Virtual Outsourcing Philippines

7 Deadly Sins of Clients From Hell

2011-04-03T09:03:00.001-07:00

It's great to be of service to people who are good businessmen and has word of honor. However, from time to time though as much as you wish to evade some of these annoying people to your sane occurence, you just so often get to encounter them for no apparent reason.

Here are some of people you get to meet:

1. The GREAT CLIENT

The GREAT CLIENT is someone who enjoys talking about themselves too much and their professional achievements. They brag about it almost so daily you get annoyed with it; that they so all know everything under the sun and tells you what to do (like they know what they're saying) then ask you about what to do to leverage... makes you wanna respond with "i thought you knew everything that needs to be done, why ask then?" --- Good thing they pay on time coz it saves you the piece of string that's holding your temper

2. The FILTHY RICH CLIENT

The FILTHY RICH CLIENT is another individual that you get to meet on the road. They have a slight difference with "The I-AM-SO-GREAT-CLIENT". This kind of client talks about all their wealth and how much their business is a success. Unfortunately, for no apparent reason, when you send them their invoice, they either are busy and forgot that they have pending dues --- all sorts of excuses can be used redundantly. You'll notice this kind of client as soon as they propose to hire you for your services and find reasons on not paying the S.O.P. of 50% in advance for the monthly services.

3. The WISHFUL THINKING CLIENT

The WISHFUL THINKING CLIENT is another client in the area that wishes to get into a good moneymaking business (we all do) but unfortunately, they don't realize the fact that what happens to their business has nothing to do with you at all, and no matter how you explain to these people that CONVERSION would be very consumer dependent, they won't understand that at all and even later blame you for their business going down the drains. These are clients who's read or heard something about making money, invest into it and realized that $200 wasn't an ideal investment just as how they have misunderstood an article they've read. Sad thing is, they annoy you on how you should have done your job to evade covering pending fees.

4. The PEDIGREE DEPRIVED CLIENT

The PEDIGREE DEPRIVED CLIENT is a client who often pays cheap and often harass you with calls day in and day out without even thinking if their time is up just because they noticed that you're online. They usually do not understand that they are not the only client that needs your focus and time. Often they feel that what they are paying for requires them to be often responded to whenever they have queries right on the spot.

5. The FREELOADER

The FREELOADER is a “client,” who requires you to submit an original free sample for which you will not be paid and termed as "TEST". Though I should say that it is important for clients to see sample your sample works, it is also mindless not think of what supposedly is the purpose of your portfolio and references in the first place.

6. The Exploiter

The Exploiter often comes up to you with a minimal project to where you quote a reasonable amount of project value. As soon as the negotiation starts, you'll later then notice several project changes to later find out that there's more work that's yet needed to be integrated to the project that for some reason was not discussed ahead of time . . . Worse, you get to do the job from the original price quoted and they won't even bother to have the initiative to ask if these comes on a separate fee.

7. The Marketer

The Marketer often they do have a flowery manner of dealing with you... they call you with a lot of words that would entice you such as "partner", "pal", "buddy", "comrade" and often have a typical line that a first timer would dive into... "If you want a way to make more money let's be great partners and make tons of sales on this and we both get benefits from this!" Sad thing is, they haven't figured out that your time also cost money.

Ways in Creating Back Links

2011-04-03T09:01:00.000-07:00

Back links are the driving force behind the world of search engine optimization and page ranking. To do well in the search engines you must create backlinks from sites that has a high page rank in achieving great back links. And to enable this, there is a need for you to search for high PR sites, forums and blogs to where you may be able to build your backlinks.

Basically back links are the links which are in other sites that links to your site. Back links are really easy to create but it's a uninteresting, tedious and monotonous job. There is no good amount of backlinks that will get you a great page rank or a good rating in the search engines but however necessary.

Google alert is one of the primary ways to get updated about your keywords each time for setting up a new site you have to set Google alert for your keywords. From such manner of application, this allows your to get informed whenever anyone sets up a new blog on your particular keyword of choice and add your link in that new blog. Another way to which you may be able to build credible backlinks is through Hub pages and Squidoo as these sites allows you to build several pages along with great back links to support you site.

Directory submission and Social Book marking Site is also another way to which you can build backlinks though this may be tedious, and there are tons of directories to where you can submit your link. It’s one of the best ways of creating great back links but only if you much time.

Link exchange on the other hand is one of the ways for the bigger fish with money and less time. There are a plethora of sites that can sell your link on high ranking sites that you may consider if you are having a hard time looking for these high PR blogs and forums. And this is just one of the many areas that you have to consider since the higher the page rank of websites where you’ve been able to build backlinks, the higher the price. However, to save you some time it would be best for you to look out for a backlink selling site in any related site of your preferred keyword specially if you are not good in requesting link exchanges from site owners as this requires the owners’ eagerness to allow you to make use of their site for free! Be cautious however in building links to just about anywhere as link farming is firmly not supported by the search engine crawlers and can penalize your site.

To create back links you have to learn how to create anchor text. An example is through the use of this codes in creating a profile in forums and blogs Your keywords here. This can as well be applied whenever you are creating articles and submitting them to free article sites. There are automated softwares to which you can make use of. Another way to where such can be applicable is through “Blog commenting” where you include your keywords in the name area and insert a link within the comment. As for the web2.0 process, Twitter and Wis.dm is one of the new ways to have back links now a days. These sites will allow you to post queries or tweets that relates to your subject.

Nowadays, video posting is another popular among the upcoming manners of launching their sites as well as creating links through video submission from either tubemogul or pixelpipe . This gains much traffic and an innovative way of building back links.

