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IT Service Providers
These are mainly into website designing and maintenance. Designing a
website for a company, establishment, or institution needs a sharp, creative
mind. It is not just another technical job.
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Q & A: IT Service Providers
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What skills should I have? Diplomas and short courses in web
designing would be handy skills for this field.
What is my investment? Your
creativity.
What is my market? Private companies, institutions, or smaller
establishments.
What returns can I expect? Website creation rates range
from Rs 1,000 per home page to Rs 1,500 if flash and graphics are used. Website
maintenance is more lucrative where you upload the pages and content provided by
the client on a weekly or monthly basis. Annual Maintenance Contracts (AMCs) are
signed from Rs 20,000 upwards depending upon the company and your negotiation
skills.
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Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
This is
perhaps the segment which promises the largest wealth and employment generation
for India in the years to come. Call Centres and BPO related establishments that
have sprung up in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and now Kolkata are buzzing with
activity. As a small home-based professional, you will have to explore a
specialised niche for yourself — maybe medical transcription if you have
the background or translations of Business Contracts and Memoranda of
Understandings (MOUs) between organisations if you are a linguist and know
foreign languages. But remember, these are very specialised and competitive
assignments. Breaking in would depend entirely on your contacts and perhaps with
a lucky net search you may strike gold.
There are electronic and
computer engineers who work for American companies. The work involved in these
assignments is not more than six to seven hours a week but due to cut-throat
competition in this segment, entrepreneurs do not reveal the names of clients
who are based in the USA and UK.
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Q & A: Business Process Outsourcing
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What skills should I have? A course in medical transcription
would help; so would knowing a foreign language.
What is my investment? No
monetary investment, apart from your course fees that is.
What is my
market? You can offer your skills to BPO centres; any direct contact with
foreign companies looking to outsource will also help.
What returns can I
expect? Payments in this field are made by the word ie 5 to 10 cents per word,
which works out to be quite lucrative. There are electronic and computer
engineers who are paid monthly fees of US $500 by American companies who
outsource certain operations.
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