Should I Hire Webmaster Freelancers To Handle Technical stuff for me???

8 years ago

If it's causing you to delay taking action then hire someone RIGHT NOW!

Money loves speed, and more often than not the fastest way to do something is to hire someone else to do it.

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bleek7712

8 years ago

Just make sure the person you're hiring actually knows what's up. I spent $500 on a copywriter who wrote me TERRIBLE copy (which I didn't realize at the time because I was fairly new to IM). But, if it would be faster to have others do it, outsource the work.

Just make sure your careful. Don't just go handing your money to any and every freelancer.

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danieldesai

8 years ago

My advice is to hire someone to do the technical stuff for you if you hate it so much.

I always pay a freelancer to do the "busy work", even if it's something I can do myself by watching a few YouTube tutorials.

As a business owner, you ought to be putting most of your efforts on income producing activities, like driving targeted traffic to an opt-in page and following up with them to promote your offers.

Also, if you're anything like me you'll find that you'll feel quite drained after doing all that soul-sucking techie stuff.

Regards,
Daniel

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MikeVietri

8 years ago

As a business owner, you ought to be putting most of your efforts on income producing activities, like driving targeted traffic to an opt-in page and following up with them to promote your offers.

Also, if you're anything like me you'll find that you'll feel quite drained after doing all that soul-sucking techie stuff.

Very True,

I wasted 2 days trying to set up my tracking and I've crashed my site twice by now...

lucky for me, it not the first time I've hired someone.

I just needed someone to remind me that. LOL

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vedremo

Banned 8 years ago

In short; yes.

When I first started I thought I had to learn everything, that it was cheaper etc. But it wasn't really. It was a huge, frustrating hassle that produced a basic result from a novice that took exceptionally long to produce.

Using freelancers is easier, quicker and they'll probably do a much better job than you. For example, a good front end dev considers all browsers and devices, some that you may not have even heard of before.

If you genuinely don't know what they're doing though or what skills they need to have this could be a problem when you, the employer, tries to evaluate their competence in the interview process and give feedback on it after the project. It might be fine, but something to be mindful of.

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MikeVietri

8 years ago

Originally Posted by vedremo

If you genuinely don't know what they're doing though or what skills they need to have this could be a problem when you, the employer, tries to evaluate their competence in the interview process and give feedback on it after the project. It might be fine, but something to be mindful of.

Great point,

This has happened to me before,

but I guess the work around would be that as the employer it is our job to understand

what needs to get done,
how it needs to get done, and to have
a clear exception of what will get done.

Before we go off hiring people.

but as Daniel said, it is about getting rid of the busy work, that we should not be doing anyway.

If it was a bigger project like hiring a programmer or something then it would be necessary to scale the efforts somehow.

and make sure that there is a way to do some serious quality control in some way.

But for me, I just do not want to deal with the nitty-gritty technical stuff that needs to get done either way.

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MikeAmbrosio

8 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeVietri

I have a lot of experience with outsourcing

but I have never worked with a webmaster.

I hate doing, setting up, and managing anything technical.

So I was wondering if any of you have had any kind of experience hiring webmaster freelancers for particular small projects?

Things Like:

> Setting up my tracking system

> Backing up my word press site and maybe switching hosting provider

> Changing my theme.

and so on..

I know these are things that I could probably do my self..

but I just feel it is a waste of my time to deal with this technical stuff and I really have zero patients for it.

Although I do understand the importance of it at the same time.

Is This A Good Idea Or Should I Just Suck It Up And Do It Myself?

What do you think?

It's been said a number of times, but it bears repeating. Yes. If you have the means, it is a great money saver in the long run.

Originally Posted by bleek7712

I spent $500 on a copywriter who wrote me TERRIBLE copy

As an FYI, $500 copy is USUALLY not all that good. Trust me on that. Every now and then you get a diamond in the rough, but mostly, it's usually terrible. Good copy writers are expensive, but if they do a good job and you have a good product, you'll make that money back easily.

Originally Posted by vedremo

In short; yes.

If you genuinely don't know what they're doing though or what skills they need to have this could be a problem when you, the employer, tries to evaluate their competence in the interview process and give feedback on it after the project. It might be fine, but something to be mindful of.

This is a good point, so one way to avoid this - get recommendations from others. It'll save you a lot of time and money

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Verdatti

8 years ago

I say go for it. You can easily find for example an experienced VA that could take care of those tasks for you.

If you have other important tasks that you prefer to work on or that generate a better return, you might want to do those yourself.

Good luck.

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BeverlyTaylor

8 years ago

As others have said, go for it, but be careful when choosing a person. Give them one task (especially one that you know how to do) and see how they do it. Then do another test. I have a great guy I found on upwork.com, but it was after "kissing a few frogs". So restrict them at first to only 10 or 20 hours a week, and that they must use the tracker (not manual hours), if you use Upwork.

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LiveChatAdam

8 years ago

Hi,
If you already have anyone trustworthy then go for it, time is money. Moreover - technical problems love to occur at worst possible moment which could damage your business. I'm sure you can find someone for the job, perhaps ask around our forum?

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Adam

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HelenVendo

8 years ago

I think if you don't have enough time and patience hiring a webmaster is absolutely reasonable.
I have 4 years of experience and I've performed a lot of projects on WordPress, changing themes etc.
I can help you and deal with these tasks in the shortest terms and in the highest quality.
So just PM me if you're interested.

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