The Mistakes that most commonly encountered in creating backlinks among sites where that allows robot text since from this your keywords would turn out to be useless and your site won’t be crawled by the search engine spiders. Posting your links in irrelevant sites can also affect your ranking and this is just another of the common mistakes among the amateurs that search crawlers will consider spamming and cut you off their search towards your site and compromising your page rank.

Here are some sites that you can make use of in creating free backlinks:
• MyPageRank.net
• getfreebacklinks.com
• www.21sme.com
• www.morevisits.info
• www.getfreebl.com

However, if you’re having a hard time, you can always purchase the SEO Link Dominator that can help you in creating backlinks from high PR sites and purchasing backlink packets from credible sites.

Why Reciprocal Link Exchange Campaign Works

2011-04-03T09:00:00.000-07:00

In an online business, it is necessary to be familiar with reciprocal link exchange request from niche related sites and this however can be a bit complicated since it needs the skills of being a good marketer and convincing a site owner to be willing to exchange links with you freely. Link exchange allows the leveraging in terms of sales and an ingredient to a successful SEO campaign. Websites with relevant niche content will provide great benefits to your site’s rankings than will several links from less relevant sources.

Though most SEO professionals are familiar of this unique goal of a search engine optimization process , the precise identification of relevant pages linking to your site will show effectiveness in quality inbound links. However, aggressive approach that can lead to link farming will offer very little to your supposedly prospects and can greatly compromise your website for such act.

To enable a successful link exchange campaign, it would be best to consider a theme, topic and niche that you will use for you link-request invitations since most sites use this to hyperlink to your site, so consider the keywords or a short keyphrase that is of the most value to your optimization program that you’ve studied and have shown low competition high traffic relevance. You have to keep in mind that the exact keyword of choice that link to your site are just as valuable as the link itself on search engine rankings.

Here are the steps you have to take for a successful link exchange campaign:

- itemize by category, title, description and other relevant information.
- esearch should concentrate on key phrases such as industry links, where the word industry is an important keyword related to your site’s industry or field of interest.
- Sparsing and fine-tune your list. Keep in mind that, of all the web sites you have written on that list, not all might be willing to provide a link to your site.
- A true backlink is one that directs from visible text directly to your site. Always keep in mind that a text link is ten times more efficient than any gif or jpg image link. Search engines cannot see or readimages like humans can. What they crave on is pure, old-fashioned text. Now many small online directories use scripts to organize their data.
- Evaluate your options when confidential contact information such as address, phone number and email address is optional. You don’t want your name or email address put on any solicitation list or spam-related sites. However, providing a valid email address allows means for the webmaster to contact you should they have questions or comments concerning your site. You could also consider creating a temporary email address that you would use for link submissions exclusively.
- Finally, polish off & perfect your strategy The last step is your most important: personally thank all positively responding webmasters who agreed to your reciprocal link invitation. Regardless of any frustration or confusion you may encounter in the process of your link exchange program, always remember that other websites are actually doing you a favor by posting your link, even if you post their's on your site.
Another significant proposition for your initial preparation phase is to devise a way of recording your requests and submissions. You will soon realize that, like us, an effective reciprocal link exchange program that really works can leave a lot of email trails that can rapidly overwhelm you in a short time.

Customized Myspace Wallpaper

2011-04-03T08:53:00.000-07:00

Here is just one of the customized Myspace Projects projects I have completed lately...

YES! Not only have I been busy doing quite a number of Facebook profile banners, I have as well been busy customizing Youtube Wallpapers for clients...

Here are a few of what I did...

This project was done for H.T & Jacqueline Mohair

This project was done for Cara M. Black

and this for Adrian & Verenetta Warner

Customized Youtube Wallpaper

2011-04-03T08:51:00.000-07:00

Here is a Youtube wallpaper done for Cara M. Black

and for Adrian & Verenetta Warner

Customized Twitter Wallpaper

2011-04-03T08:49:00.000-07:00

Twitter Wallpaper done for H.T. & Jacqueline Mohair

Twitter Wallpaper done for Cara M. Black

Twitter Wallpaper done for Adrian & Verenetta Warner

Customized Blog Banners

2011-04-03T08:45:00.000-07:00

Here are just some of the banners I have done lately for blogs.

This is Andrea Bolder's banner...

This is Cara M. Black's banner...

This is Angelia Mitchell's banner...

This is Cedric Penn's banner...

This is Charles & Stacey's banner...

This is Nicole Cooper's banner...

This is Tamara Ervin's banner...

Customized Youtube, Twitter Wallpaper and Facebook Profile Banner

2011-04-03T08:40:00.000-07:00

This are samples from the latest weekend project I had for Jake Oliver... customizing both his Youtube and Twitter accounts.

Youtube Wallpapers

Facebook Profile Banners

And Twitter Wallpapers

Feel free to visit his sites!

Redesigning and Enhancing Facebook Business Fanpages

2011-04-03T08:38:00.000-07:00

Here are some Facebook Business Profile Pages I redesigned that kept my days busy after several hours of SEO sessions...

1. Cedric D. Penn

2. Adrian & Verenetta Warner

3. Cara McClure Black

4. H.T. & Jacqueline Mohair

Including mine...

MyVideoWebShow Profile Projects

2011-04-03T08:37:00.001-07:00

I have been challenged to create profiles for MyVideoWebShow lately and here are two of my clients (Rianta Cofer & Coach Wilson) who asked me to create something for them...

MyVideoWebShow is one of the latest Multi-Level Marketing Business that is involved with Video Emailing for Online Business.

Facebook Profile Banner

2011-04-03T08:32:00.000-07:00

Have you had your Facebook Profiles done professionally?

Here are some sample facebook profile banners I did for a few friends I've dealt with.

