What I do VS. What actually gets done
Here’s what I’ve done for the past 24 hours:
- Checked my email
- Talked with my partner Dan
- Wrote a blog post
- Wrote 2 emails to be sent to my mailing lists
- Used jing to make an explanation video
- Played golf
- Chatted with a few of my GUYS in the Philippines
- Ate dinner, played with my kids, practiced more golf in my backyard, …
- Read a book (it was only 130 pages)
- Slept
- Ate, got ready, played with my kids, went to the LDS temple
- Had a meeting with someone who wanted help
- Played Golf
- And am now writing this blog post (it’s 11:56am)
Here’s what actually got done in the past 24 hours:
- Email got filtered, checked, and responded to
- 2 domains got bought
- A squeeze page, sales page, and website got put up
- An autoresponder series got put into aweber, along with sales emails getting inserted into them
- The 90 minute call I did a few weeks ago with ReplaceMyself.com members got partially transcribed
- 2 blog posts got done on my affiliate sites
- A new test version of one of my sites got created…I haven’t seen it yet, I just heard it’s done
- My golf game improved
- One of my GUYS learned a ton about the inner workings of wordpress while creating a new theme for me
All of these things were done by my GUYS in the Philippines. 100% without me (except for the golf and email).
Hiring GUYS in the Philippines is the way to go if you work from home and actually want to be productive in your business.
Hiring GUYS in the Philippines is NOT optional.
Filed under lifestyle, outsourcing by John
Comments on What I do VS. What actually gets done »
Inspirational. Thank you. Today’s my day to get out there and hire someone. Literally. Or my wife kicks me in the butt. Literally.
…jp
Makes me want to punch myself in the face. I need to kick my outsourcing in to a higher gear. Thanks for the reminder. It seems like if you are not outsourcing at this point you truly behind.
Thanks again John. Sometimes we have trouble with productivity with the outsourced folks we use. I hate cracking a whip. But I would like a website completed in one day, I can do it, and I’m not that technical. Maybe I have the wrong person? thoughts?
John, looking to outsource lead generation sales are low. Thank You.
Great info John. I hire someone from the US that has a group of guys from the Phillipines. I hire him because he was already doing this full time and was taking the IM Course with Howie Schwartz at the same time as me. Needless to say, the results are showing up very slowly for a month in a half of work. I done a press release and a few articles and that is showing up a lot better than the stuff they are working on. Thank John, your stuff is very eye opening.
Raul
Hi
I have not had any luck trying to find people in the phillipines that I can use. I have talked to a lot of people having this same problem:
I have hired several and all of them have backed out in one way or the other in the middle of a project.
(I wanted a book rewritten and I told them exactly what I wanted before hand and they agreed just to say that they did not wanna no it after a week or so…)
Lots of them can’t write American english, their grammar might be ok, but when they write something it is just a little off….so it does not sound “american”….
Right now i have someone writing for me….we’ll see what happens…
Anyway, this is just my 2 cents and i still am trying to find someone that I can trust and will do a good job. I did not think it was going to be this hard, especially after listening to Adam Short (a teleseminar that you did) I say: You cannot get a good and reliable writer from the Phillipines for $150/ebook.
At least I can’t and i have been trying for MONTHS!!
I don’t know where they find them and how they go about but it is NOT as easy as you’ll make it out to be!!
I don’t know what I would do without my team in the Philippines, it’s been a life changer.
I got to play golf yesterday, and all my work was done. I got home, and they were arranging appointments with me to train them on new things.
Think about that, the only work I had to do was; get ready to have them do more stuff for me.
For those having trouble, the key is clear instruction, and taking time to watch the process as it gets started. I have 4 people now, they do everything from Articles to webdesign to calling clients.
What I found is that they are very eager to please, and if they think that can’t do something they back out, instead of failing. So I spend my time on training and encouragement. I understand that if I have to spend 8 hours with a new person that down the road will save me hundreds of hours or even thousands it’s a great investment.
I think odesk is the best for reliable people, Craiglists, is so so. Writing a book is hard, if it was easy you would do it yourself, so the first book they make for you will require a lot of hand holding. But once they fully understand then they can make book after book for you.
I hope that helps.