1. Once you hire a virtual assistant, you can increase your productivity. You can now focus to your income-generating tasks since you already handed down your administrative tasks to your VA.
2. Having a VA will also enable you to give more time to your family, and even to yourself. You now have time for a picnic on the weekends, go to theme parks with your kids, or start a new hobby—without worrying that your office work is piling up.
3. If you own a business, utilizing the service of virtual assistants makes it possible for you to save the overboard expenses. You don’t need an additional office space and equipment. Your VA has already taken care of it.

So, a virtual assistant improves your personal and professional life! However, you are not the only one reaping the benefits. The relationship between virtual assistants and their clients is a win/win relationship. Virtual assistants also have more time with their families now since most of them work in their homes. They also have a flexible working schedule, and at the same time working on something, that is their passion.

Researching: Using the internet other forms of communication your virtual assistant can act as a very useful researcher, who can look up information, research facts, double check sources, and take care of any researching tasks you may have.

Secretarial Tasks: Your virtual assistant can act as an online secretary by keeping track of appointments, creating documents, and accomplishing other related secretarial tasks that will help you be more effective.

Audio Transcription: Transcription can sometimes be a tedious task, but is something that a virtual assistant with a good command of the English language and some time can handle with ease.

Travel Planning: A virtual assistant can be used to take care of all the mundane details of planning a trip. Tasks may include reserving airline tickets, booking hotel rooms, researching various tourist attractions, and other such travel preparation tasks.

Customer Support: A virtual assistant can also act a customer support representative by taking care of the concerns of your customers through email, chat, or phone communication.

Supplemental search engine result positions ( SERPs ) are often seen with very large, new websites.  These sites often times have thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pages listed.

Generally, these sites are databases of content which have been published online.
Sometimes the content could be very valuable – for instance – if an academic journal decided to publish an archive of their article abstracts online.  This might add 30,000 new pages onto the web overnight – all of which would be very unique and valuable content.

Other times, these database websites are not very valuable.  The worst case might be an automated scraper site which mangles the content in a way that reads like jibberish.  In a situation like this, a blackhat webmaster might publish an almost unlimited number of pages (limited only by the size of database storage at his disposal).  This kind of content is basically garbage, and would surely frustrate anyone who clicked across this in a search engine listing.

At the conference, some webmaster asked ‘how can i get my very valuable website out of the supplemental listings?’.  I was a little bit surprised in how Matt Cutts replied to this.

Basically, he replied that when a site is showing up in the supplemental listings, it’s an indication that the site does not have enough backlinks coming to it.  If the site does not have enough backlinks coming to it – this would be an indication that the site was still lacking trust or reputation in it’s niche.

I consider this interesting because Cutts is basically advocating proactive link building in this case.  Building up links which would not develop naturally – rather links that would require the site webmaster to go out and solicit for others to link back to this site.

I suppose the rational behind his recommendation is that – if people really consider that your site is garbage – they would never bother to link back to your site anyway (who would want to link to such a scraper site described above?).  Thus – webmaster that links back to your large database website is a webmaster who is voting that your database is adding value to the internet.

At the Webmaster World conference there were also several references to a Google Quality Rank Score (which must be something like Trustrank).  There has already been a publically discussed Google Quality score which is used for Google Adwords – to determin how well an advertisement listing and landing page convert into leads for advertisers.  But in this case, I think the Google Quality Rank Score discussed at the conference was actually something different – maybe something that encompasses all of the different quality factors, as mentioned on Matt Cutts’ blog and in the Google Patent listing.  These quality factors include things like:

site age, document age, domain factors (how old the domain is, how long it is under the same ownership, domain name class – .edu, .org, .info, .com, .gov – hypens in the url?, etc), internal linking, external linking (how trustworthy are the sites your site links to?), link stability (are the links long lasting?),  frequency of updates, affiliate links, bad words, backlinks, site penalities (cloaking, hidden text, bad linking, etc).

