Outsourcing your Business for More Profits
It's normally when so much of your time is taken running your business that you don't have enough time to work on expanding it and taking it to the next level. This also means your earnings/profits also get stuck at a certain level.
This is when you need to look at your business and work out what processes and tasks you can outsource. If you don't do this, you won't be able to take your business to the next "level".
Whether it's answering email, support, research, site building or article writing, there will be something that you can outsource.
It can be a bit of a leap the first time you do it, I know for me it was a bit of a rench because it seemed like I was letting go of some level of control of my business. I only realised after I'd done it that it was actually the reverse, I was stopping the company from controlling me, and in doing so freeing up my time for more profitable things.
If you are like me, then once you realise this you will start to look for what else you can outsource..
The first task I outsourced was submitting my sites to directories for free one way inbound links to help those site rank better. It is such a boring tedious task that I was spending very little time doing it, so little in fact that I might as well not have been doing it.
I placed a job description on RentaCoder and within a few days had 20+ people bidding on the job, varying from around $2 per hour to over $5 an hour for the work. Some people even had lists of directories that they could supply as they had previously done similar work for other clients.
I ended up choosing a company who do the work for $3 and hour and can cope with as much work as I give them. I now have around 50-60 sites being submitted to my list of directories every 4-6 weeks and all I have to do is prepare the list of site to be submitted.
I also have a couple of people writing articles for me so that I can have unique content for some of my sites.
I am planning on outsourcing a couple of other aspects of my business shortly as well, including site building with one of the site generation tools I use, so that I can have someone else building sites for me. This of course means that my business will continue to grow even while I am away on holiday with my family.
Perhaps you're starting to get the idea of how important it is to outsource things as soon as you can. If a task is becoming mundane, monotonous or time consuming, it's time to wrtie down how you do the task and use it as a training guide for someone else to do the work..
What kind of things should you outsource?
1. Directory submissions.
Make sure you set up a separate gmail, yahoo or hotmail account for the submission reply emails to go to and check that the work has been done.
Make a list of domains that you want submitted and get them all done so that the new links appear over a coupe of months, rather than all in one go, this looks more natural to the search engines.
2. Get articles written. Make sure the articles you get written are good quality.
If you are getting them written for submitting to article directories then better quality articles get used more and therefore you will get better more/better links.
If you are using them for your own unique content sites, then you want to offer your visitors good quality information to encourage them to visit again and to sign up for your newsletter.
You should aim for at least 500 words and a keyword density of around 2%, this should cost between $5-10 per article, depending on the quality.
When you post the job make sure candidates send you an example of their work. I would also recommend giving two or three a few test subject to write articles on before you make you're final decision as to who to use in the long term.
3. get your articles submitted for you to Article Directories (see previous linking strategies articles).
4. getting sites built using a site generation tool
5. posting to forums (see previous linking strategies articles)
6. writing ebooks and software systems to sell.
7. designing new sites or templates for site building tools.
These are just some of the ones that are obvious to me, you may well find other things that you can outsource, the important thing is to get it done.
Sources. My favorite places to use for outsourcing are: -
http://www.topkeywordlists.com/elance.html http://www.topkeywordlists.com/rentacoder.html
Others that I haven't tried (yet) include: - http://www.guru.com http://www.webmasterlabor.com
Having your own business and owning your own business are two different things, do you want to work for your business or do you want to have your business work for you..?
Take control of your business now and look at what process or task you can outsource now!
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