Are you suddenly getting an influx of e-mails in your inbox about website development from India? Yeah, me too.
In my past life, as an IT consultant, I worked on many outsourcing projects – we’re talking BIG ones, where literally entire divisions were going to be replaced for fractions of the money overseas*. In some cases I had to train the person who was going to be taking on my job. I wasn’t bitter about it personally, I was myself a 3rd party contractor, but I was very concerned for all of my full-time colleagues who were really losing out and losing their jobs (my agent got me a new contract exactly when I needed it, phew!).
The whole idea of outsourcing overseas REALLY gets me. Outsourcing makes sense in some cases, especially when you have a small business and can’t afford full-time employees, say for example, an HR Manager. But outsourcing overseas always “burns my behind” as my grandmother used to say – it does nothing for our local economy and even less for our country. The standards and costs of living in these countries is so much lower than it is here – it’s just incomparable. How will we ever create jobs and boost our economy if we are unwilling to do business within our own borders – it’s setting us all up for failure of a kind that will be immeasurable. NO WHAT! It WILL be measured – buy the unemployment lines. It will eventually cripple us.
What also bothers me about these solicitations is that they just assume you need them – “Send over your needs and we’ll get started!” – with barely an introduction and no attempt whatsoever to really get to know you, your product or service.
PLEASE. Delete these requests. If you need a website professional, why not reach out to your local Chamber of Commerce or attend a networking event. Find somebody reputable locally who wants to get to know you and what you do – keeping your dollars in your local community benefits us all!
Another tip, you can buy a little relief from spam by going to your domain providing and purchasing domain privacy.
If you need a little help with us please get in touch on our contact page. 🙂
*point of note, in the largest outsourcing case, after 18 months of preparation, a massive 20% wasn’t adequately covered by the contract, so a few got to keep their jobs. I heard after I left the organization, everything was eventually brought back in again. Millions spent, and for what.
