| If you own a small business, you understand how | | | | (currently ~ $7.25 per hour) |
| difficult it can be to find dependable (and affordable) | | | | #3 - You typically will need to hire the person(s) on a |
| employees. | | | | full or part time basis |
| If you're like myself, you operate more like a one man | | | | #4 - You will probably need to provide the person with |
| (or one woman) show and do a "little bit of everything", | | | | an office to work in, desk, computer, internet |
| including customer service, shipping, bookkeeping, | | | | connection, phone, and not to mention, paying all the |
| marketing, management, and everything in between. | | | | other misc expenses/taxes related to hiring an |
| While you're busy doing these day-to-day type tasks, | | | | employee |
| you just don't have the time to work on the most | | | | The good news is that there is an answer! And that |
| important tasks...i.e. marketing your business. | | | | answer is.... Outsourcing. |
| Wouldn't it be nice if you could offload your most | | | | There are several, very specific places where you |
| time-consuming tasks, either on a one-time or ongoing | | | | can go to find talented, hard-working people to do any |
| basis, to someone for $1 to $4 an hour? | | | | and all tasks related to running your business. In |
| Well, the good news is that you CAN, although maybe | | | | addition, you can employees that are located outside |
| not in the same way as you would expect. Typically, | | | | the United States or Europe where you can pay as |
| you would advertise for the job in your local | | | | little as $1 to $4 per hour, depending on the skills that |
| newspaper classifieds or ask your friends and | | | | you need. |
| collegues if they knew anyone that was looking for | | | | In addition, not only can you find people to help you |
| that type of job. | | | | with ongoing tasks, but you can also find people to help |
| There are several problems with this method: | | | | you with very specific, one-time projects that require |
| #1 - You are typically constrained by the employee | | | | skills that you might not even have access to in your |
| pool/talent in your LOCAL market | | | | local area. |
| #2 - You will need to pay at least the minimum wage | | | | Think about the possibilities! |