Re: Data Encoding Advice

On 17 Nov 2003 17:27:29 GMT, the renowned [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Henry Wu) wrote:

>
>Hi, I'm from the Philippines, as we all know labor cost here is quite
>low, I'm toying about the idea on a "Data Encoding Services" for the
>States or any other country that has a high labor cost.
>
>My idea is like having unformatted data (hard copy or soft copy) to be
>encoded by us. If its a hard copy data, it will FedEx here for
>encoding. Encoding data in databases, Excel, Word, Access, and the
>likes.
>
>Do you think there are companies that would use our services? 

Yes, it's a good idea, and I'm sure there are companies doing that
now. You may have an advantage over places with better infrastructure
and cheaper labor (such as China) in that I believe English is a
lingua franca in your country, so the quality of work might end up
being higher for more complex and less structured work (such as
transcribing "comments" sections from forms). FedEx has a major Asian
hub at the former military base (Clark) so shipping should be no
problem. Depending on the type of data you may wish to establish and
emphasize your security credentials. 

Best regards, 
Spehro Pefhany
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