Reverse outsourcing is when foreign companies hire American workers, especially when a specific skill can only be found among U.S. talent.

People call it reverse outsourcing because normally, they assume the USA is the main user of offshoring and outsourcing jobs from other overseas nations. But remember, the United States is not the only nation looking for great workers who can do jobs better, faster and cheaper.

Sure, companies can — and do — hire low-cost workers worldwide to perform technical tasks and other back-end work.

According to ABC, they said “But in many cases, Americans have the edge when it comes to customer service and support, public relations, Web site content, branding and marketing to a U.S. customer base.” Let me know if you agree with that comment? Is that true? Post your comments below.

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As you may know, partnering with a virtual assistant may not be for everyone. Here are some things to consider before opting in for outsourcing as well as some great benefits for hiring a virtual assistant.

* Getting personal: If you’re squeamish about handing over personal information like user IDs and passwords, you may want to think twice about using a VA, or at least limit any personal tasks you hand out. But when you use Filipinos, I’ve found you can trust them with ALL your personal data and they protect it with their life. One of my friends has his team buying stuff for him with his credit card, all the time. Remember, Virtual Assistants want JOBS

* Tech issues: You may have to familiarize yourself with programs like ClientSpot or Skype in order to pay and communicate with your VA. Using tools like xoom.com to pay your VAs in the Philippines is easy. Biggest hurdle is that you may be an inexperienced marketer, trying to find a VA to do your internet marketing work. But, you don’t know enough yet to know if what they do for you is working or HOW it works. My suggestion is… FIND OUT… Work your butt off getting knowledge and stay laser beam focused on learning a technique. THEN pass it off to your VA as you’ll have a better idea what it’s supposed to do.

* Time investment: You’ll have to spend some time filling out request forms and signing agreements. You’ll also have to train your assistant, and there will likely be a learning curve before you get your work rhythm down. One of the best ways for training your VA’s is to let us do it for you. We have several trainings in my Train My Money Maker product. We only sell this via webinars.

* Language barrier: You’ll need the time and patience to be extra clear about your expectations, and keep in mind that slang or shorthand might be lost in translation. When you use Filipinos, they speak pretty good English. Most are totally fluent in writing and some in speaking.

* Time difference: Your VA may not be at your beck and call. If you need someone who’s available during US business hours, make sure he or she can accommodate you. The Philippines is 14 hours ahead of where I live in the USA. I stay up at night from 7:00 pm to 1:00 am working with my team, answering questions and delegating assignments.

Some useful sites

* International Virtual Assistants Association (ivaa.org)  allows you to post a free “request for proposals” outlining your needs, to which VAs can respond. Prices might be higher depending on where you end up getting your VA from.

* Find Virtual (findvirtual.com)  offers a virtual assistant directory that you can search according to criteria like pay rate and skill set.

* Alltop (Virtual-Assistant.Alltop.com) is an aggregator of virtual assistants’ blogs and Web sites.

* Assistant Match (AssistantMatch.com) is an agency that, for a fee, connects clients to assistants who’ve been screened and background-checked.

* Ask Sunday (asksunday.com) is one of the largest virtual assistant agencies. Others include Elance.com, GetFriday.com, Brickwork India (b2kcorp.com) Odesk.com, Freelancer.com and DoMyStuff.com.

* See my www.freeoutsourcingcd.com site for more information about outsourcing and hiring Virtual Assistants where I answer the top 17 questions that my students have asked me.

Hiring virtual assistants will really help you many the “tyranny of the urgent” stuff that you do each day as an entrepreneur, from mundane tasks, personal assistant work, and doing online marketing work for you.

Having an SEO company like the Minneapolis SEO Experts Trafficmills.com is also useful in doing all your SEO and SEM work.

Here are some of the ideas Maria will address, and if you’ve ever thought about going “offline” to coach, consult or advise local businesses on how they can expand their reach online with local web traffic, then this is a must attend event for you.

Here is what Maria will be sharing at the Outsource Workshop!

