John Jonas from ReplaceMyself.com?

Ok, but does he teach you how to get really cheap, good quality, virtual assistants

This is one I've seriously been considering myself. John sounds like a solid dude with the information he gives out. Plus I have reached the point now where I can move into outsourcing and in fact am heading in that direction.

Anyone other warriors out there currently in his membership?

Hey, I am a member of John Jonas group. He ins honest and give the nuts and blots of how to outsource to the phil. What have you got to lose he gives an intro price you br glad you did.

He actually sounds like the Handi-World MLMer, Karl Benson from the film Garden State LOL.

I'm seriously considering joining. You can always go to Odesk.com
And find people that will work cheap. What is missing is the training that you have to do. I understand that they will give training videos that you can pass it on the person that you employ. I hope that John Jonas is the real deal.

I have a subscription, too. I gave up trying to hire someone -- it became too time consuming and, as soon as this product hit the market, the talent in the ph recognized quickly that they were in high demand and their asking salaries have increased.

I use oDesk - have a project in the process right now and plan to hire a part-timer to do what I need to have done.

That said, John has a high quality product and I consider it a wise investment for my business.

Nancy Gomez

Hello Forum Members:

Any payment tips from anyone who has hired people from Bestjobs.ph? In part 1 of the audio, John seems to allude to the fact that PayPal and other standard forms are not an option there. There are some strong programming candidates on Bestjobs.ph, but all I've done is trawl there while considering monthly payment systems.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Mobilebusinessowner

I'm going to look into this asap. I will let you know how I get on.

Thanks for the data.

Bestjobs banned my account as i requested work at home job although they have thousands of others work at home jobs listed. Good talent there but Bestjobs.ph staff are worthless. So word of the wise don't get on elena bad side... as she is a not so legit... She will ban you for something then allow the other 99 percent of ads to be allowed....

I can't even register there because they say they do not allow registrations from my location.

Does bestjobs.ph no longer accept US employer registrations?!

This problem is not that hard to solve...

You could hire someone on Odesk in the Philippines to post on Best Job

Or you could hire someone on Odesk and try to bring them over direct

Or could could just use Odesk and keep them on Odesk.

Any outsourcing I have done by people I know locally, usually stay at home moms that are looking for some extra income. Of course I must pay a higher rate, but these are people I trust completely and there are no communication problems whatsoever.

My question to those of you that are using outsourcing from these other countries at the reduced rates, is how much time are you spending verifying that the work has been completed according to your requirements, or even completed at all?

Call me paranoid, but these folks are working from somewhat third world locations and doing so for peanuts. Maybe I just need to let down my guard and try it, but I am very skeptical about the quality of work I would receive.

Hey John,

I am new here and I am going to give your site a shot. I am acutally a member of the Internet Business Mastery. I look forward to checking out what you have on there.

Jesse

The Best way to hire somebody in a country like the Philipines is to use an escrow service. Never pay until you know that the work has been done according to your requirements.

Another way would be to use Echeck through a service like Paypal that way the worker sees that you have made a payment but the actual payment will take several days.

With one of my workers I just make a proposal as to how much the project will pay then I will make smaller payments as the worker works, usually a small payment every few days to a week.

I am only using getafreelancer.com to hire people as of now. Reason being is because the base office is in Switzerland and I have a brother that lives over there. If I can't get assistance from the getafreelancer site I will have my brother go over there in person.

I hire people for $2-$4 an hour, sometimes even in the US, all the time through oDesk. Not sure why I would pay someone to tell me how to do that. It's cake.

he's stuff is really good and he tells it how it is!

I know this might be a little off topic but I hope it is okay.

I've been hiring people from the Philippines for about 6 months and I have had to go through several of them and haven't found a writer yet that is able to write article in proper English.

I know that trying out 5 different people isn't much but I can't help but get the feeling that "good English" in the Philippines is like "good English" in India. It might work and you might be able to make yourself understood but it is definitely not for US/UK articles to be posted on serious websites.

