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BY Mr Rickman | 01-09-2010 | 8:25 AM
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Sustainable Virtual Services, LLC (January, 2009) --- Reports 2009 growth over 80%, a privately held firm employing workers in Hillsboro, Oregon offers business entrepreneurs Copywriting, SEO, Blog, Click Ads, Web Content Development, Technical Market Research, Social Media and Sales/Marketing Services.

By using the virtual enterprise model that increases work-flow efficiency reducing client costs by over 45% and workforce carbon footprint by more than 25% resulting in sustainable clean technology for cleaner air and reduced commuter oil consumption.

Several examples of reducing client costs during tough economic times includes savings for conference meetings, travel, onsite training, SEO, Blog, Web Content, Sales Advertising, technical media/financial writing, technical market research, administrative, public relations, marketing, sales support, and other expenses all virtually eliminated.

A recent study conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows that over 33-million Americans hold jobs that could be performed by Sustainable Virtual Geographically Dispersed Teams. Based on research such productive teams have the ability to reduce oil imports by over 48%, and reduce greenhouse gases by over 67-million metric tons saving more than 7.5-Billion gallons of gasoline each year.

Gartner Research shows that sustainable virtual geographically dispersed teams decrease business overhead expenses of between 30% to 55% while increasing worker productivity enabling a collaborative 24-hour work day spread, dispersed over global workforce time-zones. The vast majority 91% agree that virtual work saves their companies time and money.

The typical virtual team includes six members and meets once each week, relying on tools such as wireless laptops, e-mail, audio conferencing and standard Internet connections of 5Mbps to 50Mbps accomplishing its network goals. A full 95% of workers who have participated on virtual teams found the experience productive and enjoyable. Most team members reported greater flexibility in their personal lives while increasing work productivity.

One recent study by Compdata shows that 60.2% of organizations offer mid-level employees cell phone PDAs and the same group 43.8% are offered wireless laptops and/or home PCs. Work as we know it is evolving into more of a geographically dispersed network of collaboration based on the sustainable virtual teams (SVT™) approach. For more information visit http://www.sustainablevirtualbiz.com/home   or call (503) 621-4953