Outsourcing as a startup

I run an outsourcing company with a staff of 20 in Cebu, Philippines. The team consists of web designers, programmers, content writers, and data entry clerks. Originally I hired them for my web design business, but now we mainly provide white label design/programming and data entry services for other companies.<p>Though jobs best suited for outsourcing are things like HTML/CSS coding, debugging, testing, data mining, data scraping, and data entry, some of the more interesting jobs we've handled for other companies include:<p><pre><code> whiteboard diagrams to PowerPoint presentations pseudocode to PHP translation faxed design sketch to Fireworks mockup </code></pre> EDIT: Note that I did not include the name of my company in this comment or my profile lest I be labeled a spammer.

You can do that Mechanical Turk. But yes, Outsourcing can do those tasks pretty easily. But outsourcing can also be plenty tricky. Its a back woods affair, its the wild wild west of development.

I've had mixed success with elance - it worked out well enough that I will definitely use them again.