Agents of Value Webmaster Staffing
Agents of Value is an innovative IT outsourcing company that focuses on providing value-laden web development and marketing services for entrepreneurial clients across multiple continents to help them nurture their online businesses into fully profitable business ventures.
Agents of Value maintains full-time IT professionals who provide value-laden services in search engine optimization, virtual assistance, remote programming support, webmaster and website administration, article marketing, affiliate marketing and graphics design. The company has gathered knowledgeable and highly skilled web developers, site admins, graphic designers, web content writers, link builders, virtual assistants. Then our in-house consultants would match each agent’s set of skills with the specific requirements of clients to create a harmonious partnership that will effectively develop and market products and services online.
Hiring a full-time agent is so easy! Just contact one of our consultants right now using the chat buttons found right at the top of the sidebar. Hiring a link builder starts at just $625 each month. Other types of agents can be hired at different prices. Each is valued based on the complexity of tasks and range of work output required.
Who We Are
The Agents of Value North American headquarters are located at New Kensington, Pennsylvania, but the staff offices are located in the Philippines. Through outsourced webmaster staffing, clients can directly choose and supervise the work of the individuals that work for them. Outsourcing the staff gives our clients the special privilege of hiring well-educated and trained link builders, web developers, virtual assistants, graphics designers and webmaster staff at a very cost efficient price without sacrificing quality of output. At the same time, with the reduced work load, there is more time for our valued partners to enjoy quality time with family, friends and their personal health.
Let us explore more the benefits of hiring an IT staff to support your business objectives and to learn how to handle supervision of agents and of their work remotely. We have provided informational pages for each area to assist you in making the decision to hire a website development and web promotions staff.
As a webmaster staffing company, we focus on premium, inexpensive and concurrent programming, design and website optimization assistance. We provide professional IT services that are designed to reduce your labor expenses and efficiently make use of your time. This will allow you to focus on the growth and direction of your business.
Our Team
Agents of Value takes pride in its ability to recruit only the excellent applicants, with a comprehensive screening process that takes our clients’ special needs and considerations into mind. Out of a 100 candidates, we often select only 9 or 10 as probable candidates for our clients.
All of our staff candidates have to go through two in-person interviews, a chat-based interview, a writing examination and an IQ test. In addition, they would need to pass through any additional screening that our clients might give them.
We provide a productive work environment for agents, including a comfortable office space, a high speed Internet connection, uninterrupted power, and well-maintained equipment. New technologies are also adapted to fit to our clients’ requirements as needed. We also monitor attendance and deal with all of the administrative and human resource tasks for you.
Our Goal
Our primary goal is to assist our esteemed clients in the growth of their online business by providing competent agents.
Who Do We Work With?
Our clients are entrepreneurs, home-based online companies, start-ups and veteran business owners who are eager to reach the next phase of their company growth through the web. Our staffing system and service works best for clients who want to establish a long term working relationship with an agent.
Our Code of Ethics
Agents of Value ensures a high standard of ethics. We firmly refrain from working with clients who use Black Hat web promotion techniques. These banned techniques include, but are not limited to:
- email spam
- search engine spamming
- creation of spam weblogs
Working Hours
We operate in two shifts 5 days a week (Mondays to Fridays). They are scheduled as:
- 08:00 AM until 05:00 PM EST (-4 GMT; Not Daylight Saving Time)
- 07:00 PM until 04:00 AM EST (-4 GMT; Not Daylight Saving Time)
Benefits
The Agents of Value system is designed to be the most efficient way of getting assistance with your web development work and online marketing campaigns. The traditional project-based staffing model has considerable setbacks for you, the client, and our new system has eliminated them. Think of it, the traditional project manager serves as the information gatekeeper to the producing workers. The project manager needs to understand the information well and then clearly relay them to a worker. This set-up creates two factors that can reduce the quality of the outcome:
- Information can be relayed incorrectly
- Time is lost by not communicating directly with the workers.
Our service delivery system has been designed for webmasters and website owners who prefer to be their own project manager and who want to have a cost-effective long-term working relationship with their staff.