This past few months I have been blessed with a lot of Facebook Profile Banner requests and Twitter/Youtube /MVT/Myspace customization that it's just now that i am able to show some of the finished banners I've done so far... I even had logo requests coming from clients but at some point I have to turn them down since this really is not my Forte.

Here are some Facebook Profile Banners I've done for my clients.

1. Jennifer Mowatt

2. Gladys Jeanette Colon

...she liked this but then added a new set of banners that has a futuristic approach to which i did as well...

.... I even had the privilege to work for an ARMY-Businessman who's currently in Iraq! You could just imagine how privilege I can be to of service to these peole...

3. Willie McIntosh

... not only that i was privileged to design his banner... he even gave me the chance to work on the banner of www.BailaCante.com which i believe is into ballroom dancing - and both his and the group's logo.

4. Daryl YenCeo Yg Kingston

5. Jacqueline Mohair (repeat client)... i have been updating her page quarterly along with her husband H.T. Mohair

6. Naheshae Davis

7. Rianta Cofer

9. Beverly Feimster

10. Tamara Ervin

YES! people on Facebook have now been editing their profiles for Business purposes. Gone are those days where people are settled on having themselves a simple photo for everyone to see. Online entrepreneurs have realized the necessity to maximize their profile spaces and save their client(s) time by allowing their prospects to need not have to browse around their profile just to simply find their contact number or email. Entrepreneurs have now been fixing their Facebook profile pictures to a now more professional facebook photo banner.

When do you plan to have yours?

These are just a few of the clients i have been of service for with.

Have a great day!

social media profile package

2011-04-03T08:29:00.000-07:00

Get Your Facebook Profile Now!

why need a professional website design?

2011-04-03T08:19:00.000-07:00

A properly-designed website can benefit your business greatly. Any business, whether large or small, can enjoy the advantages of an attractive custom website design. For the best possible results, business website designs are better left to companies or freelancers who specialize in producing professional website designs. Amateur website design can scare off potential customers — or even existing ones.

Custom website design is a thriving business because companies are turning to these professionals at an increasing rate. Having a custom website design made for your business is one of the best ways to produce effective results and increase bottom line profit. Rather than creating a custom website design that looks amateurish, hire a freelancer or a custom website design company to do the work for you. A professional appearance is the only way a customer is going to return to your company for its services.

To reach a growing number of customers, professional website designs will broaden your marketing horizons. Not only can you reach more people with your custom website design, but it also gives your business a more professional reputation that your customers will feel comfortable with. Your page’s website design is often the only impression potential customers will get of your business until they contact you, so a custom website design is vital for making them want to return. Not only that, a custom website design will help you compete against other companies that offer similar products and services.

A wider advertising market means more potential income. You can reach that market by getting a custom website design for your company. It does not matter if your business is large or small because a custom website design will undoubtedly help it grow in many ways. Since your website design is what your potential customers will see first, you want it to be both professional and unique, so they will remember you. Emerge victorious from your competitors, a custom website design is one of the first places to start.

If you cannot afford to have a website design company or a website design freelancer create a page for your business, you can find a wide-array of software programs to help you. Many website design software programs are designed to help individuals with no experience create their own business website designs and professional web site designs. These are an inexpensive alternative to hiring a company, but you will not get custom web site designs from a software program. Generally, website design software programs will have several options and templates that you can choose from. This inhibits your individual preferences and creativity which means your website design will be the same as many others.

Custom website design is not easy at it always seems. It takes training and time to learn how to create effective and unique websites that will benefit your company and its goals. With a professionally-designed custom website, you can enjoy the benefits of a greater customer base and an increased potential for income.

A Successful Press Conference

2009-09-26T12:55:00.001-07:00

A press conference held on the 24th of September in Davao City, Philippines together with the Money Smart Guru - Matthew Sapaula was a success due to the support of the several media groups who attended it.

On this note, we would like to thank the following people for the support for having the event materialized.

Our gratitude goes to Ms. Czarina Yuhuico and Noli Navarro for helping us prepare a sumptuous meal for the press and the Sapaula's family at their newly opened Dimsum Diner branch located at Torres Street, Davao City.

We would like to thank Kiev Basaca, along with his group "maniniyot.com" for keeping up with the tight schedule that we have to cope up with including Eight Espino for helping us out getting good shots in behalf of Matthew Sapaula.

In behalf of Mr. Matthew Sapaula and the Matthew Sapaula Inc. group, It is our privilege to be of service to you and your establishment. We are looking forward of having to once again work with you in our upcoming future plans.

Thank You.

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Working With an Administrative Virtual Personal Assistant

2009-09-18T14:32:00.000-07:00

One of the things that struck me as most interesting and most unusual is the high demand nowadays in hiring a Virtual Assistant (VA).

Hiring a "Virtual Assistant" is having a remote administrative help who:

1. They work distantly to which all your communication will be either online or through the phone, with the possibility that you may never meet your VA in person even if you work with them for years.

2. They're worldwide. That is, they don't live and work in the same state or country as you.

Why is there a need to hire a Virtual Assistant?
Hiring a Virtual Assistant is about allowing someone to take care of repetitive things that allow you to have a free time to focus on the things that may increase my effectiveness in my field of work.
1) What do you have to understand about hiring a virtual assistant to integrate into your work routine?
It is important to reflect through your goal so that you can determine if it their purpose to you and your business. If your need to use that extra time get more workloads done, you are getting your “priorities” done.
2) What’s a virtual assistant for?