Has anyone else had this experience and/or does anyone have any tips on how to test these writers before wasting too much of your time?

/Mikael

[edit] I removed the link because John Jonas accused me of being an affiliate. I'm not.

I highly recommend checking out My Out Source Method (Google it).

They take a more complete approach to teaching people about outsourcing than John Jonas. Their webinar last night was fantastic. The recorded webinar is available here: Outsourcing Secrets Video | Affilorama

I'm not an affiliate. I just really liked their webinar.

Is ReplaceMyself.com focused on the Philippines market only?

Hi Mustard,

I watched the outsourcemethod web seminar also a few months ago.

It seems that they have a 10 day for $1 offer going on. (not affiliate either) and would like to know how they compare to Jonas John product.

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Yes, the previous months are available too.

You can also purchase extra months for $97/month up front, so you don't have to wait.

In my view, there's better training available elsewhere, though.

So is John drip-feeding content to us, i.e, if I was to sign up today and you were to sign up in 6 months, and then one day we both log on at the same time, would I have 6 months more "content" than you available to me?

If so, I am not sure I like the model, but I can see how he likes it as it is a nicely automated income generator.

Still ... the big picture here is that at $300 per month or so, for an outsourcer (or maybe 2), it's NOT a big amount of money. Not much to lose here.

Emmanuel - thanks so much for your reply. I didn't know he had a platinum package. Does it give you perpetual access to the sites for hiring?

How long did it take you to hire someone start to finish, and how many did you interview?

Guys - FYI, thumbs up on Emmanuel's voice over work. He is outstanding.

Update from me: I joined ReplaceMyself and I just took the up-front pro outsourcing package that costs $697 with no recurring fees ever again. I'm GLAD I did this. It seems like a lot of money, but it's 2 months pay for a good employee (maybe 3 months). Small potatoes to my future.

I am currently recruiting one person. I haven't hired because I went through ALL of John's training material for module 1 (the only module that's for you ... all others are for your employees). GREAT education.

I emailed about 12 candidates with salary expectations ranging from $100 to $300 per month. I got 6 replies within 12 hours and the girl asking for $100/month actually had decent English. Unbelievable.

I'm certainly hiring someone here. Then after I am confident I have full time work for them, I'm hiring another, etc. I have so much to do.

I'm a knowledge worker. I think of idea after idea, and I need implementation help. That's why $697 up front was worth it. I will never have to create a training video to teach someone Adwords.

So yeah, John charges a nice chunk of coin for this service but you guys all need to be thinking about opportunity cost if you create training material yourself. Those hours could be spent coming up with your next money making idea, or actually sending instructions to your employees.

My one question for ReplaceYourself MEMBERS is this: Are you paying people in constant USD per month, or are you calculating what amount of USD to pay such that your employee gets a consistent payment in Philippine Pesos per month? In other words, who bears the foreign exchange variation?

Susan - you are certainly not going to get training videos for every tool that you use. The training is to get someone up to speed on the basics of this BUSINESS. They often don't know much about this IM stuff and need to be educated on:

- Adwords
- Link building
- SEO
- Article marketing
- Wordpress, etc

What you get from John is a MODEL for training someone, and it all gets hosted inside your own personal installation of project management software. Each training module is a "project" and you can create your own projects and make your own training (or have it made for you by someone else, etc).

Say you buy an ebook or video series that trains someone on Linkvana. You could link to that ebook / video in your project so your worker will see it and be able to use it.

I like four aspects of the program.
1) The training on how to hire and manage people
2) The training for the WORKERS
3) The access to resumes
4) The project management tools.

I hired my first guy. Just last night I got his acceptance email.

Hi Guys,

Have anyone of you worried that VAs will learn what you are doing and start their own business once is ready?? Do do you avoid that or control it not to happen?

