How Outsourcing Made My Internet Marketing Business a Reality
I cannot say enough good things about outsourcing or the people who work with me. You may notice a gap in my posting on this blog. That is because my two outsourcers keep ME so busy. They are helping me take my business ideas and things I have learned into the real world wide web. My dream is becoming a reality. We are actually earning real income. We are connecting and interacting with real people out there in cyberspace. I believed it could happen. I just didn’t know how to make it happen until I hired outsourcers.
Like so many new netpreneurs, I got very excited about Internet Marketing.
I read everything I could get my hands on. I joined some coaching and tried to implement a few things. But one major hindrance stood in my way. I am a technophobe. I tried, I really tried, to learn how to put up a web page. I had some minor success after many hours and some tears. And even with those things I was able to manage, if I hit one wrong key or placed one wrong code, I didn’t know how to get out of it.
Honestly, I was about ready to give up. And then I followed some good advise and hired a couple of outsourcers. And it was the single best decision I have made in my Internet Marketing career. I thought to be successful, I had to do it all. Somehow I had confused having my own business with being a martyr. I never did it all when I worked in the corporate world. In fact, I did my piece of the puzzle which tied into so many other pieces. I couldn’t build my company’s widget but I sure could create the deal to finance it.
Like anything else that is new to you, you have to learn how to manage the outsourcing portion of your business. But if you hire the right people, this is probably one of the easiest things you will do. In my next few posts, I am going to review some products and people who’s advise helped me choose the right outsourcers for my business. I can’t emphasize enough how important outsourcing should be to your internet business. And I can’t be more pleased with the two people I hired.
I have one person who is a whiz with all this technical mumbo jumbo. He studied it in school. Yes, he is devoting his career at this time to developing things on the web. How arrogantly stupid was I to think I could or should be able to do what he does? I don’t have time to go back to school fulltime for a couple of years. But he is at the beginning of his career. If I studied everyday, all day, I would never catch up to him because technical is his niche. My natural talents lie elsewhere.
My other outsourcer is a young lady who is game to tackle anything. She tries with various success to tackle technical stuff. But her main value to me is to replicate my efforts. She posts at my blogs. She researches topics. She does a little of everything and frees up my time to develop other projects.
The goal in hiring outsourcers is to replicate yourself and strengthen up the chinks in your armor. Since both of my outsourcers are at the front end of their careers, I am giving them an opportunity to earn and learn. I pay them to produce tangible products for me. I also pay them to spend time learning new software and things I can give them. This is how I was developed in the corporate world and this is how I want to be with my people. I see this as investing in them and I hope they will want to continue to invest in me. As my business prospers, they too will prosper. In time, I hope they will run parts of my business with me nearly hands off. I can see the day when we will need to hire more help that they will supervise and develop.
All I can say is this is incredibly exciting stuff. With the help of the right outsourcer, you can have your business online now, not months from now after you have tried to do it all yourself. If you are interested in bringing outsourcing help into your business (and you should be), check out my product reviews.