Merry Christmas From All at Outsource Ten

Outsource Ten would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We would also like to thank everyone who has supported our business in 2011 and especially those who have believed in the cause from day 1. We wish you all the same success in 2012.


Brett and the gang

You make your own luck!

Some people are successful in matters of love, in their careers, in their finances etc. Yet these people don't seem to work particularly hard. Others repeatedly fail despite their efforts and talents.

Why do some people are lucky and others never get the breaks they deserve? Why do some people are always in the right place and at the right time, while others consistently experience bad fortune? 

Darren Brown in his show 'The Experiments' asked what makes some people lucky and others attract only misfortune. He got a rumour about the lucky powers of a town's statute to see if it changes the lives of local residents. Many psychologists did similar tests and what they discovered was that people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behaviours are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. 

Darren Brown showed that lucky people consistently encounter opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not, due to the differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. Psychologists showed that unlucky people are more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the opportunity. They miss it because they are too focused on something else. 'The Experiments' established a well known quote by American writer Tennessee Williams who said: 'Luck is believing you're lucky'. Darren set a rumour about lucky dog statue in town and people believed it was lucky which made it easier for them to spot the opportunities.

These experiments revealed that lucky people generate good fortune because they are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, they make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, they have positive expectations and adopt an attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

At the end of Darren's experiment unlucky people became lucky and lucky people became even luckier.

Professor Wiseman in his book called 'The Luck Factor: The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind' concluded that the essence of luck is opportunity. In his experiments, he found that lucky people smile twice as often as others, and engage in more eye contact than unlucky people do. Such a behaviour exposes a person to more opportunities due to the increased social interaction. In fact, open-mindedness allows one to encounter a greater number of unique prospects, and makes one to embrace new opportunities. Moreover, Wiseman's study showed that optimistic person is more satisfied with all areas of their lives than an unlucky, pessimistic person.

Luck plays a huge part in every career. If you believe that things are outside your control and that your actions will not make a difference, you make less effort. If you make less effort, you will be less successful and this will just confirm your belief that you can't change anything. This is known as learned helplessness

'Unlucky people' tend to look through newspapers determined to find certain types of advertisements and miss other types of jobs. In the times of recession it is more important to look for benefits rather than salaries. Lucky people build and maintain diverse networks and regularly expose themselves to new experiences and environments. In result, more opportunities come their way. They expect their good luck to continue into the future and they take more calculated risks. They persevere in the face of failure, not giving up at the first obstacle. Lucky people are able to transform their bad luck into good fortune by learning from their experiences and mistakes.

Kat Ciszak

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Breaking News: Outsource Ten starts new client.


Outsource Ten are proud to announce the inclusion of one of the UK's largest Home Entertainment giants to its Client Portfolio. 


In just 5 years our client claim to have over 2 million subscribers which is rated as the 3rd largest home entertainment provider behind Sky and Virgin. Customers have generated and estimated 72 million film ratings and over 780 000 member reviews.


Outsource Ten have been drafted as a customer awareness team for them to provide a more directly channelled brand awareness campaign as an added value channel to our client's  existing mass media strategy. 

"Dirty, Sexy Things" - Building Your Brand

Last night on Channel 4 featured a series called 'Dirty, sexy things'. It showed how hard and difficult it is to build your brand as a SUCCESSFUL model. Millions of young, bright, attractive people who want to get into modelling, only a small percentage find any success at it. It is simply because they don't possess all of the key elements of a successful model.

Many young and beautiful models fail to reach their potential because they don't have enough drive and desire to overcome the inevitable setbacks they encounter. - They simply quit.

Modeling is a BUSINESS. 

Every business costs money, every business takes time and every business involves education and experience to make it successful. Their time is money. Therefore, in business you cannot waste anyone's time by not being punctual or ready to work at the scheduled start time. There are millions of pretty faces, just like there are millions of businesses. You can create a demand for your services if you offer a unique attitude and strategy. All good people create networks of clients that are constantly growing. You need to find ways to reach potential clients and generate more work and more clients from networking techniques.

Successful Models are MADE and not BORN. They work at all aspects of what they do and they don't stop because of few setbacks. The same relates to business. A successful entrepreneur is determined to accomplish a goal and they are not easily stopped by excuses or fears of the unknown. Being an entrepreneur is a test of your faith. If you want to be successful you need to believe in yourself. You cannot fear the failure. Work ethic and driving ambition will help you to overcome the many hurdles you will experience. There is a need for a passion to succeed. If you don't have the excitement for your product/service, people will pick up on that and you will not last.

