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 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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Founder of Budget Rent-a-car, Entrepreneur and Best Selling Author of 2 Books, Patron of UQ Enterprize Competition

Bob revealed the grassroots of his early journey into business, and how he built and created a multi-million dollar business (Budget Rent-a-Car) from scratch with a ‘can do’ philosophy in a competitive industry and financially uncertain economic climate. You’ll also learn a bunch of leadership principles and how to think outside the box to give your team the edge and your business an advantage over your competitors.

In this interview you will discover:

- How he structured and nurtured his business and what steps he took to achieve it

- The winning philosophies of his company that created strong staff morale and differentiated him from the competition

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Time Management Authority, Speaker, Consultant and Founder of Generating Time

Angie is convinced everyone can find at least another 2-3 hours everyday by being smart with their time. I grill her on some of the most effective strategies that corporations pay her big bucks to get trained in!

In this interview you will discover:

- Techniques to save time handling emails

- How to set a system to manage your tasks

- How to prioritize tasks to achieve the best results in the least amount of time

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Here’s my first attempt at some green screen video editing, in my gradual shift to video blogging and use of online video for marketing and delivering content.

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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I’m often asked ‘How did you meet your first JV partner?’

Meeting Joint Venture partners has been worth tens of thousands of dollars to me, none of which would have eventuated had I not been out on the playing field meeting people! In this blog post I’d like to tell you the process. My partner wishes to remain anonymous.

What I did was contact them through their site through email, to start building a relationship, so they got to know who I was.

I told them a little bit about what I do. I signed up for their email list and I found out they were running some workshops. At the time these workshops cost quite a lot of money to attend. I was happy to pay the money, to go and meet them and to learn what they had to teach.

For me, it was a process of being able to commit to actually putting some money down to go and meet them, for them to get to know me, and put my face out there. I met a lot of other people at those workshops and seminars as well, and subsequently I saw them in other seminars.

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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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