Outsourcing: The act of transferring responsibilities for a process to an outside organization or, in this case, person.

Now if this was a much needed application, it would be installed already. I have several friends of mine that are techs and programmers including my Father. I have friends that work at Snap-On, 2 at Johnson Controls in the IT department, another does contract work, my Fathers mainly a tech that fixes computers and sets up & manages networks... But my main man and good friend works as a programmer for a company called Pronto Progress.

Heres his bio on their website:
...has been with Pronto Progress for 10 years and serves as an Account Manager. being a real technology "guru", John demonstrates his knowledge and abilities in infrastructure architecture, software design, development and training by mentoring Pronto employees and solving business problems for Pronto customers. From Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory maintenance and upgrades to developing complete integrated systems from the ground up, John has done it all. John has worked extensively with all versions of Progress, MFG/PRO, Syteline and .NET technologies. John is also an expert at Syteline implementations and conversions and is one of the chief architects of the Pronto Progress' Quality Control Software. John's abilities extend well onto the shop floor, where he has done extensive integration between ERP systems and Rockwell Automations PLC software for automated machine tool control.

When they say he's a real technology guru, that's right on the mark. He bailed me out on more than one occassion over the years in various businesses I've been in. My office will be working on a computer problem for days, I'll call in a favor to John, and he has it solved in under 5 minutes.

We used to call him the "Bunny Man" because when he stop by our office to help us he would jump from computer to computer like a maniac... and he made it look like such a simple thing.

I tell you all this to illustrate a point. A lot of very successful people know little about certain parts of their business, but they surround themselves with people that do. I concern myself with running my business. Even though I build my own websites and market my stuff, I don't have the time to go to school and learn all the technical stuff. It wouldn't be a good use of my time... and Time is Money... and my online business isn't my only business. I've learned what I've needed to learn and that's it.

The same goes in any business including the online business. You're never going to know everything so you need to know where to get the answers if you need them. Many of "The Warriors" have already learned they can get answers in this forum or other specialized forums; same thing...

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It's a valuable lesson. Becoming good at everything is impossible. Do what you're good at and surround yourself with people that can fill the gaps of your knowledge...