Top Outsourcing Tips On Getting The 4 Hour Work Week Lifestyle

Written by Tyrone Shum Monday, 30 May 2011 07:10

First tip is that I would like to reveal to you is just ensure that you identified what precisely you should do and what you wish your outsourced person to try and do for yourself. That's what you ought to really take a seat and take into consideration. Often, when I speak to people they go I want to search out someone full-time to get results for me. And I go oh, what do you have to be done? Then they go oh, I need to do WordPress installations, I need them to check my emails, I need to try and do all that style of stuff. But that's probably not classified, that's actually just generally everything that you have to be done. What I would recommend you do is to breakdown each one process and have a look at it. If you would like someone to try and do programming for you personally, find a programmer. If you need to do just administration, find someone who's a virtual assistant. So just really determine 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.

First tip is that I would like to reveal to you is just ensure that you identified what precisely you should do and what you wish your outsourced person to try and do for yourself. That's what you ought to really take a seat and take into consideration. Often, when I speak to people they go I want to search out someone full-time to get results for me. And I go oh, what do you have to be done? Then they go oh, I need to do WordPress installations, I need them to check my emails, I need to try and do all that style of stuff. But that's probably not classified, that's actually just generally everything that you have to be done. What I would recommend you do is to breakdown each one process and have a look at it. If you would like someone to try and do programming for you personally, find a programmer. If you need to do just administration, find someone who's a virtual assistant. So just really determine 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 undoubtedly as soon as you defined what you should do, go out 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. No problem with that if you're searching for contractors just to try to to one-off jobs. But in my opinion, I highly, highly recommend to look for people who work full-time or part-time for your business. The key reason why I would recommend that is because 1, after you teach them and train them with the right skills, they're going to be there for some time and they're not going to run away or do something else, you know work for someone else's business. I suggest 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 may have someone full-time, they'll just complete the work and still 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 want to reveal to you is to ensure that once you've got these people in your business, be sure you have many good training and spend at the least, at the least a good fair amount of time. Usually, for people who are starting out I suggest spending at the 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, recommend you train them and spend good fair amount of time. A lot of 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 be sure you have a good system in place. What I mean 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 certain you might have everything centralized and put into one system. The key reason why I suggest that is really because once you 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 discover things, not going to seek out documentation, all that particular thing. If you could have one project management system setup, you might have all your usernames and details logged in there. You've got all your video lessons put inside, you keep all your projects managed there.

Last but not least, my fifth point is just to ensure that you pay them back. Pay them back punctually. 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 a couple of weeks to pay the invoice, I wouldn't work with them. When you can and make certain you need to, just pay them by the due date. So if they sent an invoice, just pay them back straightaway. Don't delay, don't put it off, just pay them back by the due date and ensure things go smoothly. And that way they know that they're secure in the job that they're working to suit your needs 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 need to get paid. So that's something I strongly suggest. That's the fifth point, the most important point I think out of all these you can take away. All right, I am hoping that these outsourcing little tips that you've taken, the 5 tips that I recommend today are going to be useful and practical and if you can, just take away and start utilizing them if you're searching for that position to outsource right now.