7/30/2008
How and Why You Should Replace Yourself And Work The 17-Hour Workweek
Update: You can now listen to the call:
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(The call is 1 hour 22 minutes long. Ton’s of information!)
Here’s the PDF Worksheet that goes along with the call.
While I don’t truly live the 4-Hour Workweek, I do live about the 17 hour workweek.
How?
I’ve replaced myself.
Overseas.
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If you haven’t done it yet, it will happen eventually. It’s only a matter of time and choice and which side you’re on*.
- Time: you understand this
- Choice: whether you chose to replace yourself, or whether someone else chooses to replace you (meaning…you just lost your job)
- Which side you’re on: if you’re the one replacing yourself and training your replacement (because you make money from it) or if your boss is replacing you, and you’re training them to make money for someone else.
Outsourcing isn’t about Walmart anymore. It’s about knowledge. It’s about being a knowledge worker. It’s about the world economy and what your time is worth.
It’s not all about big business like you always hear. For me it’s about how I can take advantage of inefficiencies in the world economy to make myself money.
If outsourcing isn’t a good thing for you (if the word has a negative connotation for you), you had better turn it into a good thing really quickly (especially if you’re working for yourself or trying to work for yourself) and get on the right side of it (the one doing the outsourcing). Otherwise you’re losing ground every day.
Over the past year I’ve had so many questions about this that I’ve decided to do a phone call teaching everything I know about how to be on the good side of outsourcing, and how and why you should replace yourself (Hint: It’s how I live the 4-hour workweek lifestyle…and how you can too).
The call will be next Wednesday afternoon at 1pm Pacific time.
I recently taught this at a 2 day seminar in Costa Rica where afterward about half the people came up to me and told me the hour long presentation I did was the most life changing part of the whole 2 days.
Warning: If you attend the call it’s very likely your lifestyle will change.
Here are the call details:
Date: Wednesday, August 6
Phone: 218-486-1300
Bridge: 557371
Time:
1pm Pacific
2pm Mountain
3pm Central
4pm Eastern
On the call I will literally teach you everything I can. This isn’t a half info/half sales pitch call. I’ll be teaching:
- Where to hire people.
- When to hire people.
- Why it’s cheaper than you think.
- Why you had such a bad experience outsourcing last time you tried.
- How to find people to hire.
- How to pay them (you never thought you’d have a hard time paying someone…).
- What kinds of employment contracts I use.
- How to make them more productive for you.
- What tools I use to train them.
- What things I have them do for me.
- How you can get things done that you know you should be doing, but you aren’t. (imagine actually having everything done and not having something to work on sometimes…I do).
- How to implement everything you learn about, but don’t implement
The call will be FREE to everyone.
When I did this at the seminar I was stupid and didn’t record it. Stupid because I got a lot of questions that I never thought about (you know how when you know something, you don’t know what other people don’t know…). So, if you have any questions ahead of time, please ask them in the comments. While I’ll try to, I’m not sure I’ll be able to take questions on the call so it’s important you ask ahead of time.
This call is for you if:
- you ever do anything repetitive at work
- you do any sort of business online (whether you’re profitable or not)
- you blog
- you do marketing
- you do SEO or PPC
- you’re a programmer
- you do sales
- you have a boss
- you get the idea…
(*I understand that not everything or everyone can or should be outsourced, but lots of stuff can and should be)
Filed under outsourcing by John
Comments on How and Why You Should Replace Yourself And Work The 17-Hour Workweek »
Oliver Antosch @ 4:24 pm
Sounds like an interesting call. It would be great if you could make it available on the website as a download for people outside the US.
Olaina DeWalt @ 5:44 pm
Glad you’re back and I hope you had a great time! I’ll DEFINITELY be on the call. I’m getting ready to start a couple sites that may have huge traffic very quickly. There’s no doubt that I’m gonna need help!
Thanks for offering this, and I’ll ’see you there’.
Olaina
Travis @ 6:38 pm
John:
I won’t be able to attend the call but I am interested in the info. Any chance you’ll record it and offer it as a download - even if for a limited time?
Travis
Michael @ 8:55 pm
Hi John,
I’ve got 10 unfinished web sites….
I’m also out of the country but I’ll be on the call….
Yea, I get the idea!
Dustin Davis @ 6:42 am
I’m looking forward to it. Thanks John! (I’m also hoping its available as MP3 download afterwords so I can listen again and again).
John @ 11:46 am
I’ll try to make it available here as an mp3, but I’ve had the recording software mess up before, so if you can, be on the call.
I’ll definitely try to record it.
If you have unfinished websites, or websites you’re in the middle of but can’t seem to get everything done you need to, what I’m going to talk about is something you should seriously consider implementing. I used to have this problem all the time where I’d start a website, get bored of it, and never finish it/never make money from it. Now, I start something, and then I pass it off to my replacement with specific instructions and he finishes it for me. SWEET!