The third-quarter developments in the global outsourcing industry of 2006 saw a decline in contracts by volume and value from the same quarter last year. The cause of the falling aggregate contact values can be tied to the decline in contract durations, especially for Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) contracts. Since 2001, the average duration of a Broader Market contract has decreased 12 percent. In ITO, it decreased 18 percent, while for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) it dropped 5 percent; as per the TPI Index report

But how is this going to affect offshoring companies based in India? It might not have a significant impact on their growth rates at all!

Therefore, while the global majors may see a slowdown in their growth, Indian companies will not do so. According to Nasscom, the Indian ITES-BPO segment continued to chart strong year-on-year growth at 37% for FY06. The IT body has also said Indian ITES-BPO exports have grown to USD 6.3 billion in FY06, recording a growth of 37%.

The figure is expected to grow to USD 8-8.5 billion in FY07. Net employment in the ITES-BPO segment has grown by about 100,000 in FY06, taking the total direct employment in this segment to 415,000, the body has said in its factsheet about the industry, as per the report.

Generally speaking, this means that the service provider companies most significantly affected by this news would be the giant onshore outsourcing providers. Overall, companies like Obian, Oceanwide, Omgeo LLC, OmniPod, Inc. Omniture, Inc. [OMTR], Oncontact Software Corporation, One Network Enterprises, One Voice Technologies, Inc. [ONEV.OB], OneClickHR plc, OneMind Connect, Online Insight, Inc., OnRelay, Onset Technology Inc., ONStor, Onstream Media Corporation [ONSM], Onyx Software Corporation, Open Country Inc., Open EC Technologies, Inc. [OCEIF.PK], Open Ratings, Inc., Open Software Solutions, Inc., Open Solutions Canada, OpenAir Inc., Openet Telecom Inc., OPIN Systems, Optas, Inc., Optiant, Optima Technology Corporation, Optimal Payments Inc., Optimal Solutions, Inc., OrderPro Logistics, Inc. [OPLO.PK], OrderWare Solutions Ltd., Orsus Solutions USA, Inc., OSIsoft, Inc., OTES Consulting, OTF Group, Inc., OutlookSoft Corporation, Outtask, Inc., OZ Communications, Inc. would not be too significantly affected, especially the ones with less than one billion dollars in revenues yearly.

Author Sean Mize has put together a quick tutorial for how you can create an Ebook information product in less than a week. Combining the techniques that he mentions, along with webmaster outsourcing would create a successful force for anyone who wants to create high power ebooks quickly.

If you have never written an ebook, you probably think that is an incredibly impossible statement. And if you have, you know that it is possible.

My first ebook took me three months to write. My second, about three weeks. And my eighth, I actually wrote in about 1 ¼ days.

So when I say write an ebook in a week I mean it, and I have done better than that. In this article, I will simply give you the steps I used to do it and share with you a little of my mindset as I was working.

1) I sent out an email asking my subscribers what they wanted to learn more about. Once I had a feeling about what the next ebook should be about, I went into Word and wrote out an outline. The outline had the basic points of my topic, then under each basic point, I put several ‘subpoints’ that I could write about.

2) I began writing in sections – just one subtopic at a time. Do not look at the book as one huge project, look at it as many small projects, and just finish them one at a time.

3) I wrote about 5 pages one evening, then the next business day, I set a goal of writing the rest of it. I think that is the important part. In the middle of the afternoon, when my back started hurting, and I was tired, I only kept going because I had made the goal. One thing that is important here is that you have to learn to write even when you are tired. When I first started writing, I would write when I was fresh. Now I write when I tell myself I have to get the expected number of articles out, or the required number of pages out. And when I say expected or required, that is kind of how I think of them. I decide I am going to write 10 articles or 20 today, and that is usually what I do. And the same thing with the ebook. If I have decided that I want to release it on a certain day, then I have to do whatever it takes to get it ready to release that day.

4) Once it was finished, I put it down, and worked on the sales page for awhile.

5) Once I was rested from writing, I went back into it and worked on links that needed to be inserted, made headers and footers for it, ran spell check, and checked it for appearance.

6) Later that evening, I read it and corrected grammar and spelling errors not picked up by spell check (note: never trust spell check).

7) The following morning I had the sales page live and made sales by the evening.

Do I recommend you do this in one day? No, take a week or two to do what I did. But you can do it in a week or two; do not think you have to take a month or two or three. You don’t.

