Whether you want to hire overseas or closer to your home base, here are some creative outsourcing ideas that you can hire out!
1. Raw Coding
The great news about coding is that it’s a language all it’s own. It doesn’t matter if an employee’s native language is French, Spanish, Japanese or English. Writing code for plug-ins, websites, apps, or landing pages is universal. So you don’t have to know Javascript, HTML or CSS…just outsource it!
2. Scripted Customer Service
Outsourcing your live chat customer service is always a good idea. You need to have people available almost around the clock for your customers, but it’s not feasible to have someone in-house handling that. The good news is that with a good script, and a basic understanding of the business, they can successfully help your customers. Another benefit to outsourcing this is you have people on the clock while you sleep, which means your customers have access to help 24/7.
3. Lead Generation
You don’t need to do your own lead generation! Whether that is sorting contacts and reaching out to promising leads or not doesn’t matter. If you have a system in place, you can easily and effectively outsource that part and focus on creating products.
4. Graphics & Design
I know…you won the art contest in second grade and you can draw wicked cool dragons. That’s awesome! But put your company’s graphic design projects in the hands of someone else. The quality will surprise you, you’ll save a ton of time, and having someone else’s creative spin on a project usually improves it. They’ll make it desirable and compelling and you’ll just have to approve it.
5. Social Media Management
If you have someone who is fluent in English, hand off your social media management to them. They can respond to comments, moderate comments, make timed postings and handle
online details.
At the end of the day, hiring out these tasks will not only save you time and money, but you’ll likely get much better quality than if you tried to do it all yourself.
Focus on doing what you do best, leading the company and creating new products.
