Outsourcing Case Study: Free Your Time By Hiring Filipino Workers

This was one of my favorite case studies.
In this case study you’ll learn:

• How to tell if a programmer is good
• How to avoid bad workers
• How to train your workers
• What skills to look for when hiring
• How to free yourself from work (David’s income has tripled while working less!)

Summary of Success Story with David Solomon

• 1:00 – David’s Business: Internet Marketing for clients
• 1:40 – David’s hiring process
  1. 2:00 – Used ReplaceMyself.com to learn what they’ll learn
  2. 2:11 – Used OnlineJobs.ph to find and contact people
  3. 2:30 – Emailed people. Was too specific. Scared people off.
  4. 3:03 – Hired someone who quit to help her Aunt <--- Chances are pretty good she gave this as an excuse because she didn't think she could do the job.
  5. 4:20 – Chose the person who followed instructions
• 6:10 – Filipinos are often very sensitive to the embarassment problem
• 7:15 – Give detailed instructions!
• 9:00 – Be careful of who you’re hiring.
• 11:00 – They set up everything for wordpress (cpanel, uploading, template, plugins, content, settings, …)
• 11:20 – Making money on vacation through outsourcing
• 12:15 – Skills he looks for
  1. english
  2. wordpress
  3. PHP
• 13:00 – How to tell if a programmer is good
• 14:00 – How to keep someone productive
• 14:58 – Some people need more training from you than others
• 14:50 – Find what works for you! Try ReplaceMyself first. If it doesn’t work for you, try something else!
• 17:20 – Thinking through a project from beginning to end before starting
• 18:30 – Realizing that you can free yourself to do more important things
• 20:00 – Getting better work done than what you asked for
• 21:05 – DON’T SCARE AWAY POTENTIAL EMPLOYEES!
• 22:15 – Be prepared to have a lot of free time!
• 23:25 – Being the CEO of the business
• 24:15 – How I deal with giving raises
• 25:30 – Watch the exchange rate