Comments on: Outsourcing http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/ Music culture, strategy and thinking in the digital age Sun, 20 May 2012 02:12:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The outsourcing advantage | TechTalk http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 The outsourcing advantage | TechTalk Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:13:15 +0000 http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/#comment-1061 [...] No, we shouldn’t see outsourcing as competition. We should see outsourcing as the availability of people who do things cheaper and better than ourselves. Andrew Dubber learnt to take advantage of this fact and got the necessary backing from 4hww. Outsourcing at New Music Strategies [...] [...] No, we shouldn’t see outsourcing as competition. We should see outsourcing as the availability of people who do things cheaper and better than ourselves. Andrew Dubber learnt to take advantage of this fact and got the necessary backing from 4hww. Outsourcing at New Music Strategies [...]

]]> By: The outsourcing advantage - A 4 Hour Work Week Forum http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1060 The outsourcing advantage - A 4 Hour Work Week Forum Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:24:54 +0000 http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/#comment-1060 [...] The outsourcing advantage No, we shouldn't see outsourcing as competition. We should see outsourcing as the availability of people who do things cheaper and better than ourselves. Andrew Dubber learnt to take advantage of this fact and got the necessary backing from 4hww. Outsourcing at New Music Strategies [...] [...] The outsourcing advantage No, we shouldn’t see outsourcing as competition. We should see outsourcing as the availability of people who do things cheaper and better than ourselves. Andrew Dubber learnt to take advantage of this fact and got the necessary backing from 4hww. Outsourcing at New Music Strategies [...]

]]> By: Powerful thinking that fuels new perspectives - A 4 Hour Work Week Forum http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1059 Powerful thinking that fuels new perspectives - A 4 Hour Work Week Forum Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:02:23 +0000 http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/#comment-1059 [...] Outsourcing is an advantage! No, we shouldn't see outsourcing as competition. We should see outsourcing as the availability of people who do things cheaper and better than ourselves. Andrew Dubber learnt to take advantage of this fact and got the necessary backing from 4hww. Outsourcing at New Music Strategies [...] [...] Outsourcing is an advantage! No, we shouldn’t see outsourcing as competition. We should see outsourcing as the availability of people who do things cheaper and better than ourselves. Andrew Dubber learnt to take advantage of this fact and got the necessary backing from 4hww. Outsourcing at New Music Strategies [...]

]]> By: Anne http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1058 Anne Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:06:41 +0000 http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/#comment-1058 I was looking for someone to assist me with my research and communication projects. This is when i came across VServe Solution (www.vservesolution.com). I started with this company initally with my administrative work and now they do most of my non core work which gives me a lot of time to concentrate on what i want to do. They provide a team service and hence they are able to handle my work from data collection to accounts entry to transcription. This company offers different plans for us to choose and are very economical. You should try using them for your services. Anne I was looking for someone to assist me with my research and communication projects. This is when i came across VServe Solution (www.vservesolution.com). I started with this company initally with my administrative work and now they do most of my non core work which gives me a lot of time to concentrate on what i want to do.

They provide a team service and hence they are able to handle my work from data collection to accounts entry to transcription. This company offers different plans for us to choose and are very economical.

You should try using them for your services.

Anne

]]> By: Kylie Short http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1056 Kylie Short Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:11:57 +0000 http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/#comment-1056 Congratulations on taking that first step towards what I call entrepreneurial freedom. Outsourcing takes guts and can be at times quiet harrowing. My only advice to you is to make sure you communicate well with your Virtual Assistant and that you have multiple ways of reaching them. Give them feedback on tasks completed so they can learn and grow with you and your business. Just as you would 'court' your future life partner, you need to court your Virtual Assistant so the partnership can truly work to your benefit. Good luck and don't forget to update us further along the track. Making Virtual Personal.... Kylie Short Congratulations on taking that first step towards what I call entrepreneurial freedom. Outsourcing takes guts and can be at times quiet harrowing.

My only advice to you is to make sure you communicate well with your Virtual Assistant and that you have multiple ways of reaching them. Give them feedback on tasks completed so they can learn and grow with you and your business. Just as you would ‘court’ your future life partner, you need to court your Virtual Assistant so the partnership can truly work to your benefit.

Good luck and don’t forget to update us further along the track.

Making Virtual Personal….
Kylie Short

]]> By: Marc Krejci http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1057 Marc Krejci Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:20:50 +0000 http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/#comment-1057 I hired a Philippine to transcribe my podcasts (you can read their work at www.nashvillemarketreport.com) by using Guru.com. I submitted a request to both Elance and Guru and found Guru gave me much better applicants (not to mention 10x more) than Elance. I only got 2 or 3 very overpriced bids from Elance. The people bidding on projects are very competitive! The folks I ended up using charge $30usd/"audio hour", so a 10min podcast would cost about $5usd to transcribe!!! Far better than the $35 per podcast a local was charging me. And, they don't charge me until I have accumulated at least $50 in services, at which point I simply pay them by PayPal directly through Guru's site. Also, being in the US, they are working while I'm sleeping and usually have them transcribed when I show up at the office the next day! (...they just monitor my rss feed) Not to mention the flawless quality of the text. All of this to say, I highly recommend Guru! I got a local musician friend of mine set up on Guru to have some research folks find him some hard leads for performance opportunities, as he is his own booking agent. So far it's been working really well for him. We'll see how it pans out long term. Cheers! (p.s. I'd be curious to hear more about your experiences with VMG BPO as you progress with them...) I hired a Philippine to transcribe my podcasts (you can read their work at http://www.nashvillemarketreport.com) by using Guru.com.

I submitted a request to both Elance and Guru and found Guru gave me much better applicants (not to mention 10x more) than Elance. I only got 2 or 3 very overpriced bids from Elance.

The people bidding on projects are very competitive! The folks I ended up using charge $30usd/”audio hour”, so a 10min podcast would cost about $5usd to transcribe!!! Far better than the $35 per podcast a local was charging me. And, they don’t charge me until I have accumulated at least $50 in services, at which point I simply pay them by PayPal directly through Guru’s site.

Also, being in the US, they are working while I’m sleeping and usually have them transcribed when I show up at the office the next day! (…they just monitor my rss feed) Not to mention the flawless quality of the text.

All of this to say, I highly recommend Guru! I got a local musician friend of mine set up on Guru to have some research folks find him some hard leads for performance opportunities, as he is his own booking agent. So far it’s been working really well for him. We’ll see how it pans out long term.

Cheers!

(p.s. I’d be curious to hear more about your experiences with VMG BPO as you progress with them…)

]]> By: Dubber http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1055 Dubber Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:18:45 +0000 http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/09/12/outsourcing/#comment-1055 Oh - almost forgot: <a href="http://www.elance.com" rel="nofollow">Elance</a> is worth a look too, but last time I checked they only take credit cards... so no good to me. Oh – almost forgot: Elance is worth a look too, but last time I checked they only take credit cards… so no good to me.

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