Outsourcing Mistakes

Outsourcing Mistakes

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This section describes some outsourcing bloopers, blunders, slip-ups and whatever-you-wanna-call-its while explaining what went wrong. The hope is that you’ll learn from the mistakes of others and spare yourself from encountering the same types of problems.

• Arbitration Rules Are More Than Page Filler
• Outsourcing Gone Bad (What Went Wrong I)
• Outsourcing Gone Bad (What Went Wrong II)
• Outsourcing the Condemned

Teachable Moments

Enjoy these teachable moments from one of our favorite rant blogs as well, “Clients From Hell.”

• Tweet "Lorem Ipsum? That sounds like a made-up word for made-up words."
• Tweet This client isn’t from hell, but this situation certainly is. I was working on advertising for a...
• Tweet "When you start working for me - let me tell you - I’ll squeeze every last cent of effort out..."
• Tweet Me: Im just checking in on your feedback for the draft of the ad I sent you. Client: It was...
• Tweet Me: Looking at my schedule, I think Ill be able to start by the weekend and have the finished...
• Tweet Me: Okay, Im emailing you an updated jpeg of the websites front page so you can let me...
• Tweet "Biz ironically dead. Check forthcoming when someone dies."
• Tweet Client: I hate the idea of clicking so many times on a website to get the info youre looking...
• Tweet A friend of a friend was recommended my services to discuss a project they had in mind. It took a...
• Tweet I was designing an advertisement for my client that was going to be published in a newspaper. Me:...

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