Outsourcing RIGHT is Cheap BUT Beneficial

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), we all have 24 hours in one day. As a blogger and a whole lot of other stuff online, that is just not enough time a day to reap all the profits into my pockets. When I calculate the amount I make per dollar, it just isn’t worth it to do this all the time. This is why you need friends, partners, employees, and a lot more. This is why you need those people who will do what you would need to spend your time doing.

I first started outsourcing about a year ago and found that I had a lot of time in my hands. But exactly what do I outsource? The primary product I outsource is content. As a strong believer of “Content is King”, and that quantity is in fact just as important as quality, I am always on the lookout for quality writers who are looking to get consistent jobs at a decent rate. (Hint: If you are a writer, contact me and I may have a job for you.) Also, aside from the quality and king part, content is one of the most time consuming parts, which is also a reason why I outsource it.

Anyways, through outsourcing, it pretty much buys me time to focus on other aspects of development. So far, it may not seem convincing to throw (or in from my view, “invest”) money out there in hopes of making more while doing less work yourself. However, before you keep that thought, note to the wise: You can’t make free money. Even if you are outsourcing, you will need to do some degree of work to get things done. However, the benefits of that “free time” (and by free time, I don’t mean time to get on World of Warcraft, but I mean time to work on other parts of your business) are quite immense.

This post seems a bit unorganized, so let me quickly organize it a bit before I move on further.

If you have a lot of stuff to do, you outsource some that would be time consuming and not worth the time for you.
You pay the employee a bit.
You make sure you make money off of that outsourced product.
Simultaneously, you use that “free time” to work on other things.

Still not convinced to outsource? Let me then try to throw some numbers around. These are highly theoretical numbers, but hey, usually you can get something similar to work if you keep on tweaking it and optimizing it.

Let’s say that you allocated $50 into getting some content up to kick-start your blog. We’ll ignore the niche here as that is not so important right now. Anyways, with $50, you can get some pretty sweet content and aplenty of them too, especially at various webmaster forums. Usually the rate is about $0.01 per word, but as more and more writers are emerging, the rates are just dropping. In addition, if you buy in bulk, writers will usually give great discounts.

So with that in mind, let’s say that with $50, you can get yourself 12 articles each 500 words. That’s 6000 words right there and although the rate of $0.01 per word shows that it is worth $60, as I said, discounts and lower rates for quality articles can be found. Anyways, with this 12 articles, you are pretty much ready to go and kick-start the blog. Now, just for easier explanation purposes, let’s make the niche a bodybuilding website. Despite the niche being a bit saturated, it is still quite profitable if you know what you are doing.

With the 12 articles, you can pretty much copy them over to WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, or whatever you are using. That should take you 15 minutes maximum. Now, with the content in its place on the web, you can focus on other parts of developing this blog. Publicity is definitely one you should and would be interested in. Marketing related products like muscle milk is also something you can look into.

I won’t go further down this road on explaining it as that is another completely different story. But, can’t you see how beneficial that $50 was in respect to time and stress that would have been on you? Hey, let’s admit this, but most of us aren’t professional writers and aren’t exactly research kings. You would have probably had to go through several HOURS of research, and then crafting your article with keywords and all those goodies to make it an “attractive” and fun article to read. IF you get finished with that maybe you would have some time to get your blog’s popularity up. After that would you really start to make some money. Why not cut the majority of the work and outsource?

At the moment, I have about $100 or so amount of work being outsourced only in the content area. I won’t disclose anymore regarding SEO, designing, etc., but I can tell you that I outsource a lot of work (and I do mean A LOT) which gives me a lot of time to connect online with others in my niche while also primarily focusing on the monetary side of the website. That isn’t to say that this blog is not written by me of course.

Anyways, hopefully some information in here was helpful and somewhat motivated you to try this path. If dishing out $50 is not something you are comfortable with, try it out first with a $5 article or a $20 design (to sell sponsorship links). In the case it doesn’t work, it’s not like you are losing an arm, so there isn’t much pressure on you. G’luck!