Welcome to hero TV. Today, we're going
to be talking about the advantages and
the disadvantages of outsourcing.
I got John Jonas here with me. Were
actually filming several videos like
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we're going to be covering all of that
and this guy is the expert.
So, advantages and disadvantages of
outsourcing. In advantages, I have some
okay advantages and I have some really
great advantages. And, the okay ones are
the ones that most people think about. So,
with okay advantages you get to get some
more stuff done in your business. There's,
there's only so much that you can do and
when you outsource and you get someone
else working with you, you get more stuff
done. Another okay advantages you get
stuff done that you don't know how to do.
Where, you can hire someone with, with
skills that you don't have. For example,
if you know, if you're not a programmer,
you can hire a programmer. If you don't
know web work, you can hire a web of,
someone who can do web work for you.
Or a graphic design, or writing, or
whatever. So if there's things that you
don't know how to do, you can get someone
else to do those things for you and then
that gets more work done on your
business. Another okay advantage of
outsourcing is it is cheap. it's, I mean,
you can hire someone in the US for ten
dollars an hour or, you can hire someone
overseas for three dollars an hour. It's
there's a cost advantage to it. Those are
those are traditionally the things that
people think of when they think of
outsourcing. And, and, I think those
advantages are okay because I think
there's some really great advantages
that most people don't recognize. So, the
biggest great advantage is getting time
back. Where people don't realize that if
they do this correctly, they can get a
ton of time back in their life. By, by,
the second really great advantage which
is getting things done that you do know
how to do, and getting it done by someone
else. So, this is, this is where we're
outsourcing has really changed my life.
So if I, if there's something in my
business that I know how to do something
that I'm good at I want to outsource
that thing to someone else and get them
doing it and get them doing it my way so
that it's being done the way that I
would do it, but I'm not the one doing it.
And, and, this is something most people
just kind of glance over and they skip
it because they think oh I can do that I
know how to do that, or I'm the best one
to do it, or it's just faster for me to
do it rather than someone else do it.
Where, for me I'm going to get someone
else to do it because now, I get time.
And, time is the best thing to gain so that,
it, for me that's like a great advantage
of outsourcing. I get time back and I get
things done in my business that I do
know how to do so they're getting done
by someone else and getting done really
really well because I can get feedback,
and I can give training, I can teach them,
and I can look at what they've done and
say, "oh yeah, this is awesome" or "oh, hey
this needs to be tweaked like this one
like this" and then it gets done my way
but not by me. So, another really great
advantage of outsourcing is being able
to automate systems. So, for me, in working
in my business I found that I don't just
want to give someone else a simple task
or a single task, I want to give them the
task and the follow-on task and the pre
research and the end of completion task.
So, they're doing the entire thing
basically automating the system so let
me give you an example content marketing
for our business I want someone else to
do the research on what we should be
writing and I want someone else to do
the actual writing itself and I want
that person to take that writing and
publish it somewhere else and I want
them to promote that, that, thing that's,
been published. So, if you don't do this,
outsourcing thing the right way, it,
because it, requires you to do it the
right way, in order to gain these really
great advantages. The okay advantages, anybody
can do. If you want to get the great
advantage, you have to do it the right
way. So, if you're hiring a contract
worker that's not really going to work
or a freelance worker you have to get a
full-time person where, you can teach
this person like the pre research model
that you want and then, you can teach the
kind of content that you want because
different kinds of content is, is,
different and its frame differently and
it's written differently. But once
they've learned how to do it they can do
it over and over again and then you
teach them the way to publish them. So,
you're going to publish them on
different sites, and different views, and
different methods, different styles,
whatever. And then, you're also going to
teach the promotion method. Because and
there's multiple different ways of doing
promotion and so the issue with if you
don't have a full-time person who's
working for you a full-time outsourcer,
it's really hard to teach these things
because that person won't be
you next week, and so you're not willing
to teach it to you. So what I found for
me was, I hired someone to do a bunch of
writing for me they did the writing, and
they sent it all back to me, and then it
fell on me to make sure I wasn't done
right and, and, then it wasn't done right
so I'd to go back then to teach them
which was really painful because I know
after they've done this right
incorrectly they're not gonna they're
going to go move on to someone else and
that was painful for me. So then, they get
it back to me and it's done right and
now it's up to me to go and publish this
content, and then it's up to me to go and
promote this content. And for me, that is
not, that doesn't really take advantage
of outsourcing the way that can be. Where
you can, I can now fully automate systems
like that. Where ,I'm not involved in it
anymore. And so, I get my time back. That's
a really big one. So another really great
advantage of outsourcing if it's done
right is, you can change from working in
your business to working on your
business. So, a lot of people I find as
they outsource they're really just still
in the thick of things because of
because of the way they've done it.
Because of the way that they've hired
the people that they're hiring, because
of those people are temporary their
contract workers. You're still in the
details someone else is doing some of
the work. But you, still have to be really,
really, involved in the details of it. And,
that keeps you working in your business.
