I just hired another personal assistant to help me with social media, so I thought I’d post a video all about HOW to outsource (this is also a follow up on an older post on why you need to outsource).
Comment and tell me your thoughts….
Aug 26 2009
How to Outsource & Explode Your Business
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Amit,
That is a long and nice video.
1. The way you classified outsourcing into 3 categories is nice.
2. Doing all first by yourself and then outsource the lower end ones, nice tip.
Q)
1. when you start outsourcing, I mean what should be your monthly net income?
2. You have lot of team, how much you pay for all these people every month, if you don’t mind telling. LOL.
3. Outsourcing means, web design, content writing, we can get from Elance and 99designs.com.
But the $10/hr work, how do you outsource it.
Thanks.
PS: still waiting to hear from you on how I can work with you and educate myself and grow, and of course help you too in exchange for your help.
Hey Raj
For $10/hr work you need to hire an virtual assistant or secretary.
Hi Raj,
1.) You should outsource when you have your system AND you are ready mentally to hand the work off to someone else. Cost-wise it all depends on what needs to be done. You can hire per task basis, part-time or full time. It really depends on YOUR budget.
2.) I think it depends on your (net income) budget. You can find good people at all levels. From my experience, US workers are more than overseas workers.
3.) You need a system, a set of instructions to give your worker. If you don’t then you don’t know what you want outsourced. $10/hr can mean ANYTHING…literally ANYTHING
- Check my email
- Market research
- Customer support
- Website promotion
- Content Creation
- Ebay.com (who knows? LOL)
As for finding help, Elance, Odesk and Scriptlance get thumbs up in my book.
Good luck and hope I was able to help a bit.
Onwards and Upwards,
Anthony
Anthony,
Thanks for chiming in and giving more ideas.
Great timing on the outsource video Amit. The one area I am uncertain about relative to outsourcing is traffic generation. I have the money to invest, but I don’t know how I could use this person since they would need to operate under my name (email & site) for certain task. For example, if I had someone posting on blogs using my site for a back link, I would what to be certain they are placing professional comments under my contact information.
Do you have guidance on how to use an outsource for traffic generation? Thanks…
Richard
Hi Richard,
You don’t have to always use your own name for website promotion, unless its absolutely necessary in your industry. I have a friend who posts to different forums for a doctor and what they do is have the comments approved first (set up in spreadsheet with url, comment, etc). Its reviewed, then approved… comments/posts are POSTED. Regarding, blog comments, I have had some success but there are times when the comments are not moderated and the time spent posting goes down the drain.
You can also use pen names for your traffic generation. Why not think about using outsourcing for article directory submissions, social bookmarking, directory submissions, etc etc.
Amit hit it on the head: YOU MUST KNOW YOUR PROCESS BEFORE YOU OUTSOURCE.
This is critical step that most beginners get wrong. You have to know EXACTLY what you want so there are no surprises in the end. (personally, I know firsthand)
Good luck!
Onwards and Upwards,
Anthony
Thanks Amit for the part on outsourcing. Didn’t know abt 99Designs and the part on crowdsource. It really seems very cool to me.
Hi Amit,
Excellent post. and THANK YOU for sharing. I hope everyone realizes that it doesn’t take an ARMY of outsourcers to make a fortune. You are a perfect example. Its about leveraging your time to thing you DO BEST and high level activities.
You got it right. Perfect your system, then get someone else to help you with it.
Amen to bookkeepers, accountants and 99Designs!
Onwards and Upwards,
Anthony
PS. @ Everyone:
Please note: Outsourcing is JUST a tool. NOT a fix-all. You must know how to best yield this powerful leveraging tool for what YOU need. Think about your business and where you can free up your time.
I totally agree, I actually just got done blogging about how Super Affiliates like yourself stress outsourcing. Its definitely the way to go when running an affiliate marketing business, or any online business rather.
I second the fact that this is great timing Amit. I’ve just started to find myself swimming in a sea of tasks and the idea of outsourcing the most mundane of those is really a fantastic one.
Thank you,
~R.W.
great video Amit. I have been exploring options for an ideal place to have a logo created for the imminent Clickbank product we are launching in the next month or two, and now I have 99designs.com thanks to your recommendation. Outsourcing is going to be playing a major role and your advice was very helpful. thank you
Thanks Amit.you have done a great job. when i searched outsourcing companies in UK ,One of my friend suggested me finbpo. Amit can you help me out what are the parameters that can decide about the best outsourcing company.My friend told me Finbpo is the best one.can you help me here.Thank you..
The first time I’ve read about outsourcing is from the book 4-Hour-Work Week (I think this book has reached the cult status in internet marketing community ^-^), and I’m really fascinated by the idea. And that’s why I find this video really cool as it simplify the idea of outsourcing into a more step-by-step basis.
Do it yourself first. Put a price tag on the tasks. Outsource $50 and $10 tasks. Etc.
Thanks, Amit.
Hey Amit…great video about concentrating on $200/hour tasks and outsourcing everything else. This is a great way for businesses to explode at incredibly fast rates for a very low budget. Excellent tips and advice!
If people are looking to outsource $50/hour and $10/hour tasks make sure you guys check out http://www.freelancer.com
We are the largest outsourcing site in the world and have over 1.6 million registered user from all over the world.