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.
Creating The Human Touch With A Live Chat System
June 2, 2009 by Tyrone
Following on from the previous post I said I would share with you what I learnt from Ari Galper’s presentation. If you want to learn how to increase your revenue dramatically with small changes, read Learning From The Best Australian Marketers.
Ari Galper was the next speaker who presented after Siimon Reynolds at the Ultimate Marketing Seminar on Sunday. Ari’s presentation was phenomenal and he presented the concept of “Creating The Human Touch” online. What he noticed when he was selling online was the lack of human interaction, and how people abandoned their purchase because they didn’t have their queries answered on the spot. So Ari introduced us to his Chatwise system that would boost the conversion rates at the time of shopping. Here’s a little background about him before getting into his system:
Ari Galper is the creator of a truth-based sales methodology that uses live chat to create trust with online visitors, triggering significant increases in online sales. His secret method is based on his very popular no-pressure sales approach.
He has been featured on CNN and Business 2.0 Magazine. Virtually every top Internet Marketing millionaire uses his system to boost their sales and he is one of the few world-class marketers who has been allowed to join the legendary direct marketer, Dan Kennedy’s, Private Platinum Mastermind Group.
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Ari points out there are two ways to increase your sales from your website. The first is to create a more interactive website by adding the human touch. The second is to plug up the “holes” on your website. I will share with you what I learnt.
