I have recently been trying my hand at outsourcing some web projects to India, via the Get a Freelancer website and i have to say it is the way forward. I think like anything its important to start small and work upwards, which is why my project was for one of my newer websites but i have to say the quality of the work was excellent. I basicially got some t10 Google rankings of the back of the project and for a cost of $110 it was pretty much a bargain. #
The good thing about GAF is that there is a rating system so you can check up on a prospective outsourcers previous work and also performance. This mean you are more likley to find a reliable and honest person. The other good thing is payment, you pay the money for the project into Escrow via GAF. But you retain contol of the money until the project finished to your satisfaction, so in otherwards if they dont finish then you dont lose any money because you can cancell the payment.
I have to say with the work load that i have outsourcing will become more prominent in my business model, eventually i envisage a cocktail, a beach and a load of other people doing all the work for me…