First I would like to say that I am so glad you guys did a follow up article on outsourcing. I am a new reader and Justin’s guest blog on ShoeMoney is what lead me to your site.

Secondly, I have been doing some article writing outsourcing for part-time workers only. I have been using getafreelancer.com.

However, when I tried to take your advice and advertise for a full time writer on Craigslist, my add was immediately “ghosted”. Your account says that your post is on Craigslist, but in never shows up. There is a post about here. http://reviews411.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/craigslist-ad-not-showing-up-its-called-ad-ghosting/
This is exactly what has happened to me. Do you have any simple advice on how to work around this? Has it happened to you?

I hope my question isn’t too far down to be noticed. I am a little frustrated because I want to try craigslist; but, I just can’t get an add up!

Thanks again for the informative post.

Best,
Bridget

I enjoy everything that you two write. I found your series of posts about “where to find outsourced employees” really really helpful. By the way, why dont you increase the number of videos as well.

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You have restored my faith in outsourcing. I believe, in fact I know it is the way to go but I haven’t had a great deal of success to date. I have outsourced articles only to end up rewriting them myself and a website that was never finished. (I was annoyed as I had paid 50% deposit)

However, after reading your comments I realise I am at fault, I need to be more precise and selective. Armed with new knowledge I will have another go, I have been procrastinating.

When people think of outsourcing it is often presumed that it is for cost alone. Of course that is one reason, but not solely. The World is rapidly becoming one big market place whether we like it or not . We trade everything offshore these days, it is only natural that we recruit offshore.

I have business interests in VietNam and i know outsourcing to developing countries does more good than harm, especially in the IT industry.

It was just by chance that I landed on your blog tonight and have found it very interesting reading to say the least. I spend a lot of time in IM forums and get loads of knowledge about keywords etc but things like outsourcing/assistants which are the core of any successful business are rarely discussed.

I have enjoyed my first time here, ty

Cheers,
Tricia

hiring for backlinks is a great idea – especially if you’re going to be writing articles you can outsource the sitefling process from (FlingAndGrowRich.com) in order to get more payout from those articles…

Have a great day
Chaunna

I agree, you will have your ups and downs with hiring. Which is why i suggest starting with small projects – if they do that well, then bring them on fulltime.

Have a great day
Chaunna

I’d definitely give your budget a hard look, i am sure there’s a way to squeeze out $20 – $75 for outsourcing so your projects move faster. Remember – it may be a task you like, but to be successful in business you should be working on your business not working in it. By doing the tasks yourself you aren’t focusing on how to make money, your focus is on how to build it.

To your success!
Chaunna

No problem. If you send in topics I’ll add them to my list and make sure they get covered Thanks for reading

Have a great day
Chaunna

Thanks for the compliment – I am really glad you enjoyed the post

Have a great day
Chaunna

Thanks for the compliments and backing up the post
I love how much you have taken action and applied what you’ve learned. When Justin and I first started we cut out an entire month of “luxury activities” like going to the movies and fleamarket shopping on the weekends so that we could have an extra $100 to spend on the business that month. The returns are much higher when things get done faster.

Have a great day
Chaunna

You may not need a fulltime assistant yet, but outsourcing small projects will get you moving much faster. Scriptlance could still be a great help for you.

Have a great day
Chaunna

I totally have to agree with you here. outsourcing can get you started today – whereas if you focus on doing everything yourself to “save a buck” then you end up losing a bunch of bucks in the end because it took you months to get up and running instead of weeks (with outsourcing).

Have a great day
Chaunna

I thought the interview with Fabio from elance was a great view into the behind the scenes of these freelance websites. I have used elance.com in the past. From my experiences the bids on elance are always higher (let say average around $50) than the ones on scriptlance (let say average around $20) . So I recommend for those on a tight budget to start on scriptlance.

Have a great day
Chaunna

And probably network with fellow bloggers offline to see those faces behind those URLs.

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Great Post. I have run a small business for 30 years. I have found the old rule of one in three. I usually got one good employee out of three hires. Often the ones I was most impressed with at first were not the best long term.
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Thanks again for the great advice
Steve

Thanks for the writeup – & Addressing hiring a writer / assistant in the one.

Very valuable advice!

Ant.

What a wickedly huge information laden Blog Post.

Thoroughly enjoyed the read and gained HEAPS of Great FREE info as usual, and as You Guy’s had promised.

NOTHING Better than People ” Of Their Word “.

Keep it coming please

Kind Regards
Tony

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Great Article.

Both Lyn and I felt like we would NEVER get any where as we were trying to do everything ourselves and honestly it does not work, you do chase your tail. Talking to Justin on the phone and devouring everything you both wrote and the forum, it was made very clear to us. OUTSOURCE or wait years for success.

Like you said in your article, you can always find the money by looking at your budget!

We made a conscious decision and sat down and looked at the budget. We managed to find money by cutting back on several things. BINGO. $55.00 to put aside to outsource. So we got started.

We hired from Scriptlance – A delightful lady to do backlinks, she was good, we now use her on a regular basis.

Also from Scriptlance – Another delightful lady to do Articles and Press Releases. Now use her on a regular basis.

Then another person from Scriptlance to Tweak a couple of websites.

We now make sure we have monies put aside to outsource, as the results in the last 5 weeks have been OUTSTANDING.

Yes we still have to budget, however, we know that if we keep on track and DO NOT DEVIATE we will be up there with the best.

Guys, trust what Chaunna and Justin tell you – OUTSOURCING is not that hard, you can find money in your budget to get it (Chaunna maybe we can have a brainstorm on how to cut the budget with everyone putting in their tips) the results in your business growth will be outstanding by getting others to do the time consuming bits (working in) whilst YOU WORK ON!

Love and Light and a toast to everyones success

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I want to add emphasis on what you said in this interview: The biggest mistake beginners make is failing to see the cost of their own time.

Outsourcing someone for $50 to do something in few hours that would take them a month to complete themselves like setting up a e-commerce script properly, make them feel that they are losing $50.

In fact, they are loosing way more than that by not doing it, simply because after paying for those $50, they would have been able to start their business right away and have a full month to generate income instead of browsing the online forum wondering what “changing permission” on files means…

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You say that your favorites are craigslist and scriptlance, but you also link to the interview about elance.

What do you think about elance.com and guru.com?

Thank you

-Neal

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