Archive for August, 2007
Did you take some time off this weekend? You know that time away from your business is very important to your success. It refreshes your mind, allows it to relax and provides more energy for making decisions.
One of those decisions should be when to start outsourcing part of your work.
According to ANSWERStat.com, outsourcing is the concept of taking internal company functions and paying an outside firm to handle them. Outsourcing is done to save money, improve quality, or free company resources for other activities. Outsourcing was first done in the data-processing industry and has spread to areas, including tele-messaging and call centers. Outsourcing is the wave of the future.
Anyone who has become successful online uses outsourcing to delegate certain functions to others so their time can be focused on being productive in other areas. For example, I outsource as much as possible including major programming tasks, calling sales leads, prospective and current clients, and even website design for projects that require skills I am not proficient in or will take longer to complete than I have time for. Read the rest of this entry »
