Comments on: Streamlining your Online Business through Outsourcing

By: James Chartrand - JCM Enterprises

James Chartrand - JCM Enterprises — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:09:17 +0000

Outsourcing is one of the best ways to save time and money, vital in an online business. I know, because I’ve been on both sides of the coin. I offer services to those who want to outsource some work, and I use the services of others when I need some help with something I can’t do – or just need a break.

The funny thing was, I’ve been dead set against outsourcing for a long time, and I just recently saw the light. Check out why I started outsourcing and the benefits I received.

By: Vic

Vic — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:09:22 +0000

I think outsourcing graphics has been around most of the time anyway I do know a couple of bloggers that actualy have ghost writers doing there main articles.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:41:20 +0000

I like the layout of your website, it is very clean. Thanks for the outsourcing info, i didn’t know these options were available.

By: Micro Focus

Micro Focus — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:20:24 +0000

Thanks for sharing this very resourceful list. I agree outsourcing your work can save lot of your time, money and get you your desired results, only if it is given to the right professional/freelancer. I have no idea about the professionals on the other sites, but my personal experience with professionals on Elance.com was very satisfactory.

By: stark

stark — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:49:26 +0000

No problem everyone, glad the article was useful. I completely agree with the sentiments that you shouldn’t outsource if the work is sub par to what you do yourself. I think the ideal situation is to outsource when the work being farmed out is stuff that either is time consuming for you (when compared to cost to outsource) or it is an area you are not good at and don’t want to learn (for example, if you are a straight up programmer and have no interest in design).

I would recommend to anyone getting started to be as well rounded as you possibly can. Even if your designs suck, knowing about the design process by making some designs yourself can only benefit you. It’s a lot easier to judge quality of work and cost/value of someones rates if you have at least a little bit of knowledge of what goes into the work you’re outsourcing…

By: Bret

Bret — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:15:50 +0000

Thanks for the list of resources. I’m actually interested for the opposite reason. I don’t want to hire freelancers, I want to do freelance work. The only resource on your list I was previously familiar with was elance. Glad to see there are more to choose from and you just helped me with the research. Thanks

By: Andy Martin

Andy Martin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:19:59 +0000

Ya outsourcing should only be done when the work is done better .There is no point in outsourcing work when the quality of work done is same as yours.

By: Bios Password

Bios Password — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:17:09 +0000

Thanks for the resources. Outsourcing can work, but the work done may not be of the same quality as if you did it yourself.

By: cazare litoral

cazare litoral — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:38:34 +0000

believe it or not, I also use outsource for my designs
It takes more than my graphics skils to make a nice layout

By: DerekBeau

DerekBeau — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:43:33 +0000

I love to outsource writing for topics that I know nothing about, but I haven’t had much luck outsourcing design or programming work. I guess I just hired the wrong people.

When choosing a provider on one of these sites, make sure you are seeing samples from the person who will actually be working on your project. It is all too common to hire a company who will then further outsource your job to someone who they manage.