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed a brand new guide to article marketing success, ‘Your Article Writing and Promotion Guide‘

Download it free here: Secrets of Article Promotion

Do you want to learn how to build a massive list fast? Click here: Email List Building

Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has created over 280 articles in print and 8 published ebooks online.

A few of the domain names I’ve registered with them in the past have been coming up for renewal now. A strange thing is that the registration reminders that I’m getting for these domain names are all coming from a company called DomainPeople. Here’s an example of one of these letters:

support1@domainpeople.com
to danny
More options 6:11 pm (1½ hours ago)
Dear Domain Name Registrant,

Your domain name expires today — Sun, 05 Nov 2006!

Renew right now at http://www.domainpeople.com/renew

Please Note: Once the domain has expired, it will be placed on hold. While on hold, you will not be able to use your domain name in any way – including your web site, e-mail address or e-mail forwarding.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us anytime, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. E-mail us at support@domainpeople.com or call us toll-free in North America at 1-877-734-3667 or internationally at +1-604-639-1680.

Sincerely,
DomainPeople Customer Support
support@domainpeople.com
http://www.domainpeople.com

I heard something in the past about Hostway buying this company DomainPeople, to handle the some domain registration services, so in the back of my mind I wasn’t too alarmed about getting this email for domain name renewal from a different company than the one I used for registration.

This relationship is all explained in a bit more detail on a FAQ page on the Hostway site:

Who are AAAQ and DomainPeople?
AAAQ and DomainPeople are the domain name registrars Hostway has partnered with to process domain name registrations. On the Whois record for your domain name, AAAQ or DomainPeople will be listed as the domain name registrar. In particular, DomainPeople is the registrar for .info, .pro, and .us domain names.

Well, the tricky thing about this all is that – if you follow the link in the email reminder from DomainPeople – they end up wanting to charge you $35 dollars for your domain name renewal!

Hummmpf!  Well, luckily I was still able to find my old Hostway account information … logged into my control panel, and was able to manage my domains from there.  Renewal price?  $6.95!

This seems almost scandalous to me.   Is this some sort of scam that Hostway is using to increase their profit margins?  Has anyone else encountered this same inconsistancy in trying to renew a domain name registered by Hostway?

Strange enough, when I’ve googled for ‘Domainpeople Suck‘ or ‘Domainpeople Scam‘, I haven’t found too many negative comments… however one blogger – RFJason – describes the DomainPeople as being utterly clueless!

Sometimes it’s not always possible to open up a laptop to chat with others.  In cases like that, using a mobile device might be a perfectly suitable alternative.  In this case, a great tool to use is a Blackberry device.  Blackberry’s have support for an application called IM+, which gives a user a single application interface to all of the open, public chat applications.

The developers of IM+, ShapeServices, are very concerned about device compatibility so far, and have made their application functional on the devices such as Windows Mobile Pocket PC ,Windows Mobile Smartphone,BlackBerry,Symbian S60 (v.1, v.2, v.2 FP3, v.3),Symbian Series 80,Symbian Series 90,Symbian UIQ (SE M600, W950, P990, SE P910, P900, SE P800, Motorola A920, Motorola A925/A1000, BenQ P30, Arima U300),Palm OS,Java phones,i-mode,Nokia 9210, and the Nokia 9290.

This means that you could most likely be able to use the IM+ application on a wide range of handheld devices, including ones that most webmaster outsourcing professionals already have, such as:

