What Is Outsourcing And How Does It Benefit You?
What is Outsourcing?
What is Outsourcing?
Ive had a lot of people who have come to me who are beginners in outsourcing and the reason why theyve come up to my blog or reading up my information is because theyre trying to find out what can I do to outsource their business to be able to leverage their time and also to get back more things, more resources, tasks and work done. So let me explain to you firstly what is outsourcing. Outsourcing is another term for Business Process Outsourcing thats another long term to describe it but in simplistic terms, what outsourcing is to be able to hire someone, an individual or a company to be able to complete the work that you dont want to do or some work that you cant do yourself. Lets just give you an example.
For example, if you want to develop a website and youve got absolutely no skills but you dont want to hire someone locally to do it for you in terms of actually the costs, then you probably might want to find someone overseas such as in China, India, or Philippines to get the website done for you. Thats basically outsourcing your work to get done. Its been talked about hotly and there have been a lot of launches recently as well about this particular topic but I just clear it up so that people understand what outsourcing is all about so that you can get a better idea. So how does this benefit you?
Benefits of Outsourcing
Well, there are a few good things that I want to just point out to you. In my opinion, theres a huge cost-saving when you outsource to people. Firstly, in terms of the time, instead of you doing it or hiring someone locally inside your business to do it, this keep saving you on tax, saving you on the costs of actually hiring someone full-time in your business. Thats one thing.
Second thing is the cost-saving. If you outsource overseas to somebody in India, Philippines or even China for example, theres a big cost difference in terms of hiring them. And lastly, the skills youll be able to gain from outsourcing from other people. For example as I said for website development, if you dont have the skills in-house or currently for yourself, then hiring someone with those skills will save you amount of time to be able to learn them. Imagine if you have to spend 10 hours to be able to learn how to upload a WordPress blog, whereas someone can complete it within 2 hours. Imagine that time-saving of 10 hours week and focus to put on something else that you can grow and leverage your time and your business as well.
So thats basically what outsourcing is all about in simplistic layman terms. Let me share with you the different types of tasks or skills that you can outsource:
The first one Ive got here is web and design development obviously if youve got a website, outsource that. Getting someone to complete that for you is an excellent way to be able to get things done much quicker. Inbound customer service if youve got call center like Optus, Telstra, any of the largest call center companies, they outsource all their call centers. Thats the reason why when you call them, you hit people from India, Philippines answering the calls.
Outbound telemarketing imagine if you can have huge sales force back and behind you calling out to numerous numbers that you provide them with leads and just generating sales for you. Thats another area of outsourcing.
SEO and Internet Marketing now as an Internet marketer, a lot of people hire virtual assistants or hire SEO experts to be able to do their online marketing such as search engine optimization, link building, article marketing, all those kinds of things.
Another one is backoffice and admin support. Say for example were looking at taking in emails, handling emails and customer support, handling product inquiries. All those kinds of things can be outsourced through the admin support and backoffice.
The next one is Virtual Assistant services. What were looking at here is hiring someone to be able to manage day-to-day business for you being basically an assistant to getting the work done. Thats also another area of outsourcing. Next one is accounting and HR management well, I mean that is huge overseas over there because accounting is something that people do need to do and it does cost quite a lot of people with high skill but you can outsource that quite easily.
Hopefully that gives you a good idea exactly what type of possibilities that you can do with outsourcing and the benefits that I can provide for you too.
Now you know that what's important is to know first what outsourcing really is and understand how it can benefit your business. Take some time to brainstorm, find the tasks that you don't enjoy or you don't know the most and outsource it. Alternatively, look for the best places to hire your first virtual staff to don't waste more money on repeating processes.
by: videomarkster
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