Top Five Outsourcing Tips To Achieve 4 Hour Work Week

Written by Tyrone Shum Sunday, 29 May 2011 07:04

The number one tip is that I want to share with you is just ensure that you characterized what precisely you must do and what you wish your outsourced person to do for you personally. That's what you should really sit back and think of. Usually, when I consult with people they go I want to search out someone full-time to work for me. And I go oh, what do you ought to be done? Then they go oh, I would like to try and do WordPress installations, I would like them to check my emails, I want to do all that style of stuff. But that's not really classified, that's actually just generally exactly what you need to be done. What I would recommend you do is to breakdown each individual process and have a look at it. If you would like someone to do programming for you personally, find a programmer. If you need to try and do just administration, find someone who's a virtual assistant. So just really outline specifically what tasks that you have to be done. Then that way from there onwards, you need to just figure out whether or not it needs to be outsourced or can it be automated with a system or something that's in place that doesn't require any additional payments or income out of your business. All right, so that's the first point.

The number one tip is that I want to share with you is just ensure that you characterized what precisely you must do and what you wish your outsourced person to do for you personally. That's what you should really sit back and think of. Usually, when I consult with people they go I want to search out someone full-time to work for me. And I go oh, what do you ought to be done? Then they go oh, I would like to try and do WordPress installations, I would like them to check my emails, I want to do all that style of stuff. But that's not really classified, that's actually just generally exactly what you need to be done. What I would recommend you do is to breakdown each individual process and have a look at it. If you would like someone to do programming for you personally, find a programmer. If you need to try and do just administration, find someone who's a virtual assistant. So just really outline specifically what tasks that you have to be done. Then that way from there onwards, you need to just figure out whether or not it needs to be outsourced or can it be automated with a system or something that's in place that doesn't require any additional payments or income out of your business. All right, so that's the first point.

Second point I highly recommend is actually when you finally determined what you must do, just go and choose the best people to be able to outsource to. And, most of the time I see many people who jump over to eLance, oDesk, Rentacoder and all those large websites. Nothing wrong with that if you are searching for contractors just to try and do one-off jobs. But in my opinion, I highly, recommend give consideration to people who work full-time or part-time for your business. The key reason why I would recommend that is simply because 1, once you teach them and train them with the right skills, they're going to be there for a while and they're not going to try to escape or do something else, you know work for someone else's business. I recommend doing that because you basically retain their skills because you don't want to spend all the time training them, giving them all the systems, giving them all the tools that they need to be able to setup whatever you need them to try to to and then suddenly the job's finished, they runoff or they take off or finish that. And that's what goes on with most contractors whereas when you've someone full-time, they'll just complete the work and will continue to work with you, and get to know your systems and really commit to your business and even back you up whenever there's downtime from you.

The third point I would like to share with you is to be certain that once you've got these people in your business, ensure that you might have lots of good training and spend at least, no less than a good fair amount of time. Usually, for people who are starting out I suggest spending at least a good month to supply them with all the systems, the training, and making sure that they're feeling comfortable knowing your whole business because ultimately, you're investing the time you're putting into them for your business. They're an asset to your business so I highly, highly recommend you train them and spend good fair length of time. Many people I see unfortunately, they hire someone and expect them to just takeover and run the business straightaway. It doesn't happen like that, you need to invest your time to train them. So that's the third point I would recommend.

The fourth point is ensure you could have a good system in place. What I'm saying by that is to have a project management system that manages each and everyone of your employees even if you're starting with one of them or your virtual staff but be sure you might have everything centralized and put into one system. The key reason why I recommend that is really because when you finally have the people and all your resources all located in one system, everyone can access that at a convenient location without having to flick back through emails, looking through data trying to find things, not going to seek out documentation, all that form of thing. If you've one project management system setup, you might have all your usernames and details logged in there. You have all your video lessons put inside, you keep all your projects managed there.

As a final point, my fifth point is just to ensure that you pay them. Pay them back by the due date. I do know I'm emphasizing this quite heavily but if I were in this position of actually working for someone and I sent my invoice over them and it took them 30 days to pay the invoice, I wouldn't work with them. If you can and ensure you need to, just pay them back by the due date. So if they sent an invoice, just pay them straightaway. Don't delay, don't put it off, just pay them back on time and be certain things go smoothly. And that way they know that they're secure in the job that they're working for you but also too, they're going to be able to be rewarded as well for their work because once you've done all that work, you wish to get paid. So that's something I highly recommend. That's the fifth point, the most important point I think out of all these you can take away. All right, I really hope that these outsourcing little tips that you've taken, the 5 tips that I would recommend today are going to be useful and practical and if you can, just take away and begin applying them if you are looking for that position to outsource right now.