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		<title>Five levels of customer satisfaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago Sathya, an onsite offshore coordinator aka account manager working with my company, stopped by to discuss what he and his company could do to earn my trust and to make me happy. I wish more people in my life would ask the same questions, in particular women. And I tell you, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1191&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to say Thank You in your provider’s language?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, спасибо, gracias, dziękuję, спасибі, धन्यवाद, آپ کا شکریہ, obrigado, 谢谢&#8230; How do you say it? Do you even need to say it? What if you want to say more? In general, motivation of your offshore team should not be your responsibility. Your vendor should make sure that the team members are jazzed up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1184&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Rules for your First Outsourcing Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 04:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had a chance to connect with an old friend of mine – a serial entrepreneur, a pioneer of electronic commerce and outsourcing survivor. His first outsourcing initiative turned out a complete disaster and almost cost him the company. The human memory works in very peculiar way – we look back through pink [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1173&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, Those Russians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I dating myself? “Oh, those Russians” was the last line of &#8220;Rasputin&#8221;, ’78 hit by Germany-based pop and disco group Boney M. Well, of course that’s not what this post is about. A few days ago I talked with an old friend of mine once a VP of engineering for a s/w startup in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1162&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be careful what you ask for</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Managing Offshore Engagements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I had to make a couple flight reservations. I had two canceled trips credits, one on United and one on American, that could be applied to the oncoming trips. Unfortunately, I could not do it online and had to navigate through the phone menus to get to customer service reps. BTW, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1153&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Frogs and Wrestlers</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2010/03/06/of-frogs-and-wrestlers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Managing Offshore Engagements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you found a new vendor, negotiated a perfect deal and established relationships with key players. The team starts its work and shortly you can realize the savings you’ve been looking for. A year passes faster than you could ever imagine. Reports coming from the vendor showing good compliance with the benchmarks you established. You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1146&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing SMO</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2010/02/16/outsourcing-smo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search Media Optimization / Outreach has become one of the most popular traffic building activities to outsource. And paraphrasing comment on my previous post, when it comes to finding a qualified needle in a freelancing haystack SMO is even more challenging than SEO and others activities alike. First, a couple words on typical aspects of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1137&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing Blog SEO</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2010/02/10/outsourcing-blog-seo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had several interesting discussions about blog SEO outsourcing with a few of my friends a colleagues. I think some highlights of those discussions deserve a full size post or two. Since we are talking about blogs I just have to start with some classic points. Trisha Okubo did a phenomenal job covering those in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1130&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updates to the List of Freelancing Sites</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2010/02/02/updates-to-the-list-of-freelancing-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you found Best Places to Find a Freelancer helpful you may want to check out the updated list. It now has 42 entries and also includes Google PR and Alexa ratings. These two numbers are quite helpful indicators of traffic. Google rating is a mystery number that measures from 0 (I guess “O” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1115&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Search for SEO Experts</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2010/01/21/search-for-seo-experts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Managing Offshore Engagements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search for SEO under Hire professional in eLance returns about 12,000 results, search under Projects returns about 600. So it’s roughly 20 providers per SEO project. Similar stats are on Guru, oDesk, GAF, etc. One would assume that I should have zero problems finding a professional for my SEO project, especially in this market and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1109&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft and Plurk outsourcing debacle</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/12/16/microsoft-and-plurk-outsourcing-debacle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your goals are not achievable you can use them as targets. Sounds like a strange proposition? Well, look at Microsoft – everyone and their brother love to use it as a target of hate, criticism, etc. It’s human nature – to consider success of others as own failure. Fortunately, Microsoft never ceases to offer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1072&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things Not to Outsource Even Though They Say You Should</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/12/13/things-not-to-outsource-even-though-they-you-should/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“51 ways”, “101 tips”, and even “1000 and 1 ideas” on how to Outsource your Life. It seems like there is a non-stop competition in blogosphere to come up with a bigger list. Of course VA companies promoting wonders of life outsourcing directly or through “independent” blogs add their list of ideas and justifications. No [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1066&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing Your Life – the Scope of Outsourcing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple days ago on my way to NJ I bought an excellent book – The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Library Edition). 6 hour flight plus an hour of circling around NYC and a few more hours at corporate apartment were more than enough to digest this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1054&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Aspects of Personal Life to Outsource</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/12/12/10-aspects-of-personal-life-to-outsource/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list below covers a variety of personal tasks that could be reasonably easy outsourced to a Virtual Assistant. 1. Vacation Planning. Pick a destination and have VA to book your tickets, find hotel, arrange pick up / drop off, car, excursions, etc. VA can develop plan of your trip to excruciating level of details. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1050&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>25 Aspects of Professional Life to Outsource</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list below covers a variety of tasks that could be reasonably easy outsourced to a Virtual Assistant. 1. Industry / Market / Vendor / Product Research. Even though you can ask your VA to check library you are better off keeping the research to Web though. Research could be of a broad nature, for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1044&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much of Good Thing</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/12/09/too-much-of-good-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago starting from a comment to my post I found a very interesting discussion of metrics on 360° Vendor Management. In his post Tony covered a few golden rules that are important to consider when introducing metrics in vendor management. I agree in general with most of the principles covered in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1040&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Metrics</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/11/30/first-metrics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason this month turned out the highest traffic in the history of this blog. It is particular interesting considering that I have not been doing a good job keeping it updated. So I feel obligated to add at least one post before December. Let me cover some progress I made with my offshore [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1035&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People Factor</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/11/29/people-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not know how many times one of my managers or I said something like “Darn employees… Can’t live with them, can’t live without them either…” Almost all issues one faces in management career come from employees, well, very much all the issues are solved by employees as well. Every time when you deal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1031&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pragmatic Outsourcer, v. 1.0</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/11/19/pragmatic-outsourcer-v-1-0/</link>
		<comments>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/11/19/pragmatic-outsourcer-v-1-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Offshore Decision]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first volume of Pragmatic Outsourcer – the book primarily based on the materials of this blog is almost ready. There still a few things to clean up, pictures to pick, codes to request but I can see the light in the end of tunnel. The volume is going to be published as e-book and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1027&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invisibility Cloak of MSA</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/11/16/invisibility-cloak-of-msa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contract Negotiations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Master Service Agreement (MSA) is intended to create a contractual framework for relationships between parties involved. Unfortunately way too often MSAs are used to protect intentional incompliance with a spirit of the agreement. When MSA is written and negotiated the parties bring to the table their knowledge of the domain, in this case offshore [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&blog=4587662&post=1025&subd=nkrym&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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