Thanks,
Elmer

great!LOL finally, it had been a blessing in disguise to arrive in this thread.: )

Yeah! I also came from that third world country you guys have been talking about.You can absolutely outsource your work to them and they will actually work as VA of yours..

We are like online factory workers trying to pump out mountains of work for pennies and taken advantage off..LMFAO

IMHO, I even recommend myself.. and price is negotiable.. Job here is difficult to find. And it is inculcated in some of our minds that stepping into the world of Internet Marketing will be able to help us.

Even $3-5 per hour is already a blessing for us..

That's all for now.

All the best..

KUDOS!!

Bernz

Hi Guys

Just found this post. Im looking to hire 4 people asap. 3 web masters (link building adding content to wordpress etc etc ) and one VA. Ive got access to Replace Myself. But if any of you have systems, videos, questionnaires, flow chart etc etc that you use for your VAs it would be great to hear from you .

Thanks all

Mark

Replace Myself is awesome. I have been a member there for about 8 months, and I could not live without it... Just to give you an idea... I have negotiated a deal with a education company to get 20% f their sales, so I told one of my filipinos to build me a review site for it...

Well. he went above and beyond... he built the site, found the competitors, wrote reviews of the competitors, AND BEST OF ALL, signed up as affiliate for the other companies for me also!!! I was so impressed with this. he could have signed up as affiliate for himself, put his link up, and I never would have known, but NO. he signed me up for them! And these are affiliate sites that pay hundreds of dollars per sale.

I easily expect to make $5k/month from this site, and I have done NOTHING.

Replacemyself is awesome... seriously.

how exactly does one judge how many hours a given task is supposed to take?
if you tell someone to build a review site for example, they could spend anywhere from an hour to a few days.
backlinking submissions can also just be an hour or a full day...how are we to judge?

Hey danny,, its a difficult thing I guess. you just have to judge how long it would take you , and add a % on accordingly ?

I joined his program for about a month and I hired an excellent programmer and VA from his referral program (I could have doen this myself). I enjoyed working with them and my productivity has increase since I hired them.

Ernesto

Hi ebent

How many people did you have to interview to find these two people ?

best Regards

Mark

Here's another tip for you guys who are experiencing problems with outsourcers. Train them and KEEP training them !!!

As much as you and I think a task is "simple", if someone has never done it before, it is NOT simple.

When I hired my first guy I thought I was going to have to let him go. He wasn't communicating well with me. But after a week I recorded a message for him and delivered it to him in MP3 format ... just told him what I expected in terms of communication. With him, he was not being specific enough. He would refer to things as "it", or "that" .. instead of "the wordpress installation", or "the collection of information about the xyz product". I told him to always be really specific with me so I know what he's talking about. He listened. He improved.

I wanted to teach him how to install and manage WordPress, which he had never done. I made a video with Jing to explain exactly how you install it with SimpleScripts inside of HostMonster. I just didn't press the "complete installation" button. I made him go back and do it all himself. I made him learn pluggins, themes, even a tiny bit of PHP. It took him a long time to get it right .. but he got it right and then I made him document each step into a "recipe" document. Now we can go and implement these sites in a couple of hours.

TRAIN and COMMUNICATE. Then make sure to treat them with respect. They are not your own personal robots. They are people.

I have been a member for about 6 months.
My experience is this;
The information that John gives is really quite good. I admit it could be organized and presented a bit better, but it is all solid factual information.
His training modules I would say are about the same. Some I didn't find all that useful, while others I thought were perfect, in their simplicity and directions.
myprojectplans is so so. I wish these guys would update this to become a bit more user friendly. The upload limits are a pain too, you can host yourself and link to it, but it would be nice to just upload a (larger) file. There are a few leading project management programs easily identified online. Why not update to make it competitive with these others?

I think it is all in all a great package. I would love to see it update and become even better. The beauty is John has been doing this for years and I expect he will continue to have this product for some time, so the support will remain, and the support is very good. Dan is quick and helpful.

