Upwork & Freelancer Platforms

Imagine a business idea that requires a degree of expertise that you don’t yet have and would like to meet people who might bring the idea to fruition, as a prototype or a design.

 

You can find these experts easily on outsourcing marketplaces.  This strategy can have its pitfalls, but experienced people can do almost any job, from electrical engineers to coders, Mailchimp experts to accountants.

 

Online platforms like Upwork, Freelancer.com, and Fiverr. Producing a low-cost prototype that illustrates an idea is easy to do rapidly and professionally in the outsourced world.

 

Low-Risk/Low-Cost Ways to Test Out Your Ideas 

 

Do you want to save money by getting? a business idea or practice starting with a low-risk/cost proof of concept? This is easy to do on platforms like Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer.com, and other platforms we’ll soon explore further.

 

You can easily have prototypes and designs created for you at a minimal cost.

 

Alternatively, you could even set up competitions at a low price to get a  Range of designs.

 

NASA uses the services of platforms like Freelancer.com to rapidly prototype items for the International Space Station.

 

Any entrepreneur also has the same opportunity to hire, build and create things with many of the same designers and prototypes.

 

You Have Repetitive Workflows  

 

If you find that a lot of your core staff’s work is repetitive and non-physical, you’d like to experiment to see if some of your daily workflows can be done by someone else at a lower cost.

 

Outsourcing to a low-cost remote worker can help you find out if this is possible and if it will work for you or not.

 

A repetitive workflow could be anything, from endless social media posting to SEO optimization, to designing a thousand T-shirts to be put online for purchase and printing.

 

Structuring tasks and outsourcing them can be a helpful way to ensure the jobs are done in bulk and help create documentation in general that others can follow easily.