10 Ways to Motivate Your Filipino Virtual Assistants This is part two of my series on how to get the best performance from your Filipino virtual assistants. Even though they live thousands of miles away, they’re still an important part of your staff. Previously I talked [Read more]
Why Choose the Philippines for Outsourcing? You have many choices when it comes to outsourcing. My favourite is the Philippines, for a multitude of reasons. Filipinos are English-speaking and culturally compatible In contrast to China and India, the Philippines has a highly Westernized culture. It was [Read more]
Growth Trends of Outsourcing Business Process in Australia Outsourcing is an increasingly popular business model in Australia. According to a recent market research report by IbisWorld, it’s been growing by about 1.2% per year from 2013 to 2018, with a projected revenue of 32 billion dollars [Read more]
Stop Selling and Start Building Relationships Some people worry about how to maintain sales in the new millennium. Maybe they have a point. The old high-pressure sales pitches, “always be closing,” “think positive,” “it’s a numbers game,” all these outdated sales messages simply don’t work. It’s [Read more]
How to Attract Attention by Marketing Yourself The very idea of marketing yourself might make you feel a little uncomfortable, if you’re a normal, modest person who doesn’t want to brag about your talents. Unfortunately, when you’re running a business or applying for a new job, [Read more]
1. Listen to your customers You might think you know what your customers want, but if you try to push an agenda on them they’ll probably be offended. Get to know your customers – they might surprise you. Ask them questions, look at their body language [Read more]
Marketing Strategies that Will Help Increase Sales Some digital marketing experts estimate that the average resident of an industrialized country sees between 4,000 and 10,000 marketing messages a day. Modern advertising can seem like a war between corporations and consumers, with adblocking software on one side [Read more]
Effective Sales and Marketing Techniques The best sales and marketing techniques will vary depending upon your business and industry. However, if you answer these five questions for your customers you’ll be well on your way to a sales and marketing plan that really works for you. [Read more]
Why you need a business directory listing Today’s society is becoming more mobile and interconnected all the time. People’s social lives are increasingly conducted online – where once they might have asked their friends and family for recommendations, now they ask their social network, or look [Read more]
How to optimise for voice search You probably remember when Siri first came out and everyone made jokes about how comically wrong she could be, but voice-recognition technology is getting better all the time. Some experts estimate that by 2020, 50% of all searches will be [Read more]
