What services can be outsourced?
The following article will discuss the range of services currently available via the web from freelance and outsource providers. Whether or not some of these things should be outsourced is another discussion entirely 
As little as 8 years ago, the answer to this question for small business was ‘software and web stuff’. Whilst global corporations were enjoying the benefits of large scale ‘off-shoring’ and the debate raged over ‘sending jobs overseas’; there was a conspicuous absence of opportunities for small business. Articles littered the popular press trumpeting a workforce and technological revolution, but unless you had a $1M project you could forget about it.
There weren’t many opportunities on the web for smaller operators to take advantage of the technological shift. The few services that did exist were in their infancy, and were mostly the domain of IT geeks and entrepreneurs skating on the bleeding edge.
In the last few years, the range of services being offered has absolutely exploded! Basically if it can be done on a computer, and does not strictly require your physical presence, there is someone, somewhere selling it as a service online right now. Here’s a brief of the sort of things you can have done. It’s by no means conclusive: Read the rest of this entry