Why can't I find clients for IT outsourcing?

to find IT outsourcing go to odesk or similar online job markets.

Your question is too deep to explain it here and now. I'll try to throw just some ideas.

Small companies: I have contacted once a few companies selling wine in US to hire programmers in Eastern Europe. Know what they told me? "We buy all software for a few hundred dollars ready made and do not need any coders or other IT stuff".
I think all the same happens in all other branches of economy: there are ready made business solutions that cover all needs of small business.

All you can do here, find a original idea for a branch of business, invest your own money, make a program then not be able to sell a copy

Now large companies or government: there is a big competition inside the US or other large countries around these companies.
Example:
- US government granted to an African country $2M for a website.
- US company hired a Western Europe company for $500K for the same website.
- Western Europe company hired a Eastern Europe company for $100K for the same website.
- At last website was done by a Indian company for $20K.

Where do you see yourself in this chain?


Say you find a contract with a company, what legal papers are you offering them? What their needs can you cover? Do you participate into annual markets offering your services? Are your services different from what the other companies offer?


Large software companies: Microsoft for example. When they create a product they always know - they will be able to pay their stuff $100K a year + will get big profits. What is the reason to outsource job?

Smaller software companies: they open branches in cheap countries, train their own stuff and give them their work, see example above about $2M -> $20K, so they could put all the difference into their pocket.



Without a business organization, without original business idea, without investments, without serious business partners you can find job only on freelance and similar online markets where individuals hire people with their last pennies and try to save on everything while your competitors will be ready to say any prices to get any job then do nothing


When you contact recruiting companies, remember they look for local stuff, not for outsource, price is pre-defined and why the job is not outsources to you, because you are cheap.. read all examples above and try to understand.

The vast majority of people should never outsource programming unless they are selling a product that needs to be developed by programmers.

The costs are far too high to custom code for "internal only" applications. For example, would anyone hire a programmer to develop a word processing program? Or a spreadsheet program?

Same thing applies across many applications. The programming costs are simply too high and the results too unpredictable.

If you have these guys available, create a product and sell it to the end users.