BlackBerry 7100g, BlackBerry 7100i, BlackBerry 7100r, BlackBerry 7100t, BlackBerry 7100v, BlackBerry 7100x, BlackBerry 7105t, BlackBerry 7130c, BlackBerry 7130e, BlackBerry 7130g, BlackBerry 7130v, BlackBerry 7210, BlackBerry 7230, BlackBerry 7250, BlackBerry 7270, BlackBerry 7280, BlackBerry 7290, BlackBerry 7510, BlackBerry 7520, BlackBerry 7730, BlackBerry 7750, BlackBerry 7780, BlackBerry 8700c, BlackBerry 8700f, BlackBerry 8700g, BlackBerry 8700r, BlackBerry 8700v, BlackBerry 8703e, BlackBerry 8707v, BlackBerry Pearl 8100, Acer: Acer s50, Acer s60, Garmin: iQue 3200, iQue 3600, iQue 3600a, GSL: Xplore G18, Xplore G88, Xplore M28, Xplore M68, Kyocera: Kyocera 7135, Kyocera QCP 6035, Palm: LifeDrive, Palm m130, Palm m505, Palm m515, Palm TX, Palm Z22, Treo 600, Treo 650, Treo 680, Treo 700p, Treo 90, Tungsten C, Tungsten E, Tungsten E2, Tungsten T, Tungsten T2, Tungsten T3, Tungsten T5, Tungsten W, Zire 21, Zire 22, Zire 31, Zire 71, Zire 72, Samsung: Samsung SGH-i530, Samsung SPH-i500, Sony: Clie NR70, Clie NR70V, Clie NX60, Clie NX70V, Clie NX73V, Clie NX80V, Clie NZ90, Clie SJ20, Clie SJ22, Clie SJ33, Clie TH55, Clie TJ25, Clie TJ27, Clie TJ35, Clie TJ37, Clie UX40, Clie UX50, Clie VZ90, Tapwave: Tapwave Zodiac, Tapwave Zodiac 2, Acer: Acer n10, Acer n20, Acer n20w, Acer n30, Acer N310, Acer N35, Acer N50
AnexTEK: AnexTEK SP230, Asus: Asus MyPal A600, Asus MyPal A620, Asus MyPal A620BT, Asus MyPal A716, Asus MyPal A730, Audiovox: Audiovox XV6600, Audiovox 4100, Audiovox 5050, Audiovox e550G, Audiovox Maestro, Audiovox PPC 6601, Audiovox Thera – 2032, Audiovox XV6700
Casio: Casio E-100, Casio E-125, Casio E-200, Casio E-2000, Casio E-700, Casio E-750, Casio E-G800, Casio EM500, Casio GFORT, Cingular: Cingular 8125/8100, Dell: Axim X3, Axim X51, Axim X51v, Dell Axim X30, Dell Axim X3i, Dell Axim X5, Dell Axim X50, Dell Axim X50v
Dopod: Dopod 686, Dopod 696, Dopod 700, Dopod 818, Dopod 828, Dopod 838, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, E-Ten: E-Ten G500, E-Ten M500, E-Ten M600, E-Ten P300B, Fujitsu-Siemens: Loox 410 BT, Loox 420 BT/WLAN, Loox 600, Loox 610 BT, Loox 610 BT/LAN, Loox 710, Loox 718, Loox 720, Loox C550, Loox N500, Loox N520, Loox N560, Hitachi: Hitachi G 1000, HP: iPAQ h1910, iPAQ h1915, iPAQ h1930, iPAQ h1940, iPAQ h2210, iPAQ h2215, iPAQ h3100, iPAQ h3600, iPAQ h3700, iPAQ h3800 , iPAQ h3955, iPAQ h4150, iPAQ h4155, iPAQ h4350, iPAQ h4355, iPAQ h5100, iPAQ h5150, iPAQ h5450, iPAQ h5455, iPAQ h5500, iPAQ h5550, iPAQ h5555, iPAQ h6315, iPAQ h6320, iPAQ h6325, iPAQ h6340, iPAQ hw6510, iPAQ hw6515/a, iPAQ hw6910, iPAQ hw6915, iPAQ hw6940, iPAQ hw6945, iPAQ hx2100, iPAQ hx2190, iPAQ hx2400, iPAQ hx2410, iPAQ hx2411, iPAQ hx2415, iPAQ hx2490/2495, iPAQ hx2700, iPAQ hx2790, iPAQ hx2795, iPAQ hx4700, iPAQ hx4705, iPAQ rw6100, iPAQ rw6815, iPAQ rx1950/Navigator, iPAQ rx1955, iPAQ rx3115, iPAQ rx3415, iPAQ rx3715, iPAQ rx5900/5915, iPAQ rz1710, iPAQ rz1715, i-mate: i-mate JAM, i-mate Jamin, i-mate JASJAR, i-mate K-JAM, i-mate New JAM, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate PDA2, i-mate PDA2k, i-mate PDA2k EVDO, i-mate Phone Edition, Mexmal: Alaska Cove Mexmal, MiTAC: Mio 168, Mio 336, Mio 338, Mio 339, Mio 528, Mio 558, NavMan: NavMan PiN 570, NEC: MobilePro 200e, MobilePro 250e, MobilePro 300e, NEC MobilePro P300, O2: O2 xda, O2 xda Atom, O2 xda II, O2 xda IIi, O2 xda IIs, O2 xda Mini Orange: SPV M1500, SPV M2000, SPV M2500, SPV M3000, SPV M500, SPV M5000, Palm: Treo 700w, Treo 700wx, Treo 750v, Qtek: QTEK 1010, QTEK 2020, Qtek 8310, QTEK 9000, QTEK 9090, QTEK 9100, QTEK G100, QTEK S100, QTEK S110, Razor: Zayo, Samsung: Samsung i700, Samsung i730, Samsung M400, Siemens: Siemens SX56, Siemens SX66, T-Mobile: MDA, MDA Compact, MDA II, MDA IV, MDA Pro, MDA Vario, Toshiba: Toshiba 2032, Toshiba e310, Toshiba e330, Toshiba e350/e355, Toshiba e400/e405, Toshiba e550, Toshiba e570, Toshiba e740, Toshiba e750/e755, Toshiba e800/e805, ViewSonic: ViewSonic V35, ViewSonic V36, ViewSonic V37, Yakumo: Yakumo Alpha , Yakumo Alpha X, Yakumo Delta 300, Yakumo Delta X, Amoi: Amoi E70, Audiovox: Audiovox SMT 5600, Cingular: Cingular 2125, Cingular 3125, Dopod: Dopod 515, Dopod 557w, Dopod 565, Dopod 575, Dopod 585, Dopod 586w, HTC: HTC Excalibur, HTC S310 (Oxygen), HTC S620, HTC Star Trek, i-mate: i-mate Smartflip, i-mate Smartphone, i-mate Smartphone2, i-mate SP3, i-mate SP3i, i-mate SP5, i-mate SP5m, i-mate SPL, MiTAC: Mio 8390, Mio 8860, Mio 8870
Motorola: i930, Motorola MPx200, Motorola MPx220, Motorola Q, O2: Orion, Xda sp, Xda Xphone, Xphone, Xphone II, XPhone IIm, Orange: Orange Motorola MPx200, Orange SPV C500, Orange SPV C550, Orange SPV C600, Orange SPV e100, Orange SPV E200, Qtek: QTEK 7070, QTEK 8010, QTEK 8020, QTEK 8080, QTEK 8100, QTEK 8300, QTEK 8310, Samsung: Samsung i300, Samsung i320, Samsung i600, T-Mobile: SDA, SDA II, SDA Music, T-Mobile Dash, Lenovo: Lenovo P930, Nokia: Nokia 3230, Nokia 3250, Nokia 3600, Nokia 3620, Nokia 3650, Nokia 3660, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 6682, Nokia 7610, Nokia 7650, Nokia e50, Nokia e60, Nokia e61, Nokia e70, Nokia N-Gage, Nokia N-Gage QD, Nokia n70, Nokia n71, Nokia n72, Nokia n73, Nokia n80, Nokia n90, Nokia n91, Nokia n92, Nokia n93, Panasonic: Panasonic X700, Panasonic X800, Sendo: Sendo X, Sendo X2, Siemens: Siemens SX1, Arima: Arima ASP805, Arima U300, Arima U308, BenQ: BenQ P30, BenQ P31, Motorola: Motorola A1000, Motorola A1010, Motorola A920, Motorola A925, Sony Ericsson: Sony Ericsson M600i/M600c, Sony Ericsson P800, Sony Ericsson P900, Sony Ericsson P910, Sony Ericsson P910i, Sony Ericsson P990/P990i, Sony Ericsson W950