I have hired 2 people since joining ReplaceMyself. The first just didn't work out. More my fault than anything as I simply did not do an in depth enough review. Upon hiring, I tried for the first month to train this guy, but I needed a content writer and he just didn't have the english (although he was good on the technical). My second attempt was much better. I was very specific in what I wanted and I closely reviewed and tested the applicants. I ended up hiring a lady that has very good English and she has been producing really good content for me, so much so that I ran into the issue of not having anything for her to do a few times. She is not so good on the technical side though (she can use Wordpress).

I think the big problem (and disappointment) comes when a person expects too much (such as a VA). It is not realistic to have one person write content, design websites, php program, graphic design, etc. What must be done is to clearly identify what strengths are needed in your business, and hire specifically for that. In my case, I felt I could continue to manage my sites myself and take care of the technical aspects of my internet business. But I realized that I need a lot of content for my campaigns and I want it to be unique and of some reasonable level of quality. I do not seem to have the capacity to manage sites, conduct research, build sites, build content, build more content to promote sites, and of course take care of my home responsibilities too. After my first employee experience, I took a step back from my business to really determine what I needed first. At some point I will hire someone that specifically looks after technical aspects of my business, and perhaps a designer, or programmer. But for now, I need more content and my employee that I chose is doing great at that. I want to streamline the function and effectiveness of my existing employee and then look at expanding. Johns program has been instrumental in getting to this point and I am thankful for my employee, she has been learning quickly and working hard.

John's Material is Good, but you don't need to be with him for a long time to get the info.Actually he recommends you use some agency in the Phillipines to help you which charges a fee to register. I didn't follow thru with it.But hiring anyone to work for you can be a chore; I've done it several times with mixed reviews. In order to get the best you need to hire full time and be willing to train them.

Hi,
I know this is an older thread but I wanted to let you know about my experience with Replacemyself.com

I joined last week and so far I'm VERY happy. I haven't been with them long enough to give a good review but I'll come back down the rode to do that.

I did buy the one-off payment option & I can say that at the moment I feel very good about the money spent to get access. The available training for myself and my employees is priceless and the included resources are icing on the cake.

I just hired two full time (40 hours/week) employees for less than $200 USD per month. I still have to see how things go but I'm feeling pretty good and think they will end up to be great workers.

Sorry I can't give more info right now. Regardless ... I recommend everyone consider this service if your having trouble handling outsourcing.

I hope this is helpful

yeah 200 bucks is cheap. Did you just pick and hire, or you choose a few candidates and interviewed them?

I watched John Jonas' video replay today and wanted to address some questions/concerns posted on this thread.

I was very impressed with a lot of the free info he gave but seldom buy anything any longer w/out checking here first.

There was some great info on his free video. I've wanted to outsource for awhile but didn't know how to start. John gave some good guidelines about how to interview people and how to keep them accountable. He also points out that the workers are not entrepreneurial so they aren't likely to take your info and use it for themselves. They just want a job--that's the opposite motivation of IMer's.

One of the main reasons that I'm considering his program (or similar program) is because I'm not a techie so can't teach people on that and don't know how long something should take. At first, I will be looking for people to do what I don't know how to do and then I will outsource some things I do know how to do so I can do what I do best, be creative. John's training will really help me train people on what I don't know how to do.

John also mentioned that bestjobs.ph is open for registrations again but they are fickle w/closing down and kicking people off.

