shorwood

I have received multiple emails over the last few days about John Jonas and ReplaceMyself.com

You sign up for a free audio about outsourcing, which I have not yet had the time to listen to, and then he sends out an email about a second audio, which he charges $97 for and claims he will teach you how to find full-time assistants for less than $250/month. He even claims that he has gotten 2 for $100/month.

Does anyone know how good this is and if it will really teach you how to get assistants that cheap?

Shawn

honestbizpro

So far I really like what and how he teaches. He exposes the real world realities of doing business over seas , the strength of the dollar in the Phils, and taking things into account like frequent power failures and stuff.

shorwood

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

rhab

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?

cscarpero

I didn't get his full membership, but the free thing is outstanding. Actually on the free call he lays out exactly where he finds the people for that cheap. The catch is if you pay that little you will need to train them which is where his site comes in.

After listening to his call, I got the confidence to start using Odesk and I find talented people abroad at $4/hr and under all the time. It's really not that hard.

DanHellman

I watched John give a presentation at a Jeff Mills event in February. It radically changed how I am setting up my online business. The problem with internet marketing is finding the time to implement all the marketing techniques - especially if you have a full time job. I just think that spending $150 to $450 per month to have a college grad do all this for you is well worth it.

To see what kind of talent is out there, just go to bestjobs.ph and do a resume search of those who have posted their resume in the last 30 days. Put in keywords such as "seo" and see what you will find. John gave a lot of great tips for what to do and what not to do when hiring overseas. From what I've seen he knows his stuff.

Good luck

Dan Hellman

David Richardson

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.

Robert_Rand

John Jonas is the real deal.

In fact, the free content is really so good that you really don't even need to buy the main product. (Although I have and would recommend it)

Personally, I think his best free content is an interview he did with Adam Short. You can find it be going to google and searching:

""john jonas automated online business model" (I can't post links)

(when you watch it... don't discount applying it to affiliate sites)

And if you simply want to hire good people cheap... I'll tell you how to do that right now. Odesk.com - IMO that's the new generation of elance and hands down the best place to find people. And make sure you only hire people from the Phillipines. I just hired a guy for $1.67/hr and he's college educated and razor sharp. I think I'm gonna give him a raise

wilmontsam

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

wallush

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.

sarahstaar

I have just joined and I must say the information provided is excellent. I am now thinking about employing two full-time people to do all my work for me.

The website is very good and gives an excellent tutorials on how to hire people. However I don't think you need the $97 per month membership fee as you can get all the information you need in the first month.

The one thing he does provide with the membership is free access to his myprojectplans system which is basically a project management system. This makes it very easy to train your employees and keep track of what they are doing.

If anybody knows of a free online system or a very cheap alternative to my project plans could you please let me know.

Once I have employed somebody I don't think I need to continue with the $97 per month membership fee to replacemyself.com however I would like some sort of project management software if you guys know anything that I could use as an alternative it would be much appreciated.

Amanda_Davis

I have a ReplaceMyself.com subscription too.

The ongoing membership provides training for your assistants - 1 topic per month. You could do this yourself if you prefer.

magill

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

mustard76

Nancy,

I'm curious about your experience outsourcing to the ph. I'm in the process of hiring someone on bestjobs.ph. How much did you want to pay? Why did it take you so long to find someone?

On a side note, I've got a a subscription to replacemyself.com and I'm happy with it. PM if you are thinking of buying a subscription and have questions (I promise I won't send you an affiliate link).

Adbeat

I've hired 7 people total from the Philippines. If you find good people it can work really well. I ended up letting 4 of those people go within 1 month of hiring them because they were not performing. I spent MANY hours reading resumes and interviewing on skype to find the 7 that I did hire... and then many more hours as I uncovered the ones that were not going to work out.

Wonderbaum

Did you give them a questionnaire to fill out or did you ask a series of specific questions? I'm planning on hiring people from bestjobs.ph as well and would like to hear any suggestions that you might have.

Thanks.
Mikael

Adbeat

I did not give them a prepared list of questions or any kind of test - my guess is that would help. I interviewed by skype chat only usually for 45min to 1 hour. Just asked questions about all sorts of things related to each job. I've hired developers, writers, and site admins. The interview goes very differently for each.

I've had the most difficulty with writers, actually the 7 that I mentioned hiring does not include 3 others that didn't make it past the 2nd day. Those were simply because they just didn't show up to work and do what was agreed upon.

What sort of position are you trying to hire for?

DonDavis

LMAO ! Thanks Robert, I got quite a chuckle out of that one.

mobilebusinessowner

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

Adbeat

I have 3 people working for me now from the Philippines and they all accept Paypal. Your other options are xoom.com or emoneygram.com

mobilebusinessowner

Thanks ppclabs! Very helpful response and just what I needed to get started right away.

TelegramSam

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

Thanks for the data.

mustard76

I send a payment to my VA in the ph twice a month using xoom.com

Michael Francis

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....

Emmanuel Betinis

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?!

mustard76

John Jonas sent a couple of lengthy emails to replacemyself.com members about the bestjobs.ph situation.

