Thread: Outsourcing ASPDotNetStoreFront skinning and maintenance

Does anyone have experience outsourcing much of the store design and maintenance to a firm in India or Pakistan? Are there any such firms reading this post?

I would like to hear general comments on experience that people have had with outsourcing on a small scale. We have tried small experiments in the past with very little success. But I think by targeting a firm that already works with ASPDNSF would be a good start....

We are looking for more than just ASPDNSF work, but that will probably be the piece that requires the most specialized expertise.

Here are services that we would be interested in outsourcing:

Skinning / website design
Product pages and templates (landing pages, unique pages for specialized products, etc)
Image touch-ups and optimization
Product database updates and imports
SEM, SEO
Server updates, maintenance, and support
Email campaign management (Mailchimp)

You might want to consider using us, we have experties in setting up/skinning and managing aspdotnetstorefront projects, we currently operate from the uk but have specialist staff located in Inida for certain tasks.

We tend to handel seo work locally in the UK

Regards
Manoj

You should pay a visit to our DevNet partners pages so you can get a feel for all of the different options for outsourcing your skinning/design/business logic. They've been using ASPDNSF for an incredible amount of time, and have a deeply rooted knowledge of how to customize it from logic to graphic.

Originally Posted by marcuso

Does anyone have experience outsourcing much of the store design and maintenance to a firm in India or Pakistan? Are there any such firms reading this post?

Ya,

Bad idea "So called Firms" are usually 2-3 people that are overworked/underfunded and will promise the world to you for a cheap price, just like those get rick quick schemes on TV, I'm guessing thats why you posted.

Your much better off with the Devnet or experienced developers. If you are still considering this outsourcing dealio get develoepers to work directly for you NOT a firm. Because 90% of those so called technology companies are fly-by night operations that go bankrupt in 3 months and will take your money and run.

I understand that going with a devnet firm is the best way to go for ASPDNSF development, but I would like to find a firm with a deep pool of competitively priced resources. I am willing to pay premium dollars for ASPDNSF work, but I would also like to work with a firm that has $10 / hour people who can deal with basic task such as product page updates.

Are there any Devnet firms that are from India / Pakistan that has includes this sort of resource pool?

If they are basic product page updates you can find any part-time high school-er to do it for 10.00 an hour in the good old US. DING DING! Craigslist

But lets get to it, you want development at that rate; which is almost insulting to someone that has college degrees and professional experience.

The devnet is a great option, they will get you the point where you are profitable, where as the cheap route generally results in failure; In the long scheme of things after taking marketing, maintenance, human resources into account; the development of the ecommerce site is usually the cheapest part of your overall web strategy; go cheap here and I can't image how the other steps are going to be

ASPDNSF is the dominant asp.net platform, get with someone that knows what they are doing, call them up talk to them, get comfortable and go from there; yes its not the cheapest but all routes considered its the best way to go.

Or try it your way; live and learn; but remember this: you get what you pay for

I concur with Alkaline (eeks) on this topic...you get exactly what you pay for. We've oursourced many times, and the productivity (and delivery schedule) is almost inversely proportional to the billing rate (not always, but very close). And also add another US body to manage the offshore resources, so factor all that in.