Successful models have a directions and a plan of action. They set their portfolio, their resume, their network of potential clients and the part of the market they want to work in, and they plan a way to achieve those goals. Successful people 'think' success at all times. In business, creating a brand takes time. You need to be relentless in building your brand image and presence in the market. That means your have to be persistent in communicating your brand at every opportunity.

Starting and running a successful business can be rewarding and challenging. Success requires focus, discipline and perseverance. However, success will not come over night – it requires a long term focus and that you remain consistent in challenging environments.

'Sweat and sacrifice equal success'. Those models I saw last night on the 'Dirty, sexy things' programme, go for 20 castings everyday for 6 days a week. At the end they will maybe get 1 or 2 jobs. They start their day at 7 or even earlier in the morning and finish late at night. Moreover they spend fortune on transport in London and other fashion cities in Europe. Crazy right? However, most people are not successful because they are not willing to sacrifice their movie time, their sleeping time, and their time for games and so on and so forth. Success is not something what will come to you automatically nor will it fall from the sky. The advantage of having your own business is that you are building something for you and not for someone else.

Written by Kat Ciszak (Business Development Advisor- Outsource Ten)

7 Billion People- See What Number You Were

What Number Did You Arrive On Earth

Youths Out of Work Drive Highest Unemployment Figures in Two Years

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/875435-youths-out-of-work-drive-highest-unemployment-figures-in-two-years#ixzz1ax9rwHTh

With the apparent doom and gloom of the UK economy it seems that more and more young Brits will be leaning towards Entrepreneurship in some way shape or form. With unemployment on the rise and the threat of a double dip recession there seems to be less and less ways to create wealth in a traditional work environment. So unless you fall into  one of the following categories, you're going to have to find something to do to raise money.

1) Someone with a talent ie footballer, model or entertainer

2) Have inherited a fortune recently

3) Lottery winner

4) Born with a Trust Fund

5) Have criminal intentions

6) Married into a rich family

If not then here are the steps you need to take to Start Up your own business.

1) You will need an idea. It doesn't have to be original, it just has to be realistic

2) Money- if you have none, you will need a business plan to attract an investor

3) Experience- this will be vital in achieving success of a New Startup

4) Competition- you will have to research your competition and find ways to do things better than they do to achieve success.

If you can overcome the above mentioned obstacles then you are well on your way to a New Startup business. If not then look for someone who will coach or mentor you in a specific field. You can do this by working under someones wing or by becoming an apprentice. AVOID AT ALL COSTS BEING CHARGED FOR TRAINING. There are Scam companies out there that will train you if you pay a fee. Steer clear of such companies.

Energy Surveying Honeypot

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As a target driven business, we are taking up the challenge with the government and utility companies to hit said targets. We now have opportunity like never before to develop new surveying teams in order to reach these goals.

What do we need?

HUNGER

X Factor Madness Begins

Marketing is a game of failure which means the more you play, the more you fail. The more you play however, the more shot you have of winning too. Our X Factor is very similar to ITV's in that as a base we have work ethic out of this world, our attitudes become bulletproof, our eagerness to learn rivals that of the most studious of students and the belief we have in the industry we work in ensures that all we need add are the right product, place, price and promotion. This is our secret to success and anyone who thinks along the same lines is welcome to join in the party.

Imagine we all listened to our doubters!!

This blog contains famous quotes from people that made bold statements about what was impossible. History is filled with instances where most of society thought something was impossible only to be proven wrong. Usually the people that do the impossible are persecuted and ridiculed. 

We have come to the conclusion that nothing is impossible. And when someone says that "that's impossible", what they are really saying is that they don't know how to do it. 

Read the bold prognostications and see if they don't illustrate our point!

 “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” — Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977.

2. “We will never make a 32 bit operating system.” — Bill Gates

 “There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States.” — T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, in 1961 (the first commercial communications satellite went into service in 1965).

5. “To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.” — Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, in 1926

6. “A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” — New York Times, 1936.

7. “Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical (sic) and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.” - Simon Newcomb; The Wright Brothers flew at Kittyhawk 18 months later.

