Written by Hell no!!!
I am sick and tired of listening to individuals claiming that outsourcing time consuming tasks to third world countries is equivalent to slavery. “Oh the poor people! How can you do this to them?!?”.
If I am suppose to feel bad for providing HIGH paying work to those less fortunate, than yes I am a bad bad man. Cast the stone if you have done your math and are farmiliar with the world outside your little bubble of a world you live in. (chilling out…..)
I have spent a lot of time with my teadious tasks (internet marketing related) because I could not let go of the reigns when it came to MY WORK. Why would I let someone else do it. They will ripp me off and “steal” my ideas. Oh the negativity of my troubled past 
“Life is too short to be small.” – Benjamin Israeli
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone” – Henry David Thoreau
When I first stumbled upon outsourcing I was amazed at all the possibilites and tasks people are preapared to do in return for money. Sticking to business related subjects I had the next tasks completed in less than 2 days :
- US Market research of the army clothing, tactical clothing and tactical gear
- All the online and offline stores were batched in one giant excel file with every imaginable detail (phone, website, owners, emails, market share, etc.)
- Over 240 subjects were later contacted via a pre-set contact-sales letter and were offered 24 hour support for any Q&A they might of had.
This was done for…wait for it….37.55$
The freelancer I chose was Rakitha from India. It was funny that HE did not mention anything during the process, cause I kept calling him as if he was a woman. I later stumbled upon many different Indian, Pakistanee, Philipino, Singapoore etc. that had real “funny” namesm, so I started looking at the pictures in the profiles as well.
It would have took me over a week (40 hours) to do the task myself and I value my time way above the 1$ per hour mark.
“But wait you ripped him off, you bastard!”
Did I really? The avg sallary of the 1.3 billion nation of India is somewhere around 120-150$ I believe. Keep in mind AVERAGE. There are hundreds of millions unemployed. More than all the US citizens combined. So I am a real nasty guy to give somebody work for 1$ per hour in order to get him an ABOVE AVERAGE paycheck? Bad bad man!
If I were to hire someone in Slovenia (prefferably a student) to do it, I would have to pay 4-5x as much and it would take at least 2x the time.
The point I am trying to make is that paying people 1$ per hour in countries where it is considered the same amount as, lets say 7$ in the US, is NOT RIPPING PEOPLE OFF.
For all of you that are still not convinced, I suggest you check your T-shirts, clothing, kitchenware, or practicaly 95% of the stuff in your home, which was made by people getting payed those amounts if not less. Be gratefull that their economy is not the same as yours, cause the colapse of the global economy as we know it would collapse in a jiffy.
I suggest you give outsourcing a try. Go to freelancer.com or odesk.com and look at the various tasks that can be performed to save you or your company valuable time and money.
I operate out of any place in the world that has an internet access. I do not have my own office, building, megacompany or any employees. But that does not mean I didnt have over 120 people working for me in the last year and interviewed and “met” over 450 writers/designers/developers/data entry specialists etc. The range is endless. An email to Colombia costs the same as an email to the computer 1 foot away from me…you guessed it 0.00$.
So having a team of 20 Columbians writing up 250 articles whilst I was sleeping and getting all the work done that way is fine by me. I try to focus on important tasks which I either cannot intrust to anyone else or the tasks that actually involve my knowledge and skills to complete. There are also those that I actually LIKE doing, but lets not get carried away with those.
So check out various providers. There are millions of freelancers out there. Do not be affraid to interview them and make sure you get those, which have reccomendations and samples of their work to show you. Be aware of scammers (yes they are everywhere) and prefferably chose a team over individuals (for faster response times and work completion).
To your online success, Igor Buyseech
