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How to Stop Wasting Time on oDesk after a Hire

I have been using oDesk for a while now and I have hired and fired multiple contract users over the years. I remember when I first started that I was constantly on oDesk checking my new hire’s activities. It was so cool that oDesk was able to take a snapshot of what my new hire...

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Growing Your Outsourcing Team for Growth

Virtual staff is something someone should invest the time in. Finding a dedicated team who will work with you is hard but it is well wroth it in the end. As entrepreneurs and online marketers, time is never on our side. The word part is the “Oh So Shiny Syndrome”. Especially in this digital age...

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Negatives of Outsourcing: Interviews, Firing, and No Sleep

For the past couple days, maybe even weeks I have been growing a virtual team offshore. I officially came across some of the negatives of outsourcing and I want to list these for you. I have learned a lot about hiring, firing, and managing – the most painful of it all. I have went through...

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2 Must Do Tips When Interviewing a Virtual Assistant

Last week I was extra busy with one particular and most time consuming action when it comes to having a business, interviewing. This is the most mundane task I did last week because I was up till almost 2am just interviewing candidates from oDesk. I was looking for a solid new virtual assistant to help...

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4 Platforms I Use to Manage My Outsource Team

As you know you can not do everything on your own. You have to pass off work that you are weak at to someone who is far better than you. If you are good at design but not copywriting, stick to design and get someone to do the writing. Stick to what you are good...

Get Your Sites Created and Custom Coded by Adverse.Co

Writing this to respond to those multiple users asking about the design of my blog and the coding of Genesis. As you know I have a new blog design for 2011. I had it designed by a graphics company outside the US and I had the internal coding done by someone local here in NJ....

Outsourcing Your Online Business and How to Start

Outsourcing, it is a necessary business move to increase your productivity. I have been outsourcing a lot of work from programming, site maintenance, content, copy, articles, graphics, etc – you name it I probably outsourced it. These tasks were worked on a per project basis, meaning I paid per the completion of the task. Recently,...

Start a Facebook Campaign for Less than $30

Facebook is such a great place for traffic, I am always trying to figure out a way to monetize it for my benefits. Early November I wrote about how you can create a viral ad campaign by utilizing Facebook Fan pages. The type of offer used is a download offer and will most likely be...

Outsourcing and What You Need to Start Off

The past week I have recently hired a filipino in the Philippines to help with my marketing efforts online. I want to expand into SEO more and I really don’t have the time to get into all that backlinking, commenting, article writing, social footprint,  etc. So I hired someone full time to do it for...