#18 - Mark Jamieson: A/B Test Outsourcing Companies

I have spoken with Mark Jamieson about his experience with outsourcing. Mark is from the opinion that outsourcing is about finding partners that can bring value to your business in a cost effective way, and not necessarily just taking your business overseas.

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Karl Jamieson runs an Internet Marketing Agency and clearly pointed out the DOs and DON’Ts that one needs to know when starting to Outsource a part of one’s portfolio.

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01:17 Introduction
02:08 How does Outsourcing fit the business
04:00 How would business be like without Outsourcing
04:57 What is Core and therefore non-Subject of Outsourcing
07:16 On selecting an Outsourcing partner
08:55 The annoying thing
11:00 Business evolution trend
15:21 What is non-excusable
12:55 On addressing a potential delay
20:13 On the relevancy of communication
22:11 The tool belt.
16:28 On dealing and overcoming errors
23:47 On what needs to move to the outsourcing sphere
25:50 The Horror Story
28:54 On mitigating potential problems
30:37 Core message

Key Points

"Outsourcing allows us to make some money while the client saves some money with no negative Quality impact. "

"The only sure thing is that delays will happen"

"Learn from mistakes and become better"

"Never launch a website on a Friday"

"Not having overhead means that when you don’t need the service you are not paying for it"

"Do not fear outsourcing but make sure to do proper due diligence"

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Guest

Mark Jamieson - President @ WSI eStrategies
Phone: 6134247042
Email here
On LinkedIn

I'm an Outsourcerer. I'm a DNN Geek. I help people with their sites @ DeskPal. I'm a #Pomodoro practitioner. I'm a husband and a father of 2 beautiful girls.