SUBJECT: Software Lesson #6 - A Realistic Look Into Outsourcing

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There's so many variables to evaluate when you are considering
outsourcing your PLR software and coding changes that the answer
to that question is "Yes and No." To begin with, let's check out
the two major types of outsourcing available so you will
recognize what is being "said" to you when you read some of the
providers' information.

There are three main problems with outsourcing or offshoring
that have to be considered by software publishers and Internet
Marketers when they look for ways to streamline their business
by having their PLR software modified or rewritten by someone
else.

Some problems that are basically geographical in nature, include
language, accent, political instability, cultural issues and
unexpected changes in laws and regulations that affect the
outsource service.

Another is a shakily developed support infrastructure that could
mean disaster to your business, particularly if you are
outsourcing your site's hosting. These problems include
unreliable email and other contact difficulties, inadequate
disaster recovery, inability to generate the power you need for
the bandwidth, or data transfer rate, your website requires.

The third and maybe the main outsourcing problem concerns your
projects. When you have PLR software you want revamped or
redesigned to suit the needs of your customers, your outsourcer
in another country might not have the knowledge or experience
you need or the language proficiency to specifically understand
what you want done and how.

However, all is not as bleak as the description above makes
outsourcing or offshoring your PLR software projects sound.



Here's some advantages:

• You can decrease your operating costs...your time is a cost of
doing business

• You can access cheaper and more efficient labor

• You can often access better technologies at a cheaper cost

• Your personal productivity will increase

• You can concentrate on the money-making side of being a
software publisher

• You can stay even or surpass your competition



Disadvantages:

• You can have your project stalled if your outsourcing company
has financial troubles, like bankruptcy, labor problems, etc.

• The actual control of the processes required for your project
will no longer be in your hands, but passed to the outsourcing
service

• The outsourcing service may have contract obligations with
many other companies that push your project to the end of a long
list

At the time of this writing, the following countries are all
promoting their outsourcing services to the rest of the world:

• China
• Czechoslovakia
• India
• Ireland
• Poland
• Russia
• The Philippines
• The Ukraine

There are, however, some very successful and professional
outsourcing services that many marketers use for their PLR
software needs. While they may be based in the US or in Europe,
a large percentage of their programmers are living in other
countries. Let's move on to that aspect of outsourcing.

Well we’ll move on in a minute…..

I’ve offered an intelligent argument as to the pros and cons of
outsourcing. 

I’d now like to draw your attention to two things:

1. Unless you can write code yourself you DON’T HAVE A CHOICE.

2. Just bloody DO IT.

I waited and wondered for a lot of years about outsourcing, not
only in terms of PLR and software, but in my marketing business
in general.

I can honestly say that major problems have been few and far
between and I wished I’d done it years before I actually did.

The biggest single thing that held me back for so long was fear
of the unknown – would programmers laugh at me if I couldn’t
tell them what I wanted in ‘techy’ language?

Would outsourcing to other countries mean language problems,
security problems or other such things?

All the above are unrealistic fears. You will find that
outsourcers treat you with the utmost respect, because:

a. They’re used to dealing with people like you and me, and they
will highly respect you because you are the ‘ideas’ person. b.
You’re the one who’s paying them.

If you take nothing else away from this book, please take this –
try outsourcing. It’ll change your business forever.


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