Do What You Do Best, Outsource the Rest

Tom Peters, the owner of a popular consultant company, once said “Do what you do best, Outsource the rest“. That quote is so powerful and very true. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people fail at affiliate marketing or making money online because they can’t do a certain task.

For example, they could be an amazing copywriter, but when it comes down to landing page designs and layouts, they spend days and days on it, or just get fed up and quit. No, no, no! You have to outsource the work you can’t/don’t/aren’t good at.

There are many sites out there that offer you to post jobs that you would like to outsource free. A very popular site that allows you to post your work you’d like to outsource is oDesk. Another popular site is GetaFreelancer.com. Those should get the job done in finding an efficient freelancer. If not, Google is your friend ;].

But isn’t this going to cost me a lot of money? 

It depends on what you’re outsourcing. Obviously, a landing page design or layout is going to cost more than a few banners. But the point of outsourcing is so you can continue to do what you do best. So while your freelancer you hired is doing the landing page design (for example), you are already sitting there copywriting for the content on the site.

It’s a win-win situation.