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What Business Outsourcing Really Means

When a business owner who is running a sole proprietorship company opens the doors to his or her new business, there are several jobs that will need to be outsourced. Business owners may or may not have the financial resources to do their own marketing and advertising. They will most likely not have the knowledge [...]

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Know If the Outsourcer Is Outsourcing

Outsourcing is a competitive business and providing services with aggressive pricing is always a critical factor in winning business. All companies look for methods to reduce their costs and outsourcers are no exception. To maintain their aggressive stance, outsourcers are following trends in the computer industry and using services in the cloud. Cloud services are [...]

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Ask “Why Outsource?”

Asking the question “Why Outsource?” would seem to be counter to general economic movements and run against prevailing industry beliefs. Many companies are outsourcing as standard procedure, following industry trends. Yet, the question needs to be asked. After all, call centers have been supporting the needs of customers since the telephone was offered to the [...]

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12 IT Outsourcing Predictions for 2012

In 2011, the IT outsourcing industry was marked by smaller deals, leery customers, profit-squeezed IT service providers and a lot of cloud computing talk. Much of that could continue next year, but as our 12 predictions for 2012 indicate, you can expect some new IT outsourcing developments–maybe even a few firsts. The IT outsourcing industry [...]

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How Well Do You Know Your Outsourcing Service Providers?

A new mobile app for iPhone and iPad called ‘GlobalSourcer’ breaks barriers by offering information about outsourcing service providers in ITO and BPO sectors to the public. A new mobile app called “GlobalSourcer” has hit the Apple Stores. The App facilitates knowledge sharing about outsourcing service providers and acts as a direct link between the [...]

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Top Outsourcing Trends for Q3 2011

According to research from the Everest Group, market activity was higher in Q3 2011 with 46 new service delivery centers set-up across both captives and service providers, as compared to 38 new delivery centers set up in Q2 2011. While Asia continued to account for more than half of location activity, there was significant activity [...]

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Offshore Outsourcing Pros and Cons

Offshore outsourcing is making quite a buzz in the Internet marketing industry for the past couple of years. Because of its remarkable reviews and one of a kind marketing strategy, more and more internet marketers are gearing towards outsourcing as well. But amidst its popularity, this marketing strategy has garnered quite a lot of mixed [...]

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The Two Trends In Outsourcing: Onshore and Offshore

The modern marketing industry has soared greater heights, injecting dynamic means to carry out a business. The information technology age has modified how businesses deliver their services to their customers. This is even made more dynamic with the trend today which is outsourcing. Outsourcing can be branched down into two (2) categories – onshore and [...]

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How to Outsource and Where to Find Outsourcing

Knowing how to outsource and finding places to outsource to, is quality in-the-know information. Running a business is hard enough as it is for big corporations. Starting up can be even harder when you don’t have the proper resources. An easy to use method for any task is the KISS method [Keep It Simple Stupid]. [...]

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Outsourcing Doing the Business for Small Firms

Outsourcing IT as well as other processes is enabling small businesses to work faster and smarter, claims one specialist. Martyn Hart, chairman of the National Outsourcing Association (NOA), says that back office functions such as accounts, human resources and IT are a distraction to many small to medium-sized firms. He believes that outsourcing them to [...]

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