One of the comments that was made while at lunch on Saturday with my Internet Marketing friend was that I need to outsource more of my work..
However I was recently reading a post on a forum by someone who said he had 12 pc’s on the go in his office and if he can’t automate a process he changes it till he can, now he also has multiple Internet connections coming into his office so he has no problem with bandwidth.
We all want to earn more income for less work, or income for life for work we do now.
But what if we can get other people to do the work and we still earn from it?
Well this still has headaches, we have to manage these people. Even if they are not in the same physical location as you they still need training, they still take holidays, sick days and my favorite “disappear days” (you know where they just don’t respond to IM’s, emails or even skype calls for a day or two and then just reappear).
What if you have a process that a machine can do, and it can do it all day and all night with minimum or 0 ongoing input from you?
One of the memberships I belong to which is all to do with mass site building presented a video all about keyword collecting, they said to pay $1 a list for someone to collect and clean the lists for you.
I liked the idea of paying someone else to do a boring job for me, until I did some maths..
$1 for a list that is ready to go is a bargain.. but if you use 1 list for each site and you have 20 sites (each on its own subdomain) on each domain that means each domain is costing you $20..
Ok it is worth it as it saves me time and time is money, so what am I doing with the time I now have?
Building more sites.. so I need more keyword lists (yes I could recycle them and I do but you still need some new ones)..
So now I can build 10 new domains out each day..
10 X$20= $200
We need more than 10 domains , ideally build them out in groups of 50
50 x 20 subdomains = 1k x $1 per lisy = $1k
Yes I know that the right keywords will make you money but flipping heck that is a chunk of change..
So the outsourcing option to get 1k keyword lists will cost me $1k (I know that I could probably do a deal for that amount)..
Instead I went and purchased a PC from Staples, had some software made and run it all day.. So how expensive did this work out to be..
PC = $299 + tax – I sold the monitor that came with it and gave the printer away so that covered the tax.
Software = $300
KVM to connect the two pcs to one monitor (free Thanks Kevin)
So call it $650 and I can now collect keywords all day long (and I do).
I know that everyone talks about outsourcing (and I do need to outsource some of my stuff) but if you can have a pc sitting there doing the work for you instead of a person then it is usually even better.
What if you could supply the software to the person and pay them to run it, then just send you the results once a week?
There are increased costs with this method, as you do have to pay them for their pc and time, but it will be cheaper than the $1 a list originally quoted.
Say you pay them $1 a hour for just babysitting the software, they can still do other work for someone else, for say 40 hours a week thats $40.. and how many lists can they collect in 40 hours?
400 (I estimate) 400 lists for $40 is 10cents a list by my accounts so getting enough lists for 50 sites
1k X 10cents = $100 (I think my maths is right, we didn’t get much sleep last night)
Ok so now we know we can collect keywords easily with a spare PC and some software.
What else can we automate from our desktop?
Sitebuilding – yep
Blog building – yep
What about other forms of promotion – social bookmarking?
What I am trying to say is that outsourcing is totally necessary and is perfect for some jobs, article writing, blog commenting (don’t want to be spammers do we) but look at your process and see what you can automate with a PC.
People comment about adsense not being worth it, if you can put in $50 a week into building adsense sites (50 .info domains) and automate it so all you have to do is click a button once a day and that click earns you $200 back then that is a no brainer isnt it?
Most people seem to be hung up on piling more programs onto their PC, go buy a 2nd PC, you will invest $97 in a ebook – but won’t invest $299 on a new PC..
I am actually about to go and buy my third PC, I am just trying to work out how to connect all three to one monitor and keyboard..
Automate then outsource the running of that automation…