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?
Ask About Outsourcing Your Internet Business
October 26, 2009 by Tyrone
Continuing on from the 10 part video series on how to outsource your Internet business, it’s time for me to open up this for discussion. I’ve received a huge response asking me to create other videos and I will definitely do my best to add more to the blog. Before I do, I would like to share with you some of the questions that have been asked already:
- How do you track outsourcers for the time they put in?
- Can you start a brand new business from the ground up and do it all by outsourcing without knowing everything about Internet marketing?
- How much should you outsource? All or only some aspects?
- How do you prevent staff from stealing your ideas and personal information when you tell them about a project and don’t deliver?
- How do you handle taxes in the US when you outsource an employee fulltime?
Ask Your Questions About Outsourcing
Now, for me to create more videos that will help you outsource your work, I would really appreciate if you could spend a few minutes answering some questions below:
Question 1: If you could learn from a coach who is an expert in this area about outsourcing an Internet business, what questions would you ask? (List as many questions as you want)
Question 2: Describe in a few words what is your main reason for outsourcing your Internet business? (e.g. more time, more money, expand business, travel, charity work, etc.)
Question 3: List some tasks you need staff to help you complete on a regular basis?
Question 4: Specify in hours the amount of time you want to work in your Internet business?
Question 5: If there was a coaching program to assist you with outsourcing your Internet business, how would you like the material to be presented? (You can select one or all)
-
- Video presentations
- Audio only recordings
- Workbook and manual
- All of the above
You can either
- Leave your answers in the comments section, or
- Answer them privately by clicking on this link.
Also as an incentive, I would like to give you a report that contains some really valuable interviews and 10 resources that I recommend to use when you complete this survey. So to get your report, simply answer the survey questions provided here or comment here.
Thank you and talk soon.
Tyrone Shum
Creator of Mass Outsource Videos.
To ask your questions click here now.
VIDEO 3: How To Find People To Work For You Full Time
October 14, 2009 by Tyrone
This is the third video of the 10 part series. If you have not watched the first two videos, I recommend going to it now: Video 1 – Why You Should Outsource Your Work and Video 2 – Should I Hire A Contractor Or Virtual Staff?
This video tutorial begins the real nuts and bots of outsourcing. Before you can start to outsource your work, you need to find the right people to work full time in your business. I’ll show you step by step in this video on how to find people to work for you full time from a very popular website from the Philippines called Bestjobs.ph. To get started, click play below to begin the video tutorial.
Video 3: How To Find People To Work For You Full Time
If you have any comments and questions about the video tutorial, please click “Read the rest of this post” below to leave your comment.
VIDEO 1: Why You Should Outsource Your Internet Business
October 12, 2009 by Tyrone
In the next couple of weeks I will be presenting a series of FREE videos that I have created that will show you why, where and how to outsource your internet business. I have been looking to offer something simple and easy to follow for Internet Marketers that will help grow their businesses faster whilst enjoy more time off (living the so called Four Hour Work Week). I am very grateful that I have been able to achieve this with the knowledge and resources that I had access to. So the next step was to share it with you.
Video 1: Why You Should Outsource Your Internet Business
This is the first video of 10 part series and you will learn why you should outsource your business. You will learn about the four reasons why Internet business outsource and what it can do for you. To get started, press the play button below:
If you have any comments and questions about the video tutorial, please click “Read the rest of this post” below to leave your comment.