Agreed, this is a giant list of items, and I would advise using your browser search feature to find if your device is already on this list or not – instead of reading through every device one by one!

Also, if you don’t feel comfortable to spend almost fifty bucks on a device to let you chat on your mobile, then you might want to consider using Google Talk for your mobile device.  Randy Savicky made a great writeup on the release of this tool on his mobile and voip blog over at TMC.

Do you want to be wealthy?  Successful in business?  Respected by your peers?  You may want to remember the simple 3 step plan that the author recommends:

1. Differentiate.
2. Select.
3. Amplify.
The idea seems to be interesting enough, that already more than 3 bloggers have covered this topic, including Edward Vielmetti, John Leach of the Bell Pottinger Group, John Hagel writing on his Edge Perspectives blog, and outsourcing expert Sadagopan!

I highly recommend  adding Sadagopan to your RSS feed reader, if your interested in the topic of business outsourcing.  I’ve been following his weblog for years, and his insights are very exceptional!

What is the best city in India for KPO? India is a country with over a billion brainy souls. It’s hard to say right away where the best city is … obviously, the places endowed with a great high tech infrastructure would be at the top of the list … and places near to a world renowned, prestigious IIT university. But, to start research on the subject, I would just recommend starting with the A’s! Cities like Abohar, Abu Road, Adilabad, Agartala, Agra, Ahmedabad, Ahmednagar, Aizwal, Ajmer, Akola, Aligarh, Allahabad, Almora, Alwar, Ambala, Amber, Amravati, Amreli, Amritsar, Anakapalle, Anantapur, Anklesvar, Anuppur, Araria, Arcot, Arrah, Aruppukkottai, Asansol, Ashok Nagar, Aurangabad, Auroville, Ayodhya, Azamgarh

For the feature part ot this post, please continue reading below for an article by an industry expert on KPO, Prajakta Chandrakant Dhote , Jr. Faculty Member in ICFAI National School, Chandrapur.

India has a large pool of knowledge workers in various sectors ranging from Pharmacy, Medicine, Law, Biotechnology, Education & Training, Engineering, Design & Animation, Research & Development, Paralegal Content and even Intelligence services that can be put to use in a Knowledge Process Outsourcing .

The Knowledge Process Outsourcing services that can be outsourced to India are: Research & Development,Business and Technical Analysis, Learning Solutions, Animation & Design, Business & Market Research, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology, Medical Services, Writing & Content Development, Legal Services, Intellectual Property (IP) Research, Data Analysis, Network Management, Training & Consultancy

As per National Association of Software & Service Company estimates, the Knowledge Process Outsourcing industry is expected to grow by 45 per cent by 2010. Out of the $16 billion, which the Knowledge Process Outsourcing industry is likely to earn around $12 billion, would be outsourced from India.

The ideal Knowledge Process Outsourcing employee should possess domain specialization, computer skills & English proficiency. With the Indian way of education which lays great emphasis on higher education & specialization, a talent pool with specialized knowledge in any field is readily available. According to the study, India could emerge as a global Knowledge Process Outsourcing hub as the business requires specialized knowledge in respective domains and the countries engineering, technical & management institutes are geared to address the manpower demand.

At present Knowledge Process Outsourcing offers an alternate career path for the educated. Everyone ranging from CA’s, MBA’s, Master in Computer Application’s, layer, doctors are heading towards Knowledge Process Outsourcing because they pay more & the working hours are more civilized. A MBA or a plain medicine degree is sufficient to catch the job.. Low-end outsourcing services have an expected Cumulative Annual Growth Rate of 26% by 2010. In contrast, the global Knowledge Process Outsourcing market is poised for an expected Cumulative Annual Growth Rate of 46% by 2010. The following figure demonstrates the expected growth in the Knowledge Process Outsourcing market over the next few years. Knowledge Process Outsourcing requires advanced analytical & specialized skill of knowledge workers. India has a large pool of knowledge workers & because of this India has been ranked the most preferred Knowledge Process Outsourcing destination owing to the country’s large talent pool, quality IT training, friendly government policies & low labor cost. Even there is a chance to work as a freelancer.

