We at Parliament Press provide full-service outsource and ourselves use marketplaces when there are time and cost advantages to do so.

Outsourcing Management

There is always management overhead when it comes to outsourcing or insourcing. The great stories of outsourcing by NASA greatly illustrate the need to manage outsourcing rather than as something that can be safely abdicated.

Our advantage to our customers is managing the outsourcing interaction and getting the results. In many cases we perform parallel outsourcing to help ensure deadlines are met.

We have found at least four important markets for outsourcing various SEO services. And there are at least three useful services to outsource.

Outsourcing Marketplaces

We have found four marketplaces, but there are others. These seem to have a good amount of activity in them.

• Elance
• Guru
• ODesk
• ScriptLance

Outsource Link Building

Outsourcing link-building can be done as long as reliable link building companies are found who can provide only white hat links or who are able to follow specifically the directions given regarding account and directory registration and link-exchanges.

Outsource Website Development

Outsourcing web design and development can be a bit tricky. At Parliament Press we prefer to avoid or in-source the actual design part (look and feel) and focus on the development and content management part, as communication can be effectively done remotely. We have found it extremely difficult if not impossible to interact with designers remotely, though if we have local designers, it is possible to have a remote client. Management of the design seems to us to be an in person experience.

Outsource Content Writing

Content itself can be outsourced, as long as there good writers who can meet deadlines are found, and there is very clear communication about the content itself. Those who do the writing, who create the web content and press releases, and who edit and improve web pages need to ensure originality, and ultimately must know what it means to write good, engaging, clean, clear prose.