Outsourcing your Back Office

Hello Everyone:

To cope with increasing labour costs, we have updated our pricing over the last few days.  For all work submitted on or before Jan 28th ‘10 the old pricing will apply.  And the new pricing will apply for all work submitted after this date. 

We hope to have your continued support, and we look forward to continue providing you with the exceptional qualty and service as we always have.

Thanks

Mona Datt

Having been through engineering school not too long ago, I remember wishing that I could pay attention to the professor instead of scrambling to take notes.  That was in the days of tape recorders.

Today, with the proliferation of cheap digital recorders in the $50 range, they are a must have for all students.  We have several students who use our service to make what I wished for their reality.  They walk into class, sit at the front of the class with their digital recorder, or maybe place the recorder on the lecturer’s desk if he’s comfortable with being recorded, and get transcripts for the lecture instead of making sure they write down every spoken word.

An hour long lecture can run anywhere from $32 to $55 depending on how quickly they want it back, and the template used for the transcript.  The students could choose to pool their resources as a class and bring down the cost per lecture to anywhere from $1.00 to $3.00 per lecture depending on the size of the class.  An entrepreneurial student could go a step further and make some extra cash on the side.  All you’d have to do is co-ordinate the transcript program for your class.  Which student wouldn’t want that?

That’s an example of how eDecree’s transcription service makes a student’s life easier while helping the entrepreneurial ones make some cash.

Here’s one about taking outsourcing to the extreme: MBA students outsourcing project works

What was intriguing in this one was the organized fashion in which the company that the reporter referred to had actually set up the operation.  You could either trade project reports or get a project report created for a fee.