Outsourcing And Managing Staff In The Online Business

Written by Tyrone Shum Saturday, 11 June 2011 07:04

Let me share with you an issue that lots of people in particular my coaching students and subscribers have been asking me is how do I control all my virtual staff and all the team together, not having to spend so much time checking back and forth and managing the projects.

Let me share with you an issue that lots of people in particular my coaching students and subscribers have been asking me is how do I control all my virtual staff and all the team together, not having to spend so much time checking back and forth and managing the projects.

Actually, what I would recommend highly is to create or to purchase a system such as project management system to put into place. The one which I've used very successfully is named ActiveCollab. ActiveCollab is certainly not expensive to buy, you can easily buy it outright for about $400 US. When you set that system up, you may basically be capable to access and delegate every detail and take care of your day-to-day projects all in one place. Another system that you can use as actually is referred to as BasecampHQ and lots of marketers out there also recommend it too, it's very easy to use.

Thus, that's what I recommend doing - to play with a project management system. Inside the project management system, you may cope with everything from your projects, staff, communication, etc. It's simply having a backlog that's loaded up into there. The fantastic thing about running in a project management system is you may track what's going on. That's what I love - I'll just need to hop into the system and see how progress is working on this project, what's happening with this project, and therefore forth. That's an ideal way doing it.

One other thing I want to refer to as well is tracking all passwords and usernames can be a bother so what I also recommend doing is starting an account in this system called Lastpass.com. What you can do from there is arrange all your passwords inside this little system which is no cost, and have it associated out to your project management system so that if any of your virtual staff or team members needs to access your usernames or passwords for certain projects, they can easily use this system, log it in and once they've put it straight up, they'll have complete accessibility to anything that they need to do.

And so those are a couple of things that Let me clear up with people - like I said previously, these 2 pieces of software that I strongly suggest is ActiveCollab which you could just buy outright or put together by yourself which is a project management system, or BasecampHQ which is a web system which you have to pay monthly fee and everything runs online there in your case.