Having a busy pile up work load, home schedules and social gatherings that needed to be attended to combined with the annual holiday rush, and this question seems to answer itself. So, what would you have an administrative assistant do for you? Here are a few ideas for both personal and work-related tasks:

• Social Network Management (Facebook, Twitter)
• Bookmarking
• Advertising
• Keyword Research
• Lead Generation
• Traffic Management
• Video Disposal Tool
• Email Disposal
• Articles
• Audio Typing
• Business Administration
• Business Plans
• Conventions
• Copy Typing
• Correspondence
• Customer Services
• Editor
• Email Administration
• Event Management
• Office Management
• Payroll
• Personal Administration
• Personal Assistant
• Presentations
• Purchasing
• Research
• Resumes / CVs
• Secretarial Services
• Spreadsheet Design
• Travel Plans
• Event Planning
• Presentations
• Update Address/Contact List
• Birthday/holiday gift buying
• Market research
• Online marketing
• Set and cancel appointments
• Answer incoming calls
• Type and send letters or contracts
• Make travel arrangements
• Call for quotes
• Link Building
• Client Support
• Internet Research
• Project management

3) How would you communicate and define the task you want your VA to accomplish?

Having knowledge and identifying their different skills set comes with each Virtual Assistant. This will help you determine the qualifications that your VA should have.

4) How can you be an effective administrator towards given tasks?

Note down down exactly what you want your VA to bring about. Then, think through the steps that you would take to achieve an output. Another important element is time allocation. Determine the amount of time the task should take and set multiple milestones to make sure the project is heading in the right direction.

5) Remember the reason as to “Why” you hired one.

You hired a VA to give yourself a break, enabling you to spend it with your family aside from focusing on growing your business.

6) How should you institute a healthy workflow environment?

Do you expect your VA to be available at certain hours of the day, every day? Can they work on longer tasks? Set expectations for when you want your VA to be online and encourage them to handle the manner of communication you prefer. Assimilate faster communication system into your workflow. However, for longer projects, written instructions are better so your VA can reference it.

7) How should you designate your VA depending on their league of expertise?

You may have a range of tasks that require different skill sets. Find out what your VA can accomplish so you may assign them to higher level tasks that require some technical skills, and choose to hire a lower cost VA to do the data entry work.

8) Provide instructions that are clear to comprehend.

Upon giving instructions, assume nothing and be as specific as possible with the requirements that you need. Do not assume that your VA will be able to assume anything. Many of these Virtual Assistants work on many types of tasks across all industries, so unless you hired a specialized VA, don't assume they can fill in tasks that are not within their forte of expertise.

9) Why is there a need to delegate task and be sure that your VA validates and identifies your task requirements?

You have to be verified that your VA understands the goals of the project and the given instructions before accomplishing it. Through upfront verification, the chances of your VA wasting time for doing the wrong thing can be evaded. Don’t forget to always update instructions to streamline the task and expect a two to three times more time allocation for the task.

10) Outsourcing SAVES you a LOT

Experienced business owners will often take the long-view since outsourcing work frees them up to accomplish higher work profit for a much reasonable cost. Always take the long-term benefits in mind.

Virtual Outsourcing Philippines : Online Business Investment

2009-08-07T20:52:00.000-07:00

A lot of individuals have been considering an online investment as it rakes in a big amount of money based on what they have heard or what they’ve read from either blogs or forums. Thus, they begin talking about this really big “plan” that they have in mind and assume of being the most sought after online entrepreneur just as what one of those training videos online inspired them to be.

There are 3 great myths that you should put to consideration by those that pitch their opportunity to you...

1. Signing up for their offer will make you rich
2. Having you own website will bring frenzy of prospects
3. They'll help you bring visitors to your sites -- THEY WON'T

Most newbies who venture into online marketing thinks, “$10 for a domain with a lot of online freebies? Now that’s breathtaking, let’s get it on!”
Next, reality comes in where they are confronted with hosting fees and will need to pre-pay for two years in order to lock in that great price of $5.50/mo., So, they go ahead and give it up on the $100-$200 to set up their hosting.

Now that all is set with that little sacrifice of their $200, they begin to wonder if all this web talk is all it’s crazed up to be. So, they try to check out for some really cool websites, study the feasibility of it, ranking, keyword listing and all the necessary online tools to keep up with their new investment.

Unfortunately, they get hit with an overwhelming amount of tools, designs, plug-ins and the work force necessary to a lot more while browsing and getting acquainted with the World Wide Web that they really are now even wanting for more as they go dreamy of it while computing their possible income within a month’s time, “Shouldn’t cost too much, right? After all, we can possibly have one for another $300, ayt?!”

And then BAM! They get a blow with the reality that all of these cool sites that topped on the Alexa rankings while being kept at awe on how so much traffic these sites generate and what they make in a month’s time would cost them more than $5000 to start up with, hence, they begin rejecting the idea in total denial since they already paid for fees that were already hard-hitting to put away. After all, some guru just mentioned that getting to the first page of Google is just what matters most – without really thinking that you need to consider conversion as well.

Most online investors have a concrete, business-based reason for putting up their site and hiring the most qualified team for them as far as lusting for a website they just saw or hearing from some testimony that they’re raking in a big amount of money is concerned. As a consequence, there have been no exceptions to this rule. Most entrepreneurs use their site to either sell a product, build a subscription list for marketing purposes and building links to increase exposure to help with their conversion rates putting in high priority on search engine optimization.

From which, a team of qualified professionals are hired.

• Web Developer
• Graphic Designer
• Virtual Assistants
• Search Engine Optimizers
• Lead Generating Assistants
• Link Builders
• Article Writers
• Customer Service Relations Assistants
• Outbound Sellers
• Video/Audio Editor

One must also consider that tools are being used for the application of these that caused investment on the side of their virtual employees. Lest if you want to provide the materials and insist on paying less or put into consideration the manual application of these which in the long run has taken a hefty amount of your target time wasted. You should understand that building your online business doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a lot of application of all the necessary strategies you know to materialize it.

