Outsourcing: First People First

Written by Tyrone Shum Monday, 20 June 2011 06:31

As like me, I've gone through and when I first decided to look at outsourcing my business, outsourcing all my projects and have people to do the job, I go "Who shall I outsource first to?", "Where should I pick the first person?" I want to respond to those thoughts who must you hire first or who must you outsource to first and there's a number of ways or choices to develop this but I'm providing you with just two straightforward alternatives.

As like me, I've gone through and when I first decided to look at outsourcing my business, outsourcing all my projects and have people to do the job, I go "Who shall I outsource first to?", "Where should I pick the first person?" I want to respond to those thoughts who must you hire first or who must you outsource to first and there's a number of ways or choices to develop this but I'm providing you with just two straightforward alternatives.

First thing is I will firstly hunt for somebody to be just right for you full time. Don't go for any contractors, don't hire anyone who's just going to be here and be just doing one of the duties because once you spend some time training them, you're going to lose those skills. That's one thing, hire someone for on a regular basis. If you happen to can't afford someone on fulltime, go for someone who's part-time because when you go for someone part time, at least they're going to be on your side minimum 20 hours every week.

If you ever hire someone fulltime, it's 40 hours weekly and they're going to be managing whole business for you or taking care of a lot of your duties that you're currently doing yourself. The perspective to have is not to consider "Okay, because I'm going to offload say 40 hours of my work, I'm going to do twice as much work." Yes, in numerous ways you can imagine that might work at first but what you're wanting to do is certainly reduce your hours now you're probably working for the most part 2-3 hours a day and for your staff to be helping you 40 hours every week.

So that's the initial tip, to choose someone full-time. The next thing that I strongly recommend you must do is to choose someone for a skill. Now, every person out there that you're probably looking for has different skills. They can be centered on being a virtual assistant, being a programmer, a writer, and hence forth. I don't encourage hiring someone that's going to be overall because you're not going to be able to find that person. You can't find someone who's going to be doing all your administration, transcripts, writing your posts and doing programming at the same time. That person doesn't exist because that person is basically likely to be you. Hence I strongly recommend in case you would like to get someone who's just going to start your administration work like posting your blog posts onto your blog, handling your emails, just general overview of handling all the day-to-day duties that's very monotonous, go for a virtual assistant.

If you ever choose to have those kinds of things or offload those things, I firstly recommend working with a virtual assistant. No doubt you happen to be thinking blog posting may not take me 30 minutes just to put it up myself or to render a video, putting a video online for me will take 10, 15 minutes or hence. Well, you add that all up and you'll have multiple things to do and it adds up to your time. You should be spending hours and hours that you have to be paying attention to dollar productive activities for example building relationships with leading people that will be able to help you refer business or you might be spending additional time promoting your business to get more leads to come through.