Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and the Answers: Why should I outsource - freeing your time, complete projects sooner and reduce time-to-market, get specialised support, reduce cost, get short-time help. Who can outsource - anyone can, as long as the project can be executed from anywhere. How can I trust you - by checking our references and online endorsements that we have in online market-places. How does it work - just click the Get Quote link and post your project and we get going when you accept our proposal. Pay us per the agreed schedule. How do I pay you - bank transfer, cheque, PayPal or escrow accounts.

Why outsource support activities? Confidentiality? Information security? Intellectual property rights? Reliability? Long-term relationships? Qualifications of your team? How does it work?

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Why should I outsource my administrative support activities?

There are many reasons which make outsourcing of your administrative support services attractive. One or more of the following may apply to you.

  • Free up your time – administrative work is not your core business activity. Your time is better spent elsewhere. By outsourcing your business support activities your team has more time to focus on your core business activity.
  • Specialization & Expertise – Administrative support is our core business activity. Whatever be the activity, we have the skills, expertise and experience to efficiently execute it. Often the service that we render is more efficient than doing it yourself.Availability of skills – we have a professional with the skills & experience in almost all areas of administrative support. You do not have the luxury of hiring the employees with the same range of skills & talent that we can offer.
  • Temporary work-force – often you have temporary requirements which do not justify hiring an employee full-time or even part-time. By outsourcing your work, you ride over the periods when you are short-staffed.
  • Time-to-market – you are racing against time to get to the market with your new product or service. You can use all the help that you need. And, if your requirement is specialised, you need to get the right talent which cannot be hired easily.
  • Your requirement is very small that hiring an employee full-time does not make business sense.

Who can outsource? Can I outsource my work?

Anyone can outsource any work that can be executed without being physically present in your office. Whatever be the size of your business, whatever the size of your project, we are interested. We execute projects from a few hours work to several man-years. No project is too small or too big for us. We welcome all of them and have established the systems and processes appropriate to handle them.

What about long term business prospects?

We have executed a assignments ranging from just a few hours to a number of months of effort. We are interested in contributing towards the long term growth of your organization through our administrative outsourcing services. Focusing on long term prospects helps our clients significantly reduce costs both in the short and long run resulting in symbiotic and cemented relationships.

What are your policies on intellectual property rights?

Our Intellectual Rights Policies serve to preserve the integrity of work done by us for our clients eliminating confusion about its source and status. Issues on ownership rights of the final output will be negotiated and agreed upon right up front at the proposal stage to avoid unnecessary complications later on.

How secure and confidential is your business transactions?

We strictly do not reveal any information about our clients or any work done for them without securing prior permission. We also have the necessary IT Security infrastructure in place to prevent fraudulent / unauthorized flow of information or theft thereof. Complete confidentiality of all transactions of all forms with us is guaranteed.

How well are you equipped technologically to meet our work requirements?

We have a very well established IT Infrastructure comprising a variety of systems from low to high end configurations with a variety of operating systems to meet our clients work requirements and stringent deadlines with excellent capability to adapt to any operating system or any specialized software that our client may stipulate their requirements on.

All our team members have an individual computer with high-speed internet with Windows, MS Office Professional, Adobe Suite, Antivirus, Firewall, Email, Internet Messaging & Skype. All the team members are connected to the main office by proprietary systems via the internet.

How does it work?

If you have a project that you want to outsource, you can request a bid through the Bid Request Form. We provide you a detailed proposal which will include our approach, proposed methodology, mile-stones and delivery schedule, project status reporting, deliverables, payment structure and other information specifically applicable to the project. After mutual agreement of the terms, our virtual workforce executes the project and reports the progress as agreed. You shall pay us as per the agreed terms.

Can I trust you? How reliable are you?

Our trustworthiness & reliability has been well established with several hundred clients. Don’t take our word for it. We will provide you with references. If you want to check references for specific projects that we have listed in our portfolio we will try and provide that after obtaining the clients concurrence. We will also provide you references to online sources where you will find feedback about us.

How can I pay you?

Payment options can be discussed up front at the proposal stage to arrive at a method most suitable to both of us. For small value projects (below US $ 1000), we accept payments in our PayPal account; you can pay with your PayPal account if you have one or with your credit card (Visa, Master, Amex). For payments of $ 1000 & above, we accept PayPal, cheques & direct bank transfer. We also use escrow accounts when both parties need security against default.

How qualified are your Virtual Assistants?

InteleANTS has a team of professionals with experience in diverse support activities. Besides our team of full-time employees, we also have empanelled freelance & part-time professionals with specialized skills who are available on call. Depending on the needs of your project, we will deploy staff with appropriate skills & expertise to execute the assignment to your complete satisfaction.

The InteleANTS leadership team comprises professionals with qualifications in Management, Engineering, Sciences, Accounting, Arts, Visual Communication, & Writing. All our team members are graduates or have a specialized technical qualification or certification in the area of their specialization. All InteleANTS team members are proficient in English.


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Portfolio of Projects
 

Customer Support - Email Management
Inteleants provided customer support for a web hosting company through email support. We handle both technical and non-technical queries posted by customers. All the tickets opened by customers are reviewed by an agent and responded to within 12-24 hours. Where specialist intervention is required the ticket is routed to an appropriate person and in 98% of the cases, they are sorted out within 24 hours.

