subject: Small Businesses: What to outsource? [print this page] Small Businesses: What to outsource? Small Businesses: What to outsource?
Many small businesses and start-ups wonder if they should outsource their work and save cost. Even though every business is different and has unique criteria, here are some pointers that will help you making that important decision.
If yours is a small business that needs a simple website or a simple application with small budget, and if you are looking to outsource to an offshore company, I suggest you go through the following checklist before you contact any company in India:
Can your job be done using free website templates that hosting companies provide or paid website templates under $200?
Can your job be done using ready-to-use services like shopping carts and payment gateways from other companies?
Can your job be done for $500 to $1000 by someone from rentacoder.com, elance.com or craigslist.com?
If the answer to any of these questions is "yes," you don't need to contact offshore vendors and go through the vendor selection and negotiation process. You can get into that process at a later stage, when your business has grown and demands more complex business processes.
However, if you are developing, for example, a dating website or a job portal that needs a complex engine to match profiles, your project is a good candidate for offshoring because it's not an easy and quick project that can be done for under $1000. Projects with business logic, rules and workflows are the right candidates to contact Indian vendors and start the process of RFP (Request for Proposal) and vendor selection.
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