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.
Podcast: Aurelius Tjin – The Unstoppable Profits Guy
July 15, 2009 by Tyrone
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The Unstoppable Profits Guy
A local Sydney resident and Australian entrepreneur, Aurelius Tjin is the man behind a lot of successful private label rights products. His created over 60 different products that cater for people needing design and graphics for their Internet marketing websites, content for Internet marketers and also lots of different productivity related content. His truly unstoppable because his able to create content very quickly and get it into the market in a short period of time.
Aurelius also writes a monthly blog post at aureliustjin.com and shares with his readers about the mindset of running your own business and how to increase your productivity. It has a lot of great resources that is available immediately as well. I interview Aurelius to find out how he markets his products using social media such as Twitter to gain over 36,000 followers and how his list of 20,000+ readers helps him spread word about his products quickly.
Interview With Daniel Scocco From Daily Blog Tips
May 27, 2009 by Tyrone
Recently I asked Daniel Scocco from Daily Blog Tips to do an interview with me. Daniel runs a very successful blog that attracts over 20,000 daily readers and is very popular in the blogging community. Not only that, Daniel has an online membership program called Online Profits that teaches people how to make money from Internet marketing. I wanted to share with you why Daniel is someone who I learn from and also how to model his success.
Why You Should Learn From Daniel?
- He shares his experiences, which are relevant and practical to your Internet business
- His blog is ranked in Technorati Top 100, proving that his information is important
- He is a truly humble and a remarkable coach
How To Setup An Ecommerce Internet Business Website?
May 11, 2009 by Tyrone
Lately I’ve been reading through some e-commerce forums and I have noticed a lot of beginners asking the same questions. Just like myself, I once was a beginner in starting an e-commerce business and with time and experience I have gained a greater understanding of what is involved. In many ways I wish I had someone there who could show me a simple “how to” setup a successful e-commerce business, which would have saved a lot of the countless hours. Luckily for you, you won’t need to spend more time trying to search the information as I am going to give you a step by step guide on how to setup your own e-commerce website over a course spanning a few weeks. I will link everything back to this post when this course is finished.
Firstly, the assumption I am going to make is that you are looking to install an open source software. The one I recommend is Magento Commerce, which is an extremely powerful platform to use for any e-commerce business. If you want to see why I recommend this software, please read my review: Magento Commerce Review.
Here is an outline of what you will learn:
- Choosing your e-commerce business domain name
- Finding a reliable hosting service to host your e-commerce website
- Setup your domain name to redirect to your hosting provider
- Preparing your site for a pre-launch
- Uploading and installing Magento Commerce on the hosting server
- Setup your email servers using Gmail
- Configure Magento Commerce with SEO optimization add-on
- Which pages to include on your e-commerce website – about us, contact us, privacy policies, shipping and returns policy, etc.
- Uploading your products images and descriptions to appeal to your customers
- Launching your e-commerce website
By the end of this course you will be able to setup your own e-commerce website and start to see profits. If there is anything that I may not have covered, please leave your comments below and I’ll add it to this course. Any feedback is appreciated.
Tyrone Shum
E-commerce Resource Guide
How Can I Help Your E-commerce Business?
May 8, 2009 by Tyrone
Firstly I would like to make an announcement:
Winner Of Blog Design Contest
At the beginning of April I posted a contest for anyone interested in getting a new blog design. I would like to congratulate the winner of this contest: Helen who currently has a food blog at http://grabyourfork.blogspot.com/. I have sent her an email to congratulate her and I am very excited to work with her in designing a new blog.
How Can I Help Your E-commerce Business?
I have been very encouraged to see thousands of visitors come to read Internet Business Path in the recent months and this blog is continually growing with new articles and reviews about E-commerce.