Ongoing Transcription for Business Coaching Company
The business coaching company conducts on-to-one coaching sessions, classroom session and seminars. All these sessions are taped in audio files and we transcribe 12 to 15 hours of audio every month. Since the client requires a very high quality of transcripts, the transcripts are checked by a senior editor to eliminate errors and edit conversational phrases.

Data Analysis for a Retailer of Gift Articles
The client wanted to reduce shipping costs by optimizing the sizes of boxes in which the articles are packed and shipped. The analysis of packing slips for 6 months data was done in conjunction with the zone-wise shipping patterns. The distribution pattern was simulated for various configurations and the packing efficiencies evaluated. On completion of the analysis, Inteleants provided an optimum box sizes for packing to minimize on shipping costs and also inventory of packing materials.

Freight Cost Analysis
The client ships products to all states in the US and Canada. They use USPS and two other leading freight companies. They wanted to review the shipping pattern and develop a model to predict freight costs. The model was used to evaluate the impact on overall cost for several parameters. The optimization model helped us develop a best case scenario to negotiate freight contracts with shipping companies.

SEO for an Affiliate Marketer
The client is an affiliate marketing company selling financial products. We developed a unique SEO strategy after extensive analysis of the competition and implemented the plan successfully. We built the website from scratch - keyword research, content development, selection of content management software, link building, directory submissions, etc. Inteleants continues to develop keyword rich content for the website and also manage the link building. was also undertaken.

SEO for a Sports Portal
SEO was undertaken for the website of a sports portal, which focused on extreme and adventure sports. Inteleants developed the SEO plan and a novel navigation strategy using a dynamic website which was well indexed by all search engines. The website is powered by the Joomla CMS software and we have been maintaining the site.

Process Improvement for Office Management
The client was the HR and Administration department of a small business. The department had an office manager and an assistant. The requirement was to eliminate paper and launch a filing/paper management system to ensure a proper networking of activities within the office. Inteleants created a computerized cum manual system using Excel/VBA application. The manual system ensured systematic storage and numbering of files for easy reference in future. The storage and reference details were printed, which was later fed into systems, and MS Outlook was used by the executives to receive and view details and reminders.

Career Trend Internet Research
Research was required to acquire sources relating to hot career opportunities for the next 5 to 10 years and on student finance topics such as budgeting, financial aid, college jobs, etc, for a target audience consisting of American college students. We did a through research on job boards and interviewed recruiters to get a clearer picture on the subject. After the background research, many online and offline sources were identified, evaluated and compiled.

Redesigning and Redeveloping of Website
Website was developed using ASP and .Net for an online retailer dealing with nutrition supplements. The web designers of Inteleants redeveloped and redesigned the website and migrated the catalogs and customer data in Access database onto the new system-SQL server. As the business transactions were numerous, we built-in a comprehensive system to manage multi-country issues like currency, phone number, post codes etc. A number of Euro-related issues were also solved by the system developed by Inteleants.

3-D Models from AutoCAD Drawings
The client is a manufacturer of special purpose machines for automotive industry. The requirement was to convert 1500 paper and electronic designs in AutoCAD to a standardized system of drawings with 3-D models and animation. We converted the paper drawing s first to 2 D drawings and also created assembly drawings in 3-D using Solidworks. Inteleants also created a Bill of Materials for various assemblies and is managing the catalog for the client..

Automated Excel-based Tracker for Job-seekers
Inteleants developed an interface in VBA for different formulations in the Excel spreadsheet. The client wanted an application to help people cross hurdles while getting a job and this required an excel-based tracker application. The following were to be included in the tracker: head-count of jobseekers along with required calculations and graph. The VBA data entry module provided access to the reports, charts and statistics sheets. Formulations were incorporated to calculate and record date, text manipulation, conditional sum and statistics. We designed the tracker system to generate the chart using VBA with data from the data-table and regenerate the Excel sheet by the VBA code on account of data updations.

Designing of Custom-made Forms for Online Business
A new start-up business selling specialized sports equipment & fitness training products required custom forms to be created for online transactions like booking order, checklist for packing, shipping and invoicing. We designed 12 business forms to cater to the specific requirements of the client. All forms were designed to maintain consistency and fillable forms were designed in PDF formats and forms in Word were created, in order to automate the data transfer to a database on a later date.

Pivot Tables and Charts Designed for Spreadsheet Model
We were required to combine data from various worksheets, populate and update pre-built charts automatically in an Excel spreadsheet. This required highly complex data-manipulations and consolidations, as the structure of each spreadsheet was different. The complexity was high as numbers were stored in text format and each spreadsheet had around 40,000 records. Text manipulation techniques of Excel were used to maintain consistency across all spreadsheets and consolidate data certain formulations. Inteleants designed Pivot Tables and Charts to extract and represent consolidated data.

Conversion of paper drawings to electronic, CAD Designs
The client, a retailer of specialized cutting tools, wanted to convert paper drawing to CAD designs. Inteleants scanned the paper drawings and then uploaded the images in the client?s online database. Items released from 2005 onwards are being converted to CAD format, due to the customer requirement for computerized modeling and product development. We also help in database design, uploading of the images and maintaining their online system.

 
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