Contrast with the Freelance Market
In what ways are we a better option than finding someone over freelance sites? In particular, there are a few major problems that come from working with freelancers which we have simply done away with in our system:
Running an online business tends to be an ongoing process just like tending a garden.
- Hiring workers on a project basis often leads to cutting corners to finish a job on time. Consider link building which, on the surface, seems to be very straight-forward job. A freelancer who is tasked to getting a specific number of backlinks, with no other instructions, would choose the path of the least resistance. Most likely, these links would come from a low quality source. Many of these links would be absolutely worthless for the site being promoted, providing no real visitors and less value for page ranking, which translates to low search engine rankings.
- While a freelancer is finishing your project, they are already thinking about where their next project will be coming from. It’s human nature to seek for security. While a bit of pressure from you can be great for moving a project along, let’s face it, freelance markets can give a tenuous lifestyle for even the best webmasters or developers.
- Freelancers work unpredictable schedules and may not have the appropriate tools or work environment.
What Work Can I Assign to an Agent?
The type of job you want an agent to accomplish will depend on many factors. One factor is his or her position which has a specific skills set. Interdisciplinary skills are encouraged and developed but not required in consideration of each employee’s abilities, academic background and interests.
Another factor can be the objectives you want to reach for your website. If you seek to increase only the visibility of your site in search engine rankings, link building tasks are perfect for this. If you want your site’s design redone and improved, then hire a graphics designer to do the job. For all other search engine marketing jobs, select the experienced link builders or virtual assistants over the new ones.
However, don’t interpret this to mean you can not give other types of tasks to your agent. A highly valuable agent is the one who is willing to learn the task and work on it for you despite lacking in knowledge and experience. This willingness to take on a challenging task is a rare work attitude that will benefit your work relationship in the long term.
More often than not, many of our clients have already set a work list for their agent. If you’re not familiar with the specific tasks needed to do the job done, it is better to consult with the Agents’ Supervisor and ask what kind of work is needed to achieve what you wanted. With the easy accessibility of collaborating over an Internet connection, you can chat with our brainstormers and we’ll help you figure out an efficient plan for getting your business ahead of the pack.
Many of our clients have not had an outsourced employee work remotely for them. Because of this, we’re providing a few suggestions on successfully working with your agent.
1. Set Specific Goals. This would include setting both short term and long term goals. What objectives do you want to accomplish in the next two weeks? Next, the goal for the next 12 months? Make sure that these goals are as specific as possible. Make sure that they can be measured. Most of all, the goals you set should be realistic.
Make it a point to review these goals on a regular basis to see how you are doing. Sometimes you need to adjust your short term goals, while always keeping your bigger and long term goals in mind.
2. Be Considerate. Even though you will probably only know your agent through chat or email, always remember that they are human, too. Some of the time, people have great ideas and are able to complete tasks perfectly while in other times, people get sick or make an error. One easy way to be considerate is to keep in mind the Golden Rule (aka the Ethic of Reciprocity). Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Not that we’re saying you don’t know this, but a little reminder is harmless, right?
3. Be a Mentor. If you are in the position to hire an agent, you might also be the best one to mentor or coach the agent. If you are particular about the results of a project, then it really is up to you to make sure that an agent is coached properly, and clearly understands the instructions.
There are many different strategies that a businessman can use. Sharing your personal vision, techniques and goals with your agent will earn you another loyal employee on your team to assist you more efficiently.
We screen our agents meticulously. Although we do not claim 100% effectiveness or declare perfection in our employees, we can assure you that our roster of agents are intelligent, flexible, adaptable and skilled in the areas you need them to work in. Agents for tasks like content writing, link building, affiliate marketing, or general web promotions have been given IQ tests, in-person interviews, and are asked to create writing samples under time pressure. Webmasters for technical projects involving graphics and programming are asked to create a sample project to demonstrate their abilities.
However, after our screening, an agent is still a raw resource. In order to gain the maximum benefit from their work, it calls for additional mentoring and coaching on your part for tasks that are specific to your business needs.