It would be factual to consider that online marketing will really be only open to the following people:

* Those with a plan
* Those with a lot of money

One can argue with it, but it’s a definite fact. Professional blogs, websites and forums are luxury items. Let’s put it this way: plenty of businesses that deals with home renovation and enhancement would buy eye-catching items for consumers to desire and have them in their homes in their catalogs and display, but only a certain few patrons with a big hard plan to renovate who have money to splurge would ever actually buy one.

Everybody wants a killer website that generates traffic after seeing one that they lust over. Everybody wants to have the right keywords against their competitors and make good in the search engines. Problem is, nobody wants to invest in consideration of its cost. Don't hesitate to pay top dollar for the best team you can ever have. If you need people with solid experience, be prepared to pay them what they are worth.

Virtual Personal Assistant

2009-07-09T19:24:00.000-07:00

Virtual Assistants are the most sought after employees in the web today. Their value lies in the wide range of skills and abilities they possess from the technical to the creative. Although they might not need to edit a site’s source code, they are still expected to perform basic on-site SEO optimization. They also provide vital website help through emails, chats or live calls on-site with customers and site visitors. Because of that, Virtual Assistants must be intelligent, dynamic and quick learners.

VA Skills:

1. Advanced Written and Oral English
2. Advanced Typing Speed
3. Beginner HTML
4. Excellent Public Relations
5. Search Engine Optimization
6. Bookmarking
7. Forum Posting

Virtual Assistants has the ability to provide service to your establishment and continuously serve for your strong commitment to customer service and value.

VA Tasks:

1. Link Building Tasks
2. Client Support (Email / Call / Live Chat )
3. Transcribing
4. Internet Research
5. Writing Business Communications and Reports
6. Project management / Team leading
7. Basic Secretarial Work

Feel free to visit DvoVirtualTech or Email us at dvovirtualtech@gmail.com

More details can be found here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,

Why Are Freelancers Expensive Compared to Outsourcing Companies

2009-06-18T23:20:00.000-07:00

One must wonder why freelancers are far more costly compared to getting one from an outsourcing company in the Philippines when it practically is third world and everything is expected to be cheaper than the usual. This is one of the few mistakes that most clients do not understand.

Most freelancers settle with a 1mbps speed for most basic work that doesn't need much software, but for most freelancers that use quite a number of software all together which requires more speed usage a higher internet speed would be needed. What actually happens often is that, a 1mbps subscription doesn't actually run exactly as what it has promised to most subscribers.

RESIDENTIAL PLANS

myDSL Plan 1500 - Monthly P1,500 ($32.00)
- Up to 128Kbps downstream / 64Kbps upstream (Asymmetric DSL)
- One month free - to be reflected on the 12th month
- Installation FREE

myDSL Plan 1995 - Monthly P1,995 ($43.00)
* Up to 384Kbps downstream / 192Kbps upstream (Asymmetric DSL)
* Free 1 e-mail address with 20MB space
* Installation Free

myDSL Personal - Monthly P2,500 ($54.00)
* Up to 512Kbps downstream / 256Kbps upstream (Asymmetric DSL)
* FREE one (1) email addresses (user@pldtdsl.net). With up to 20Mb email space
* One month free - to be reflected on the 12th month
* Installation FREE

myDSL Professional - Monthly P3,000 ($65.00)
* Up to 768Kbps Downstream 384Kbps Upstream (Asymmetric DSL)
* FREE one (1) email addresses (user@pldtdsl.net). With up to 20Mb email space
* One month free - to be reflected on the 12th month Installation FREE

Here is an example of a 1mbps subscription and what it's current speed when tested.

Based on the photo from above, serious internet workers would rather invest to a higher internet speed or a business line and this is not as cheap as most people would assume it is.

BUSINESS PLANS

Small Biz, Lite - Monthly P4,000 ($86.00)
* Ideal for SOHOs and small businesses with up to 3 workstations.
* Up to 512Kbps Downstream 192Kbps Upstream (Asymmetric DSL)
* FREE up to 2 e-mail addresses (user@pldtdsl.net) with up to 40Mb e-mail space
* 2 IP address or 1 static address
* One month free - to be reflected on the 12th month
* CIR 32Kbps
* Installation FREE

Small Biz DSL, Jr. - Monthly P8,000 ($173.00)
* Ideal for small business with up to 10 workstations Up to 768Kbps Downstream, 256Kbps Upstream (Asymmetric DSL)
* FREE 5 email addresses (user@pldtdsl.net)with up to 100Mb e-mail space
* FREE up to 10Mb web hosting space
* FREE one-time setup and maintenance of Primary and Secondary DNS Server hosted at our server
* 5 static IP addresses
* One month free - to be reflected on the 12th month
* CIR 64Kbps
* Installation FREE

Small Biz DSL, Sr. - Monthly P14,500 ($315.00)
* Ideal for small & medium businesses from 11 to 20 workstations Up to 1Mbps Downstream, 384Kbps Upstream (Asymmetric DSL)
* FREE 10 email addresses (user@pldtdsl.net)with up to 200Mb e-mail space
* FREE up to 15 Mb web hosting space
* FREE one-time setup and maintenance of Primary and Secondary DNS Server hosted at our server
* 5 static IP addresses
* One month free - to be reflected on the 12th month
* CIR 128Kbps
* Installation FREE

Power Packed Business DSL (1.5Mbps) - Monthly P25,000 ($543.00)
* Ideal for medium to large businesses from 20 to 40 workstations Up to 1.5Mbps Downstream, 384Kbps Upstream (Asymmetric DSL)
* FREE 20 email addresses (user@pldtdsl.net) with 100Mb e-mail space
* FREE up to 20 Mb web hosting space
* FREE one-time setup and maintenance of Primary and Secondary DNS Server hosted at our server
* 5 static IP addresses
* CIR 192Kbps