One last comment. The program he offers seems to be so much better than what I've seen on this thread for $97/mo. I didn't see a 1 time pay option. Here's what his program contains (from his order page):

• Instant access to both BestJobs.ph and OnlineJobs.ph resumes for FREE! ($600 value)
• Access to our Pre-Screened Employee list, which will save you time and money because we’ve already done the hunting for qualified workers. (* finders fee required)
• Detailed instructions of the process I use to hire people ($97 value)
• Instructions for how to pay your people the easy way
• Employment contracts ($47 value) and how to deal with taxes

Tools To Propel Your Business To The Next Level

• Introduction Audio
• Videos explaining what tools will save you hours of time ($47 value)
• Tips, Tricks, and Pitfalls Audio to help you succeed faster ($80 value)
• Q&A and FAQ with people who have done this before (avoid their mistakes) ($197 value)
• Business-in-a-Box - give it to your Filipino and have them start making you money ($600 value)
• 'Business Plans that Work with Outsourcing' strategy page ($40 value)
• My initial keyword research training to give to the first Filipino you hire. Start them off correctly. ($50 value)
• Two full 2-day internet marketing seminars to bring your Filipino up to speed with your business ($4000 value)
• Learn from me, exactly how to communicate with your employees.

Exclusive New Training Modules Every Single Month

Every month you’ll receive at least one new training to make your Filipino worker more productive.
Topics include …

• Article marketing
• AdWords
• Video Marketing
• Social networking & Bookmarking
• SEO
• Keyword research & application
• Affiliate marketing
• Web 2.0 marketing
• Sales Copywriting
• And many more!

MyProjectPlans.com

• Access and training for MyProjectPlans.com, a full-blown project management system ($400 value).
• MyProjectPlans.com will allow you to manage multiple projects and employees from one easy location.
• Deadlines, milestones, and project completion will never be overlooked again. That means organized progress! And let’s be honest, time is money in this business.
• Discussions let you create a number of topics and discuss them with your team and clients. It works just like other online forums.
• This site is streamlined and easy to implement. You can even use the quick add function to easily add discussion topics, files, milestones, and checklist items.

Bonuses

You will also find exclusive bonuses that give you tools you could not get anywhere else. There are located under the Welcome section in module 1. They are so loaded with nuggets of powerful tips, tricks, and techniques that you will want to review them time and time again to absorb it all. These are a free gift and absolutely priceless for the profit they will help you generate!

• Discover The Top 15 Most Common Mistake To Avoid When Outsourcing!
• The Twixplode Super Package will get you up to date on popular new tools like Linkedin and Twitter.
• Videos of the powerful Mastermind Seminar held in Dallas. Get all the information, motivation, and shared secrets that you missed on video.
• Over 10 hours of video from the powerful UCP/Clickflipping Seminar held in Dallas. This conference exceeded the expectations of even the organizers and it will blow you away.
• Learn The “Top 7 ROI Activities for your Filipino VA” so you’re more profitable in less time.

Hope this info helps.

Hi Candy - Yes - that's looks about right. I signed up back in May of this year and was pretty sure that I wanted "lifetime access" because of the continuing access to the 2 job boards to find workers and the project management system.

When you join, you will be given that OTO on the next page. I think it's worth it. You then also get full access to all of the training videos immediately instead of having to wait for them to be drip-fed monthly as if you were a monthly member.

It's a fantastic program and the best of it's kind. I highly recommend it.

Hi Ryce,
The OTO comes put to just under $800 ($97 + $697). If you intended to really put this to work and use it over the course of the drip-feed (only counting the current modules) it's a huge savings.

I love the project manager. Sure I had to tweak it a little to match my specific business and processes but your foundation is there and easy to build on.

If you figure you're worth $50 an hour (I would hope it's more than that but let's be conservative) the $800 comes out to 16 hours. I'm a techie and could have done it myself but not in 16 hours.

I hope this helps!

My two cents worth about Outsourcing: If you don't want to get ripped off use Odesk.

Forget all the hype about the Phillipines--people are people wherever you go.

You may get started cheap but end up paying a lot more especially for long term projects once you become dependent on a particular outsource worker...watch out.

John knows his stuff. He has been doing this for years, and he is the owner of onlinejobs.ph. Whether, you by his course or not, visit his website and scroll around. I think the light bulb will turn on from there.

