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.
That way I can focus on better and faster customer service, bringing in new business, planning my marketing strategies and interacting with others in discussion forums, writing blog articles, amongst other things that help the business grow, while maintaining current relationships.
Finding quality sources to outsource your functions is not always an easy task. You can go through trial and error to find a good fit for your business. When you find someone though, that time spent trying out others can pay off in a big way.
For smaller projects, look to your network of friends and business associates. You will already have a relationship with them and can tap into their experience, while having already developed trust with them.
After that, look to services that offer bids on jobs through freelance auctions. Some good places to start are:
- eLance.com – Handles areas such as Administrative Support, Creative Writing, Translation, Business Consulting, Business Plans, Marketing Plans, Email Marketing and Audio, Video & Multimedia development.
- Rent-A-Coder.com – this is a site where I can post a project, and people from around the world will bid on it. Usually a great place to find graphics designers.
- Guru.com – Great for finding more upper level (and more expensive) programmers as well as writers.
- Workaholics4hire.com – this company is great place to find people to do support, linking campaigns and more. They charge you an hourly rate to work with someone from their in-house team.
- AgentsOfValue.com – if you want to hire someone long term – then this is the place to go. How it works is you will hire someone from their company (in the Phillipies) for usually around $2-$5 an hour. You train them how to do what it is you would like them to do, then they work for you 40 hours a week! These guys are the best for things like linking, article writing and article submission.
I hope these resources help give you ideas on how to expand your business and take it to the next level.
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