Power Packed Business DSL (2Mbps) - Monthly P46,000 ($1000.00)
* Ideal for medium to large businesses with 40 or more workstations Up to 2Mbps Downstream, 640Kbps Upstream (Asymmetric DSL)
* FREE 20 email addresses (user@pldtdsl.net) with 100Mb e-mail space
* FREE up to 20Mb web hosting space
* FREE one-time setup and maintenance of Primary and Secondary DNS Server hosted at our server
* 100Mb email space
* 5 static IP addresses
* CIR 256Kbps

Power Packed Business DSL (3Mbps) - Monthly P80,000 ($1739.00)
* Ideal for medium to large businesses with 40 or more workstations Up to 3Mbps Downstream 640Kbps Upstream (Asymmetric DSL)
* FREE 20 email addresses (user@pldtdsl.net) with 400Mb e-mail space
* FREE up to 20Mb web hosting space
* FREE one-time setup and maintenance of Primary and Secondary DNS Server hosted at our server
* 5 static IP addresses
* CIR 384 Kbps

If you'll notice, it's not quite a friendly price after all... Now, the next question is, why is it cheaper to hire people from outsourcing agencies as to compared to freelancers? I'll give you two simple answers.

ANS: Blunt truth, several computers are sharing a supposed to be fast speed internet connection intended for a maximum amount of units.

Now, it's for you to decide.

Are Freelancers More Expensive?

2009-06-15T14:48:00.000-07:00

Most clients are often taken aback as soon as they find out the hourly rates of a freelance worker and insist on the possibility of getting a cheaper pay in other online companies providing outsourcing services.

Freelancers Aren’t Actually More Expensive

It is necessary to inform clients why freelancers are cheaper compared to employees putting an emphasis to the fact that employers necessarily have to pay for insurance, employment taxes and all sorts of other expenses for the privilege of a wage earner.

In most cases, companies are eliminating employees in favor of freelancers in order to cut costs these days and getting the actual value of their money’s worth. Not to mention the fact that freelancers provide their own equipment and internet connection.

Aside from these, most employers nowadays have been considering freelancers based on things they find out upon hiring an employee from an outsourcing company based on what has been earlier discussed on Outsourcing Outrage : Why Most Resort To Freelance Jobs.

Freelancers Saves Money

Freelancers may seem like they cost higher than they should compared to wage earners based on their hourly rates — but once an employer sees the justification of other involving factors, Freelancers are actually cheaper in getting their money’s worth.

Outsourcing Outrage : Why Most Resort To Freelance Jobs

2009-04-26T12:53:00.000-07:00

It has been a puzzle among most internet entrepreneurs as to why most of the agents they hire from outsourcing companies online leave them after a few months of service despite the good dealings done.

What is the main cause of this ongoing problem?

There are a few factors to which these occasional problems may occur. If an agent works for a local outsourcing company in their area that comes with an office or a building that has to be leased, it is very much understood that there follows an overhead expense to keep up with the maintenance, hence, cutting down on several other costings such as convenience and tool manageability for the company to enable to keep their business on the go, leaving most of the agents bringing home a very small fee for the services rendered.

Of course, these people work in I.T. offices and gets to surf around online wherein the chance of finding a better opportunity is a myriad miles better especially coming from most legitimate companies that these agents get to encounter online. The promise of a better compensation which most agents working for these outsourcing companies have to put in consideration and later result to agents resorting to freelance jobs instead. Plus, the fact that they are getting a 300% increase from what they used to make under these companies, not to mention that they're getting a decent pay without going through the problem of having to deal with overly attentive administrative people who hardly even know what the business is all about (most that I know are hired for supervision and office work i.e. filing, overseers that later tends to be bossy because they are "admins"...skill-wise - NONE). So, what happens is that, what's supposed to be an established business, continuously hires people due to the number of resignations filed - and the company becomes a training platform alone(which most often are provided by clients themselves). Not to mention that most employers have been bothered with several intermittent connection reports when their employees are supposed to be working on a promised single dedicated internet connection and to later find out that these outsourcing companies have been sharing a supposed to be fast internet connection to several units thus delaying the workload.

But does the problem end there? Apparently not. What about those freelancers who tend to move on to an online sub-contractor site?

A lot of these freelancers who start out look for sub-contracting websites, but more often than usual, they would return to freelancing instead and market themselves online either via Craigslist due to the incomprehensible amount of fees that they make, when in fact 80% of the actual amount that clients pay for do not go to these poor agents, but rather to these subcontractors, which is quite confusing since these people do not have an overhead to keep up with other than a website(which you can purchase for $9.99 on Godaddy)and a few administrative people to takes care of the reports since most of these agents work from home and initially investing on their own electricity and maintenance. Major capitalization on OUTSOURCING LABOR without an OVERHEAD nor PRODUCT but rather SERVICES is a big NO NO... it is NOT ETHICAL to sub-contract a 200-400% fee and pay sub-contracted agents 20% of the actual fees made... patronizing such abuse not only steals from the sub-contracted agents but steals big time from clients they made a closed deal with... It would have been comprehensible if these sub-contractors are investing on products, but logically, these people are investing on labor and intellectual property; to which is why I give credit to sites like Odesk or Elance to name a few for simply charging a sensible amount of monthly fee for users to enable to make use of their services in finding the right employer.

The worst part among this outsourcing outrage is that, most freelancers are getting a bad reputation due to these companies stating that "there are no assurance as to if your freelance agent is working or not since they aren't supervised" and with them, the assurance of supervision is highly observed.

