Is There Anything that You CAN'T Outsource?

True personal Empathy for your own Customers and Prospects.



- Robert Andrew

Overseeing your business
Choosing outsourcers
Controlling your cash flow (well you could outsource that if you are nitwit)
Making business decisions (nitwit would apply there too )

I had a guy juggle chain saws once and talk about my website


Note: it's for a tattoo website and I don't own the domain anymore, not trying to get traffic - just sharing for the LOLs :-)

Unless you are a mega corporation with a massive amount of share holders, you will *have to* rely on yourself when it comes to making strategic business decisions.

Want to build a new product? Well, chances are, you'll have to design it (I'm not talking about graphic design here).

If you are in the business of building applications, it is you who creates the concept and writes the requirements. No one else can jump inside your head and see exactly what you want to produce.

If you make money with educational content, it is you who comes up with subjects on which it is going to be written. It is very likely that you'll have to write it yourself to ensure that it is as exhaustive as possible (again, no ghostwriter can read your mind).

If you are an agency that does work for clients, there is no one who will care as much about your customer as you will. You will probably end up doing quality assurance at the very least.

Doing nothing and making money will be possible once you hit a certain threshold of profitability. But before that, I guarantee you, there's going to be a massive amount of work.

For me, working online is a great thing. I love running my business: I enjoy stressing out about deadlines, planning products, reviewing suppliers' work, communicating with my clients, enforcing standards, building sales funnels, mind mapping everything on a whiteboard, etc. Part of the reason I love doing all that is because I know that this is what allows me to do what I love the most, which is to travel (thank God for AirBnB).

Additionally, I can do many of the things that my suppliers can do, while I regularly study the things that I cannot yet do (e.g. software development and visual design). This is what genuinely interests me. If you go into this business with that type of attitude, your venture will be profitable. But if you want to start a business with hopes to work as little as possible, I suggest finding something you actually like doing instead.

If you build a personal brand based on your personality and your name then you cannot change this or make someone else be you.

But you can outsource a great many things. You can outsource your sales messages, your traffic acquisition, and even your product creation.

It all depends on how you build your business. You can make things that are outsourceble not be anymore and you can make everything to be easily replaced.

You can't outsource your personal touch to documents and personal writing style. Relating to your audience is the most important thing in marketing, and that cannot be outsourced.

You may want to re-evaluate your goals and come up with something that exists outside of the realm of the delusional.

The necessary labor to "make it big" is generally going to be expensive labor (probably six figures minimum if you are doing this from the start). That's what throws a wrench in most outsourcing plans initially. One could bring an argument of starting with $5 graphic design and $2 articles and over time you "level up" to the good outsourced work, but it rarely works out that way since bad work (and whether you want to admit it to yourself or not, that cheap work you bought is indeed bad) rarely draws opportunity.

So in that sense I think there is a pretty strong argument for being very selective in what you outsource in the earlier stages of a project if your own labor can outperform the available outsourced labor by a wide quality margin -- even if the work is very time consuming on your end.

You cannot outsource your planning.

Good sex, good food, and good music... So far everyone I've hired to handle these tasks has seemingly never been able to match the quality I demand.

All kidding aside, I have remained determined to do it all myself, although after years of study, it might be time to spread some of the tasks out to those who could likely do a better job than myself.

I was going to say sex... but thinking about it, there are plenty of places you could outsource that too.

Hmmm... breathing you cant outsource that

Trust is very hard to outsource.

You cant outsource producing quality content that solves a want, need or desire where you want to be fully responsible for your end product/customer satisfaction.

Your integrity!

I've done a lot of outsourcing throughout my time online and I think it's a smart thing to do. You only have so much time in the day and delegating tasks for others today is a very smart thing to do and you also put yourself in a position to grow and scale even further if you assign things to people who may be even "better" than you at a particular skill.

BUT, something I have never outsourced and probably wouldn't ever would be the relationships that I build with my customers on a daily basis. Your customers are the KEY pieces to your business so I think you must make sure they are being taken care on a continuous basis.

-Omar

Can't outsource motivation to succeed, thats something your gotta muster from yourself!

Your own imagination.