Summary: BestJobs.ph was flooded with job postings from overseas. They no longer allow sign-ups from outside the Philippines. They are blocking sign-ups by IP. ReplaceMyself.com members still have access though though the membership site. John Jonas is working on building a site to compete with BestJobs.ph.

PM me your email address for more info.

Amanda_Davis

Yes, you need a Philippine IP address to register an account - or to speak nicely to the owners

mustard76

One word: proxy

Amanda_Davis

Do you have a Philippine proxy you use?

mustard76

I'll be using my VA in the ph as my proxy

If you do open an account using a proxy I would only use the resume search feature and NOT create job postings. Apparently, they weren't happy with the recent flood work-from-home job listings.

cscarpero

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.

DonDavis

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.

mustard76

I'm encouraged by my recent experiment with outsourcing to the ph. I've been doing it for 4 weeks now. All of the tasks I gave my VA are trackable so I don't have any problem verifying that she is working. For example, she BCCs me on every email she sends for me so I get a copy. Also, she builds spreadsheets for me using Google Docs. I get an email notification every time she makes a change.

I have a VA in the U.S. who costs me $15/hr and a VA in the ph who costs me $2/hr. I expected the U.S. VA to be more productive, but they actually complete the tasks in the same amount of time. The U.S. VA produces a slightly higher quality result though because her English is a little better.

The real difference is the amount of time I have to spend communicating with each VA. I spend about 4 hours a month communicating with my VA in the U.S. I spend about 12 hours per month communicating with my VA in the ph. Also, there are certain tasks I have to give to my U.S. VA because they require cultural familiarity.

The Bottom Line: I plan to hire more people in the ph because this cost savings vastly outweighs the communication penalty for my business. And expect the communication penalty to decrease as she learns my system and I develop training materials for the new VAs.

If you hire someone full-time overseas, remember that you are making a long-term commitment to figuring out how to make that person productive and it will be a learning process for you too.

PM me if you want specifics.

Joe2

On the first contact with VAs do you send them a questionnaire re their experience and qualifications?

Joe

mustard76

PM me with your email address for specifics

mustard76

you should be able to edit it.

Amanda_Davis

I've also had a lot of success with people from the Philippines

Joe2

Thanks a lot. You solved my problem.

Joe

Leads4Builders

What is considered full-time in the ph? Do they work a 40 hour week like we do? Just trying to figure out how much work we would have to give a VA in ph

Amanda_Davis

Yes, they expect to work 40hrs per week.

Leads4Builders

How much training do they need to do good SEO? I've noticed on ODesk there seem to be a lot of good people with what seems to be a lot of good experience. Are they knowledgeable on their own, or will they need to be taught SEO?

cscarpero

Its no different than hiring an American. Some know it and some don't. Obviously, if they don't know as much then you pay less. You should ask those questions in the interviewing process to see what they do know. That's the reason for John's system. It's a way to train people.

AlexCurtis

I have been looking at John's replacemyself system for some time. Anyone have a good review of this system?

Thanks.

Amanda_Davis

It's not a system - it's just advice about where to find people to hire.

Darrel Hawes

Not exactly.

This is what you'll find once you opt in:

(pay attention to the third bullet... I believe this is the core of what John is offering)

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With your ReplaceMyself.com Membership, you get 3 things:

• The second half of the audio, PLUS numerous other audio/video trainings to help you get started hiring someone as fast as possible.
• Access to our "Pre-Screened" employees, so you don't have to spend time looking for someone to hire. I've done the leg-work for you.
• My training for your VA's. You will send the employees you hire to my site and I have all the education to train them to be your replacement. My training will turn your $300/month employee into a $5,000/month value for you. MOST OF THE CONTENT INSIDE IS NOT FOR YOU! Most of it is to train the employees you hire on how to do your work for you!

The goal with your ReplaceMyself membership is to Replace Yourself!!! I will show you how to hire and train competent, self directed VA's and employees that will literally replace you in your business.

==============

Amanda_Davis

yes, sorry, that is the core of what he's offering.

the training is poor, though. The info you get when you join is great... not worth sticking around though.

and it's definitely not a system.

mustard76

I agree. I joined for one month and I'm very happy I did. I learned a lot but it wasn't worth sticking around longer. My VAs don't need the monthly training they offer.

My advice: join replacemyself for one month, develop your own system and create your own training materials.

johnjonas

A few things:

1. thanks for the kind words

2. Yes, I will really teach you how to find people for $250/month (maybe even less)

3. About the trainings being "poor". The trainings aren't intended to teach YOU how to be an expert at that topic. They're intended to get your Filipino implementing the technique. They're the trainings I've given to my guys. They work. They get things done. They make money.

I know my trainings aren't for everyone, that's fine. But, if you're going to be creating your own trainings instead of paying for mine, just be sure you do a time spent/actual cost/headache factor analysis of creating your own trainings.
If you can create your own trainings cost effectively, great. If not, you have another option at ReplaceMyself.com

4. Just go out and hire someone. It will change your life.

John
Creator of ReplaceMyself.com

Raygun

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

Anewbist

you can use joomla and projectfolks at joomla praise for the project management