How To Replace Yourself In Your Business
By Hiring Virtual Assistants In The Philippines

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Years ago I realized that the only way to live the “internet business”
lifestyle was by getting other people to do your work for you.

In this video I explain how to do it.

Here’s a video with my thoughts about it.

If you see yourself someday setting up an office in the Philippines (because you have a team of 5+), hiring all your people in the same city will make it a lot easier.

I shot this video in Bluejohn Canyon. What an amazing place.

Pay attention to the exchange rate.

We met when he took me to play golf at Trump National.
I told him I thought he should be doing “local business marketing.”
The rest is history.

He’s succeeding.
He’s making money.
He’s outsourcing all the work.

For your listening pleasure.

Things to learn from Scotts experience:

1. Scott was struggling with building niche sites (1:15)
2. Sticking with what works for you (the grass isn’t always greener!) (1:50)
3. Scotts business model (2:20) – I love this! He’s learning from OfflineBiz
4. Make sales first! (2:58)
5. Everything’s confusing, how to gain confidence (4:20)
6. How much money he’s making (5:25)
7. What work his outsourcers are doing for him (6:24)
8. How much to pay his GUY in the Philippines ($75/week) (6:40)
9. Things his GUY in the Philippines does for him and his clients (6:50) (includes wordpress, graphics, videos, video editing, video marketing)
10. The work Scott does vs the work his GUY does (8:05)
11. A glimpse at Scotts workflow process (8:40)
12. Teaching someone to do something you didn’t hire them to do (9:02)
13. Scotts hiring criteria and hiring process (9:43)
14. Mindset and tasks for how to keep someone busy (12:35)
15. Scotts final words on business model and the highest payoff tasks (14:44)

Do you have a success story you’d like to share with me? Please Share Your Success!.

It’s not “How do I find a trustworthy employee?”
It’s not “How much should I pay them?”
It’s not “How can I know if they really have the skill to do the work”?

Nope.

The biggest question I get is:

“How can I be sure that they are actually working while I am paying them?”

AND “If I am paying them by hour how can I know that it takes them as long as they claim?

Over the years this has been a major pain for me.
I mean, if someone’s only working 15 hours/week it’s pretty hard to know that.
It’s hard to know if they’re working 2 jobs or just one (for me!).

I tried using Odesk’s screen capture software to validate things…what a pain in the butt.
That took more of my time to manage than it was worth.

I tried using manual time tracking software (like DotProject) but that didn’t work either.
Too easy to fake, too difficult to control.

Then I stumbled upon a system that came really close to what I wanted.
I’ve been working with it and tweaking it for the past 2 years.
Finally, I have the PERFECT solution for knowing exactly what’s going on.

An elegant outsourcing tracking solution that:

1. Works for tracking outsourcers
2. Is inexpensive and simple to use, with virtually no ramp up time
3. It tracks, down to the SECOND, how much time people are spending on what activities and what web pages – telling you EXACTLY what they are doing, and where your money is disappearing.

But not only that…. Turns out it allows you to increase their productivity and save at least 10 hours of productive time per person per week.

Seriously, how you ever wondered how productive are your Filipino employees?
(or any employees for that matter) Do you really KNOW?

Now you can.

Introducing http://www.TrackLabor.com – Productivity and Time Tracking for Outsourced Workers.

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It was really popular (and REALLY profitable) from 2000 – 2006.
Since then, everyone say it doesn’t work anymore.

I’ve heard people say “You can’t do direct linking, Google won’t allow it.”

While direct linking doesn’t work as well as it once did, I’m here to say:
YES! “DIRECT LINKING” DOES STILL WORK!
I know because we do it.

Here’s proof.
I took screenshots of an adwords account and of affiliate income from the past 6 months (November – April).

Expenses:

Income:

To sum it up

For members of ReplaceMyself.com, the business model we use is outlined in detail in the “Business-in-a-Box.” All members have access to it.
The “Business-in-a-Box” is designed to be given to a Filipino employee and have them implement it for you.

Like I’ve always said, this isn’t something that will make you rich. It’s not designed to make you $100,000,000,000.
It IS designed to help you get someone working for you quickly, with little to no intervention on your part, and hopefully have them start making money for you.

We just finished updating the “Business-in-a-Box” training so it’s current and has all the training someone needs to get started doing it today.

No, I’m not getting rich off this income.
Does direct linking still work?
YES, yes it does.

Inside ReplaceMyself.com is my training that you can give to your VA’s on how to do:

• Article Marketing
• Video Marketing
• SEO
• High PageRank Link Building
• Copywriting
• Directory Submissions
• Social Bookmarking
• Build a Mini-Net (or a super mini-net)
• Manage your Adwords Account
• RSS Feeds
• Facebook, Myspace, Squidoo

In the comments

• I was accused of exploiting people
• I was told that I don’t pay enough
• I was told that the people I hire aren’t “employees”

I feel differently about all of them.

Here’s my response:

Here are the notes I worked from:

1. I stand by what I said. I require only 1 job.
2. I don’t pay my people $250/month for very long. They get raises. They get large bonuses. This according to their output/loyalty/devotion.
3. Pay is different in different parts of the country. Manila is different than davao. Companies pay more, cost of living is more. It doesn’t mean your work quality is better.
   I have people in davao and their work is just as good as people anywhere else in the country. They ASK for less money.
   Companies in Mindanao or Panay or Palawan are NOT paying 20,000 pesos per month. Different regions of the Philippines have VERY different in their pay scales.
4. I don’t advocate exploiting people. When I teach outsourcing I teach what’s real about wage differences, but also tell people to treat them well. Not everyone will.

Nobody is forcing anyone to work. If the wages you’re being paid aren’t enough, you should go look for a different job.

5. I love my workers. I try to treat them very well. They get all the paid time off they want. They work the hours they want. They’ve asked for me to pay their Phil Health and SSS and I gave them raises to pay for it.
6. In the end, what I think this comes down to is
   If you treat people well, they’ll do good work. If you don’t, they won’t.

Below is the sequence of emails I sent to hire someone

Email #1: This email went out to about 15 people.

Email #2: This went to each person who sent me back a good response to Email #1

Email #3: This went to the person I really wanted to hire. They had already proven their english skills and also claimed to have other skills.

Email #4 – after 2 days of not hearing back from them, I sent this email

She responded with a good response.

Email #5

I posted the specific emails here not for you to copy exactly. Some of the information I asked for might not be relevant to you.
I post it as an example and a guideline of what I look for when I’m hiring someone. You may (probably will) be different.

In case you don’t know, a Typhoon is essentially the same as a hurricane. This one was about equivalent to a category 5 hurricane.

The Philippine government did a pretty good job preparing for this one, so few people died, but many people lost most of what they had.

If you have GUYS in the Philippines, regardless of if they’re on Luzon island or not, it’s probably a good idea to ask them if them and their families are OK. It will go a long way with them.

Also, if you do have GUYS in northern Luzon, expect MAJOR delays in productivity and communication.