Hi, I’m Nicole Dean and I’ve been invited to discuss “Outsourcing Mistakes“. Today, we’re on our final day of this series of posts.
Now, I certainly don’t want to scare you away from outsourcing by discussing these common mistakes, but I also don’t want you to think that there are only 5 mistakes that are commonly made. There are many, many more.
That’s why continually learning how to be an effective manager/CEO is essential.
It’s important to learn the ins and outs of the technical and marketing aspects of your business, but the #1 skill that you can learn is that of a people manager. You can always find highly-skilled workers who you can leverage to grow your business – if you are a motivating and inspiring manager. In fact, I try to hire helpers who are my peers — or are hopefully smarter than I am. (And, why wouldn’t I? I prefer to be surrounded by my own mastermind group, not a reenactment of Dumb and Dumber.)
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Hi, I’m Nicole Dean and I’ve been invited to discuss “The Five Common Mistakes that Can Sabotage your Outsourcing Success and How to Avoid Them”.
Today we’ll dig into Mistake #4: Outsourcing the Wrong Things.
I’m going to throw a curve ball at you today.
Not everyone needs to write articles, post to a blog, or write an ebook.
Now, I love to write, so I do those things. But, that’s because I enjoy it.
Here’s where I see a common mistake. An online marketer hears that she should write and submit articles. She also is told that she should outsource the article-writing if she’s a poor writer or doesn’t enjoy writing.
So, she invests her money into a ghostwriter to write articles and a Virtual Assistant to submit them.
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Hi, I’m Nicole Dean and I’ve been invited to discuss “The Five Common Mistakes that Can Sabotage your Outsourcing Success and How to Avoid Them”.
Today’s topic is something that I discuss quite a bit in the Outsource Weekly course.
What is it? Mistake #3: Outsourcing when you should be Automating
Let’s say you need to pay your cable or phone bill every month (who doesn’t) and it’s an annoying task that you oftentimes forget and then end up with late fees.
Would you outsource that task by hiring someone to open your cable bill, write a check, lick a stamp, and drop it in the mail every month?
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Hi, I’m Nicole Dean and I’m a guest expert here this week, talking about “Common Mistakes that Can Sabotage your Outsourcing Success and How to Avoid Them”.
Yesterday, I wrote about the #1 Mistake that People Make When Outsourcing which was waiting too long to get started.
Today, we’ll move on to the next one.
#2: Making it So Darned Hard!
It actually cracks me up how freaked out and over-analytical people get when they start thinking about outsourcing. Most people that I know outsource all the time and don’t even realize it.
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Hi, I’m Nicole Dean and I’m a guest expert here this week.
When I approached Sharice about blogging on Ielectrify.com this week, I asked her which topic she’d like me to discuss. She mentioned that she receives quite a few “outsourcing gone bad” stories from her clients. (They had used a different designer and then came to her to fix the mess.)
So, we decided upon the topic “Common Mistakes that Can Sabotage your Outsourcing Success and How to Avoid Them”. (I hope she’ll share her advice and experience here, too.)
But, of all of the millions of marketers on the planet, why’d she ask me? Well for a few reasons.
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