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Whether a company is just starting out and needs to scale its resources or is looking towards future expansion, outsourcing is a common way to get a startup on the fast track to success. In this session, Jim Moran, Co-Founder at Yipit, explains how outsourcing allows your company to focus on its core competency and which tools you should leverage.
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Nice video on Outsourcing for Start-ups.
The latest video from +Google for Entrepreneurs’ ‘Tools for Entrepreneurs’
series: Outsourcing Operations. Nugget: focus on your core competency and
outsource the rest.
*The **why** and **how** of outsourcing online*
Jim Moran, co-founder of Yipit.com, discusses why startups should be
outsourcing aggressively and how to go about doing it online.
A lot of what he says rings true to me, considering my experience in our
small business, +Africa Deluxe Tours (Afrilux). In a smaller organisation
the challenge is to actually get time to focus on the stuff that really
matters as you are often bogged down by menial administrative, energy
sapping, tasks. An obvious solution is outsourcing those tasks. But what
will it cost and crucially, will the outsourced tasks be done properly and
actually save you time?
We’ve started outsourcing some of our back-office and operational tasks
sometime last year. So far the experience has been mostly very good and
it’s freed us up to attend to more important matters. While outsourcing is
more viable and simple today than a decade ago, it’s still not all *that*
simple. It does require weighing up your options, continually doing quality
control and re-evaluating current outsourcing arrangements. But in the long
run it’s the obvious way to go.
In our case an important realisation was that we could outsource some tasks
to large listed companies, whom because of their scale and dedicated
departments, were actually in a better position to get some tasks done at
lower cost and more efficiently than we could do in-house.
Moran discusses a couple of online outsourcing options such as Elan and
Mechanical Turk and points out how they differ and for what kinds of tasks
they’re best suited.
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Good advice. The general idea applies even if you’re just a one man show.
It’s important to free up your time so you can do what you do best. And
what no one else can do.
The latest video from +Google for Entrepreneurs’ ‘Tools for Entrepreneurs’
series: Outsourcing Operations. Nugget: focus on your core competency and
outsource the rest.