South Africa has advance infrastructure and the telecommunication network is good. I would strongly recommend that you consider outsourcing in my motherland. Unfortunately I'm not aware of a forum dedicated to outsourcing, but can assist if you require South African services.
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Muzi Mohale
TravelWires cc
www.accommodate.co.za
www.bid2load.com
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If you are looking at the Asia marketplace we can possibly help as it is a service we offer. We can talk you through requirements etc and help you decide if it is right for you.
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This is a world wide network of small businesses and I have found this very useful to get hold of such contacts.

Good Luck

Martin

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Hi John,

Which type of work are you looking for?Maybe I can help you,pls contact me: luozhuhong@yahoo.com

Hi Jon,

Could you be more specific as in exactly what kind of work you looking to outsource?

I might be able to help you out with it. Plz contact me at durga.c@gmail.com

Regards,

Durga

Hello Jon,

I would like to introduce myself as Steve Jackson, Manager, Business Development at "One Touch Solutions Pty. Ltd." a call centre with multiple locations around the world.

I gone through your outlines on Startup U.K. Forum and found that you are looking for an alliance, We are a vibrant organization with experience in a wide variety of industries.

Our alliances and partnerships operate on three ethos:

1. Long Term Relationships
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Having delivery centres in Australia, United Kingdom, United States and India gives us mirrored interface to tackle global competition and capabilities and providing our clients with high comfort levels with our local offices and representation.

We would like to tell you that we can be of great help to each other. we can help you in expanding your sales horizons in about reducing your costs to 1:5 ratio. We can do telesales for your major as well as your minor products.

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There are valuable outsourcing firms to the Philippines that you could try and I can tell you, they're cheap and reliable to go through your online business needs from admin, customer support, telemarketing, to programming and graphic designing. I'm saying this from experience since I learned to make that switch of not only using eLance to outsource.

One of these people who helped me discover way better and easy to understand aspects of outsourcing was Tyrone Shum. He's given free videos all talking about outsourcing processes and how to deal with your staff to the Philippines and it really helped me focus on the "earning" parts of my business while I'm outsourcing the rest through Bestjobs.ph and Onlinejobs.ph.

For everyone to see, here's this helpful resource that I've been following: MassOutsource.com

Also, here's a forum for you to check out: 4-HourWorkWeek.com Forum that has been recently recommended.

I hope this helps.
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There is a fairly small outsourcing forum at http://www.afflictionclothingmall.com
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Ian

Factoring , Invoice Discounting , Trade Finance and Asset Finance specialist broker.

Founder member of Independent Factoring Brokers Association

In the interests of full disclosure, I'm a VA!

Because I am a nosey bugger I've trialled a few of the outsource companies for our own internal tasks and I've noticed a couple of things to be aware of:

1) Deadlines. These invariably get missed, usually with a fairly feeble excuse about time differences. Don't outsource anything time sensitive.
2) Get a quote for the whole job. Let's say you have an hour's worth of data entry. You get a quote at a rate of maybe £15/hour and another one for $4/hour - fantastic! So you give the job to the $4/hour team who then take 10 hours to do the work. It's about making sure you know what you are buying.
3) Give them a full brief and test the results part way through. If they haven't understood the task they will often plough on regardless because they know that way they will get more money when you ask them to redo the task.

Honestly, I can't use the offshore assistants for even the most basic of client tasks because they just aren't reliable enough. (We tested from $4/hour-$15/hour so it's not like we were bargain basement hunting - the results from both sets were pretty comparable!).

For our own tasks which aren't time sensitive, I found that they take lazy shortcuts and don't follow instructions very well - it's often more hassle than it's worth to outsource it unless it is a very basic, very time consuming task.

Hope that helps, let me know if you want a more specific chat about offshoring work,

Caroline
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www.virtuallysorted.com

www.SocietyOfVirtualAssistants.co.uk