Comments on: Are you cheating your own business?

By: Oscar Turner

Oscar Turner — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:56:26 +0000

There is a rapid growth of Outsorcing these days as manufactures try to cut cost and maximize profit.:’”

By: Domitila Arias

Domitila Arias — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:41:18 +0000

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By: Stewart Graham

Stewart Graham — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:02:06 +0000

Hi Bernadette

Excellent article.

This is the kind of process I take my clients through when I’m coaching them. My experience says that most business owners automatically think that outsourcing is more expensive than insourcing until they are faced with actually looking at the figuress and seeing for themselves that earning xxx an hour and paying y an hour to do the non-fee-earning stuff is clearly a better option.

It also relies less on inhouse staff so at times of snow, such as now, that area of the business continues.

I’ve got articles on my website, several of which refer to outsourcing as a very cost effective way of reducing costs and improving efficiency.

Have you thought about putting this article on Ecademy as a blog?

Kind regards

Stewart

By: Brendan Cullen

Brendan Cullen — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:44:15 +0000

Hi Bernadette,
Great post. Peter posed a very real dilemma faced by some businesses. But the business owners who can’t currently outsource can still keep that hourly number in their heads to help them hold themselves accountable to themselves.
Brendan

By: Peter J Mills

Peter J Mills — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:21:46 +0000

Bernadette, I greatly enjoy your morning doses of wisdom – thanks! In practice, the question of outsourcing is a bit trickier. It’s a no-brainer to replace $20 an hour tasks with $181.16 work. This assumes there is plenty of work available. If not, it’s much harder to replace with those $20/hr tasks with unpaid (at present) marketing efforts that may or may not produce dividends down the track. In the short term, you’re out of pocket. This is the actual dilemma that us people who are trying to grow a business face.

Best wishes, Peter

By: Andy Donovan

Andy Donovan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:43:27 +0000

Absolutely loved this post and agree whole heartedly. If we don’t value our time no one else should either. Great advice here Bernadette and definitely something I’ll keep tacked to my board to review on a monthly basis to keep things on track. Cheers,

Andy

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