He has pushed this many times before, JJ has a track record of producing absolute crap products, for everyone that has been around the IMKT block do you remember "Keywordtopia", Nuff Said.

Bottom line the membership program and monthly training is weak to say the least, he used to use BestJobs.ph as his secret place to find workers and than he created onlinejobs.ph

do not trust any of the pre qualified workers they are anything but, you can find staff but this is nothing new to 99% of the people on this forum, John Reese even used onlinejobs.ph as his source for finding staff in outsource force.

Anyways if anyone wants a deal on all 12 months of training, just PM me, but a warning its weak at best.

One last thing, there basecamp copy for working with staff is a joke, many PH workers are transient, and if they have ever worked for anyone using the system before you will not be able to add their email address into the system, thats a glaring programming error...

(Yes I understand you can and should create a new one for them, but that's beside the point, typical hack, slash and cut every corner then vomit it to the masses, ya I have a bit of an opinion... LOL.....)

regardless stick with BaseCamp, I personally will trust the developers of ROR far above what JJ and Dan G have hacked together....

I use odesk for my outsourcing. Its not that hard to find people on their at very low rates per hour. You can narrow down your search and get people who have certain ratings and rates and much more. They have a panel they log into and it takes screenshots of their progress like every 5 minutes or something like that so you know what they are doing at all times while they are clocked in. Plus just read thier reviews and it helps you make a decision if they are trustworthy and know what they are doing. I love it

I liked his training program and he offers a wealth of resources for communicating with your VA's. I hired a couple of Filipinos I already new on Facebook at $250 a month and they were college educated and already trained in SEO. Unfortunately, I found the project management software to be way too dated and not very intuitive. I ended up cancelling my membership and getting BaseCamp instead. Creating my own training modules is not a big deal because my business models and methodologies are different than John's so I couldn't justify paying $99 a month for training that really doesn't suit my business.

I am a fully paid up member of John Jonas and yes you can really find cheap employees...
However I have gone through many to find the right people. I now have 6 working for me full time.

Best to pay a little more and get some one real good, it will save you a lot of time.

Just want to tag in here- I have done Johns training and applied if for myselp an as a systems for a marketing company I used the process and taught them how to manage/training and what to expect. The number John talks about (especially in reagard to finding) really work - I am a tester of everything....

Hey guys, I just wanted to revive this old thread as it has a #2 first page "G" when I Googled his name. I have a friend that has been very successful with IM and has recently moved to Panama. We stay in touch and she recently asked me to look at John Jonas as she is using his course and having very good luck hiring Filipinos.

I had found him about three years ago but kinda pushed it aside and didnt think much about it. But now 3 years later and my friend bringing him back to my attention has me looking back and i dont see myself as far as I wanted to be. I see that a lot of it is procrastinating and also having a contracting biz that takes a lot of my time.

I have watched a couple of vids with John talking about what his system can do for you hiring Filipinos and it looks like something that would very much help me freeing some time while I am still moving forward.

You can hire a Filipino that is a college grad and has a lot of experience implementing what we are all trying to do and at a price that is unbelievable. This will give you no reason not to succeed while freeing your time to be (as John says) the CEO of you company.

I have found a book by John on Amazon that explains this very well and its only $2.99 I down loaded it to my Kindle and it was a very easy and enlightening read that i really believe is going to help me get to where I want to be.

I am not an affiliate and am not compensated for this but just wanted to share with anyone that cares to check in to it. I think this is a viable solution to a lot of problems with anyone that is just finding that this IM stuff takes a lot of time not just to learn but to also find the time to put in to action what you have learned.

It can be found here Amazon.com: John Jonas: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

Go check it out and come back here and let me know your thoughts. I think that you will be pleasantly surprised.

This really good info. I've been reading all the replies to your post. another good site would be freelancer dot com.

Do we need to be member eventhough we know we only have to find good candidates in onlinejobs.ph. his free materials and case study are worth as guide already. Is it necessary to be member?