Have you used an outsourcing company??

[Greenguy]

Forgot to ask - what are you looking to have done? I know there's a lot of posters here on the board that are not technically an "outsourcing company" but they do side projects from time to time

[Jey P]

Hello Greenguy, I run an outsourcing company and we work per-project too.
Just so you don't think I'm spamming or anything I won't use my sig in this thread
Would you let us run a contest on your board ?
I was thinking on giving away some freebies, like gallery designs or a FPA.
What do you think ?

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Jey P

...Would you let us run a contest on your board ?...

No thanks - we're not big on "contest" threads.

[ForestL]

Hey shannon

Feel free to hit me up to discuss your outsourcing needs

We offer weekly, Bi Monthly and monthly rates for all our employees

I have 3 guys available for immediate hire and all work Great with our clients

118156620
revforest AT hotmail.com

http://www.qualityoutsourcing.com

[facialfreak]

I would recommend Panky from http://www.icando4u.com . She has done a lot of work for me. She's professional, talented, and English is her native language.

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by facialfreak

I would recommend Panky from http://www.icando4u.com . She has done a lot of work for me. She's professional, talented, and English is her native language.

Panky's very articulate and has a great understanding of the business. If I had a little more $ I would probably go to her first.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

I know there's a lot of posters here on the board that are not technically an "outsourcing company" but they do side projects from time to time

I think that is where a lot of the confusion lies. What is the definition of outsourcing? In brick & mortar businesses, outsourcing is when a company hires an outside firm to do something at cheaper rate, when the company already has a department handling such work. Online, if you hire an outsource company to do your graphics, but you don't have an in-house designer anyway, it's not oursourcing. Same with anything. If you don't have someone in your company already doing it, it's not outsourcing. That being said, I'm still not a fan of thosed damned outsourcing companies. You are much better offer hiring individuals who specialize in certain tasks.

[Shannon G]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I think that is where a lot of the confusion lies. What is the definition of outsourcing? In brick & mortar businesses, outsourcing is when a company hires an outside firm to do something at cheaper rate, when the company already has a department handling such work. Online, if you hire an outsource company to do your graphics, but you don't have an in-house designer anyway, it's not oursourcing. Same with anything. If you don't have someone in your company already doing it, it's not outsourcing. That being said, I'm still not a fan of thosed damned outsourcing companies. You are much better offer hiring individuals who specialize in certain tasks.

That's where the difficulty comes in. It's very hard to hire an independent designer full-time for say 3 months... they need to be "out there" advertising their services to set up work orders for when they are finished with your contract. That is hard on both parties.

Whereas, in basically a temporary staffing arrangement, the designer has the potential for full-time employment even after the contact (whether it be an extended contract or a new client) and the client gets a full-time dedicated designer for as long as their workload commands.