Outsourcing – Good Or Bad?

Well, life likes to throw a few curve balls now and again.

Last week I was ill (my wife brought home a virus and very kindly passed it on to me) so not a lot was done that week.

This week, raring to go again, I have come to a temporary halt again (disconnected).
We are having optic cables put into all the apartments in this building.

I can’t complain about that really as I am aware that we are very lucky here with regards to fast internet connections.
At the moment we pay for 28mbps, which is just a distant dream for many people, although we only get 11mbps due to old telephone cables.

What is the point of all this you may ask?

Well, flavor of the month “out there” is outsourcing time consuming parts of your business to a person in a third world country, for a cost that is a lot less than in your country.

You could outsource locally but for most people that is quite expensive.

Many marketers are promoting outsourcing  at the moment.

I am totally convinced about this outsourcing, and if the last two  weeks did not convince me, I think that  reading “The 4-Hour Work Week” will (although I do need to go through it again and digest it a bit more).
I feel that for internet marketers that it is possibly a win-win situation for everybody.

It provides employment elsewhere, and gives you time to focus on what you do best, and last but not least, when “life “intervenes, which it will, your business is still up and running.

If I was a very successful internet marketer (coming!) I could have been in big trouble lately rather than in small trouble.
Outsourcing would have taken care of that, and my business would have carried on more or less normally.
Then I could have lain in bed with a clear conscience!

But…………!

I now read that because so many people have been sold outsourcing, in some countries, mostly in the Philippines, they have been overwhelmed and have in some cases been forced to close their doors to new business.

Power of the internet indeed!

My question is: will there still be an endless supply of competent, college-educated people left after all this publicity or will we have killed the goose that laid the golden egg? I am sure there will be.

Food for thought perhaps but I think unlikely after watching the following:

Here is a Discovery Channel  YouTube video called The Other Side To Outsourcing which was about general outsourcing  to India.

I have not put it up as it is 45 minutes long, but it is still quite interesting if you are taking a break! Click on the link.

Outsourcing to other countries does generate strong emotions about exporting jobs to cheaper countries.

I can see the point of view of both sides, but there were also a couple of interesting points made in the above video.

For example, the call center business and others were expanding rapidly.

Bad news?

There is lots of equipment being bought by these organizations, such as computer equipment with all the necessary related software and apparently most of this equipment was coming from the US.

The US in particular is the world leader at innovation and US software is used in all these countries.

So, it is not necessarily a one-way trade and if you think “globalization” then each place is going to end up doing what they are best at.

The alternative, of course, is protectionism.

What do you think?

Tagged with: Connecting To The Internet • Flavor Of The Month • Internet Connections • Internet Marketer • Internet Marketers • New Business • Outsourcing • Philippines • Third World Country

Filed under: Internet Marketing

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