Archive for the ‘Outsourcing’ Category

Ever heard about experts recommending guru.com as a fantastic site to find virtual staff to help you in your online business? It’s a fantastic site that has a good range of workers and the prices are very competitive.

If you’ve just dropped in you may have missed out on my personal video tours of rent-a-coder (now know as vworker.com) and also elance.com explaining how to best use those sites to gain staff and ensure the best results and outcomes for you.

Here’s an over-my shoulder tour of guru.com. I teach you how to use it, how to screen potential workers, how to sort through bids, how to minimise your risk when hiring and how to ensure a long term relationship with both the site and the worker at a price that is incredibly cost-effective to yo.

So here I share some of my most closely guarded tips and tricks on how to get the very best from the site.

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Ever wanted to use Elance to hire virtual staff? This is the second part in the series. In the first part I gave you a virtual of Rent-a-coder.com, now known as Vworker.

Here’s an over-my shoulder tour of the site. I teach you how to use it, what to look for when hiring staff and posting projects and share some of my most closely guarded tips and tricks on how to get the very best from the site.

Stay tuned for future video casts where I give you personal tours of my other favourite sites!

Enjoy, and if you found it useful, please use the retweet button to share it!

Ever wanted to use Rent-A-Coder to hire virtual staff?

Here’s an over-my shoulder tour of the site. I teach you how to use it, what to look for and share some of my most closely guarded tips and tricks on how to get the very best from the site.

Stay tuned for future video casts where I give you personal tours of my other favourite sites, elance and guru.com!

Enjoy, and if you found it useful, please use the retweet button to share it!

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You’ve heard me talk a bit about outsourcing in previous posts.

If you’re doing it alone, eventually you’ll be doing stuff that’s just treading water, and treading water is not a percentage of the growth of the business. It’s hours. There’s only a certain amount of hours in a day, and if you’re doing things that directly generate revenue, you’re not only losing time but money aswell.

It will get to the point where it becomes three hours a day, four hours a day, five hours a day, six hours a day and eight hours a day where all you’re doing is treading water and remember, if you’re not swimming forward, eventually, it will kill your business.

Concentrate on your strengths. Know what your strengths are and that’s what you want to focus on in your business, and try to delegate everything else.

Know the value of your time. This is very important!! Here’s a quick little exercise that we can do.

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This is part 3 of the series. Get Part 1 here and Part 2 here.

In the Product Launch Formula 2 launch (I don’t know if it was a marketing ploy or not) the website that Jeff had ready to go at launch was down! Thousands of people came to buy, and there was NOTHING available!

We’ll never know if it was deliberate or not. However, if it was legitimately valid tech issue, then if you don’t have a techie on hand and people are coming to your site ready to buy, you are literally losing thousands of dollars (in Jeff’s case millions potentially)!

You’ll also lose a bunch of customers.

So, if you find someone who’s good, using these contracting sites, pay them more than they expect when the job is done. That creates an instant loyalty.

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This is Part 3 in the series.

Read Part 2 here and Part 1 here.

If you find someone who’s good, using these contracting sites I’ve outlined in previous posts in this series, actually pay them more than they expect when the job is done. That creates an instant loyalty. We talked before about how these countries have currencies and economies that, because our economies in certain Western countries are better, if you give some people a bonus of $10 USD or $20 USD for a job, that’s massive.

It makes a big difference, and can be a whole days’ worth of work.

For you it’s nothing, really, it’s not much at all, another $10, but for these people it can feed their families for a couple of days, and that’s a lot.

This is just a way to create the loyalty and build a sense of team around what you’re doing.

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This is part 2 in a 3 part series. Read Part 1 here.

Consider getting a tech person. That is the #1 area that you should first look to outsource. So what skills should they have? when I first started looking, I had no idea.

I asked some of my colleagues who were doing it, and they shed some light on what’s worked for them. Here’s what’s worked for me, and with this range of skills, I’m confident your worker will be able to fulfill most if not all of your technical requests:

You could ask for a ‘Web Developer’. This title encompasses a range of skills. The main ones you’ll need are:

– Skills in coding php, html, css

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Some of you may know me for my work on outsourcing. I’ve spoken from the stage on several occasions about this topic, and it’s had a significant impact on the way I run my business. Before I started doing it, I was banging my head on the wall trying to do everything myself and getting nowhere fast. Since I’ve been able to leverage my more valuable skill sets by outsourcing the lower value skill sets, I’ve been able to achieve much more.

And lately I’ve had alot of people come to me to ask about how to more efficiently achieve an outcome through better systems or more efficient processes.

So I’ve put together a three part series sharing some of my thoughts on the topic. It’s by no means super comprehensive, but I will share some gems to get you started.

I’m a big believer that lifestyle is important. If you’ve chosen the Internet as a lifestyle and you’re working on it as if you were working on a job, then you probably need to reevaluate your strategy.

The first step I’d recommend is checking out Tim Ferriss, who wrote The Four-Hour Work Week. That will definitely give you a mindset rock. Tim’s mind is really cool in terms of being lazy; I love being lazy as well. Not as lazy as Tim, I work a little more than four hours a week, but I don’t see it as work; I see it as play. When I’m in front of the computer, I’m having a great time.

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