Online Outsourcing Screams, “I’m Here!”

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This passing year has been, without a doubt, an eye-opening year on several fronts, and if you paid any attention to what’s been going on in the online outsourcing industry, you already know what I’m talking about.

From the onslaught of micro-payment outsourcing services to major revamps and acquisitions, online outsourcing made quite a splash in 2010, indicating a growing interest in what was once, a quiet day-to-day business.

This, in the midst of a recession!

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Fueling the fire of course, were not only the benefits of outsourcing, but the increasing awareness of those benefits as well. I have never seen so many people inquire about online outsourcing than I did in the entire year of 2010.

People asked important questions, sought opinions, compared services, and shared experiences across a plethora of networked blogs, feeds, and updates — furiously spreading word about anything and everything there is to share. And while there were oftentimes moments of information overload, I feel confident that two major feats were accomplished.

1. The truth about what outsourcing options are available surfaced among a deep sea of misleading information, miscommunication, and confusion.

2. Competition challenged the status quo (among some) and prompted a few beneficial changes for everyone involved.

So what does all this mean, and how does it affect you as an outsourcer?

Online Outsourcing To Increase in 2011

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It means that in 2011, online outsourcing will become an integral part of your business activities whether you want it to or not — if it hasn’t already. The buzz is out there thanks to the passing year, and no one in their right mind is going to let it dissipate into thin air.

Microsoft’s push toward cloud development, for example, will compel you to exploit outsourcing just as commonly and as frequently as you currently exploit online shopping, Google, or any other computer-based commodity. A definite cloud infrastructure isn’t here yet, but it’s philosophy is hitting home. And that’s a philosophy drenched with the principles of outsourcing.

I won’t dare try to detail what 2011 will present. What I will do instead, is bid the 5th anniversary of my services as a provider farewell, and welcome 2011′s new inventions, technologies, procedures, and adjustments. We live in interesting times, and I believe 2011 will adequately demonstrate just how far we’re able to push that interest.

Join me as I talk more about online outsourcing through SitePoint’s up and coming sister site, “Learnable,” and stick around. “You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.”

-Nicole