Web Design Outsourcing – How To Outsource Effectively
- January 9, 2016
- Business Advice, Outsourcing, Web Design, Web Development
There are many times that you may not want want to do things, don’t have enough time to do things or don’t know how to do them professionally and so you need to find someone to do them for you. This is what outsourcing is all about, yet it can be quite challenging to successfully find the right people for your job. Web design can be one such task. You can conveniently outsource suitable web design experts and work with them to attain your goals within your desired time limits. Here are important tips on how to do this effectively.
Key Elements to Outsourcing Effectively
First you have to go to any of the online talent market places where you can find skilled and competent web design professionals such as www.craiglist.org – sign up for free and go straight to the gigs section. Here you can then write a brief statement of what you would like to get done for you. Regardless of where you are posting from, someone will see your post and respond to it. Other market places include (elance.com, oDesk.com) now merged into upwork.com, freelancer.com, rentacode.com, guru.com etc.
After identifying and signing up on one of the online market places, it is very important to do a comprehensive project description. Based on your description people will bid. Before you can set a price offer, you may want to check what people have been paid earlier for similar projects and compare/contrast. You can do this by checking different people’s ratings. You may then proceed and set a price offer and wait for bids. Depending on the market place you choose to engage, you will compare and contrast the different bidders basing on their ratings, previous projects, feedback scores among other factors that may concern you before selecting one of them.
But What About My Money?
You don’t have to worry about the security of your money vis-à-vis the value for money. The agency ensures that you put your money in an escrow account and the outsourced individual only gets paid after you are satisfied with the service and approve the payment. These market places have financial safety for both you and the outsourced web designer.
The other key element of effective web design outsourcing is what is referred to in technical terms as requirements. You need to write down specifically what you want since you will be dealing with some remote individual who can’t read your mind. This individual relies heavily on whatever requirements you specify to them. Therefore you must create a ‘requirements document’ that clearly outlines the specific details of the website design you’d like to get. This is also very instrumental in the bidding process for both you and the contracted designer.
Communication… Still Important After Years and Years
Communication during the course of the project must be kept constant using an appropriate medium that both of you will agree on, be it skype, email, twitter, phone calls or whatever you prefer. This goes along way in ensuring that as the project progresses; you are getting exactly what you need. The designer can ask you questions on specific preferences and get immediate feedback. You can continually evaluate the work and even adjust the payments if need be. This will help you get the desired outcome within the desired time frame as well as ensure that both of you are happy at the end of the project.
Once the project is over and you are satisfied with the outcome, you can approve the payment and the agency will transfer the agreed amount to the designer’s account. You may also want to rate the designer for the sake of other clients who may need similar services.
Chris is a father of 4 and works full time as a network engineer. He loves The Office, P & R, brewing (and drinking) beer, and of course Web Design and SEO.
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