Welcome to “60 Minute Outsourcing Guide - How to run your business in 60 minutes a day or less”
If you’ve ever wanted to grow your business working just a few hours per week, then you’re reading the right report. That’s because you’re about to discover how to:
- Determine your outsourcing needs.
- Find freelancers who can handle all your tasks.
- Evaluate and then hire the best candidates.
- Manage your freelancers to get the best results. Best of all –You’ll find out how you can do all of this and more in just 60 minutes per day, Monday through Friday, using my proven daily outsourcing plan!Think about it:
- No more slaving away at your computer for 10, 12 or even 18 hours a day.
- No more blurry-eyed nights trying to get everything done yourself.
- No more turning down fun with friends and family because you have to work.
Instead, you leave all the heavy lifting to a team of competent freelancers.
That frees you to do all the things you really enjoy.
More time with friends. More time with family. More time enjoying your hobbies.
And while you’re off on the golf course, traveling or just hanging out with friends, your business is growing.
Sound good?
Then read on to discover a daily plan you can use to make it happen…
Monday: Plan the Week’s Outsourcing
Before you can run out and start posting jobs, you need to evaluate your needs. This means figuring out what jobs you need done both in the short term and long term in a variety of areas.
Now before we get into the details of evaluating your specific needs, let’s go over the three main categories of outsourcing.
Each of the jobs you need done will fall into one of these categories:
1. One-Off Tasks
This is where you hire someone to complete a fairly quick “one off” task. That means that once they’ve completed the task, they’re done with it. While you may hire them again in the future to do something similar, there’s no guarantee that you will need their services again.
Example: Let’s suppose you just completed an ebook. You can hire a graphics designer to create the ecover graphic. You may get a turnaround on this task in as quickly as a few days. Then once the task is done, your relationship with the designer ends. Maybe in another few months you’ll contact the designer again.
2. Ongoing Tasks (End Date in Mind)
This is where you hire someone to work on a very large project and/or for a fairly lengthy amount of time. However, generally there is an end date in mind. That is, your relationship with the freelancer may go on for months, but in most cases it will end on a specific date.
Example: You’ve hired a freelance programmer to create software for you. This is a big project which will likely take four to six months to complete the initial coding. After the initial coding is done, you’ll retain the programmer for another six months in order to do tweaks, work out bugs, patch security flaws, etc. In other words, you plan to work with the freelancer for at least a year, but unless another big project comes up, your business relationship will likely end in about 12 months.
3. Long-Term Projects (Indefinitely)
This last category is where you hire a freelancer to work with you on an ongoing basis for the foreseeable future.
In this case there is no definite end date in mind. There isn’t some project that, when wrapped up, will signal the end of your relationship with the freelancer. Usually, the relationship ends for other reasons (e.g., the freelancer moves on, you fire the freelancer, you retire from the business, etc).
Example: One good example of this is a customer service representative. This person works for you for as long as you need a representative and/or as long as he needs a job. Depending on the size of your business, the representative may work as little as a few hours per week. But you expect to work together for the foreseeable future.
Those are the three main categories.
Naturally, any freelancer can float between these three categories as your business grows and your needs change.
Example: You might hire a programmer to customize a script (a one- off task). Then you may re-hire him to hand code a new piece of software (ongoing). Then you may decide to go into the business of developing software, in which case you retain him indefinitely to create new products and fix bugs on existing products.
Here’s my point:
You can’t evaluate your needs once and be done with it. You’ll need to evaluate them constantly, especially as your business grows.
The second thing you need to keep in mind is what type of relationship you’ll be developing with the various types of freelancers.
If you’re hiring someone to do a one-off task, then generally you’ll just hire them, they’ll complete the task, you pay them and your relationship ends. As such, you don’t need to spend a whole of time motivating them or, for that matter, managing them.
However, whenever you start working long-term with someone, you need to take into consideration such issues as management and motivation. Since you want to retain
your long-term freelancers, you need to keep them happy. And since you want to continue to get good results, you’ll want to manage them effectively.
One way of getting great results from your freelancers is managing them more effectively.
Later on you’ll learn a bit more about motivation and management. For now, just keep it in mind. Read on…
Brainstorm and Evaluate Your Needs
Your next step is to take out a clean piece of paper or open a new word processing document on your computer. Then I want you to list ALL the tasks you do in your business.
This includes your daily tasks (like customer service) to the tasks you do regularly, but less often (like your quarterly taxes). Point is, list everything.
To help you get started, here’s a list of some of the more common tasks (especially for those who create and sell information):
- Copywriting. This includes sales letters, ads, brochures and other marketing collateral.
- Content writing. This includes ebooks, reports, blog posts, articles, newsletter content, press releases, social media posts and more.
- Graphics and design. This includes web design, ecover graphics, creating or tweaking blog themes and templates and more.
- Programming. This includes everything from script installation to script customization to custom software creation to mobile apps.
- Web technical. This includes things like managing your servers and databases.
- Marketing. This is a big area, which includes activities like joint venture partner recruitment, affiliate recruitment, affiliate management, affiliate motivation, pay per click (PPC) management, search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing (newsletter management), publicity and press release distribution… and so on.
The above list is far from complete, as I didn’t even touch on things like accounting, customer service, product creation and all the other things you need done on a daily, weekly or ongoing basis.
So be sure to take your time to really figure out what tasks you do to keep your business running.
Once you have your list, then you need to ask yourself WHAT to outsource. Read on…
Decide What to Outsource
You’ve got a big list of tasks in front of you.
But the question is, which of these tasks should you outsource?
If you already have a big business budget in place, then the answer is you can outsource almost everything.
This allows you to work just a few hours a week. You’ll use that time to plan your business and hire/manage your freelancing team. Then you’ll have the rest of your time free to do as you please.
If you’re not yet prepared to start outsourcing your entire business, then you will need to pick and choose which tasks to outsource.
Generally, you should ask yourself a few questions with relation to how cost effective it is to outsource a particular task, whether it makes sense to hire a professional… and similar questions.
Now that you’ve drawn up a list of tasks you’d like to outsource, your next step is to begin the process of finding suitable candidates.
I’ll be back with part 2, so stay tuned.
P.S. Want a little secret? The easiest way to manage your outsourced workers and make sure you get 100% output from them is through this unique software program.
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