Earning Revenue from Outsourcing Work -- Is it Possible?

There will always be a huge demand for QUALITY design work

Always going to be a demand for this sort of work, high quality stuff, for a good price, and in a timely fashion.

Thanks for the replies! I already have a few designers interested, so this could definitely work. I'm just still deciding on how to implement everything, including pricing.

If you've got customers or can get them it will work but if you don't you'll end up with a team of people you don't have any work for.

There is definitely a market for high quality design at a reasonable price. From what I see, you are like the middleman who get customers for the free lancers and you make a cut out of the sales. I do know of people who are active in networking and they simply make money by referring customers to each other.

What you can do, on top of your plans, is to contact companies in your area with the following:


• Recently Launched Products - Digital product developers like software companies would be better, among other businesses that sell products where sales and delivery orders are processed online; and


• Affiliate Programs (for those newly launched products) - Digital product developers and businesses that sell products where sales and delivery orders are processed online would need a lot of affiliates, who in turn need websites and online marketing materials to promote those affiliate products. Why?


These companies and businesses could be initially interested in acquiring your services to lure more affiliates, i.e.


They could offer website themes/templates, marketing materials like banners, squeeze/sales page templates, ebook cover templates and so on. And:


Once they have more than enough affiliates, they could be interested in continuing to sell your services to their affiliates, at marked up prices.
This would help their affiliates with their online affiliate marketing campaigns, while earning income for those companies and businesses in the process. Plus:


They could be interested in again acquiring your services to lure another batch of people to sign up as their affiliates.
More affiliates for them could result to more business for you. This is on top of more potential sales and wider market exposure for them,
particularly for their brand and products...


In my experience, what I mentioned above is best done with an inhouse team of employees working in an office with constantly tested and improved backend processes and systems.
This is from comparing (for the past 6 years) the performance of our inhouse employees against our independent homebased subcontractors (not the employees of our subcontractor partners, since their employees work at their own offices). However:


I'm not saying doing this with a team of freelancers who are 100% working remotely wouldn't work,
because the performance of our independent subcontractors may not be as good as our inhouse employees,
though I'm confident homebased service providers can handle per project work better than regular daily work,
most likely as good as how inhouse employees handle daily work, so:


I believe you could test this out initially with a few homebased freelance subcontractors.
Just grow your team when needed...

i do this. it's called arbitrage i think. i find clients on the web and then outsource it but my split is atleast 50% of the budget. recently i did this. i sold a mobile site for $257, paid the contractor $70. 20% isnt enough profit for me as i am the one that is still project manager and i have to allot for the cost of my time to find the lead.

99designs just in case you are going to be worried about competitors..

Just be sure your team is paid very well. No one wants to work for $5.00 or minimum wage when their talent and skill is worth more. No matter what you charge your clients, ensure the artist is taking home the winning share.

Your work model is super and many people are already using it .They grab project and outsource to design team and pay them according to their mutual agreement.Here is one major issue

Do you want your designer team to be fixed or you will select random team from outsourcing websites.Fixed team will be reliable but will need consistent work .


Recently i was contacted by a local web development company for bringing project for them and they will pay 15 percent of project amount .

My view is that i should get a fixed amount along with percentage ,the reason is straightforward i have to give my time and resources to get project ,supervise them until completion ,and dealing with client.

How many of you support my idea of fixed pay.