If you think about getting going using outsourcing in a business in order to increase your productivity or simply to eliminate tasks from the equation which you don’t enjoy doing, you may be wondering what kind of things could be outsourced.
The truth of the matter is, almost anything that can be completed using a desktop PC or done using the Internet or telephone line can be outsourced. But there are some things that are much more commonly outsourced than others. In this article, I’m going to show you three popular types of items which you can outsource so you can consider which ones are the most appropriate for you to use in your business.
The first thing you can consider outsourcing is article writing. I’m sure you know the importance of articles in a business. This can be used as content on your own sites. That is, they provide something visitors to read to keep them interested in your site. They can also be used to build backlinks to your site. You can submit the articles to directories and provide a research box providing a link back to your site.
It’s always useful having a large amount of articles. Now, you may find that in your particular business, article writing takes a long time. If it takes an hour or more to write an article, it is certainly of great value to you to be able to outsource that to a professional writer or if even a hobbyist writer who can provide the same service for a few dollars. By doing so, you can spend your time working on something more productive for you. So always look which article is most appropriate whether you can outsource them.
Graphics are great area to outsource. After all, very few of us are naturally talented out producing artistic and professional looking graphics. So by outsourcing your graphics, you can immediately be spending your time on something else which you are good at. Considerable given graphics you might have on a webpage ranging from headers, banner ads, e-book covers, DVD covers, footers, even buy now boxes.
The fact is, the Internet is covered in graphics and the good news is there are some very good artists available who do not charge the earth for their services. Rather than going ahead and trying to learn how to use Photoshop which can be quite taxing to even to the most exeperienced computer users (I consider myself in that category) then go ahead and outsource your graphics. If you choose the right people, you’d be very impressed by the standard of graphic work you receive back in return.
Well, a final sensible thing to outsource is research work. Now, you might think that it’s easy enough to go away and find out information about a particular topic you’re interested in and you do the research yourself. That’s true but sometimes it can be more cost effective to outsource it even if you don’t mind doing research.
Let’s say you’re trying to discover the best terms to use on a new web page. You may wish to use some keyword research to do that. You can spend several hours plowing through figures, loading them into spreadsheets and to try and count up the number of competitors. Whereas you can find somebody who can work much cheaper but got experience in keyword research and can come up with very similar figures in the same amount of time as you. In fact, you may find they even come up with better results and otherwise would do.
If you think about research, such as having to decidewhat will go into an e-book, you can outsource this task and set your employee to do the work for you. This can be a great reason for using outsourcing for research rather than researching it all yourself. You never need to consider when or if to outsource.
You should always be thinking as the experienced online marketers do asking questions like, “How much can I outsource?” or “Can I outsource this? Is it profitable for me? Will it free of my time something better?” If the answer is yes, whether you’re working on articles, thinking of producing graphics or you need research conducting, you should go ahead and outsource the task. You’ll find that the time saving is of huge benefit to you for your long term business plans.