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November 9, 2009 Posted under: Making Money Online by Caroline Middlebrook

Tyrone Shum contacted me last week about a new outsourcing program that he’s launching soon and sent me his free outsourcing report and links to some free videos he’s done. I’ve never quite got my head around outsourcing properly before because, as a techie person, I tend to want to do everything myself.

However, as pointed out by one of my readers on the weekend’s software project update, the maintenance of my software is going to be a big and continuous job. I want to focus my time on development of new features and don’t want my time to be sucked up by doing maintenance of all the sites that the software will support. This is an ideal candidate for outsourcing.

So, Tyrone’s report is quite timely as I’m at least thinking about it now even if I’m not quite ready to implement it. His free report is called Secrets of Outsourcing Experts Revealed and it’s quite a hefty 64 page PDF and focuses mainly on interviews with Tim Ferriss, Jeff Mills and John Jonas. I don’t know who the last two guys are but I have certainly heard of Tim Ferris of the 4 Hour Work Week fame, though I’ve still not read his book :-)

One reason I’ve always thought of outsourcing as something for ‘later’ is the money issue. It seems like one of those things where you need to earn the money first before you can afford to pay for staff. I was really surprised to read about how one of the guys interviewed in the report hires a full time PHP programmer in the Philippines for just $300 a month! If I could hire a PHP programmer to do all the maintenance for me for that kind of money, that would free up a lot of time to work on new features and get them released quicker.

The first 50 pages of the report concentrate on the interviews and then the remainder has some outsourcing resources such as project management software, sites to find workers etc. I haven’t yet watched the videos that accompany the report but I’ll probably have a look at those in due course.


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21 Comments:

Codrut Turcanu
November 9, 2009

I didn’t hear about the Tyrone until now. Thank you for the introduction ;)

By the way, I’m a firm believer that anyone owning a business can’t succeed long-term without their outsourcing team – so I guess this resource you recommended today is a great helper.

P.S. You’re right here – “you need to earn the money first before you can afford to pay for staff”, but it’s well worth it!

Fran Civile
November 10, 2009

Thank you for that recommendation Caroline!

Yes you’re right, the money to pay for outsourcing should be
earned first but I’ve come to realize recently that I’ll always be
limited in my earnings because of the time it takes me to
get some things done.

I never get tired of learning but I do get tired of being limited
by technical details. I spent $25 last week for my first outsourcing job, a small job installing a script that’s going to
help me make money and it felt good… I felt secure in ordering
this because of the backing of Warrior Forum War Room members.

I have no doubt that outsourcing is the answer… what small
brick and mortar business ever grows if the owner is trying to
do everything herself? The problem is getting the right kind of
help…

Fran :)
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Barbra, Bio Writer
November 10, 2009

In my experience, the right time to start outsourcing is BEFORE you think you can afford it. :)

Caroline Middlebrook
November 10, 2009

@Fran, you’ve just described the perfect catch-22! You can’t afford to outsource because you’re not making the money and you can’t make the money because you don’t have the time to do the work! If you could start off with a tiny bit of outsourcing that was really cheap to free up just a little of your time that would be a start! I think I’m going to get started to offload some promo work like article writing.

@Barbra, true I’m sure but I bet most people (including myself!) will learn that the hard way :-)

Ruth - Web Career Girl
November 10, 2009

I’m going to check out the report. I really want to get into outsourcing, but for me it’s also the money issue as well as not really knowing how to find reliable people and how to train them up. But it’s definitely something that I know really makes people’s careers take off.
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Darryl Noble
November 11, 2009

I have only done article writing by outsourcing and even there I see the problems. One is finding quality work. The second is my problem accepting that quality work can be done so cheaply. Understandably, people in other countries have different living standards and income expectations. Still, it is hard to accept that someone is willing to work for $10 when in the US $100 would be minimum.
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Caroline Middlebrook
November 11, 2009

@Darryl, yes I have exactly the same concerns. I’ll be interested to see the rest of this content as it gets released because if you really can get quality work done that cheaply then outsourcing becomes a LOT more viable.

satrap
November 11, 2009

i agree 100% that before you start outsourcing, you should be making some money that enables you to effort such a thing. but then sometimes if you have a good idea and know that it will work by outsourcing the work involved to get it going faster and more effective than i guess you could take the risk and pay before you make any money. either way its a decision that has to be made with care.

Jon@ Student Loans
November 12, 2009

As pointed out by someone in the comments, I agree 100% that outsourcing is key to grow a business online, but it is not always easy to do it right and to master the whole outsourcing process…
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Tyrone Shum
November 13, 2009

Hey everyone,

It’s great to hear your feedback and it sounds like the common question or fear everyone has is “I can’t afford” to hire anyone yet.

Some quick tips and suggestions from experience:
1. You can hire someone for as little as $125 US per month part-time. What I would go further and do if I don’t have enough work for them or want to keep my costs low is to share this person with someone else. (That’s how I first got started)

2. Start with the mindset that I can’t do everything myself because I am limited to amount of time in a day. Therefore you need to focus on your strengths that generate income QUICK! E.g. if you are good at sales and promoting a product, that’s all you should be focusing on and outsource all your admin and customer service first.

3.Start with the end goal in mind as well. Where do you want to be in 6 months, 12 months time? How much time do you want to work on your business? 4 hours a week, 10 hours a week? Once you have made a firm decision, then you need to work towards what is going to be most dollar productive for you and the rest you need to get others to complete. Remember if you don’t set targets and dates, you’ll continue to do everything yourself just to save costs. I did this for a while with my Dragonboat business and it suffered when it was making enough money to cover myself and others. I just didn’t do it because I had not made a commitment at the beginning.

Hope this helps and if you have any other questions, please feel free to ask me.

Talk soon guys!

I highly recommend both the videos and the ebook. Top quality stuff (and I am not easily impressed).

Mikael
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Caroline Middlebrook
November 13, 2009

@Tyrone, great Tyrone, thanks for stopping by and clarifying some of those points :)

Melvin
November 15, 2009

Well I, myself is from Philippines and I can say $300 is really the base income of most PHP programmers here.. Some even earn less working a government company!

Meka
November 16, 2009

Outsourcing will save you a lot of time especially on those tasks you hate doing. I hate bookmarking and coming up with new content for niches. But I find doing my own work is always better than hiring people to do it for me. Id rather take time to get the work done then wasting time going over everything done by someone else because some people can mess you up.
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Cubefield
November 18, 2009

Thanks for the free report – I will definitely be reading that!

La Digue
November 18, 2009

$300 for a PHP programmer a month is just crazy. I think it’s the cheapest I’ve ever seen. Even here in Mauritius a PHP programmer has a way higher wage. Great post. Loved to read through.

Jon@ Student Loans
November 18, 2009

Outsourcing is becoming so important that can no longer be ignored, and indeed must be mastered properly in order to be 100% effective in Internet Marketing and not only…
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oes tsetnoc
November 19, 2009

i agree 100% that before you start outsourcing, you should be making some money that enables you to effort such a thing.

Thanks for sharing

Mike
November 20, 2009

Outsourcing is going to be a major business enabler in future years. The efficiency gains and cost savings make it a compelling business concept and more companies are executing this model.

Get on board before the train leaves the station!

lockerz invite
November 24, 2009

Thank for this great article Caroline!

Yes you’re right, the money to pay for outsourcing should be
earned first but I’ve come to realize recently that I’ll always be
limited in my earnings because of the time it takes me to
get some things done.

Web design Group
November 24, 2009

That is when we send work to India that could be done here by Americans. In order to save money companies hire people in India to do the work.


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