After another busy year of work, it was great to cap it off with a little rest and relaxation.Last December, our company President, Ray Jamin, together with our Senior Project Manager, Allan Hernandez, travelled to Japan to spend the holidays snowboarding at Madarao Ski Resort. The ski resort, located at the snowy peaks of Nagano Prefecture, was a great place to catch the cool mountain air and take a breather from work.https://youtu.be/ZTa1V2FveMoUnbeknownst to most, our company president, Ray, enjoys extreme outdoor sports such as snowboarding and wakeboarding. Allan, our senior project manager and a longtime friend and colleague of his, introduced him to these extreme sports. They’ve also both started to play with drones, so hopefully we can see some neat aerial shots soon!In our company, our leaders serve as examples of how having a good work life balance can help drive success. This is the same principle that we apply to our teams, and this is exactly why KDCI is one of the leading outsourcing companies in the Philippines today.
Meet the awesome KDCI Content Curator team!
They helped our client in the software industry gain 10 million monthly subscribers for their services – an amazing milestone!
With their expert content and data management skills, our Content Curator team is truly an invaluable part of the KDCI family.
Visiting the office this week is Alister Harris, owner and CEO at Framework Solutions LLC, together with Raymond Jamin, our President.
Alister came to visit the KDCI office in the Philippines to interview some up and coming web developers that specialize in Miscrosoft's dynamics framework. Alister also met with the KDCI back office team to develop an outsoucing strategy to help take his business to the next level.
Framework Solutions LLC. is a company focused on building scalable custom applications for corporate clients. It is the company behind Shopodex.com, a turn-key eCommerce platform that offers a complete and scalable eCommerce management system for all business sizes.
It was great meeting you, Alister!
On December 8, 2018, KDCI celebrated its annual Year-end party at The Stockpile at Sapphire Bloc. Coachella was the theme of choice, and everyone came to the celebration wearing their best music festival-inspired outfits.
At 8 o’clock, people started arriving, all eager and excited to sign up and get their entry tickets to the party raffle.
The venue was soon buzzing with excitement, with everyone having fun mingling and catching up. Opening remarks were made by our Creative Director, Ian Rañosa, and the celebration commenced with fervor.
The party went on well into midnight, with everyone enjoying the amazing food, flowing drinks, and exciting games.
The party came to a conclusion with inspiring statements from our CEO, Anthony Layug, as well as our President, Raymond Jamin. They thanked everyone for their hard work for the past year, and they went on to discuss the big plans for the company in the near future.
We at KDCI are thankful for all our achievements this past year, as well as all the new additions to our ever-growing family. This Year-end party was the perfect celebration to cap off the year and to propel us forward, towards the company’s future which grows steadily brighter.
React JavaScript or React JS is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries today for building user interfaces. It is mainly used for single page applications and handling view layers for apps, but it can also be used to create apps that can change data without having to actually reload the page. This functionality and flexibility makes React JS an extremely appealing option for developers who want a simple, fast, and customizable tool for building a JavaScript language.
However, React JS is not the only JavaScript framework in the market today. In fact, it has two other competitors: Angular and Vue.js, which you may already be familiar with.
It is easy. React JS is easy to learn and use as well. This is because it uses a simple, component-based approach and it uses simple and plain JavaScript for processes as well. Aside from this, it also offers JSX as a syntax, which is a mix of HTML and JavaScript programming that makes processes easier. It is also very basic and easy to use for anyone with a basic knowledge of programming, unlike Angular which needs deep knowledge of TypeScript.
It uses data binding. React JS has a one-way data binding feature which means that the data flow of components passes only through one point. This means that it is easy to control components, as well as to examine and debug them if need be later.
It is reusable. Extensive code reusability is supported by React JavaScript, which means that none of the codes you built will be put to waste and you won’t have to be bogged down by repetition of the same codes unnecessarily.
It is easy to test. Applications created on React JS are also especially easy to test as its views function allows each part of a code to be examined as to their outputs.
It is established. As an open-source JavaScript library that has been around since 2013, React JS has the benefit of being well-known and having a well-established resource pool, especially compared to the newer Vue.js and complicated Angular. It is also currently being used in many popular platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Carousel, and Yahoo Mail. Aside from this, knowledge sharing among developers worldwide has also allowed React JS to always have newer and better versions than its predecessors as well.
We at KDCI Outsourcing know and understand that web development is not an easy task and we know how difficult it is to focus on the step-by-step processes involved in it. We also know how difficult it can be to find the right people to do the job for you and do it well.
Here, we have seasoned developers with years of ReactJS experience and a decade of overall experience in web development, using different programming languages and platforms. We are equipped with the latest technological know-how, and we have substantial experience in working with some of the biggest companies in the world. One noteworthy project where we’ve applied our ReactJS expertise is an online ordering system for one of the biggest fast food chains in the United States.
Our team knows the ins and outs of web development and with us, you can rest easy knowing that we can truly help you reach your business goals, no matter how big or small they may be.
Ready to outsource your web development? Contact us today to know more about how we can help you take your business to the next level.
