Outsourcing vs own hands

Question

Outsourcing

Friends, this is not a question, but a request to share your experience. I need to carry out a number of works that neither I nor my colleagues have done before. For example, this can be:
- searching and writing interesting thematic content on the topic of photography on the site
- designing a group in contact
- writing competent sales latter
, etc.
There are two alternatives.
1. Try to figure it out yourself / with colleagues, fill your own bumps, become an expert in this matter, Cons - spend a lot of time and possibly do worse than others
2. Arrange outsourcing with specialists who deal with this. The cons are to spend more money, and possibly get caught in a scam or poor quality work.
It is clear that this depends on the specific situation, but your experience is of interest, who does what and in what cases.

Answer 1

I would unite: first I would turn to different outsourcers several times and gradually delving into the essence of the matter, I would begin to understand a little. The main thing is to pull them more often, ask questions and ask for all sorts of different chips. Well, when over time you get a little bit, then you can already try it yourself. Maybe even with someone you will scorfanish and you will have a mentor from whom you can ask for advice.

Answer 2

Here I think you need to proceed from the desire to learn this craft. For example, if you plan to do this in the future, then it makes sense to learn yourself rather than attract third-party people. Otherwise, the answer is obvious.
It is also worth paying attention to the fact of the price of the issue. Very rude, but it will look like this - you need to buy someone's time cheaper than it's worth your own, that's all. If so, then again, the answer is obvious.

Answer 3

If you are already asking yourself such a question, then only outsourcing. Otherwise, they would do it themselves without thinking.
Place ads on free-lance.ru, select motivated performers with good reviews. It will be quite a worthy result.

Answer 4

I liked the advice from Rework, first try to do everything yourself, when you realize that there really is no time, but you need to do it - outsource it. So you will get acquainted with all the complexities of the subject area, you will understand exactly what you need and what you can do without, and you can estimate the real cost.

Answer 5

1. Trying to figure it out yourself does not mean doing worse than others (not rarely the other way around)
2. Outsourcing does not mean spending more money, your time is also money, and even more so the time of colleagues (and subordinates).

Answer 6

>> writing competent sales latter
If you meant “sales letter”, then it is better to outsource.

Answer 7

I usually either do it myself or contrive to change the goals so that I don't do it at all. For example, recently I needed pictures for a blog (and I'm not an artist), I already found a person to help, and then I thought about it and changed the concept of the blog so that all the pictures were either programmatically generated or photographs. They say it turned out pretty good :-)