Michael Karnjanaprakorn

With all the hoopla around “outsourcing your life” started by Tim Ferriss (author of The Four Hour Work Week), I came across another post on wisebread.com along the same lines.

But what about outsourcing as a business? It’s pure art in the making.

Artists by nature are rarely business-minded people. Entrepreneurial talent and artistic talent utilize different parts of the brain. I wonder if it is one of the reasons you see talented artists (be they visual artists, musicians, or –ahem – writers) who aren’t “making it big” like you believe they should. What if you could pave the way for these artists? To develop a team of virtual assistants, versed in everything it takes to market that mural, or book that gig? And what if you could connect those artists with your talented virtual assistants? The artists become your clients. You then manage their marketing activity via your virtual assistants.

What’s in it for the artist? A well-organized marketing plan, and possibly the big career break they could otherwise spend a life searching for. What’s in it for you? A cut of the profits for finding the artist, taking them on as a client, and outsourcing the marketing management.

As we are all extremely busy, I think it’ll be great to start outsourcing things in your personal life (which I plan on doing). But why not start outsourcing for your business? Thinking about entrepreneurial ventures I want to start, it would be great to get the ball rolling on it by hiring a couple of personal assistants for cheap.

I think this is a pretty interesting concept. I talked to a friend that is building a whole website outsourced out of India for $250 a month! That includes 2 FT employees working 6 days a week.

I wrote a post about this last year and really interested in trying it out. Has anyone used a service like asksunday.com before? For $20 a month for 10 requests. It’s not a bad deal. Might be worth trying out. Would really like to hear thoughts and experiences with outsourcing.