We're working on your business means to
me so I'll go back to my example I just
gave them of this system that has been
automated. I can now step away from that
whole system, and think about if we did
this like this, it's really good. But, if
we add this other piece to this system
that we're doing, now this is really
effective and this is more effective and
so I can think through these things and
then say, "hey, you're doing this" and this
other person we have is doing this, Let's
make these two work together and I want
you guys to do the work. So, when you, when
you, Start to work be able to step away
from the the tasks and work on your
business, you get to think about the
different pieces and how they could work
together, and then you can direct other
people, your outsourced workers, on how to
do those things. Where for most people,
if, you're doing the work yourself you
don't get to direct others and so you
don't get to take the step away from
hey I'm doing this, I'm doing this, what
about this? and how does this fit with
this? You don't need to take that step
because, you're so consumed with working
on just this current system and it
consumes your brain in it and it just
won't let you step away and say like hey,
there these other things that we can be
doing and they can work together really
well. Okay, so let me talk about the
disadvantages of outsourcing. I'm going
to start with if it's done wrong it's a
disaster. And, this is why most people
think of outsourcing as like a
babysitting job, or a headache, or poor
work, or it's just becomes a
disaster when it's done wrong. and
there's a lot of ways to do it wrong the
first way is to go to India with it. It
just creates a disaster. And, and so,
that's a big disadvantage about so
because most people just think, "Oh
outsourcing India go hire a bunch of
people to do one thing that one person
that us could do because it's cheaper to
get it" and that's a wrong way to do
it. And so, that creates all kinds of pain
problems for people. Another disadvantage
of outsourcing is, it's, hard to find the
right people, trying to find good people.
And, and, part of that is just not knowing
where to go to find good people part of
that is not knowing how to find good
people and I'll talk about that in
another video. But if you can't find the
right people, you're just creating such a
difficulty for yourself and you do
create a babysitting job and you create
a headache and and you create yourself
more work to do. If it's done right, if
you, if you know where to find the right
people how to go about finding the right
people, It becomes a joy to find them.
Because, you can get so excited about
having, having, this really good work done
in your business. and finding someone
who's so affordable and you know oh man
this guy's going to do such good work
for me. So, another disadvantage of
outsourcing is that often, it breeds
laziness. Where, where, you think, "oh I'm
going to get someone else to do a bunch
of stuff for me so I don't have to do
anything" and laziness breeds disaster in
outsourcing. So, if you, if you're, going to
do this to think "oh good I can finally
do nothing", or "I don't have to hand
this person. I don't have to deal with
their problems I don't know if they're
not going to work out I'm just going to
get rid of them" that kind of
attitude towards outsourcing, which is a
super color because that's kind of what
a lot of people look for in outsourcing.
This disadvantages that it creates a
problem rather than solving a problem.
And so, if you're not careful with it, if
you just if you're getting lazy with it,
it'll create more of a problem. Then, then,
it will solve. The last, the last,
disadvantage that I have for us because
it takes time it's not that it's what I,
what I, what I do is not a magic bullet.
It's extremely effective. It changes
people's lives. But, it takes time. And you
kind of have to take this step away from,
I'm gonna just hire someone and let them
take it over, and if they can't do that,
then I'm just gonna do it myself because
I it's just faster for me to do it
myself. You have to step away from that
and think, "it's faster for me to do this
myself but, if I teach someone else to do
it long-term, I'm going to gain hundreds
of hours back. Because, this is something
that we have to do over and over again
and, the more I teach this person the
better off they become and the more
capable they become and then the less
time I have to spend on any given thing"
So, in the beginning, yes it's going to
take time. It's going to take more time.
Which is hard for a lot of people
because there's everybody is so already
pinched for time. But, if you're willing
to step back, take some time and train
someone on how to do something, you'll
find you spent 10 hours to gain three
hours every single week and gaining
those three hours every single week is
so much more effective than spending at
10 hours over, and over, and over, again.
Thanks for watching hero TV today, and
thanks so much John for taking the time
to talk to us about this. I thought, I
would add in here a quick story of my
first time outsourcing this was seven
and a half years ago, and it's a funny
story, and this will illustrate a
definite disadvantage.
But, it really related to me being lazy.
So, this time I still had a job and
I had an independent contractor position
for this job as well where I would write
articles. So, they paid me ten to twelve
dollars per article that I would write
and I learned for John about outsourcing
I thought, "great! I'm going to hire somebody
to write articles for me" I started out
working really, really well. I paid her
about two or three dollars per article
and I was just like "this is great" so, I
took on more and more article writing
assignments and assign them to her and
at first, I was really thorough. I'd review
them and I took a lot of time with it
well a couple months had gone by now.
I just gotten really lazy I was, you know,
makes it... Things were working well!
Things were working well, making the spread on it
but then I thought, you know, I'm just
going to do some quality control. I went
in and I, I use, I think the service
Grammarly just to see you know found
out that ninety to ninety-five percent of
this article I just checked was all
plagiarism. Oh no! i'm going to get in
trouble! So I checked more and I found at
first, she hadn't done that it was all
original stuff and I just thought she's
like, but I had to go in and tweak it a
little bit here and there just to make
the grammar. Work better but over time I
just left she got better and better but,
it came she actually was copying and do
you got lazy and she got lazy. Yes! and so
long story short, I, I fired her. I could,
anyway, I won't go into that details
because it was I take half of the
responsibility as well but I went into
my boss and I explained what it done my
boss thought it was hilarious. But,
he just made me go back and rewrite them.
So, the moral of story is, yeah that was
kind of a bad outcome but, I caught the
fire. Realized what I could do with
outsourcing and you know, I hired someone
more people from then and I've been hiring,
and I've gotten people to work for me
not her, but a person that hired right
after her still works with me today. And,
that's one of the things that I talked
about it you can't be lazy with this.
It doesn't, people want to be lazy, and that
makes a disaster. So, hopefully you've
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