In This Issue...

* Jim Edwards' outsourcing video tip

* Outsource Your Web Design To India  - Howard Tiano

* Outsource Outcast - Greg from Bangor talks about the benefits of a middleman.

Outsource Outtake Of The Week

Jim Edwards - In 2006, Jim had his hands in over 8,493 individual sales of info-products online—and that isn’t including that 1,000+ affiliate sales he made for other people’s products! Joining the world of Internet Marketing in 1997, Jim has seen the success and failures of many, many products and services. His popular IGottaTellYou.com website offers tips and tricks on list building, traffic generation, sales advice and more.

Known as an expert in generating mini-sites, Jim also works directly with some of the top names in both online and offline marketing, including: Yanik Silver, Joe Vitale, David Garfinkel, Armand Morin, Matt Fury, John Reese, and many more. Jim is also the co-creator of Website Video Secrets and Webinar Secrets.

-Do you have any outsourcing horror stories to share with our readers? I know I sure do! We can learn alot from our mistakes. Send to: outcasts@outsourceouttakes.com (can be audio/video)

Next Issue - Beginning his writing career in 1968, he is now considered by many to be one of the best freelance copywriters and marketing experts in the country..

Outsource Your Web Design To India

By Howard Tiano

Most people still marvel at how it's not only possible, but becoming more common to outsource web design to India. If you’re like most online entrepreneurs and business owners, you’ve got a million things that need to get done every single day. Owning just one online business can be overwhelming to the average person. You’ve got to get the website created. Then there’s the auto responder series. Then, you’ve got to get the sales copy written. You’ve also got to have enough content on the site so people will keep coming back. This needs to be updated on a regular basis.

Next, you need to be able to create products or services to sell to your web audience. You’ve also got to have a payment center set up so that you can accept credit cards and various forms of payment. Whew! These alone can give you a headache. Why not simply outsource web design and hosting?

Unless you have an eternity to get your business off the ground, you probably don’t want to do all these by yourself. You could get lost doing the small stuff to even have a viable and profitable business. Think about what an hour of your time is worth in cash value. Then from there you start to think about the time you need to spend on creating your own web site. This shift in thinking gets you to understand that outsourcing is not just a cool idea, but very necessary for the life of any major business.

Outsourcing Web Design

Unless you’re already a web designer, it’s best that you go ahead and outsource your web design and outsource projects that are related to web design. It takes time and patience to make your web design sparkle. There are many sites that offer you the opportunity to outsource web design and have special outsource web designers in India and Phillipines. Their money system is different, so you get more for your US dollars than you would hiring someone Western. Many of these people are happy to work for you and often bend over backwards to make sure you are satisfied.

By using online freelance services you make it easy on yourself to keep up with all of the details that need to be handled in your business. While someone is creating your site, you can focus on marketing your business. While someone is typing your articles, you can go ahead and take a breather and reflect on the next level of your business and how you can grow it.

Outsource your projects and you’ll definitely see a rise in productivity. Productivity is the key to your business. It’s not so much the amount of hours or work, but the productivity that yields cash in your pocket. And outsourcing your web design to places like India and the Phillipines can dramaticaly improve your bottom line.

When I Really Needed a Middleman
There Was None!

I submitted a project to a freelancer - a techie who does website work, like updates, etc. I was hoping to have some new software links put onto my website in time for the release of one of my newest products, so I gave him a soft deadline. (I knew I needed to build in some lag time – I've worked with enough busy techies!) It came and went, as I expected. Well, the real deadline was approaching, and no word after the initial "yup, I'll do it, no problem." I tried email, I tried phone calls… no answer. I even tried having my secretary call and leave messages, thinking I could appeal to his “guy” side, but no luck. Well, time was against me, so I decided to call in a friend and pass the job on to someone I knew I could count on, but cost me more in pay for rush work. I got what I needed, on time, thanks to my colleague. Sure enough, a few days after my real deadline passed, my freelancer miraculously appeared! I told him that the deadline had passed, and that I had given the work to someone else. Of course, he protested that he HAD indeed done the work, just not submitted it to me. I had a hard time believing him, but I asked him to submit exactly what he had, at that moment, and I would pay him for just that. I sure wished there was a middleman I could send after him! He and I went round and round a bit, about what he had actually done, and what he should be paid for, but we settled on a price. Needless to say, I learned to keep better tabs by checking in more often, and using freelancers with a history of meeting deadlines! Guess in this case, I have to be my own middleman!

- Greg, Bangor ME

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