Help with Hiring from Philippines...

you should go through elance.com, set up an account, then create your job "seo specialist needed" post it up, then start inviting vendors, they will give you quotes. you can put your money in escrow with elance, then when milestones, deadlines, etc are reached you release the funds. its a wonderful thing. ive had great success with elance for many things. haven't needed seo yet, but i will soon.

Of course you've got to have a hiring agreement or else you might risk complications along the way. In the hiring agreement, you need to set up some limits and boundaries and to highlight all the "must-haves" related to the work of your future employee. Things like the amount of work, deadlines, certain rules and guidelines, all these can be a part of the agreement. If you lack such a thing, your employee might eventually say things like: oh you didn't tell me to...or, oh I forgot to...that sort of thing. So, make sure you write all the details in there.

I hire my outsourcers via odesk......they deal with all the agreements.....

Less hassle for me!

It's best if you hire someone through oDesk. That way you don't have to worry about such things as a hiring agreement.

You can simply pay them according to the work hours, which they log themselves in this work diary system that oDesk provides.

i suggest you open up an account with odesk or elance. there are lists of contractors, or if you post job many will apply. Agreements with offshore employee is useless, just be wise in hiring the right candidate for your SEO job

I've never used contracts with any of my international outsourcers. I do let them know they are on probationary status for the first 2 months though so if they don't work out I let them go and try again.

Try these people out:

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This is being run by a fellow warrior: Ed Pudol.

I haven't hired them but am gonna hire them for sure.

It gives me great flexibility as I can get them to do many things at once.

Go throught any freelance website like elance, guru, odesk, scriptlance etc. they all have agreement anyway.. so you do not need any agreement on ur behalf i guess..

I approach this in a completely different way. When I hire in the Philippines, I hire people on full-time and I do give them a written agreement with my "guidelines" and expectations. The people that work for me are full-time and they consider themselves trusted members of my team and I treat them as such.

They do know that if they break that trust, they'll be let go - I fired someone yesterday. The reason I don't use odesk or any of the other services is because you are essentially getting workers that will do piecemeal work for you and then move on - for the most part. There are exceptions.

If I invest time (which is $) to train someone to do something and they do it well, I'd like to keep 'em and not have them constantly exposed to a barrage of other work offers. So far this works for me. The more trust and respect I give to my team, the more I get back and the harder they seem to work for me.

I dont think you need to make an additional agreement if you hire in Odesk. But you can always give a note that you have to keep everything he/she does for you private. If you hire through Odesk the job will be under Odesk terms and policies will be equal to the hiring agreement you want.


Andrea