You name a service and Knowledge Process Outsourcing will provide the resources, by identifying the right people for the organization. The role of Knowledge Process Outsourcing is Analyzing and understanding organizations requirements, Identifying the core experienced person, Setting up module wise work to be assigned to a person, Assigning the job to the right people, Monitoring the day to day development, Concurrent reporting of information, Time management, Quality checking’s, Risk analysis, Successful execution of the work.

Knowledge Process Outsourcing is providing a complete back office processing from India. A dedicated person is deputed on monthly remuneration and he will provide complete communication system so that organization will be well informed about development of the job & can run a well controlled project. If you are looking for accepting challenges and implementing innovative ideas then you can join any Knowledge Process Outsourcing industry. KPOWEB is a one organization which works on such projects. They provide you unique opportunity to work from India for National and international clients. This is nothing like WORK FROM HOME Hype, but a true professional career utilizing your Knowledge and efficiency. They are looking for professionals in Software programmers, ASP, .Net, PHP, Web developers, Web designers, Data entry operators, Content writers, Marketing executives, Online marketers, Search engine optimizers, Auditors, Analysts, Chartered Accountants, Teachers Support executives

Just drop your resume to Knowledge Process Outsourcing industry and may be an opportunity knocks at your door.

Prajakta Chandrakant Dhote , Jr. Faculty Member in ICFAI National School, Chandrapur, India . 3 years corporate experience and 2 years Academic experience

A few quotes from the article:

The Problem Faced by Outsourcing Companies in India

n a country once regarded as a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers, a shortage looms. India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last count. But their competence has become the issue.

A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in four engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a team or deliver basic oral presentations.

The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college education in India and the galloping pace of the country’s service-driven economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China’s.

Raw, Unbridled Economic GROWTH!

Software exports alone expanded by 33 percent in the last year.

The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with such demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most selective universities generate too few graduates, and new private colleges are producing graduates of uneven quality.

Many fear that the labor pinch may signal bottlenecks in other parts of the economy. It is already being felt in the information technology sector.

With the number of technology jobs expected to nearly double to 1.7 million in the next four years, companies are scrambling to find fresh engineering talent and to upgrade the schools that produce it.

What to do about the SKILLS SHORTAGE?

Some companies are training faculty members themselves, offering courses tailored to industry needs and improving college labs and libraries. They are rushing to get first choice of would-be engineers long before they have completed their course work. And they are fanning out to small, remote colleges that almost no one had heard of before. The country’s most successful technology concerns can no longer afford to hire only from the most prestigious Indian universities. Nor can they expect recent graduates to be ready to hit the shop floor. Most companies require in-house training of anywhere from two to six months.

Demand is beginning to be felt on the bottom line. Entry-level salaries in the software industry have risen by an average of 10 to 15 percent in recent years. And Nasscom, which helps companies wanting to outsource find workers, forecasts a shortage of 500,000 professional employees in the technology sector by 2010.
…

The team came to Tiruchengode with the goals of selecting its next generation of software programmers and assessing how, in the short term, the company could help the college churn out more of what it needed. “These are the guys who are going to write my Windows 2010,” as one of the recruiters put it.

“We can’t afford to let talent go” was the verdict of A. K. Pattabiraman, a member of the team.

I suppose that many of these ideas are relevant in the webmaster outsourcing world too. Just the main question is, what are the skills that a webmaster outsourcing recruiter would be hunting for? Surely they are slightly different than what the big BPO companies are hiring for.

Relevant skills for webmastering might be:

• Basic Information Retrieval theory – most “SEO’s” don’t have a clue about how a search engine actually works, they only know bits and bobs of information they read on forums and in books.
• Usability basics – it’s not just for the handicapped – it’s for everyone. Someone who is new to an area (including the web, or your websites topic) is effectively handicapped, even though it may be temporary and less serious than being blind.
• Copy-writing and Marketing basics – why does this sell? What are the basics of good copy? What should you avoid?
• Web technology basics – basic HTML, CSS, server configuration (IIS, Apache and Tomcat), DNS configuration and so forth. You don’t have to be a major tech head, but you need to know a problem (and who to call) when you see one. In my experience, about 60% of major SEO issues are technical in nature, not spam, link or content related.

(source Search Engine Watch forums)