Save Time, Money and Sanity with Outsourcing
Halina Zakowicz
Why Outsource?
You’re not sure You’re procrastinating You’re fumbling You’re out of time
What Can be Outsourced?
Content creation Online marketing Website creation Customer service/human
resources/accounting/legal Graphic design Apps, videos, programs e-commerce Weird stuff: Grocery shopping,
waiting in line, anniversaries
Outsourcing Sites
Microjobs (small, flat fee) Fiverr, Fourerr, TenBux Mechanical Turk TaskRabbit
Bigger jobs (larger one-time fee) Textbroker, Constant Content, oDesk, eLance,
Freelancer.com, Business2Blogger, 99Designs, FittyTown, Gigbucks ($5-$50)
Outsourcing Sites
• Contract jobs (per hour/task)oDesk, eLance, PeoplePerHour TryMyUI, Userfeel, Userlytics, UserTestingDigital Point Forums
• Virtual assistance (long-term service)Onlinejobs.ph Virtual Office Temps (virtualassistantjobs.com)
Outsourcing scale
What you can outsource on Fiverr
The top rabbits are bewilderingly energetic, gregarious to a fault. They’re the sorts of people who would make good personal assistants to celebrities, but instead they’ve become assistants to regular people—a quick succession of regular people, even, within a single day.-Wired, TaskRabbit Turns Grunt Work Into a Game
Outsource standing in line, laundry and grocery shopping
But don’t do this…
Should You Outsource Overseas?
Advantages– Time difference– Low price – Shorter hiring process– Many candidates– Specialists
Disadvantages– Not “Made in USA”– More hands-on– Language discrepancies – Finessing/editing needed – Few “Jack/Jill of all trades”
Offshore outsourcing
Microsourcing www.microsourcing.com/ Setting up an offshore office Product testing Customer data mining Customer/technical support Social media posts/blogging Website creation
Virtual Office Temps
Virtual Office Temps profiles
What else can you outsource?
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