.com http://www.biggestclassifieds.com http://www.ebayclassifieds.com http://www.ukfreeads.ws/ http://www.olx.com http://theworldwideclassifieds.pressmania.com/ http://www.usfreeads.com http://www.usnetads.com/ http://www.classifiedads.com http://www.canetads.com/ http://www.adpost.com/us/ http://www.hot-web-ads.com/ http://www.classifiedsforfree.com http://www.aufreeads.com http://adlandpro.com/ http://www.quikr.com/ http://www.thefreeadforum.com/home/ http://mlmdoor.in/ http://epage.com/js/epmain.jsp http://www.freebizadsweb.com/ http://www.freeadlists.com/ http://www.classifiedextra.ca/ http://www.tauque.com/ http://www.domesticsale.com/ http://www.webcosmo.com/ http://www.ezilon.com/ http://www.recycler.com/ http://www.spokaneads.net/classmain2.aspx http://www.upfeet.com/ww/post-ads/ http://www.loot.com/ http://www.bestwayclassifieds.com/ http://www.northbayclassifieds.com/ http://www.webclassifieds.us/ http://www.hoobly.com/ http://www.chooseyouritem.com/ http://www.products-and-services.com/ http://geebo.com/ http://classifieds.fairfax.com.au/ http://www.freeadscity.com/ http://www.vivastreet.co.uk/ http://www.americanlisted.com/ http://www.friday-ad.co.uk/ http://wantedwants.com/ http://classifieds.sulekha.com/ http://www.claz.org/ http://classified.wdev.in/ http://classifieds.di-ve.com/classifieds/XcClassified.asp If I missed your favorite [Read More ...]

Free Classifieds Advertisements and SEO

Business Strategy & Methods

Mar 132012

Are Free Classifieds good for SEO Free Classifieds are popular all over the world. CraigsList is the big behemoth in USA followed at a considerable distance by Backpage and eBay Classifieds. Worldwide there are scores of sites that are very strong in their respective regions. Most people use free classifieds for posting household stuff but a lot of businesses also post free advertisements through classifieds. In many US cities, CraigsList has become the defacto search site for employment Ads destroying the lucrative classifieds business for newspapers. Should you post your advertisement in free classifieds? That depends on what your product or service is and what your objective is. I post regularly to classified sites, not to sell but to get [Read More ...]

How to write a Press Release

Business Strategy & Methods

Mar 042012

Learn how to write a press release – it’s easy. Drive traffic to your business – it pays. Welcome! Good to see you showing an interest in ‘How to write a Press Release’. You obviously realize there is a way to get your word out without paying for it. Savvy professional marketers have always known the impact of press releases and have been using them to the advantage of their employers and clients. We have been using them in our business for over 20 years now. Before the internet was available as a commercial medium, we would focus on the general news media as well as trade publications. Once we figured it out, we started using it so effectively that [Read More ...]

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