John
Russell Page @ 2:12 pm
We’ve tried outsourcing. Glad to hear some advice.
Kurt @ 10:22 am
Hey John I have a question that maybe you can address on the call.
Out sourcing website development.
Marketing a website is fun. Creating one is a pain in the #^*&*&)
Jay @ 12:23 pm
John…. I have used some folks in India before. I had language issues. They are really motivated and work well under instructions.
Joe @ 4:13 pm
John,
I had very bad experiences of outsourcing overseas. I hired someone who worked for me with dedicated writer and link builders, but their performances are very low. They worked around clock, not focus on how I can finish these tasks on daily basis.
Hope to hear your successful advices about hiring and more…
Joe
David @ 6:15 pm
Hey John,
How do you get your outsource rs to do what you want, as you want it done. I have found I can get good work done, but I’m literally having to hold their hand on skype to get them to understand the detail of my requirements.
Have you had this experience? Do you have a solution for this.
Richard K Miller @ 3:01 pm
I only caught the end of this. I’d love to hear the full session if you recorded it. Thanks for doing this.
Norman Freeman @ 5:18 am
Hi John,
i missed the call but would also love to listen to a recording!
Did the recording work?
Thanks,
Norman
Mike @ 9:52 am
I also could not make the call and would love to get the recording.
Desmond Owens @ 10:39 am
Yeah…I tried to make it dayum J.O.B had a meeting at the same time. Hopefully this was recorded (crossing fingers lol)
joe @ 4:26 pm
what is the website?
UWS @ 10:33 am
Wow, interesting concept. I am putting in about 12 hours a day right now.
John @ 10:41 am
Update: The call was recorded, but it was a crappy recording.
I’ve gotten such a positive response from the call that I’ve decided to do another call. I’ll post an update for the time of the next call in the next few days.
John
Russell Page @ 9:05 am
Dang event reminder didn’t work. When’s the next call?
Todd Dickerson @ 1:05 pm
If you haven’t taken this advice already you should seriously look into what John is talking about. I personally can and do live the 4 hour (or less) work week, although I generally choose to spend at least a few hours a day online learning and planning for future ideas. It’s simply the greatest thing one could ask for!
Ollan Agtual @ 5:59 pm
Hi John,
Outsourcing is making a big difference in my business. It has allowed me to duplicate my efforts. Using my outsource resources, I can now complete several projects in the time it takes for me alone to do just one! I sometimes get distracted by the “bright, shiny objects” and leave projects unfinished. Not a problem anymore!
One of my friends, (a contractor at Google), owns an outsourcing company and call center in the country that you mentioned. We spent a lot of time going over the details and requirements for my upcoming projects. The price that he quoted me is between $400 and $500 per month, per full-time (5 days, 40hrs/week), employee - and these are not entry-level employees either. Their technical, as well as English writing and speaking skills are excellent, and they have experience in the industry! Earlier this year, we had an outsourcing company in India that we have been using since February. Because of our inexperience in outsourcing, we ended up paying close to $60,000 for 4-months of programming (yikes!)
Here’s the best part though - my long time client/JV partner is footing the bill for up to 10 employees! No money out of my pocket!
I’ll let you know how everything works out.
Best Regards,
Ollan Agtual
Ollan Agtual @ 5:59 pm
p.s. Thanks for making me famous!
Kevin @ 6:57 pm
I had been organizing a business plan before taking advantage of the trial offer - only the sign up page AND the trial offer URLs lead to 404 pages now. Guess that WAS quite a positive response.
John @ 12:29 pm
@Kevin
The page is back up:
http://www.ReplaceMyself.com/trial
John
Owen @ 6:24 am
Yep, this outsourcing strategy is the best thing. I have a great article writer who delivers 15 articles every month and on the 1st of the month, I set this up in my Wordpress Blog to spit out every other day. The following month I repeat the process. In between, I may write a few articles. I pay $4 an article which is $60 per month plus hosting fees. I have also now got a Blog creator in India. A smart guy who knows his stuff. He uses a free wordpress theme and charges me $30.00 per blog which is all set up and ready for the content. All I do is the promotion work.
Great stuff-this outsourcing lark!!
John @ 11:06 am
@Owen
Now for the automation part. Hire someone in the philippines to manage the whole process. Have your writer deliver the content to him. Have him put them into wordpress and have him learn how to set up wordpress (super simple). Then teach him how to do the promotion work. All of a sudden, you’ve duplicated yourself!
John
Russ @ 1:23 pm
@John
Is it possible to do an email reminder for these calls? I’ve missed both now.
Desmond Owens @ 7:25 pm
Hey John…i was wondering was that second call ever archived?
Desmond Owens
Gobala Krishnan @ 9:05 pm
Great MP3, thanks. I was really looking forward to download it.
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Desmond Owens @ 11:34 pm
John that was some great information on the call and thanks for the PDF i may have heard of just one of those sites you use….:)
Desmond
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