13 Outsourcing Sources For Affiliate Marketers
Affiliate marketing is more than just finding a great product and driving leads to it. If you have been making money online for a while now, you know that you’ll have to do a lot of little things to keep making money online. That’s why a lot of top affiliate marketers outsource their non-core activities. If you don’t know coding, outsource it. If you don’t know web design, out source it. If you don’t want to deal with the social media (which I recommend you do), you should outsource that as well.
Thankfully, there are many places that you can go to to find highly qualified outsourcing partners. You can find works in Asia, Europe, and even Africa on these sites. If you are looking to get more done in less time, you won’t go wrong with outsourcing.
Here is a list of outsourcing sites for affiliate tasks:
- Rent a Coder: RAC is a great place to find coders, writers, and everything in between. Anything that you want to do is covered here. There are hundreds of categories to choose from, and these guys take care of you. You won’t be robbed on this site.
- oDesk: oDesk is another one of those top outsourcing sites that is designed to gain you access to the global markets. They too provide you with tools to manage your projects more effectively.
- Guru.com: Guru.com is a great site to reach out to startups and smaller companies and get more sophisticated projects done. I have seen highly complicated projects posted there (e.g. Web 2.0 start-ups).
- LimeExchange: LimeExchange another decent site to hire freelancers from around the world.
- Elance: Elance is not only a great place to find work but also those who provide services.
- LivePerson: LivePerson a great place to outsource programming. If you are looking for coders, this is a decent place to look.
- PartnerUp: PartnerUp is a great place to find partners and service providers.
- Affordable Progammers: AP is another great way to reach out to cheap programmers.
- Virtual Employee: Virtual Employee helps you find virtual assistants and all kinds of help.
- Freelancer China: looking for Chinese employees? Freelancer China is the way to go.
- TheFreeLanceNation: TheFreeLanceNation is another place to look for programmers and elancers.
- HireMyMom: HMM is a great place to find professional moms.
- iFreeLance: if you are out of luck so far, you cna give iFreeLance another try.
There are many other places to look for freelancers, but I would stick with these as most top service providers are available on these sites. At the end of the day you want to spend more time doing work and less time window shopping.
Your take: which one is your favorite outsourcing service?
Why Outsourcing Matters?
I had a post about outsourcing a few days ago, and how it can move you from being an ordianry affiliate making decent money to extraordinary masteraffiliate making possibly millions. The fact is as an affiliate marketer you only have 24 hours to accomplish so much. Even if you are very good at multitasking, you can’t beat a work of a team day in and day out. And even if you somehow manage to produce out-of-this-world results with your affiliate efforts, you are going to burn out very soon.
Outsourcing levels the playing field in the affiliate marketing industry. You can hire people for as low as $8 to accomplish work that others charge more than $25 to $50 hours for. So you can essentially compete with more established companies by using a team of outsourcing partners. Outsourcing your non-core competency can help you achieve possibly 10 times more than you can by yourself, so I definitely recommend you take advantage of the following services:
- Rentacoder.com
- Guru.com
- elance.com
- oDesk.com
There are many pitfalls for people who begin the outsourcing process (I will go over them in future posts), but you should not let simple issues to keep you away from the ultimate goal: dominating your niche. Good luck!