8. “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” — Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.

9. “There will never be a bigger plane built.” — A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people

12. “The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.” — Ernest Rutherford, shortly after splitting the atom for the first time.

13. “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” — Albert Einstein, 1932

14. “The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.” -– Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916

15. “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad.” — The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903

16. “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” — Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878.

17. “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” — A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876).

18. “The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most.” — IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959.

19. “I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.” — HG Wells, British novelist, in 1901.

20. “X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” — Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883.

21. “The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous.” — Comment of Aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Haig, at tank demonstration, 1916.

22. “How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense.” — Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton’s steamboat, 1800s.

23. “Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.” — Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1889 (Edison often ridiculed the arguments of competitor George Westinghouse for AC power).

24. “Home Taping Is Killing Music” — A 1980s campaign by the BPI, claiming that people recording music off the radio onto cassette would destroy the music industry.

25. “Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan.” — Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948.

26. “[Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” — Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.

28. “Dear Mr. President: The canal system of this country is being threatened by a new form of transportation known as ‘railroads’ … As you may well know, Mr. President, ‘railroad’ carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by ‘engines’ which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed.” — Martin Van Buren, Governor of New York, 1830(?).

29. “Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.” — Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London.

The 3 main questions people ask themselves wen joining our business are

1) Is it real?

2) Can I do it?

3) Is it worth it?

I guess the proof is in the pudding, so rather than letting others make up your mind about joining the fastest growing industry on the planet, fight your way in and see for yourself.

10 Basic Interview Tips

1. First impressions count 

Greet your interviewer with a smile and firm handshake. Give eye contact. Try to make small talk during the walk from the reception area to the interview room. Even if you are not interviewing for a sales position, you have to sell yourself and the first 30 seconds are when the interviewer subconsciously makes decisions about whether they like you or not and whether you will fit into the team. Remember you are being interviewed by the company so everyone is on scouting duty from the Receptionist to the Managing Director.

2. Be prepared 

Always bring an updated CV. Re-read your CV (if it needs updating, do it) and just before the interview make sure you have read the advert. Do your research thoroughly: Look at the company web site or obtain literature. You may be asked about the salary you are after so make sure you research that as well.

3. Don't waffle 

Answer questions properly - even if you need a few moments' silence to collect your thoughts. It's better to say you need a minute to think about your answer rather than speak instantly and regret it afterwards.

4. Why should they hire you? 

Most job adverts will list qualities they're looking for - a team worker, a good communicator - so it's up to you to think of examples of how you can demonstrate these skills. Be ready to talk about your knowledge, experience, abilities and skills. Have at least three strong points about yourself that you can relate to the company and job on offer.

5. Be positive 

Your interviewer will be thinking about what it would be like to work with you, so the last thing they'll want to hear is you talking about your boss or current colleagues behind their back. Interviewers like to see someone who enjoys a challenge and is enthusiastic.

6. Remember your body language 

It is not what you say, but how you say it. During the interview, do not fold your arms and lean back or look to the floor! Sit upright and try to maintain good eye contact. Use your hands and lean forward when making a point. Many people cannot think and control their body language at the same time, which is why you need to prepare.

7. Act ‘As If’ but be respectful 

Act as if you are the perfect candidate but respect the interview process. Remember you are a guest and being over bullish when it comes to interviewing shows a disrespectful nature. When it comes to potential earnings, you will earn what you are worth so take you time to approach the topic. It definitely is on the mind of the interviewer but wait for them to bring it up.

8. Develop rapport 

Show energy, a sense of humour and smile. People like to have fun and always enjoy a bit of ‘banter’ so find out about the interviewer and find a common ground to relate to them on.

9. Clarify anything you are unsure of 

If you are not certain what are meant by a particular question, ask for clarification. At the end, ask the interviewer if there is anything else he or she needs to know about. Do not be afraid to ask when you are likely to hear if you have been successful or not.

10. Have the last word 

Tell the interviewer why you are interested in the company and job opportunity. Summarize your application by a final word selling your reasons why you should be selected for the next round of interviews then follow it up by sending a "thank-you" e-mail or letter, saying how much you enjoyed meeting them and how interested you are. Take the opportunity to detail the key advantages you bring.

By following the three Ps - prepare, practice and perform, you can turn yourself into a candidate who would not look out of place on "The Apprentice."

How Competitive Are You?

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