How Do You Know When To Outsource?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today's question comes from Stefan, who asks about outsourcing. How do you know when it is time to outsource a task? Stefan's site is http://howtolucid.com/. A few great companies for finding staff are Upwork (merger of oDesk and Elance; http://upwork.com) and Virtual Staff Finder (http://askpat.com/virtual stafffinder), as well as Fiverr (https://www.fiverr.com/) and 99 Designs (99designs.com/spi). I recommend Chris Ducker's book, Virtual Freedom, for discovering which tasks to outsource (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/vf). The calendar tool I mention is Calendly (http://calendly.com/). Do you have a question about outsourcing? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Be sure to check out Email the Smart Way (http://emailthesmartway.com). Thanks to our sponsor, Lynda.com. Try out all of Lynda.com's courses for free for seven days. Go http://lynda.com/AskPat to get started. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	What up, Ask Pat?
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0:11.8	Patlin here and welcome to episode 450 of Ask Pat.
0:14.7	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.2	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:19.7	And we have a question today from Stefan. But before we get to his question, I do want to think
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1:07.9	here's today's question from Stefan.
1:10.8	Hi, Pat. I'm Stefan from How to lucid.com. And my question is, how do you know when it's time
1:16.8	to outsource something? And when you do know, what do you decide to outsource and why?
1:23.8	And I'm a long time fan of the show. I've been listening to it for several years. It's great,
1:28.1	great stuff that you do for us also. Thank you, Pat. Stefan, thank you so much for the question.
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