the goose

My favorite book, The Four Hour Work Week, extols the virtues of outsourcing – but it wasn’t until this weekend that I had met someone who had seemed to master it. On Wednesday we will have an introduction to outsourcing work to lower cost economies. This simply means using the internet to find people who can at a lower cost than is often possible here in Ireland. It is sometimes described as geoarbitrage. I personally have been outsourcing various tasks throughout the years and have made my fair share of mistakes. There will be a panel of people there ready to share their experience and we will cover

• What tasks can be oursourced?
• Which websites to use?
• A walk-through of outsourcing a job
• How to specify a job correctly
• What sort of savings can be made?
• What are the common mistakes?