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.
Top 5 Tips On How To Outsource Your Business Whilst On Holidays
January 25, 2010 by Tyrone
These last few weeks have been the most fun and productive times in my life. I just got back from a trip over to Hong Kong and Thailand and to share with you what I did, I’ve created a little video right below here that shows one of my most memory events whilst on holidays:
The reason why I show you this event is because when I look back over the time whilst I was away, not once did I check my email or have to worry about what was happening in my business. I literally left my laptop and mobile phone in Australia and I headed overseas and just had FUN! When I came back I was not surprised to only get 32 emails that were from my virtual staff and personal friends. Last time I traveled overseas when my business was not setup with the proper systems, I received easily over 200 emails in that same period of time. What a change it was!
How Did I Setup My Business To Allow Me To Be Stress Free Whilst On Holidays?
The key is outsourcing. I have a business that has core systems in place that allow full-time virtual staff to manage and run the business whether I am working or not. I spend a majority of my time creating video content which is the heart of my business and my members appreciate this. The rest of the work that still needs to be completed, such as customer billing, technical issues and marketing are all outsourced to people I hire from the Philippines. Though, even having full-time virtual staff working for me it is still vital to have proper systems in place. I am going to share with you the top 5 tips on how you can prepare your business to allow you to enjoy a stress free holiday:
Tip #1: Plan Ahead Of Time
Within my business, delivering video content is like running a TV show and if I want to ensure that my viewers receive what they paid for, then I need to follow a schedule. The best way to look at this is if you are writing content for a blog or uploading video to an online channel website, then you need to plan at the beginning and consider what you want to deliver to your market. As the saying goes, “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. Before I left for my holiday, I already had created over 8 videos which will be delivered over one and a half months. That way I am already prepared ahead of schedule. The same thing also applies to virtual staff and you will need to discuss with them the necessary work to be completed over the course of the year.
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?
How To Train Your Virtual Staff
November 13, 2009 by Tyrone
Leading up to Mass Outsource Mastermind program opening on Tuesday, 17th November 2009 at 9am US EST, I’ve produced another video for you, showing you exactly how to train your virtual staff. This information is different from anything else you’ve seen because I’ve shown you step by step exactly how I do it – and (more importantly) how you can do it too. Furthermore, I also give you a run down of what’s in my course:
I have a very specific way (and some may say uncanny) of outsourcing so that my business takes up as little of my time as possible – and training up your virtual staff is key – which is why I’m introducing you to this now.
If you haven’t seen my 10 FREE videos on how to outsource your business, visit www.massoutsource.com now. Remember to download my free report “Secrets Of Outsourcing Experts Revealed” which has lots of useful resources too!
Enjoy the videos and don’t forget to leave your comments here.
Tyrone Shum
Training Virtual Staff
10 FREE Videos To Help You Outsource Your Internet Business
November 10, 2009 by Tyrone
Yesterday I released a new report called “Secrets of Outsourcing Experts Revealed” containing interviews with Tim Ferriss, Jeff Mills and John Jonas and it’s jam packed with great content and also lots of tips on how to create a lifestyle that allows you to work as little as four hours a week. If you have not read it yet, I highly recommend you do so now:
Secrets Of Outsourcing Experts Revealed Report
In addition to this to help you take the next step and begin outsourcing your Internet business, I’ve created 10 videos that take you step by step on how to achieve this. The best part about it is that it’s all FREE.
Free Video Tutorials To Help You Outsource Your Internet Business
These videos are designed to show you how you can live the lifestyle you desire, working as little as 4 hours a week. I have implemented the strategies I show you in these videos and my Internet business has literally changed my life, boosting my income to making over $100,000 in just 6 months. If you are new to outsourcing and you need help or you’ve struggled with finding good staff, then you definitely want to check out:
The site currently has a series of ten videos covering:
- Why You Should Outsource Your Work
- Should I Hire A Contractor Or Virtual Staff
- How To Find People To Work For You Full Time
- How To Find Candidates From Onlinejobs.ph
- How To Contact A Candidate
- How to Hire People To Work For You Full Time
- How To Pay Your Virtual Staff
- How To Pay Money Using Xoom
- What Work To Give To Your Staff
- How To Manage Your Virtual Staff
I’d also really appreciate it if you could write a post to your blog about these new videos as I’m sure all the beginners out there would appreciate knowing the site exists.
All the videos are 100% free and as you will see are very easy to follow. You are also welcome to embed the videos in your blog if you like, you can grab the code from within any video.
Enjoy!
Tyrone Shum
Mass Outsourcing For A Great Life!
