| Do Smart Business Owners Ask For Help? | | | | increase profits as well. Outsourcing gives you enough |
| Yes, they do and everyone should realize there would | | | | time to plan, draw more targets and set better |
| always reasons to seek help to expand expertise and | | | | strategies for your earnings. Thus, the less work you |
| opportunities. For me, I admit I've been through all the | | | | do, the more it frees up your mind to activate your |
| hassles of handling things by myself but since I have | | | | plans, grow profits easier and also enjoy the rest of |
| started outsourcing say, my Dragonboat business, I've | | | | your weekends. |
| had the best relief of having the chance to | | | | Where to Outsource? |
| communicate with the suppliers and plan ahead of time | | | | Since I hired my virtual staff in the Philippines, I can say |
| to develop my Dragonboat service while my customer | | | | I've never had any issue with their work yet because if |
| support staff stays responsible in answering queries, | | | | there are problems coming in, they'll be able to honestly |
| processing orders and payments as well. | | | | inform me beforehand about it to prevent wasting |
| If you're thinking I've been spending too much as a | | | | time. Also, there are no culture barriers so they can |
| start, no! Generally I've decided to outsource since it's | | | | easily cope up to my approach, understand my |
| just a cheaper part of investment overseas while | | | | instructions, and be more productive of their time |
| receiving a high quality of work in less time and effort. | | | | effectively. Not only that they're really are the most |
| Now, let me show you how I've been able to realize | | | | cost-effective, but also they are the ones that you |
| that outsourcing while starting up really works: | | | | should be working with full time through their best |
| What to Outsource? | | | | efforts. If you want to hire staff from the Philippines, |
| Get to this mindset: Think of the things that you've | | | | take a look at these two websites: Bestjobs.ph and |
| done during the day and what actually gets done in the | | | | Onlinejobs.ph which I highly recommend for quality |
| long run when you outsource it. I'll draw an example to | | | | resumes. |
| make this easy - emails for instance has always been | | | | How to Outsource? |
| part of your daily routines in the business and if you | | | | Definitely, you cannot automate the work if you don't |
| thought you have always checked on the new ones, | | | | have someone who can do it for you. Hire your first |
| then try to realize how your virtual staff can even filter, | | | | virtual staff by starting to target on small yet repetitive |
| organize and respond to them in less time in daily basis. | | | | and essential roots of the business to be completed |
| See? That's a big break. Start to outsource anything | | | | throughout the day - someone to handle your |
| that goes around a routine which cuts off at least 2 | | | | administrative tasks from customer service, checking |
| hours of your day administering to friends, customers | | | | your email, and all the data entry which free up enough |
| and the likes. | | | | time for you to prepare their training videos useful for |
| When to Outsource? | | | | their other routine tasks in the future. |
| There are just two things: when you know everything | | | | Another thing is to train them in a direct, easy and |
| that has to be outsourced and when you know nothing | | | | efficient way through the use of tutorial videos. |
| about the tasks that you are currently outsourcing. As I | | | | Visually, it's a way better for them to follow when they |
| said earlier, outsourcing can help you maximize the | | | | see how the instructions are applied "live" and that |
| expertise in the business through the expanded efforts | | | | way, they can always view and review it if there's |
| of your virtual staff all done at the same time. When | | | | something that they're missing. Some of your time will |
| you're not good at graphic design for example, let an | | | | be spent creating these videos at first but once |
| expert do that for you then it's up for you to decide on | | | | they've learned through all your systems, you can just |
| a good, better and best outputs. Secondly, you can | | | | sit back and see how they're applying your concepts. |
| outsource the things in which you already are good at | | | | I use both Jing and Screenflow for easy recording. Jing |
| to give your virtual staff the right information and get | | | | Project is a way easier tool that allows you to capture |
| things done the way you wanted. Also, checking on | | | | what you want to say with a picture or a video |
| minimal errors on your part can be a lot easier than to | | | | instantly and you can download it free. Although if you |
| implement the whole project yourself. | | | | like it much advanced, you can also download |
| Why to Outsource? | | | | Screenflow to do screen captures and share |
| It's simply because you can do other things outside of | | | | multimedia presentations in HD quality training. |
| your business but can think of more ways on how to | | | | |