With the world in the midst of a financial crisis, it is hardly surprising that people are beginning to see the value of outsourcing.

In fact, you would have to be living under a rock if you didn’t notice many large corporations beginning to outsource their services to foreign countries, where they could receive the same services for only a fraction of what they were paying in their home country! You only have to call one of these companies after hours before you realise you are not talking to someone local!

Typically, when we work for a boss, we are hired to show up at work for a specific number of hours each day. We are paid for these hours regardless of the amount of work we produced. This is the way traditional businesses have done things for many years.

But what if you could pay someone only for what they produce?

In any organisation, allowances are made for non-productive time when the costs of each employee are determined. This is because it is physically impossible for a person to be 100% productive for an entire 8 hour day. And to expect this from an employee is nothing short of slave labour!

But what if you outsourced your work?

I am going to use article writing as an example, because that is what this website is all about – articles!

Ok, so what if you were to pay someone to write articles for your website every day? You have two choices:

1. Pay someone to come in for a set number of hours each day
2. Outsource this work to someone who specialises in this type of work

Obviously with option 1, you will pay that person for their hours worked, if they produce 1, 2 or 10 articles.

But with option 2, you can agree to pay someone per article written. So for example, if they produce one article, then you pay for only one! If they write 10, you will pay for 10.

As businesses begin to tighten the purse strings, it is easy to see why they are beginning to look to outsourcers to get work done. It saves them time and effort, and of course money, and that is a crucial consideration in these tough times.

I am an article writer from way back. In fact, I’ve been blogging and submitting articles as a means to build many of my online businesses for years and now I am teaching others how to do the same. Article writing is a fantastic way to get your message across and generate traffic to your website!

I understand however, that there are people out there who just can’t write a decent article for no other reason except that article writing is a skill they just don’t have! Also, there some who just don’t have the time to write their own articles.

These people are encouraged to outsource this aspect of their business to freelance article writers, but here is the dilemma:

After some research and after reading some articles that were recently put together for me by a few writers, I realise that by hiring a writer you are not automatically guaranteed you will receive quality articles. In fact, of the articles I have had sent to me, I had to rewrite every single one of them. They were terrible!

Now don’t get me wrong – there are plenty of good writers out there who offer great value for money – but you need to be aware!

With this in mind I decided it was time to offer my writing services. Not only have I been writing for the purpose of internet marketing, but I spent many years as a technical trainer, writing training manuals. I also have a lot of experience in writing about complex financial subjects in a way that anyone could understand it! I suppose I have a knack!

If you are looking to outsource your article or content writing, then please visit my Writing Services page.