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Cell phones of today are a far cry from what they used to be. Who could forget how these phone looked like only 10 years ago.

The bulky satellite phones were so heavy you could use them as blunt weapons. A single minute would cost 3$ and sometimes more. Mere mortals were fresh out of luck since cell phones were considered luxury items.

But as we all know, the only thing that’s constant is change. The average cell phone of today is super light and extremely cheap. They’ve become so accessible that it’s not unusual to see children who own them.

The transformation from expensive to cheap was initiated by competition. Every company wants to remain competitive, so they slash prices and lower their margins. In addition to that the wireless networks are cost very competitive. The price of a mobile infrastructure is a lot less than that of a wired one. This is why cell phone usage is said to explode in third world countries that don’t have existing land lines. This is the reason why many people predict a boom of cell phone use in developing countries.

As with many fun things in life there are certain dangers involved. Things like SMS unsolicited messages and ridiculously priced ring tones need to be closely regulated before they get out of hand. An added danger comes in the form of sophisticated individual-search.com/cerchia/5.htm.

Depending on the cell phone you can now trace a person’s location. Previous look ups only provided the address, but with today’s GPS technology it’s a different story.

Some people also say that cell phones will soon take over and replace personal computers. Steve Jobs, the founder of apple believes that soon the cell phones will be used for some pretty serious tasks. For example it’s already possible for you to check your email and browse the web on your cell phone.

The number of available software bundles for apples cell phones keeps getting bigger and bigger. As more and more developers get involved we will see even more amazing features. May be 10 years from now people will look at today’s phone the same way we looked at the phones of the 90s. That’s pretty scary huh?

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The intent of leverage is to obtain the best advantage with the least possible effort. In particular, for Internet Marketers, that means highest return on investment with least personal involvement, and we can make this happen via outsourcing.

Previous articles described ways of providing leverage by 1) re-using, and 2) re-purposing content. In this article, we’ll address acquiring leverage by outsourcing recurring, or non-value-add work, and any work that simply isn’t a match with our unique skills, experience and/or nature.

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman documented some interesting findings from more than 25 years of research by the Gallup organization - initially in their book, First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, and subsequently elaborating on those findings in later books. Two of their most important findings for internet marketers and home-based business owners are these: 1) Play to your strengths, not your negatives, and 2) Hire workers for talent.

The world of online business has a rather large learning curve and involves many different abilities. Unfortunately, few people are talented in all of those skills - and even those who are, may not be applying their available time and other skills to focus on areas that are relative weaknesses for them.

William of Occam, noted for “Occam’s Razor,” has stated: “It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.” As small business owners, Occam’s Razor has a big lesson for us relative to our own time usage.

Tim Ferriss, author of “The 4-Hour Workweek” is a terrific proponent of the use of virtual assistants to handle recurrent, low prioritiy activities or those for which he does not have either the time or inclination to perform.

Contrary to popular opinion, outsourcing is not restricted to the world of giant companies, but given the low cost of international VAs, even small, home-based companies can now afford to delegate many tasks to virtual assistants.

One task that many internet marketers choose to outsource is article marketing. Many see the value of article marketing, but either don’t like to write, don’t have the skills, don’t want to spend the time, so they turn over those writing tasks to freelancers.

Another task you might consider outsourcing to a virtual assistant (or call center) is the telephone and email follow-up required for lead generation and sales closings.

If you focus on your areas of strength, you can multiply your results, whereas, focusing on improving areas of weakness will, at best, result in only an incremental improvement in results.

Which is more important to you - the ability to multiply your results, or simply see incremental improvements?

If you would like to discover how to leverage your time, sign up for the Online Success for Beginners course.

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