Personally, I should say that you will only know that, once you are not generating the traffic that you are expecting regardless whether they are supervised or not... After all, "TRUST" is the only investment freelancers can hold on to in this kind of business... and I do not think that there's any sane freelancers out there who would put their integrity into jeopardy in exchange of the tormenting days that they have gone through these outsourcing agencies and sub-contractors.

Don't Have Enough Time For Keywords Research?

2009-03-21T05:41:00.000-07:00

One of the most important things that should be done as part of search engine optimization is to perform a keyword research. Having the appropriate keyword phrases within your site content is one factor to increasing authority in the eyes of search engines. Thus, greater chances to increase your site conversion rate.

Here at Dvo Virtual Tech, we have dedicated team for SEO & SEM tasks. They are designated to help you for your site promotion and marketing campaign. Once you sign-up your site surely can get the necessary updates for better chances of generating better sales.

For keyword research and analysis, the team uses powerful keyword selection tools to make sure that keywords provided are highly competitive enough to create a better content for your site. While there are a number of free keyword research softwares in the Internet, the company uses paid tools because these are more comprehensive and more updated compared to free ones.

When you let DvoVirtualTech do the keywords research for your content, you surely get a cost effective service. Of course, you have an idea that performing a keyword research on your own requires enough time and money because you need to subscribe for paid keyword research tool. So, if you let us do it for you, there is no need for you to buy the necessary tools and for that alone, you are able to save a significant amount.

You surely can get more comprehensive keyword list results. While others use free keyword research tools, Dvo Virtual Tech uses more powerful tools to make sure to provide more competitive results. Again, using paid keyword research tools generate more comprehensive results—detailed, timely, and more relevant.

And why is it using paid keyword research tools gives more detailed, timely and relevant results?

Well, the fact is, using a paid keyword research tools gives you the necessary information about the key phrases you select. While free tools can give details like how many times a particular keyword phrase is used and the number of competition, these do not provide the measure of keyword's KEI—paid keywords tools do. KEI or Keywords Effectiveness Index is the indicator or real measure of the competitiveness of a particular keyword phrase.

Aside from that, Dvo Virtual Tech uses only keyword research tools that provide results that is timely. Free tools usually a month or more delayed and it affects a lot because what might competitive in the last month might perform otherwise at present. Here at Dvo Virtual Tech, we provide real-time results as we use tools which give results in 24-hour-range basis. So, it is more relevant and competitive.

Again, Dvo Virtual Tech provides you better services in keyword research and content writing. With the team of web design and SEO experts, you surely can get what your site really needs.

7 Smart Ways to Social Bookmarking

2009-03-20T02:08:00.000-07:00

Millions are using social bookmarking on the Internet. “Bookmarking” is simply linking a particular page to reach it easily. Basically, it is meant for individual reference; but social bookmarking allows users to easily socialize and exchange information.

You could promote your business through social bookmarking. You add bookmarks to ensure that others visit your page. Social bookmarking generates more visitors to your page and this can be used as a means to promote your business and increase your income through the net.
Here are 6 smart ways to social bookmarking:

Choose a network wisely: do a good research for social bookmarking websites. Select a popular social bookmarking network. Popular ones would make more users visit your page. Popular social bookmarking sites with more members are a good place to start social bookmarking.

Register for a network - after a careful research, you could sign up with them. As a member you should read their rules, terms and conditions, and understand them so that you could follow them to avoid unwanted problems in future.

Start tagging – tagging increases your popularity in the network. It would help you provide a lot of useful, relevant and important information to the network. Begin tagging popular, quality websites that you visit. This would raise your popularity and you would become a well-known member in the network among the other users.

Add bookmarking links to your website: link your social bookmarking site to your website so that your website visitors go to your bookmark site. Reciprocally, link website to the social bookmarking site so that this will generate more traffic to your website.

Attract readers to your bookmark - Make your bookmark popular. You could promote your bookmarking through important and interesting information to attract readers. Good bookmarks magnet other readers who would help increase your popularity. The more useful information you provide in your bookmark, the more readers you would generate and the popular you would be.

Make your bookmark a search engine - social bookmarking sites and pages work as effective search engines. They work better than web spiders by getting relevant information for your users.

Submit your site to other social bookmarks - submit your social bookmarking site to another list of bookmarking sites to get popularity and traffic to your site.

These intelligent ways of social bookmarking could earn a decent income for you.

To summarize it all, the whole process involves placing a bookmark on an interesting and useful topic in a social bookmarking site. This becomes accessible to all other users having the same need or interests. Since links are placed to relevant sites, social bookmarking helps you to earn money through advertisement and marketing. Efficient social bookmarking makes your bookmarking crawl, attract your visitors so that they make repeat visits to your site, is listed in many other list of social bookmarks and allows you to expand through its social network.

Driving Targeted Traffic To Your Website

2009-03-20T01:49:00.000-07:00

As a Webmaster or an Internet marketer you would be more interested in increasing your link popularity because it is only popular links draw more traffic. There are a number of methods available in the market that help you to drive targeted traffic. Who is not familiar with Pay-per-click (PPC)? This is by far the most popular method. Other popular methods are email marketing, mini websites, list building, newsletters, search engine optimization (SEO) and article marketing.

While most of these methods need money, SEO and article marketing are an exception, we could say. PPC requires you to shell out money from your pocket and soon you may run out of money. List building and email marketing take quite a longer time to yield positive results. Considering these factors, SEO and article submission are better methods.

Search Engine Optimization needs a good knowledge about link popularity. It is the most essential aspect of SEO. If you are familiar with it, you could populate a million web pages just in a single day!

