Outsourcing Research And How It Helps With Cost Saving And Automation

Written by Tyrone Shum Friday, 20 May 2011 05:05

Generally lots of people have been coming back to me then saying, "Tyrone, I'm working to setup a method where I can get my virtual assistant or my virtual staff so as to research on specific topics then so on" then it's actually quite simple to carry out. The only thing you actually need is to ensure that you have the right system. What exactly I would like to give you today is how to perform that and so how I begin setting all this up. Lately, I had lots of people who had been doing a lot of work for me then getting a lot of research done for my niche selection topics. Now, what I'm talking about that's the niche duel challenge that I'm running currently with Pat Flynn. Then, it does take an amount of time for you to search through then find the best niche markets then to find the correct products that will suit what we're currently doing for our projects. Now I outsource all that research tasks and all that type of niche market selection and so on. Then to try to to that properly and to accomplish that correctly is firstly I have to make them understand what precisely I want.

Generally lots of people have been coming back to me then saying, "Tyrone, I'm working to setup a method where I can get my virtual assistant or my virtual staff so as to research on specific topics then so on" then it's actually quite simple to carry out. The only thing you actually need is to ensure that you have the right system. What exactly I would like to give you today is how to perform that and so how I begin setting all this up. Lately, I had lots of people who had been doing a lot of work for me then getting a lot of research done for my niche selection topics. Now, what I'm talking about that's the niche duel challenge that I'm running currently with Pat Flynn. Then, it does take an amount of time for you to search through then find the best niche markets then to find the correct products that will suit what we're currently doing for our projects. Now I outsource all that research tasks and all that type of niche market selection and so on. Then to try to to that properly and to accomplish that correctly is firstly I have to make them understand what precisely I want.

I strive to have the information that I have in my head and after that indicate it into a video recording or into a file in order to understand specifically step-by-step what to try to to. And so the initial thing I recommend you do is to create a simple video tutorial. Probably no more than 5 minutes and so you can use a really good software called Jing. Or if you don't have Jing then you don't want to download it, it's free, you can use Screenr.com which is also free online screen capturing software then screen capture everything that you want her to perform. Thus let's just take as an example, I wanted my virtual assistant to carry out a research task on Clickbank to find out which markets would be viable to market and so promote products in a specialized niche which is untapped. And, it wasn't that hard. All I had to is just get my Screenflow software on then I said look, please go here, click there, go here and simply step by step process of what she needs to do. And so she needs to do 20, 30 of these kind of researched topics then obviously she knows the procedure that's going all in there. Then that's how I go about recommending her to accomplish research topics.

Or, if she needs to try to to something that I think that she's quite intuitive then if you provide them the responsibility too, I'd just say look to accomplish research topic on say this specialized niche, please go out and so find top 10 topics that you would want to consider and so also potentially writing content. This is a two-hour time frame that you have to acquire this completed then go ahead then do it. Now, notice how I said two hours or time frame limit. If you don't specify that, you primarily are providing them with a legal limit so as to say look, I'm going to go out there and just spend as many hours as I'd prefer. Hopefully they don't do that but if you don't restrict the time, it really doesn't know how long they should be spending on a task. By forcing a time say 2 hours, 1 hour for research topic then it permits them to think okay, I've got to specify within say 2 hours, I have to spend 20 minutes or say 12 minutes on each topic researched then that's it.

Now that's how I start researching topics or researching tasks. The other thing I just want to note as well, too is I don't recommend sending these things via email to them because it's tough to observe what's happening. As I've recommended numerous times to a lot of my students and to a lot of my members is to use a project management system. A project management system allows you to check all the things that are happening inside your project. And so project management system I suggest is using ActiveCollab. And so inside ActiveCollab, you can do, you can set it all up as a way to setup your projects, setup your milestones and the tickets which is primarily to-do tasks. If you don't have ActiveCollab, try BasecampHQ as well. That's an excellent piece of project management software.

And so that's fundamentally how you begin setting up your research tasks to your virtual assistant then just make sure that they understand what you want to complete since the more that you specify and so the more you're clear about the description then the tasks that you've got in hand, the quicker you get it done.