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Of course, with My Business Assistant Gourab Nanda is ushering in a new level of control for outsourced/offshored services, offering a one-stop-shop for small businesses ...
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Lastly, before making that big decision on outsourcing, Burkett recommends, definitely keep these points in mind:
9. Whatever you do, get relevant references for your p...
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Burkett also suggests:
4. Offshore only those processes that can easily be repeated elsewhere.
5. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever offshore a core competency.
6. Never, ...
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When outsourcing or offshoring functions, either of which might be the case with Gourab Nanda's India-based service center, Atlanta-based technologist and entrepreneu...
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The business started offering outsourced phone service and has grown from there.
Partnerships with other professionals have helped that expansion and now an India-based ...
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More than just a resource for bootstrap and other startup entrepreneurs, Gourab Nanda is a bootstrapper too, starting his own business from humble beginnings and has move...
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All of this stuff, by the way, is priced in the neighborhood of what it might cost you for bare bones office space.
And if you're bootstrapping and don't really...
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A third option aimed at International companies seeking to develop a presence in the US is Team International USA featuring much of the same stuff you get with Team Enter...
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Another service offered by My Business Assistant is Team Enterprise Plus featuring:
• A main toll free number
• 2 DID (direct inward dialing) toll free numbers
• 100 minu...
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More features of My Business Assistant include...
5 hours of any VA service per month including:
• Secretary services
• Research assistance
• Offshore project management
...
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I like to think of My Business Assistant as a virtual assistant to the 100th power.
According to its website, the company offers:
Team Virtual Pro, a service featuring:...
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Behind the wall, looking somewhat bewildered and in the midst of a whirlwind of activity including answering phones, printing out reports, working on PC's etc., are G...
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Link: Get yourself some office support
"Just mice. You know these old buildings," Mr. Brandworthy insists, sweat beginning to appear on his brow.
"It'...
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Link: 10 Ways to Make Your Small Business Look Big
Behind him a visibly nervous Mr. Brandworthy has obviously heard it too and pulls at the buttoned collar of his busine...
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Photo: Fr. Edouardo, MorgueFile
"Thank you very much, Mr. Brandworthy. I have to admit I had my doubts going with a small one man firm at first, but I must say your...
When I think of Gourab Nanda's company My Business Assistant, I picture one of those memorable TV commercials, the kind that everybody talks about around the water cooler on Monday morning because...
Photo: Jane M. Sawyer, morgueFile
And still on the subject of Romanian entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescu, I received an e-mail recently about a new launch which he hopes will be sort of a "real...
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Photo: Freephotosbank
So here we go again:
• Make a separate business account. At least you'll know what money are coming in and how much you have available for sp...
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Link:Cristian Dorobantescu
Now, on the other hand, if you are bootstrapping, you don't have any other choice than investing some of your own money into the business....
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu
First of all, if all this takes more than a year, it's a clear sign you're not heading in the right direction - your business is not ...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu
• Lots of contracts coming in for the next three months. Time to hire that new designer. It's too much work for me. Good, that's usua...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu
• OK, so now you have two contracts for $3000 per month. That's way better and increases your chances of having at least the money you ha...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu
• Let's assume you have a contract that takes a week and you cash in your first check, $3000. Now, that seems a lot of money for just a w...
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Link: Cristian Dorobanetscu
So let's see what situation we have here:
• First of all (assuming you had a paid job previously) you have a distorted way of seeing exp...
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Link: Cristian Dorobanetscu
I don't think it matters where the money actually comes from, savings account, credit cards, keeping a full-time job, or a second mortgag...
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Link: Cristian Dorobanetscu
Especially if you are a bootstrapper. Entrepreneurs are a special kind of people. They are ready to put a lot of work into some very uncertai...
Current trends in search technology and how these can be tapped to help the growth of online advertising, will be discussed during the Red Herring East Technology Event to be held on June 26-28, 2007 ...
(Editor's Note: Romanian entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescu was a bit trepidatious about writing the series of guest posts that follow.
They discuss the importance of keeping personal and busines...
Peopleized is a website allowing users to interview friends, associates or even perfect strangers across the Net and share those interviews with a growing on-line community.
In an interview, one of t...
Trying to figure out how to self finance your next bootstrapping endeavor?
Try ebay, suggests one entrepreneur.
David Askaripour at Mind Petals recalls:
For years, I used to go to summer garage an...
It turns out this blog shares its name with a Central Texas band that, according to its website, specializes in traditional and progressive country of the 50' and 60's, rock, soul and central ...
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