Whether you are doing a product launch or a speech, a presentation slide is an effective way to deliver your message with the use of multimedia to capture audience’s attention. But which presentation software is better -- Powerpoint vs Google Slides? Below is a comparison of the two!
Powerpoint has been around 30 years now and since it is part of the Microsoft Office package, a license is needed to use it. It costs around $70 - $150 yearly, but once installed on your PC, easily access it without internet connection.
With Google Slides, have the software right at your fingertips without paying extra. Just connect to the internet, register and freely enjoy all Google Docs softwares.
As mentioned, PowerPoint requires the Microsoft Office software installed to run properly. Files will be saved on your hard disc and accessible thru your personal computer. If you need to have it online, register to Microsoft’s cloud storage OneDrive and upload it there. PowerPoint also offers a free online version, however, it is more basic than the desktop-based product.
Google Slides enable real time collaboration. Simultaneously edit the presentation deck online with colleagues is the platform's biggest selling point. Just send an invite and you both can edit the same file at the same time.
PowerPoint doesn’t offer an automatic savings unless you have the latest version. It saves a copy of your document every few seconds on OneDrive. It has AutoRecover feature in case crash happen.
Since Google Slides is cloud-based, every 5-10 mins, your work is being saved on Google Drive without hitting the button. All changes are automatically saved to the cloud. Also, Google Slides it has a history review. Check out previous versions and restore them any time.
Another good thing about PowerPoint is its many features such as special effects which are only available in the desktop version. Easily drag images or draw your own.
Freely embed video and audio files in PowerPoint. It supports a number of formats compared to Google Slides. Have a Youtube video in your presentation if you want to.
Google Slides, in contrast, offers basic animations and transitions compared to PowerPoint. Customizing different images and shapes is also limited.
There’s a few restrictions when it comes to embedding files since they only support a few formats. YouTube video allowed as well but audio files are not.
When it comes to templates, PowerPoint offers wide gallery of ready-to-use templates for various purposes.
Google Slides comes with a gallery of pre-made basic templates which you can edit and change according to your preferences.
Presentation slides has been the standard material when doing launches, lectures and speeches, and here at KDCI we recognize the value of it.
For over 15 years, making creatively engaging and high quality presentations to a wide variety of clients has been one of our strengths. We worked with small, medium and large organizations to attract potential customers towards their services and products.
This is just one out of hundred presentations we did over the past years.
Choosing between Powerpoint vs Google Slides? At KDCI Outsourcing, our graphic designers are experts at both!
Discover the benefits of working with outsource graphic designers and outsource your graphic design team for superior PowerPoint and google slide presentations!
Sources: envatotuts+ | MonsterPost | LinkedIn
E-commerce is a business which is constantly growing. Consumers regularly go online to purchase everything from furniture to food, and in response to this, many retailers have shifted from brick and mortar stores to online shops. As a seller in the vast online marketplace, it can be a real challenge to stand out from your competition and convince potential customers to look at your items.
In general, most online consumers meticulously examine product pictures before deciding on purchasing items for sale online. Good pictures are thus essential in attracting potential buyers to the website and driving them to make a purchase.
However, as an E-business owner, it can be tedious and time-consuming to retouch and edit all your product photos. This is where Product Photo Retouching Outsourcing comes into play.
It is a way of enhancing the overall look of a product photo using the latest technology and digital techniques. Images are refreshed and transformed to become more appealing to consumers. In addition, product photo retouching can also include adding product dimensions, correcting color, changing the background and reducing unnecessary elements of a photograph.
Retouching hundreds of images by yourself is time-consuming and tedious, even if you have the skills and technical knowhow to do it yourself. If you want to be more cost efficient with faster turnaround, outsourcing the task to a skilled team is the way to go.
By utilizing an outsourcing company that has dedicated photo editors who specialize in product photo editing, you can rest easy knowing that that you can get your enhanced photos within 24 hours or less.
Having a team of photo editors work on a hundred images is much more cost effective and efficient as opposed to hiring a dedicated in-house graphic designer (or designers).
With a whole team of editors working on your images, projects that would take weeks or months with one or a handful of in-house graphics designers, can be completed in days for a much lower cost.
New photo editing trends and techniques are being developed every day, and these can and should be used to their fullest advantage to help you sell your products. By choosing the right team of professional editors with years of experience, you can be sure that you will get expertly, and thoughtfully retouched photos that are modern and appealing. This will give your online business the extra boost that it needs.
KDCI believes that consumers respond to the images they see. The more polished and professional your images appear, the more likely that a consumer will trust your website and your products. Product images are therefore important in drawing and keeping the interest of consumers and convincing them to make a purchase.
Knowing this, we at KDCI strive to provide the highest quality of work, for each photo that we receive. We aim to provide our clients with excellent quality work: clean, polished, and appealing to today’s consumer.
Here are some sample of our work. Click here to see more.
Background Removal / Clipping Path Services
Color Correction
Photo Correction
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. With our dedicated team of offshore graphic design professionals working on your images, your pictures will definitely speak for themselves.
