Is Outsourcing The Answer?
By Jan on May 21, 2009 in Internet Marketing
Initially you will probably have enough time to perform all the necessary tasks involved in setting up your own home-based business. There is usually quite a learning curve and you will proceed rather cautiously. This can be quite a slow process. However, you eventually get to the stage where your website it up and running, you have posted a number of videos to YouTube, you are interacting on Twitter and Facebook and you might even be writing the occasional article.
As you add additional activities so as to develop leads for your business, you begin to find that there are not enough hours in the day to perform all the functions regularly and efficiently.
For instance, you might wish to write a few articles a week, but find that the amount of time spent in researching your subject and then actually writing those articles is very time consuming. Maybe this is taking up so much of your time, that you are neglecting posting to your blog or networking on the social sites.
So what is the answer? Obviously, there are only so many hours in a day. The question is, how best to spend that time.
First of all, you would want to examine the effectiveness of what you are already doing. Are your articles bringing in leads and are they getting you great Google placements? If they are, then your time would seem to be well spent on your article writing. On the other hand, if you are spending a huge amount of time writing your articles and they are not getting many viewings, perhaps you should consider outsourcing this portion of your business. Elance.com lists numerous people who provide unique articles for you at a very reasonable cost.
Perhaps you have been working for weeks or even months, on trying to get a website up and running. You are trying to do your own capture pages but they still don’t look very professional. This is another thing that can very easily be outsourced. This would be a one-time cost unlike the article writing, which would probably be an ongoing expense.
Just think of all the time you might have wasted trying to get a website up and running by yourself. If you had outsourced this, you would have had the website out there working for you for the last number of months. You want your pages to look professional and it is very difficult for a beginner to create and optimize a webpage effectively. Spending your money in this area is definitely money well spent. Ask around for references and check out the work that the designer has done for other people. There are many styles and formats available and you will like some more than others.
Sometimes, we have the mentality that we have to do everything ourselves or we are not genuine. This is very faulty thinking. The majority of successful internet marketers outsource a good portion of their work. The big decision that you have to make is deciding what your strengths and weaknesses are. Once you are clear on this, it becomes relatively easy to decide what you want to outsource. Don’t try to be an expert at everything. It will not work.
The success you are looking for will be achieved much quicker if you outsource those things that you are either not good at or that you take no pleasure in doing. You will wonder why you did not start to outsource long before now!








1 Comment(s)
By Nicholas Wind on Sep 17, 2009 | Reply
I can now relate to this article since I have my blog up and humming for 4 months and expanding my reach because I have finally found something worth while promoting.
The learning curve into “new school” started 2 years ago with Mike Dillard and now with much frustration and hard work because I was not too swift on how to market the proper way I am making money and know exactly what I need to do.
I follow Franco a friend of yours and a great guy who really cares.
I am going to source out my articles to be distributed and that’s a big deal and really not that expensive.
Just by surprise I am learning to like to write and plan on becoming a good writer one day.
The big work comes in distributing articles so yes out source is the key.
The goal is to make enough to outsource everything I don’t want to do so I can focus on what makes money as Dillard teaches.