subject: Outsourcing Your Way to Product Creation by:David Hale [print this page] Are you an Information marketer? Do you develop your own products? Are unsure of whether your writing standards are to the level that people would by what you wrote?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, the following information is for you.
As long as you have a generally written information product, the Internet is now your best friend. With freelancer web site like Guru, eLance, and Scriptlance you can easily find a person in the world to help you out.
These sites a free to anyone who wants to post a project. Once you have signed up for your free membership, simply post your writing project, whether it is for eBook editing, manuscript layout or designing covers and other desktop publishing items.
It is best to be as descriptive as possible with what you want done. If you have an information product write into your project description the word count, page length, what type of editing you are looking for, layout work, and any other writing specific you can think of.
The easiest thing to do is first view several other posted projects like yours and see what specific are mentioned. Ensure you specify that the provider is fluent in English or whatever language the product is written in. You will know why when you see some of the places providers live. It is not unusual to have people respond who live in India, Pakistan, Germany, Philippines, Canada, Mexico or any other country for that matter.
You will also want to decide on what your budget is for your project. A word to the wise, always err on the low side. What Americans may think of as a low price, may in fact be twice as much as a provider in India is willing to complete the project for.
Depending on how soon you want your project completed, give your listing at least 2-3 days. you will be amazed at how may proposals you receive very quickly. Once you are ready to cut off the project listing, narrow down your provider choices to 3 or 4. This may not be necessarily by price. You will be able to review provider portfolios and see the quality of their work.
Email the providers and ensure they fully understand the specific of the project and that their price is solid. Also, ask what type of software they use, their proficiency and experience with projects like yours and any other questions you may have. Not only with this allow you to further narrow your choices, but it will also enable you to see how quickly the providers respond to your email. They may be very quick to submit a proposal, but slow at returning your request for further information.
In the long run, do not feel you have to complete every step of the product creation cycle by yourself. For a small price, there are plenty of starving writers and web designers to assist you. Once your products start selling you will recoup the expenditure very quickly and soon be addicted to the use of outsourcing.
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About the author
Dr. Dave Hale is an internationally acclaimed business coach, university professor, and frequent speaker at many business conferences. He specializes in high performance business startup techniques which can be checked out at http://www.BuyHiPerBusinessStartup.com
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