What Is Your Favourite Thing To Outsource

I couldn't agree more.

Time is the only currency you can spend but never earn more of. I outsource almost everything for my businesses, the only things I don't are things where I want the piece (content/interaction) to have my distinct voice for personal branding reasons.

When there are a lot of outsourcers who can do the job as well or better then I could and for so much lower then my hourly rate, why not outsource as much as possible?

I love building sites and blogs.
I like writing articles and content for my sites.
I outsource stuff like linkbuilding.

Well my favorite things to outsource are link building and article writing.

Hey,

The short answer. like several people have mentioned is... everything.

At least as much as possible anyway.

You have to look at it this way, your time is better spent creating marketing campaigns, establishing joint venture/partnerships, testing new advertising mediums etc. All the stuff that actually MAKES money.

Everything else is menial and should be given to someone else to do.

Now, I understand that when you're starting out you'll probably have to do everything yourself. Which is actually good, that way you know how everything should be done and you can hold your outsourcers to a reasonable standard of quality. But as soon as you can afford it hire out the repetitive, menial stuff. Even if it means not paying yourself in favor of paying your help.

I know that mindset can be hard to swallow at times, but your business will never grow past the "you do it all" phase if you don't.

With that being said, if I were just starting out and could only realisticly pay someone else to do a couple of the daily tasks I would choose...

1. SEO - The mind numbing bits like back links, directory submissions, social bookmarks etc.

2. Content - Even if I'm an expert in the field I'll still have it done by someone else, simply because my time is worth MUCH more per hour than I'd pay to have it done. You still have to review the finished product before you put your name/reputation on it. But beyond telling the writer what I want and then checking it to make sure it's up to my standards, I prefer to concern myself with other things that directly result in income.

I'd be pretty hard pressed to decide which of those 2 is more important to outsource first though. After all great content does you no good if nobody sees it and a boatload of visitors won't help if they don't find valueable information when they come.

Hope that helps.
Tony.

Making Pizza.

I suck at it

Thanks for that input mate.

I hear you DonMarketer. Thanks for helping my fellow Filipinos through employing them whether full time job or just a project based one.

try India at-least one time!