Outsourcing Conspiracy is bunk - part 1
Don’t get me wrong - I’m a fan of Brian Clark and Jon Morrow.
I’m even a charter member of their Partnering Profits program.
But I have a lot of problems with the Outsourcing Conspiracy report they just published.
I understand what they’re doing - they’re setting up outsourcing as a straw man so they can knock it down and make partnering look like the perfect solution.
But there are a lot of flaws in their arguments.
They say “outsourcing really is the perfect solution if:
- you have a budget of at least a few thousand dollars
- you can communicate exactly what you want them to do
- you have time to oversee their work, checking in every so often to make sure they
are doing everything you want
- you are satisfied with merely average or slightly above par work
- you are satisfied with an employee who’s doing the job, but isn’t particularly enthusiastic
about it
- you are capable of replacing them quickly and easily whenever they move on to
another job or fail to meet your expectations
- you feel perfectly secure that nothing you’re doing can be stolen, or if it is stolen,
you can protect yourself”
Almost everything there is wrong.
Let’s go through those items in order…
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