Outsourcing - making moolah while you bum on the beach!

Outsourcing (Where/How to Hire a Virtual Assistant)

1. All-In-One: Outsourcing Secrets
2. VA's & Outsourcing...
3. What is the best site for outsourcing
4. how much do I pay a virtual assistant?
5. Your VA's Daily Activity?
6. Where do you Outsource To?
7. Internet Marketing Power Lies In The VA

All questions:
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My recommendation is to check out John Jonas website and read the 4 hour workweek.

Thank you Adie, from the City of Smiles!
A very comprehensive answer.

I outsource most of my graphic work like sales pages and eBook covers. I'm very frugal though and every cent I earn is hard earned so I'm usually very reluctant to outsource. But when I don't have the skill or my time would be better engaged doing something else, then I outsource the task. Thus far I've used the Warriors for Hire section of this forum and I haven't been disappointed. Hope this helps.

Some very good VA companies are champs at generating the MOTHER'S MILK of online marketing-traffic! Sweet, relevant, targeted traffic. Gotta love it.

Thing is, I love doing the work. Why the hell would I want to outsource it all and sit around bored?!

You need to outsource the stuff that you may not enjoy doing. Whether it is content writing, banner creating, coding your site etc.

Keep on doing the stuff that you enjoy, but the mundane stuff, give it off to someone else to handle it.

It will help you save a lot more time, trust me... it's worth it.

-Omar

I outsource the things that I get no joy from doing. I still, personally, do the other things I love about this business, hands-on, every day.

I think there's a wide range on this board, from people who outsource 99% of the work and are just the rainmakers, to people who are jack of all trades and do 99% of the work themselves. That just goes to show that it can be done - outsourcing everything, but the question is a highly subjective one and comes down to - what do you want to do with your business?

I would love to outsource everything, but after trying to outsource writing tasks, which I personally hate, I understood that it is not easy to find quality writers. Even if you pay high price, they often use spining software and I endedd up spending more time checking them. But I still want to outsource as much as possible.

Probably 90% of my business could be outsourced, but the problem lies in the fact that I would have to pay 10 outsourced employees to do the task of 1 in-house paid employee.

Outsourcing lingo is getting distorted here (see Silas above). Think of outsourcing as anything that YOU do not do yourself. Hiring a full time employee in house, or hiring a virtual assistant and paying them to work for you overseas are the same thing in my book. They both involve someone ELSE doing tasks.

I outsource my graphics. I use Gimp regularly, but it's not as robust as Photoshop... which i barely know how to use. So i let a pro handle this for me.

i outsource almost everything now.....

makes me way more productive and a lot more profitable....

In an ideal world you would already be able to walk the walk....


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Outsourcing is the way to go, I believe in doing things in the most productive way. Finding pros to do specific jobs are in many ways benefiting every party involved.

When it comes to a business, I always think of Robert Kiyosaki's Quadrant Cashflow. For it to be a real business you need to be able to leverage other people (Outsourcing) and have the business not depend on your to grow or continue to enjoy success.

I wouldn't suggest to bum out on the beach instead build another business, have some fun days but never stop! Remember your competitors won't stop and their will always be a hungry new dreamer aiming for more! Never lose the hunger while still enjoying every second of the journey!

- Will

Outsourcing is indeed a good start for your David. There's a lot more work done when you outsource, giving you more time to work on bigger and more important projects. Most importantly, you pay other people to work on the repetitive, low-skill tasks, and boring tasks of your online business.

Insourcing has proven more valuable to my business. It also helps my local community.

Yes outsourcing is great when you have the scope to do that. Also findings quality and reliable workers is also becoming very difficult these days.

And this forum can be a great place for finding quality workers who can work for you. Make sure you have enough conversation with him/her before hiring.

This is probably one of the most misunderstood areas of marketing online (or offline).

You will see a lot of marketers outsource BUT you need to know you are going to make a return. So therefore you need to make sure that the actual system, site, articles etc... has ALREADY proven to make you money and how much before you outsource.

You can end up spending a lot of money with no return if you are not sure what you are doing with outsourcing and you will need to manage the people you pick to do the job wisely.

Once you HAVE found your "golden nuggets" i.e people that work well and do a decent job hold on to them like gold dust!

absolutely, I hire folks off of odesk.com and fiverr.com

Can take some searching, and trial and error, but there are some GEMS out there that will produce quality work for cheap. Freeing you up to do other tasks and reach that "autopilot" stage

My take on outsourcing is that you shouldn't do something because you can.

You shouldn't do everything like:

- Writing articles
- Syndicating articles
- SEO
- Making videos
- Uploading and managing them
- Traffic
- Copywriting
- Managing social media
- and on and on and on...

You don't have to personally do all these things to be successful though a lot of people think just that. In a traditional offline business you would not do every single thing yourself would you? Maybe you're going to restore the interior, or get leaflets done, or you need to keep your accounts in check but you're not an accountant or some other task, would you learn how to do all those and do it yourself? I highly doubt it.

There's loads of little tasks that need to be done for a successful online business, but it doesn't mean you should do them even if you can.

Concentrate and put all your efforts on what matters, which is growing your online business, and that usually means: Sales. Which entails marketing.

So those two aspects is what one should concentrate on.

Always try and get maximum leverage out of what you do. Wrote an article? Get that turned into a video, a podcast, an email etc by someone else and continue doing what generates the most growth.

Almost everything. Possibly even too much at times.

It really will vary depending on what you need.

For all of the really common things like content/SEO/design simply using sites like oDesk or the "hire a member" type sections on forums, including this one, are a great place to start.

The answer to outsourcing is never going to be the same for any two people. You need to ask yourself these questions:

What am I very good at? If you are a very good writer and have the time, do your own writing and outsource things like graphics, SEO and coding your website. If you are a great programmer but a so-so writer, outsource the writing.

What is the value of your time? If you can outsource something for less than your "cost" of your own time, outsource it and spend your time on your most valuable activities. Even your free time has value. If you wouldn't work for $10 an hour, then why would you spend all day doing something yourself that you could have paid someone $70 to do for you? Take the day off and live your life.

I have outsourced some article writing. It has been hit and miss as far as quality goes.

If you already know what your doing, outsourcing helps you leverage an already working method or will help you test things out. Personally, I like to set things up manually and then outsource the automation of it when I know exactly what I need...

If you have something that needs to be done and it's taking you forever to get it done knowing it's important, then that is something you should outsource. Clearly you're putting it off for a reason right? It could be lack of knowing how to or just don't want to. We've all been there at some point, but don't that stop your progress. Outsourcing is pretty addictive once you got the capitol to hire others you'll smack yourself for not doing it sooner.

Hi David,
I did a lot of outsourcing back in the day, although these days I do zero. Back in the day, I liked the cost, but depending on what I was paying for, I didn't usually like the service or product.

This being said, my best quality for price outsourcing came from article writers, ($3 an article and they were good,) and some SEO providers, (provided me a report every week and did a good job for like $20 a week.)

Such things as software was a HUGE flop. Relatively cheap for what you get, but often the software would break down after a month or they would have back doors in their to their own sites. Some projects like my recent one, most outsources would not even touch, (and those that would wanted over $100000 for the project.)

I do all my own software development now and have a team under me that builds controlled modules that I personally review and triple review.

So like I said, it depends what you want to outsource, but yes some things are worth it.

Andrew