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Continued from Outsourcing: The Reality (Part One)

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This website was built using the very flexible MemberSpeed script. Although the script is very easy to install and customise, owing to time constraints, I decided to outsource the work to someone else.

Elance.com and Guru.com are the traditional places to go for outsourcing work, but on this occasion, I didn’t go near them. The reason being, I decided to act on a tip I heard at a seminar from John Reese (I hear he’s pretty good at this IM stuff).

When you’re looking to outsource some work and you want to find the REAL experts, Reese recommended, rather than going to an auction site, to find a forum in the corresponding niche.

If you want to find someone to create a fancy PDF, look for a forum about Adobe Acrobat.

If you want to find someone to manage your dedicated server, look for a forum about web hosting.

And so on…

In this instance, I wanted someone to install and customise the MemberSpeed script, so I looked for a forum about MemberSpeed.

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Making the switch from Do-It-Yourself to paying someone else to do it, can be a difficult switch for a home business owner.

The first hurdle is having enough money to outsource, the second is the reluctance to relinquish 100% control over everything you create, and the third is the logistical difficulties that come with finding and managing the right people to work for you.

Whole books and courses have been written on the subject and, while they can give a healthy does of confidence and strategy, the one thing they can never supply you with is experience.

When you finally begin to outsource your work, it’s not uncommon to experience problems that you never even envisaged to begin with.

This article is not intended to compete with a comprehensive training product and it certainly isn’t going to claim to be a definitive voice on the topic. What it will do is let you inside the TRUE story of a number of successfully outsourced tasks that I carried out over the last 12 months.

Hopefully, by the time you finish reading this article, you’ll feel more inclined to start or increase outsourcing your work, you’ll have learned some important lessons from my mistakes, and maybe some handy tips along the away.

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