Source: https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/the-great-product-photography-debate-diy-oroutsource/
Whether you’re planning for an extravagant company event or your usual client meeting, there is a simple tool you can rely on to help you get your projects off the ground. Trello is a simple and easy to use tool that can provide you with the all the organization capabilities of a planner while having the flexibility of a virtual corkboard.
With over 25 million users worldwide, it’s one of the most popular productivity and project management applications on the market today, and there’s no surprise why.
By using Trello, you can quickly and easily plot daily and monthly tasks. You also have the option to create boards and checklists which can be shared with your entire team for collaborative work. At a glance, you can even see the progress you’ve made and all the tasks you have left.
Here at KDCI, whenever the team gets a new project, a new card is created on the team’s Trello board. This makes it easy for the everyone in the team to see at a glance all the new projects the company has. Things like client requests, deadlines, and team members assigned to tasks can all be easily viewed with a few clicks.
Trello is a great tool utilized fully by the KDCI team in the planning, creation, and implementation of our various projects. There may be a lot of other project management tools out on the market today, but not many can compare to the ease and flexibility that this tool offers, especially for the workplace.
Have you used Trello for your own workplace projects? We’d love to hear your experience.
Sources: Hubstaff Blog | Wired
Other than being actively present on social media sites, other companies neglect what email marketing can actually benefit their advertising efforts and company. Email marketing is an excellent way of promoting products, services and events to customers, business prospects, members and suppliers who have explicitly requested to receive such messages.Recipient responses to email marketing messages can be measured through open-up and click-through tracking, which can be further extended to measure actual sales or membership conversions. Based on real data, companies and organizations can make more informed decisions in tailoring future announcements to more closely match the needs and preferences of subscribers.When conducting email marketing campaigns, it is important to use full-featured email marketing design and software. The software should provide double opt-in functions and an easy-to-use interface for people to just automatically subscribe, unsubscribe and change their email addresses or subscription settings if needed. Naturally, the software should also automatically handle bounces or delivery errors and provide in-depth tracking and reporting capabilities to measure the effectiveness of campaigns. This allows organizations to build loyalty and trust through a more personal relationship towards their subscribers.
Opt-in email marketing is an ideal way of promoting products, services and events to customers, business prospects, members or suppliers who have explicitly requested to receive such email messages. Some may not even realize the benefits of choosing this marketing strategy. So here are the top reasons you need to know.
Email marketing can reach a wide audience in a short period of time and allows recipients to immediately act on messages. Campaigns can be implemented and executed with only minimal software, hardware and personnel investments.
Email marketing is much more cost-effective than traditional direct mail marketing, banner ads or telemarketing where additional fees are incurred. Email marketing allows links to be embedded in messages, which drives website traffic as well.
Regularly delivered email messages with proper subject lines and logos reinforce company and product awareness. Email creates an interactive connection and nurtures quality customer relations.
Email marketing and sales campaigns can be measured in detail through open-up, click-through and conversion rates to evaluate the success of campaigns. The data allows marketers to adjust strategies to improve future results.
Using a customer database, email marketing campaigns can be customized with specific customer data. Databases also allow targeted mailings to specific recipient groups, for example, by ZIP code, gender or income. Moreover, you can also highly customize your emails to reflect your brand and design.If you think email marketing will serve you best and need a helping hand in its creation, talk to us at KDCI Outsourcing and learn how we could help you!
What started out as a few agents, has grown into an invaluable partnership with KDCI. With more than 40 team members, we are lucky enough to count as part of our Cedar Family. Thank you so much KDCI for making our Company better!
We have found KDCI to be a consistently reliable partner, always willing to ‘go the extra mile’ to ensure our valued customers receive the best possible service.
KDCI plays a very important role in our catalog and content operations. They are responsive, kind, and always willing to help us as much as possible. We have been working together for more than 4 years, and we hope our partnership will be even more fruitful in the future.
Having collaborated with KDCI.co for our creative needs, I can confidently attest to their unparalleled expertise and dedication. Their team consistently delivered innovative solutions that not only met, but often exceeded our expectations. Their professionalism and attention to detail are commendable.
KDCI were able to grow with us with any future requirements. We have a lot to do when it comes to our business, and everytime we come back, they're right there with us and able to deliver.
KDCI's team has been instrumental in helping us not only modernize our platforms but also increase the experiences for the customer, and to deliver on the tsunami of content that came their way.
We had a lot of difficulty finding qualified talent in the United States. Honestly, I don't think we had thought about outsourcing at all as a potential option, but we were very open to it once we heard about it. We love our KDCI team. They're just like a regular part of our team, it's just that they're thousands of miles away.
It's been five years since we started working with KDCI, and it just keeps getting better and better. We've grown together and achieved a lot of shared success. Overall, they're incredibly professional yet fun to work with. We are incredibly happy to have found them.
We're so glad we partnered with KDCI to develop a unique platform that delivers personalized customer experiences without compromising functionality or security. It was an amazing experience, I won't hesitate to start another project with them again.
