If you're hiring help for your business, the natural instinct is to look for low cost services to save money. And with all the big corporations outsourcing their customer support and other operations to other lower-cost countries, it seems this tendency might be what makes business sense. Here's the thing. You aren't a big corporation with hundreds of employees...or if you are, I haven't the foggiest what you're getting from reading my blog. ;-) You are likely or want to be a solo entrepreneur or partner with a handful of people that work with you on a daily basis. Where a big corporation's large staff is often disposable, yours is not...so why hire and treat people like they are disposable? It costs time and money to find new people, … Read more...