Outsourcing standard

The best standard to use is the Blasingame Outsourcing Question: "Must this task be done in-house?"

The decision of whether to in-source or outsource a task can be an easy one if you and your team ask yourselves this question. Look at everything - literally - that you do in the operation of your business - and apply that question to it. The answer will be "no" for most tasks that is not part of your core competency.

Outsourcing is the best thing to happen to small business since the personal computer. When you identify the tasks that can be outsourced, find a vendor-partner to do it.