How To Outsource Your Small Business In 5 Ways
February 2, 2010 by Tyrone
You may probably ask yourself, “How can I outsource if I’m still starting up?” Well, there’s already the answer to that. The reason is when you are running a small business, you are the jack-of-all-trades where you play as the worker, manager and even the administrator all by yourself. Additionally, the more tasks you do on your own, the lesser it is to maintain the productivity of the work done and in effect, less efficient results to maintain greater profits in the near future.
Do Smart Business Owners Ask For Help?
Yes, they do and everyone should realize there would always reasons to seek help to expand expertise and opportunities. For me, I admit I’ve been through all the hassles of handling things by myself but since I have started outsourcing say, my Dragonboat business, I’ve had the best relief of having the chance to communicate with the suppliers and plan ahead of time to develop my Dragonboat service while my customer support staff stays responsible in answering queries, processing orders and payments as well.
If you’re thinking I’ve been spending too much as a start, no! Generally I’ve decided to outsource since it’s just a cheaper part of investment overseas while receiving a high quality of work in less time and effort. Now, let me show you how I’ve been able to realize that outsourcing while starting up really works:
What to Outsource?
Get to this mindset: Think of the things that you’ve done during the day and what actually gets done in the long run when you outsource it. I’ll draw an example to make this easy – emails for instance has always been part of your daily routines in the business and if you thought you have always checked on the new ones, then try to realize how your virtual staff can even filter, organize and respond to them in less time in daily basis. See? That’s a big break. Start to outsource anything that goes around a routine which cuts off at least 2 hours of your day administering to friends, customers and the likes.
When to Outsource?
There are just two things: when you know everything that has to be outsourced and when you know nothing about the tasks that you are currently outsourcing. As I said earlier, outsourcing can help you maximize the expertise in the business through the expanded efforts of your virtual staff all done at the same time. When you’re not good at graphic design for example, let an expert do that for you then it’s up for you to decide on a good, better and best outputs. Secondly, you can outsource the things in which you already are good at to give your virtual staff the right information and get things done the way you wanted. Also, checking on minimal errors on your part can be a lot easier than to implement the whole project yourself.
Why to Outsource?
It’s simply because you can do other things outside of your business but can think of more ways on how to increase profits as well. Outsourcing gives you enough time to plan, draw more targets and set better strategies for your earnings. Thus, the less work you do, the more it frees up your mind to activate your plans, grow profits easier and also enjoy the rest of your weekends.
Are You Batch Processing Your Outsourced Work?
November 26, 2009 by Tyrone
Over the past couple years I’ve been very privileged to participate in Yaro Starak’s coaching programs and learn from his teachings. Recently I’ve been listening to his audio Mindset series in the car quite a number of times, not because I don’t have anything to listen to, it’s because I want to. What I have noticed every time I listen to this series is a new idea will come to mind and it keeps me grounded in how I should be approaching my Internet business.
A specific topic Yaro talked about is batch processing and it’s an important system for any Internet business. This topic wasn’t directed to outsourcing, though I wanted to share with you how relevant it can be.
What is Batch Processing?
Let’s take a look at an example in relation to emails. Emails are probably one of the biggest distractions in modern society (sorry guys, in my opinion it is), though they are necessary because it is considered a main form of communication between a client and a business. Now you can have the option of checking your email every hour of the day and replying to people answering their questions or you can batch process them at most once a day or twice a week (ultimately this is what you should strive to achieve). What batch processing does is it allows you to process all your tasks at one time rather than processing them as they come.
Rather than answer an email straight away, which takes 5 minutes to complete and interrupt your current task, you can process all your emails once at the end of the day, that allows you to have a focused effort. So you get the emails replied to in 30 minutes compared to the 50 minutes it would have taken you if spread these over the day.
In my Dragonboat business I let customers know that I personally check my email twice a week on Tuesday or Thursday and if the matter is urgent, they need to send the request to my support team who checks the ticket system twice a day on my behalf.
What Are Tasks You Can Batch Process To Be More Productive?
Podcast: Robb Sutton – Making Money Review Blogging
September 16, 2009 by Tyrone
Today I’ve got Robb Sutton who has a really cool story that will give you a different perspective on blogging. His an avid cyclist, photographer and owner of the oneninety8 blog network.
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Robb Sutton – Making Money Review Blogging
Within 12 months of starting his blog at mountain biking by 198, he had received over $70,000 worth of products to review and he got to keep most of it. Not only that, he had advertising and affiliate revenue on top of this, which is the so called crème on top of the pie.
Since then, he has started another blog called RobbSutton.com to teach bloggers how to make money using this similar technique and to provide motivation and blogging tips on growing their businesses. His also got an ebook called “Ramped Mindset” which shows you how to change your mindset for success. All of these are great resources and I highly recommend anyone to check them out.
Podcast: Sandy Forster – From Broke To Attracting Wildly Wealthy Success
September 10, 2009 by Tyrone
In this interview I spoke to Sandy Forster from Wildly Wealthy. Sandy is an absolutely amazing woman and when I say amazing, she definitely has an inspiring story to share, which is what she talks about in the interview.
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Sandy Forster: From Broke To Attracting Wildly Wealthy Success
Sandy has experienced both the highs and lows of life, going from being flat broke supported by the government on a $15,000 benefit, all the way to being extremely successful creating the life that most people dream of. It was only after ten years and a divorce when this happened to Sandy. She found herself with $100,000 in debt and had two small children to support. Then when she increased her income to over $150,000 she thought her money worries were over, but a lack of money management skills and the right mindset meant that she once again lost everything. This led Sandy on a tireless search to understand money, prosperity and abundance, and how to make it flow, grow and multiply.
Sandy is the co-owner of Wildly Wealthy Women where they teach women on how to attract wealth through the power of the subconscious mind. From there, she created Wildly Wealthy, which currently has tens of thousands of people from over 88 countries learning her success strategies through live teleconferences, workshops and seminars.
Not only does she run a successful Internet business, she is also an international best selling author with a book called How to Be Wildly Wealthy Fast. Additionally, she has contributed to four other books, shared the stage with leaders in personal development such as Mark Victor Hansen (ChickenSoup for the Soul), and also has been featured in a number of Dr Wayne Dyer’s books, audio programs and appeared on national television.
In the interview and you will learn:
- How to change your mindset that will attract money in your life
- What are Sandy’s daily habits that keeps her creating more success in her life
- How to break and eliminate poverty consciousness
- Why you need to live your dreams today and not let external influences hold you back
- How to create the prosperity and abundance mindset
Podcast: Ari Galper Creates The Human Touch
August 3, 2009 by Tyrone
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Back in May, I attended the Ultimate Marketing Seminar that was held in Sydney over a weekend. At that event I met an excellent speaker called Ari Galper. He talked about Creating The Human Touch With A Live Chat System and it got me really excited about the benefits of using a system like this. I was very intrigued and decided to email Ari and asked him if he would do an interview with me and share with you his strategy and systems. Therefore this interview came about. Before we get into the interview, let me tell you a little about Ari first..
Ari Galper – Creator Of ChatWise
Ari Galper is a very well known and sought-after international speaker and trainer. When I emailed him to do an interview he was travelling over to the UK to promote his Chatwise system and it wasn’t until a month later when we could do this interview. So his a busy man!
Furthermore, Ari has a decade of experience showing people his breakthrough sales strategies used in global companies such as UPS and QUALCOMM. He also created the sales training program called Unlock The Game™, where this system helps businesses convert more sales online via an online chat system such as Chatwise. It’s one of the most widely used programs with large businesses.
