They were gonna going through the pioneer days of outsourcing we're gonna work Those days in modern time. You may already know where to go if you want to hire a virtual assistant or other fahrway contractor for less money than it costs in wealthier countries, but back in the wild west of two thousand and nine it wasn't is clear. The market are also. About today was frustrated with a few solutions that existed so including his own. He ended up creating a company. If you know the episode also give you five tips for out sourcing. They can help you save time, money and miscommunication. It's really important to follow and best practices, at least if you want to save time money and voicing without miscommunication, and you will hear about those best practices shortly,

so stated when John John This building marketing websites Working anywhere from ten to twelve hours a day, but the busy data, and a family. He realized this arrangement was not ideal for him or for that family of is. The obvious solution was to outsource some of his work to someone else heated to work, smarter, not just harder, and this way back in two thousand at that time, there wasn't a comprehensive. Ah, my marketplace, you could turn to whenever you needed virtual help with a task John had to go through an agency which was a frustrating experience. All I could do was inform the agency as requirements and then accept whoever they sent his wet, as you might expect that first candidate and he received with someone who did not meet his needs subsequent candidates that he looked for got better, but with so many aspects of the process outside his control. John always had a nagging concern

The work will not be completed to his satisfaction. That was a big paint point and he thought it was something that he might be able to fix. True to his mantra. Working, smarter, not harder, John, acted by bypassing the agency and hiring his own programmer from the Philippines. With his degree in computer science, he was able to explain exactly what he needed and could. If I did, the work was done properly. He had little idea without costume. Initially, all he knew was it. He was paying that person five hundred dollars a month. The women solution, because it was far cheaper than hiring and other Burma in the: U S and the same time. This was a wage that was significantly higher than the market rate in the Philippines. The working up going so well John decide to expand. He decided to create a job site as a platform for hiring filipino workers. The project took somewhere around eight months to finish in, while the end result wasn't perfect. It was promising.

He made this conscious choice after working with several employees from the Philippines, not only where many of them fluent in English. There was also a location in which it made financial sense for work to be out sourced employers could lower their costs, while workers would get a higher way This was a value proposition that was not immediately obvious at the time. Just remember this was way back in two thousand and nine and John site Online Jobs PH. Built, went outsourcing and remote work. Wasn't this common as it is now, but through webinar, is tell us

Mars and videos. John evangelize, about the reasons why people in combination consider it is proved to be the most effective way of marketing, since it was also deeply personal, but that was not John needed to find a way to make his job or site stand up. He decided that he wouldn't use the common recruitment model of taking a commission for each gig that was posted. Instead, he would angle his business toward employers we're looking for employees of a more permanent nature. The only difference is that the employees he would refer going to different parts of the world. To this end, he decided he would operate a subscription service where employers can pay a monthly fee to access the site. The only way that the porter would make money be to ensure that employers would keep using, or at least refer other customers to it because of how competent incompatible their previous hires a bit in this sense, John, had some skin and again a fact. It was appreciated by his customers, who reported him by taking a chance and hiring from his sight as online jobs. Ph grew. The main source of referrals quickly became

Word of mouth growth was organic with employers and employees joining because of the good things they hurt, as well as through methods such as S. Here, ten years later, the model has proven to be highly sustainable. John now has twenty one virtual employees from the Philippines working for him, and this year on line jobs PH, has ever five thousand paying employers in earnest. New of over four million docks. It's worth noting Johns initial call was not to set up an online job board. You did so after trying to outsource some of his work and the discovering that there was such a gap in the market Helping his own problem, however, has turned a small idea: into a daily hustle, not just for himself, but for thousands of people around the world let's talk about a few tempts, bore outsourcing, specifically fight tips. If you're using up work.

Fiber or perhaps on line jobs PH, which is really quota here, about love the focus on permanent employees or at least longer term employees, as opposed to just hurry suited to a quick job, so Gladys working so well for him and for lots of employers around the world when it taken up myself some point so five tips, first start with a small project. Having just said it about permanent jobs. I think it's often go to see. Ok, what's a little trial run here, how do we worked together? How we work with this person? Do we have a good communication flow? Do they understand what I'm asking and are they actually doing the work that I need to the standards that I want to see?

so I started a small project. You can always add more later. Provide clear deliverables, says really really important, just be really specific about what it is that you need also want to give approval limits like another, whereas if you think the project may take ten hours, we have some flexibility. If you think well, I think it's gonna take ten hours, but maybe you know it could take the train or twenty. Then you know just specify that and say hey before you get to fifteen hours. Checking with me, so I can see how much work has been done before we go any further. Next, as I mentioned it's going to be clear about your deliverables. Your expectations are, if you welcomes, and creativity or interpretation for your project say that up front. What I mean here is that in web design and web development in particular, is often multiple ways to solve a problem or multiple ideas for how to present something to an end user, formal spur ways to do something on the back it. So if you know exactly what you want and, of course be specific about it, but if you're just concerned

the outcome- and there could be a variety of ways to achieve that outcome- then feel free to say, hey, you know, this is how I think it might be done, but Got a better idea, I would love to listen, I to check it out so people. Actually doing really good work. That way. Some people want to have some creative empire to contribute in that way, even if it's a small but still significant way, whereas other people they want that raw. So it's important stated a front if you wanted and lastly take bids, but also. Bite providers that you're interested in what I mean here, as if you go on up workers, these forums you can usually posed to project and people will bid on it, but you can also see profiles. Lots of individual providers sorted by countries sorted by skill, sorted by experience, sorted by reviews, all kinds of different filters, seamount to go through and look and see. I did have high some providers that could we get to work with theirs, usually way to say you know, invite this person to bid on the job or invite this person have a conversation. So often in these things, it's like this huge market place in every

it is getting tons of bids. So it really helps if you want to connect with some very specific to go that person and they're gonna prohibit that too, because you're actually bring them, and they know that Are you attract your attention? They have much better odds of getting the project my if they were just bidding randomly among everybody else so start with a small project set clear deliverables. Give approval limits. If you welcome, some creativity or interpretation, say that a front and take bids also invite providers that you're interested. If five tips worry there we're going the monitoring its page. Of course those shots are etc. So Skoda, com, slash, nine, four or five. We can also find to online jobs, PH anything else I mentioned. I really appreciate you. Thank you. For listening inspiration is guided inspirational if action is so much better, not so much by making this bargain, for you can't wait for you, weekly recap tomorrow, a whole new set of stories. All next week. My industry scale about

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