• What is a consulting business and how to structure one

• Why it requires little upfront investment and gets you fast checks

• You’ll laugh your derriere off or be shocked at this one LIVE CLIENT example of mine

• How to use the ONE HOT “MYSTERY” Piece of Paper to get $1,500, $3,000 and $5,000 Checks

• The 10 things to Avoid when starting up your offline consulting business.

• Just one example – how I got a $50,000 consulting contract in less than 30 days.

• How to get $2,500 per month from just one client alone!

• How to use this system part time so you can still make thousands of dollars per client, only putting in a few hours a week (tops!)

• The best pricing strategy to use – and how to avoid the “underpricing trap” most people make when starting out (meaning you get extra thousands of dollars for the same amount of work!)

• How to go after the “big fish” who have tens of thousands of dollars to invest in your services – and who are most likely to say yes to having you fix their “broken” website

• How to scale your business so you can handle the massive amount of clients these techniques will produce

• How you can start using this system tomorrow – even if you don’t have your OWN website (yep you don’t even need your own website to build others…)

• The absolute first “rule of thumb” you must follow to make maximum money in minimum time with this system

• The three words used in email templates sent out that generated an insane amount of response and high paying clients

• The secret “offline/online” Joint Venture Strategy you can use with your new clients to explode your bottom line

• How to get a closing rate of 41% on all clients you approach – right out of the gate!

• How to handle the “can we see your client portfolio” objection by explaining you work with NDA disclosures – this means you don’t have to have any credibility or previous results to get your first client!

• Pricing Strategies that get clients to pay $10,000 upfront and around $1,000 a month!

Maria was able to make over $100,000 in her first two months when she started her consulting business. These results are not typical and certainly not to be construed as average. Average people can expect to make $1000 a month based on average group performances. Many people never make money… period for all kinds of reasons.

But hey… $1000 a month is way better than just doing zero dollars per month trying to do all the work yourself.

Now, why would you want to make yourself WAY MORE BUSY doing the SEO and SEM work for other companies?

It’s simple when you learn our strategies at the outsource workshop, because we’ll show you where to hire all your fulfillment staff overseas from the Philippines to be the outsourcing virtual assistants who will do the work for your clients.

Many clients will book between $1000 to $5000 and hire your team to do their internet marketing work.

You’ll get to keep the lion share of that, after you pay your staff.  Most people think paying employees and staff is expensive, and you are right, if you are using employees, but when you hire virtual agents or remote assistants, you don’t have the financial burdens that local employees give business owners like – taxes, sick pay, vacation pay, bonuses and laziness!

Virtual or Remote agents work from their homes. They are happy, thoughtful and diligent workers that get the job done right, and often time, better, faster, and cheaper than you could do it for yourself.

If you would like to discover how this works and how you can go back to your community and add massive income to your bank account, I strongly encourage you to attend this upcoming outsource workshop.

I am hosting a 1 day Boost Seminar in St. Paul, Minnesota on November 7.

It’s a full day on Saturday from 9:00 am until about 6:30 pm.

5 speakers on topics such as:

1. Social Media Marketing (Twitter, Facebook, etc)

2. Proper use of Online Video for Marketing

3. Niche Stores with Ebay

4. How to Use WordPress Blogs to get traffic & Make Money

5. How to use Virtual Assistants to Make You Money!

go here to get all the information now, including the location we are hosting the event at:

Jeff Mills Boost Seminar – St. Paul Minnesota

We can only hold a very limited amount of people in the room, so you need to RSVP if you want to attend.

What is the cost? It’s FREE!

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You don’t want to miss this special promotion and miss out on residual monthly commissions. One member is already made over $1500 to a very small list! It’s your turn to JAM IT and make it happen.

Want to use my program for integration marketing? Put one of the banners on your THANK YOU Pages and tell people because you bought my product, I’ve arranged for Jeff Mills to send you his most popoular CD teaching you how to use virtual assistants for free!