Outsourcing Everything Except The Profit

When it comes to outsourcing, there is no doubt about the fact that the most beneficial advantage is the ability to reduce costs by outsourcing tasks and projects when appropriate. Some Internet marketers take the concept of outsourcing to the extreme by outsourcing the majority of their niche marketing tasks.In other industries this strategy could lead to imminent failure because the client may lose control of the project. However, when it comes to Internet niche marketing this strategy can be very effective and result in the marketer have a greatly reduced workload and a substantially larger profit margin.

Editor Note:For more information on software outsourcing, readers are encouraged to visit FlatWorld Software Development

Why Outsourcing Almost Everything Works

In the Internet niche marketing industry, outsourcing almost all of the required tasks can be a profitable strategy. Some of these tasks include copywriting, website design and website management. The marketer may chose to outsource all of these tasks and keep the most important tasks, namely niche selection and keyword development, to himself to ensure he remains in control of these critical elements.

Outsourcing Content Creation

Copywriting is one element of Internet niche marketing which can easily be outsourced. There is a plethora of talented writers with experience in writing copy for websites which is informative, interesting, accurate and also persuasive. There are many talented writers offering their services who are capable of creating this type of content. However, there is a much smaller pool of talented writers who are also skilled at the art of search engine optimization (SEO).

These writers have the above mentioned skills but are also capable of weaving keywords into the articles in a way which appeals to both search engines and those reading the website.

Outsourcing Website Design

Similarly to the writing industry, there are countless website designers who are capable of creating high quality websites that are both aesthetically pleasing as well as functional. Again, there is a much smaller pool of website designers who have the capabilities of designing a website so that it is well optimized for search engines. SEO is critical to the success of any Internet niche marketing campaign because high search engine rankings improve website traffic.

For this reason it is easy to understand why those with SEO skills are in such high demand. It is also easy to understand why those in the Internet marketing industry are willing to pay so much for these services.

Outsourcing Niche Website Management

Internet marketers who are balancing multiple niches have an even further opportunity to outsource even more of their responsibilities. They may find those skilled in the art of management to oversee a few of the niches. These managers will assume the responsibilities for organizing content for the website, and developing and maintaining the website design including the ongoing SEO effort for the website.

Special care should be taken when outsourcing management responsibilities. While it is important to verify the qualifications of copywriters and website designers and to search for highly qualified candidates, this is especially important when outsourcing tasks of a management nature. This is important because the tasks assigned to this individual can have a more dramatic impact on the niche market.

If the manager fails to do an adequate job overseeing the assigned tasks, the niche may begin to wane in popularity. When this happens regaining the attention of audience members who were disappointed in changes occurring in the website can be extremely difficult.

About the Author

Ryan Smith is the owner of MyCirclePal.Com, one of the Net’s hottest community and social neworking sites! Post your free profile today at http://www.mycirclepal.com/


Joomla

by Jagat

Joomla! is a free, open source content management system written with PHP for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets using a MySQL database. Joomla! includes features such as page cactching to improve performance, web indexing, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blockgs, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, and language internationalization. While Joomla is packed with features, its greatest quality is that it is extremely extensible. Because of its extensible structure, there aren’t many things you cannot do with Joomla.

Editor note: Readers are encouraged to compare Joomla to Hosted Content Management System (hosted cms)which is part of the ServiceCycle stack

What’s in a name?

The name is a phonetic spelling of the Swahili word jumla meaning “all together” or “as a whole”. It hwas chosen to reflect the commitment of the development team and community to the project. The first release of Joomla! (Joomla! 1.0.0) was announced on September 16, 2005. This was a re-branded release of Mambo 4.5.2.3 combined with other bug and moderate-level security featuresixes. In the project’s roadmap, the core developers say Joomla! 1.5 will be a completely re-written code base built with PHP 5.

How does Joomla Work?

With traditional website design, there is a bottleneck whereby the webmaster must enter all the content into the site. In a large organization, it’s possible to have designated contributors each with web editing software like FrontPage or Dreamweaver, but the costs add up, and each person must be trained to work with HTML. The larger the group of contributors, the higher the cost. Speaking from experience, a couple of incorrect keystrokes can ruin a website. One poorly trained contributor can make a huge mess.

With Joomla! a template is set up by the developer, the owner/administrator can give permission to others who would simply need internet access to log in and enter content on their own schedule. There are tools build in to the back end to customize the look and feel of the page, much like you would use in creating a Word document. The administrator can allow others to publish directly, or have it approved first.

The ‘J’ Factor

Joomla open source cms is recognized as one of the most popular content management systems ion the internet today due to the following factors.

1) User friendly easy to use administrator and front end interface. 2) Secure, Flexible, scaleable modular architecture. 3) Wide range of open source and commercial modules. 4) Open source - no licensing fees. 5) Thriving support community. 6) Wide range of plug-ins including shop’s, forums, galleries etc.

Basically Joomla enables you or your business to manage and maintain your web site content with out the need for expensive specialized web development skills or paying someone to maintain your website content.

The administrator interface is very easy to use and is similar to in some respects to a Microsoft word editor, you can add text, images and manage, publish your content with a click of a button.

Features Provided By Joomla:

* Completely database MYSQL driven site engine. * News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable. * Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors. * Fully customizable template layouts including left, center and right menu boxes. * Browser upload of images to your own library for usinge anywhere in the site. * Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for getting on-the-spot results and much more. * Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX. * Search Engine Friendly system for getting highest search engine ranking position. * Open source backend server architecture utilizing apache, MYSQL, PHP.

Administration Features:

* Change order of objects including news, FAQs, articles etc. * Random Newsflash generator. * Remote author submission module for News, Articles, FAQs and Links. * Object hierarchy -as many sections, departments, divisions and pages as you want. * Image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs and JPEGs online. * Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Mambo fix the link. * News feed manager. Choose from over 360 news feeds from around the world. * Archive manager. Put your old articles into cold storage rather than throw them out * Email-a-friend and Print-format for every story and article. * In-line Text editor similar to Word Pad. * User editable look and feel. * Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page. * Custom Page Modules. Download custom page modules to spice up your site. * Template Manager. Download templates and implement them in seconds. * Layout preview. See how it looks before going live. * Banner manager. Make money out of your site.

About the Author

Author: By Jagat Kothari Jagat Kothari is working as a Php Programmer at Semaphore Infotech Pvt. Ltd, India. He has more than 10 months Experience in php. You can contact on email: jagat@semaphore-software.com

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