Have you used an outsourcing company??

[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.