From: gwelsh@spamcop.net   
      
   "Marc Bissonnette"  wrote:   
   > That being said, there's a crapton of offshore shops   
   > that'll set up a semi-decent website for less than a hundred dollars;   
      
   There's the catch: why hire a Canadian company to do e-tailing when your   
   online presence can be in Timbuktu and your web site can be as   
   Canadian-themed or as vanilla as you like?   
      
   > Of course, you have to go with the crapshoot of quality, frustration of   
   > communications and, of course, even knowing where to find these people in   
   > the first place.   
      
   #1 (and 2, and 3) issue in outsourcing, especially 'offshoring': assuming   
   that it's like managing an employee or vendor at home.  Not that many small   
   business owners are experts at that, either, but I've witnessed a company   
   with multiple offices in North America and Europe get completely blindsided   
   by everything from bad assumptions through time zone differences to costs   
   that weren't disclosed up front.  How is Joe (of Crazy Joe's Nails) supposed   
   to know what to expect unless he hires a third party to manage the whole   
   thing for him... at additional cost, of course.   
      
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