What Jobs can be outsourced

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Cheers, all.

What kind of jobs do you usually outsource to a VPA? Are there Jobs that they can't really take care of and one should do alone? How do you usually go about finding a VPA?
#jobs #outsourced
  • Profile picture of the author icoachu
    I write a lot of my own stuff but I for bulk projects or if I am overextended, I outsource content production, content marketing, and other marketing tasks to VAs.

    The only task I don't outsource involves HIGH LEVELS of analysis

    I find VAs through the Warrior For Hire section here. You can also try freelancer.com
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  • My rule of thumb is anything that requires my 'personality' (e.g. writing blog posts, writing broadcast emails etc) I wouldn't outsource.

    Anything else is fair game. Although I do focus on the stuff that I don't enjoy, don't do particularly well, or stuff that takes me too much time.

    In addition to the resources above, I would also consider Fiverr, for micro outsourcing tasks.

    I hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author fpforum
    Like others have mentioned..writing content is a big one. posting/updating social media is another one. To go along with those, you could also have them do some backlink building or product/competitor research.
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  • Profile picture of the author karlstech
    Check out Fiverr, can get almost anything there for $5. I for example offer to wrote 1,000 word articles for $5, while another person offers to do a logo.

    Check it out
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  • Profile picture of the author Nerdygirl226
    my advise it to do it all by your self it will be much better
    no one know your products like you do
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  • Profile picture of the author David Tugwell
    For me it comes down to simple maths....

    When I am billing clients, I charge the $180 per hour for my time. I have a large outsourcing reach, so time wise, I work out the difference between me doing it and outsourcing it. For example, to write high converting sales copy for my landing page it may cost me $500 to outsource it (sample figures only). Could I do it in 4 hours? Probably not, so outsource it!

    Conversely if I was to outsource basic content offshore. By the time I explain what I want, deal with the language barrier and then direct and correct for a one off task, it could take me 3 or more hours of my time, where just doing it myself would probably take two... and we haven't included the outsourcing fees yet (although these are generally pretty minor.)

    One thing that I have been able to do well however is invest the time to get outsourced developers to work how I want them to and deliver what I am after. In the early stages this took a lot of effort on my part and made it uneconomical (when factoring in my time) in the short term. The result however is I now have a few teams of highly skilled developers that I can trust to deliver what I want, how I want it and when I want it... for offshore rates.

    I think it all boils down to what you value your time at, the duration of the project you are undertaking and the cost benefit analysis you come up with.

    Hope this helps
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