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The Perpetual Question of Ethics in Outsourcing
We published a post a couple of months ago about one of the burning ethical questions of outsourcing. It was the question as to whether outsourcing to overseas countries deprives people of home of job opportunities. This question is one of two discussed time and again...
3 Ways to Spend the Time You Save by Outsourcing
Here on the Virtual Done Well blog, we spend a lot of time sharing tips for effective outsourcing, so to ring the changes a little, we're going to take a slightly different tack with this particular article. Instead of focusing on the outsourcing process, we thought...
Some Attributes to Look for when Interviewing Virtual Assistants
Virtual Assistant Interviews: Here's what Clients Should Look For If there is one thing you want to get right when hiring a virtual assistant, it's the interview. Effective interviewing will improve your chances of finding the right person, and also helps minimise the...
Why Time Zones Don’t Matter to Some Night-shifting Virtual Assistants
Night-shifting Virtual Assistants and Why Time Zones Are Irrelevant Does your national employment legislation stipulate that you pay premiums for employees who work for you at night or during "unsociable" hours? The chances are that it does and even if not, the...
The Best Virtual Assistants and Where in the World to Find Them
Do You Know Which Country Offers the Best Virtual Assistants? The very nature of the virtual assistant industry makes it easy to choose where you look for talent to help you run your business. This presents a huge advantage in terms of value, which a few years ago...
10 Tips for Better Communication Between Virtual Assistant and Client
As a company that provides virtual assistants to clients all over the world, we naturally believe in the value that offshore VAs can bring to business owners, companies, entrepreneurs, or people that are just really busy. However, we won't deny that there are...
4 Things to Look for when Selecting a Virtual Assistant Company
Selecting a Virtual Assistant Company? 4 Things to Look For Times are changing in the world of virtual assistance. Where once your best chance to find a VA would be to peruse freelancing sites for a self-employed, work-from-home provider, it's increasingly common to...
An Evaluation of Full-time versus Part-time Virtual Assistant Services
While many articles you read will tell you that hiring and working with a virtual assistant is the easiest thing in the world to do, the truth is, it's really not—at least, not if your outsourcing decision is based on a real need to improve business productivity or...
Virtual Assistants: Is Your Social Media Profile Harming Your Employability?
Here at Virtual Done Well, we like to look for new members of our family on social media. That means we advertise virtual assistant positions on social media, and we consider candidates' social media profiles when hiring. This practice is far from unique to VDW...
50 Ways to Buy Your Time Back with a Virtual Assistant
As business owners and entrepreneurs increasingly outsource tasks to virtual assistants, they do so for a number of reasons. An overwhelming majority though, outsource purely to save time that they would otherwise need to spend on low-value, but necessary tasks. As...
Virtual Done Well is managed on a day to day basis by an experienced Filipino management team supported by our Australian Directors. We provide business support services to mainly US and Australian SME's (Small & Medium Enterprises) Prices are kept low to make the services highly competitive. And our small profits are used for Community and Environmental projects.
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