Annette Cole offers the following royalty-free article for you to publish online or in print. Feel free to use this article in your newsletter, website, ezine, blog, or forum. ----------- PUBLICATION GUIDELINES - You have permission to publish this article for free providing the "About the Author" box is included in its entirety. - Do not post/reprint this article in any site or publication that contains hate, violence, porn, warez, or supports illegal activity. - Do not use this article in violation of the US CAN-SPAM Act. If sent by email, this article must be delivered to opt-in subscribers only. - If you publish this article in a format that supports linking, please ensure that all URLs and email addresses are active links. - Please send a copy of the publication, or an email indicating the URL to [email protected] - DistributeYourArticles (www.DistributeYourArticles.com) has distributed this article on behalf of the author. DistributeYourArticles does not own this article, please respect the author's copyright and publication guidelines. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this article. ----------- Article Title: How Top Home Based Businesses Outsource Various Tasks To Increase Productivity Author: Annette Cole Category: Home Business, Tools and Resources Word Count: 804 Keywords: top home based businesses, earn extra money at home, home business, work at home Author's Email Address: [email protected] Article Source: http://www.distributeyourarticles.com ------------------ ARTICLE START ------------------
Top home based businesses increase their productivity by outsourcing many of their tasks such as data entry or writing articles or blog posts. By getting other people to do these various time consuming or specialized tasks they can then better utilize the time on their more important jobs plus it also enables them to have more free time to spend with their families. There are many time consuming tasks in operating a home based business all of which could be given to others to do. In larger businesses this is achieved by having employees to do the work but home businesses are not able to delegate many of these tasks because they do not have employees on their payroll especially when starting out as their budget will be too small. If this is your situation then you are not alone and there is a solution to this problem. Outsourcing is a way of delegating work out to other people without having to have them on your payroll or pay them a retainer fee. By outsourcing some of your tasks, you will not be overwhelmed with the amount of work you have to do which causes an enormous amount of stress and many give up their dream of having their own top home based businesses because of it. To outsource you will need to decide which of your tasks is either taking too much of your time or you are not qualified for. For example, you may have a blog and need to write articles to promote and drive traffic to your site, but you may not be able to actually put things in writing or be able to come up with topics, or this may be taking too much time away from you working on making your actual product. Or, you may decide that you want to sell a product such as a program to perform a certain function on a computer but you are not a computer programmer. Once you have decided which of your tasks that you need help on, then you need to find someone who is capable of doing this for you, but where do you go and how do you go about it? You have done the first step by identifying what needs to be done, so now your next step is to write down a structure of the work that you need done so that you can hand this outline to the person whom you choose to do the work for you. For example if it is a program then you need to say that you what you want the program to do, or if it is to write articles for your blog you will need to state what your blog is about and give a rough outline as to how you want the articles written so as to ensure that it fits in with you and your theme. Now that you have identified what you need and how it needs to be done, your next step is to find someone to actually do the task or tasks for you. There are a lot of people wanting toearn extra money at home so they advertise their services or go to other websites who will provide them with others who are looking for people with their skills and talents. To locate your ideal person, you can write up an advertisement in local papers or go to the various websites that have these jobs advertised. In your advertisement you will state what you are needing, however, only give a very, very brief overview of the task at hand because you do not want to let others steal your ideas. You would only say, for example, that you want a program to do xyz task or you want someone to write articles for your blog on xyz subject. Another way to find someone is to ask others who may be doing the same thing if they have any recommendations. However, if they do happen to have a good person they may not be willing to share them with you. As for how much to pay them, sometimes you may quote how much you are going to pay per hour or per job, and at other times you will ask for them to quote to you how much they charge and then you give the task to the lowest bid. The choice is up to you but it does vary depending upon where the advertisement is placed. As for actually paying them, you may want to ensure that you are able to handle the transaction with ease as many of those seeking this work may not be in your country therefore getting their pay to them may not be possible. Wishing you well in your success in finding someone to assist you with your top home based businesses! Please visit my blog http://www.annettecoleonline.com where I intend to give more information, tips and advice on setting up your own home based business. I look forward to helping you in gaining financial freedom and enabling you to have a great life - the one that you deserve! Cheers, Annette Cole ------------------ ARTICLE END ------------------ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
