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The Downside to Outsourcing

While I was driving home the other day from work, there is this interesting story on the radio. It’s about the fashion industry in New York City. They were talking how companies where making choices not to use overseas workers, not to use VAs and the success they are having just using workers locally. They are a small company that was just starting off and they are talking about how beneficial it was to hire someone local in the garment district of New York City. They interviewed a lady who had a 90 million dollar company, and she said that she made so many mistakes upfront because she didn’t know what she was doing in her business. She said that if she tried to use overseas workers, she wouldn’t even be in business today.

Today we’re going to look at the downside of outsourcing. [click to continue…]

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Today we have Chris Ducker, he’s a serial entrepreneur and founder of Virtual Staff Finder among many other businesses. He currently lives in the Philippines and he offers an excellent service for those of you looking for VA’s.

Let’s start off…

[Jonathan] You have a pretty diverse background and I understand that you didn’t start your career or your businesses in the field of VA’s. I understand that you are doing VA related things but it took you awhile to really plunge into the VA space. What drove you to offer that as a service?

[Chris] You know I’ve been in the Philippines for almost 13 years so I’ve seen the outsourcing industry develop over that time. [click to continue…]

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