Secrets to Success Deborah Cole Micek and John-Paul Micek

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Make it a goal to learn about internal blogs

THANKS to outsourcing, today's small-business owner has access to a pool of talent that once was reserved only for large corporations. But, for many small-business owners, the communication, coordination, and tracking challenges of outsourcing often appear bigger than the benefits.

These hard working men and women have to keep more on their plates and live a life of lower quality because they have less free time than they could with outsourcing. They're suffering with higher costs, and often a lower quality of work because they feel it's easier to use less specialized in-house employees to do work -- work that could be done better (and more efficiently) with an outsource agent.

That's a shame, because we've seen incredible transformations take place for small-business owners who begin to apply proven outsourcing strategies.

Radical changes like:

The bottom line is that outsourcing enables you to quickly find and employ highly talented specialists to perform activities that would otherwise be impractical or cost-prohibitive with an in-house employee.

In our experience, coaching small-business owners around the world, what they struggle with the most is keeping a handle on their outsource agents. They want a way to manage, coordinate, and oversee both their in-house employee team and their outsource agents. And this is where an internal business blog comes to the rescue.

Online services do make the management of outsourcing projects easier. But they often lack the collaborative aspect that is so valuable in this type of situation. Plus, gaining access to categorized historical data is a real hassle with most of these services, if it's available at all.

With your own password-protected internal business blog, you'll gain a practical tool for collaboration and organization.

When properly structured, it's a system that allows you to harness the full power of outsourcing and avoid many of the common management and communication challenges associated with outsourcing.

When you apply business blogging software in this way, you'll make management, coordination, and historical tracking a relative breeze. At the same time, you'll provide a collaborative online environment that keeps communication and creativity flowing in an organized manner.

Set a 30-day goal to learn more about outsourcing and get coached on how you can use it to increase both your profits and your free time.