OUTSOURCING CHORES ON BARTER

OUTSOURCING CHORES ON BARTER

Author: Neha Gupta, Writer for Ormita Australia Limited
Website for the Ormita Commerce Network: http://www.ormita.com.au
Date Issued: 29 January 2010

The life of an entrepreneur is very demanding. Time is always short and deadlines are always around the corner. It becomes very hard to maintain balance between work and personal life. It is therefore important that family time is spent carefully, and not on household chores like cleaning, mowing your lawn, maintaining your appointments etc

Outsourcing these small jobs to other businesses by way of barter deals is a very good way to ensure more productivity for the business owner and a better quality of life.

Some major jobs that you can outsource are

1.Driving your kids to school: How many times a week do you get late for a meeting because you had to drop your kids to school before coming to office or how often after a tiring day at work do you wish to sleep in till late but have to get up early because you have to drive the kids to school? This will never be the case if you outsource this job to a professional who will drive your children to school daily and save you the stress.

2.Preparing meals: Parents always want to ensure that their kids get a healthy diet but it’s not always easy to prepare a meal after a hard day at work and if you often order in a pizza or burger you know you compromise with your family’s health. A better resolution would be to outsource this task. Probably for Monday to Friday ask the food services to make your family meals and on weekends when you are free you can cook for your family. This way cooking will become a fun thing rather than a task.

3.Garden maintenance: Mowing your lawn, plantings new flowers, watering the trees in your backyard are some of the chores that are essential to maintain your garden. These jobs can easily be outsourced to professionals. They will maintain your pretty garden for you and save your time and energy.

4.Secretarial services: Sometimes keeping family and home appointments in order is harder than keeping a business in place. The feeling of guilt because you forgot a family commitment can be a big cause of stress. Getting secretarial assistance to maintain a record of personal appointments like parent teacher meetings, an appointment with your doctor, taking the kids to a dentist etc. can save you the stress and guilt. Also jobs like grocery shopping, making arrangements for family holidays etc. can be taken care of by them.

5.Laundry service: Hiring a laundry service to collect laundry and return your clothes to you on periodic bases is another way to outsource minor household chores.

6.Hiring cleaning service: You can hire people to clean your home once a week instead of you. These people are professionals and will give you the best results.

Like this there are many tasks at home that you can assign to a professional and lessen your burden. The main benefits of outsourcing these jobs are

Better quality of life. As you have more time to rest, exercise, do leisure activities, indulge in your hobbies.

Better family life. Outsourcing household tasks means more time for family. You can use this time to play with your son, to shop with your daughter, to catch up with distant family and friends or to spend a lazy evening with your spouse.

Less stress, more productivity. This helps you to minimize stress and improve productivity as while in a meeting you are no worried about picking up kids from school or finding time to clean the kitchen.

Often you can trade directly with providers of these services. Other times you may need the assistance of a barter exchange or commerce network to match what you are selling with providers of services you need. The benefits provided by a formal barter network, however, are that you do not need to trade directly with someone whose services you need. These formal barter companies, instead, maintain a record of the value of each barter deal [buy or sell] and do three, four and five-way matching so you get what you need while providing your service in return – all without having to worry about sourcing barter partners.