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?