If you own a website, you have probably spent a good amount of time on quality content, on-page optimization and link building tactics to get you a top ranking in Google. These are good efforts on your part, but search engines are using more scrutinizing measures upon page ranking and deciding on which sites are important.

For your website to get top rankings you could follow these tips:

1.Update/Maintain your wesite on a regular basis - increase link popularity (you could do this by the help of link exchanges), make sure your link exchanges are more specific or relevant to your niche website and other websites that are reputable in nature, use shorter and crisp descriptions, watch for keyword density, use keyword-based Meta titles, restrict use of tables and use more colorful images; present your site with specific, quality content; add interactive features such as comments, forums, etc., utilize proper html coding to enable the search process easier for search engine spiders.

2. Site submission – take more efforts in finding thematic portals and quality directories; some of them accept site submissions for review, too. For example you could try ‘keyword directory’ in Google.

3. Links - Authority websites offer higher quality content and hence pull a higher traffic. You could search for authority websites with high page rank (PR) and those which agree with placing a link from your website to their webpage. Free article directories like articlecity, Ezine, article dashboard articles are high PR web sites. These authority sites would link to your site.

Do you see the advantage of having relevant content to match your link and keywords or key phrases you are targeting? Links to these sites would get you a higher evaluation for your web page and higher Page Rank (PR).

Many people are using article directories and article submission software in order to increase their link popularity. Link popularity would get you more traffic and more targeted customers means more sales and more money.

5 Compelling Reasons for Having Online Presence

2009-03-20T01:31:00.000-07:00

We are living in the ‘Internet Age’. We also refer to it as ‘Information Age’. Due to easy accessibility the Internet has obtained a worldwide appeal and it has made business possible online. It has taken business processes to a much advanced level.

The Internet is changing and advancing day by day. It is believed to maintain its stronghold in the business world for many more years to come. Having realized its importance most businesses are maintaining their presence online to make huge profits.

What are the compelling reasons for you to bring your business in the Internet? There are many but 5 most compelling reasons are as follows:

You do not want to be left out - As we mentioned earlier, this is Internet Age. People use the Internet to find most of their information for their personal and professional needs, products or services. Since all your competitors are online to get their targeted customers’ attention, you should not be left out if you want to beat them in business. Statistics show that 90% of the Internet users buy their products online. If you are not online, you are losing your chances of making successful sales online.

Cheaper medium – Compared to traditional costs of advertising, Internet has made cheaper advertisements possible to all kinds of businesses. You could start promoting your business online with little or no money. Why would you want to pay more when you could reach a wider audience with a cheaper advertising rate? The Internet is certainly cost-effective avenue for business promotion, any Internet marketer would agree.

It is instant – People expect everything to happen instantly these days. They do not have patience to wait. They would go to a number of seller if they could not get what they want from you instantly. With the help of instant online payment processors why should you let them go to your competitors to buy the same products or services?

It works 24x7x365 – Haven’t you read captions such as “you make money even while you are sleeping?” this is possible because the Internet never sleeps! When you have this twenty-four hour sales force to back you up even when you rest, why would you not want to use it to build your business round the clock?

It is internationally available – You need not set up a separate office and work from 9-5. You could just sit at home and do your business. With your Internet business you could sell your product or services to anybody from anywhere around the world. You do not need to be bothered about wearing formal clothes or driving to work 2 hours on a busy highway. The Internet highway brings your clients to your own home!

With so many positive reasons, you would miss out a lot in your business if you do not share your partnership with the Internet with your online presence. Do you agree?

4 Basic Principles Of Internet Marketing To Generate Web Income

2009-03-19T03:32:00.000-07:00

Are you new to Internet marketing? Have you been around for quite a while? Whichever category you belong to, you could use these four basic principles mentioned here to help you generate income from the web.

At the outset, you should develop a practical sense about making money online. You should know that you couldn’t generate income online overnight. It takes time to begin an Internet business, develop it and see positive results. Just like any other business, you need to have a determination to pursue your efforts until all your efforts pay off.

What are the 4 basic principles to generate more web income?

Maintain a practical approach - Many people open up a website and start looking for instant profits. That is not how it works. You do not advertise in different places on the net, join those million free traffic exchange programs, sit back and wait for profits to pour in through the roof! It is not that easy at it may seems. To start with, you have to work hard to design a great website and promote your online home business on a daily basis. You have to increase your web presence step by step through various means such as word of mouth, advertisements, blogs, forums, etc. Only after you start generating a regular traffic to your site you could start to see results.

Prepare your site for Search engine optimization (SEO): It is not enough if you just design a website. You have to make your website appear on top searches for related keywords. This is done through effective SEO and it is free. You could do SEO by yourself or hire experts to search engine optimize your web site for you for a fee.

Encourage traffic to your site: In order to build your traffic or your opt-in list, it is advisable to offer free offline tools, free newsletter or e-books, etc. This would encourage your web site visitors to sign up for these; more importantly, you should place a good autoresponder to follow-up with your subscribers.

Do regular forum postings: Create your own Blog, sign up at different forum boards and submit your site to Web directories. Pages of your Blog could start being indexed by search engines and your posting may show up in free listings of search engines when people search for matching keywords. Adding quality content to your blog regularly could generate targeted traffic to your site continuously. Placing your domain URL in your signature on these postings would promote your business greatly. By submitting your web site to web directories, you could help build backlinks to your web site.

Publish free articles: you could publish articles free of cost. Write articles and publish them regularly by submitting to various article directories. This helps to weave your backlinks and generate more traffic to your site. Make it a practice to add your resource box to your articles, where you would introduce yourself to your audience and most importantly include your domain URL of your web site. Good quality content would attract a lot more traffic to your site.

If you practice the above principles, diligently and consistently, your online business would flourish soon and start generating online income for you.