My 4 Hours

I got to think about all the places where I have outsourced to through the last couple of years, so here is a small list of my findings: India If you can find them, they have great programmers. I’m afraid to generalize too much, but basically I haven’t seen a good website design by a [...]

As many of you know I am experimenting with outsourcing to the Philippines. Recently a Typhoon raged through the Philippines floding cities. Among these also Manilla. Although I do not have any om my employees in Manilla, they are still very affected by this. At least one of them have lost contact with her family [...]

Update (25. feb. 2010): After I have hired a project manager from the Philippines I spend more like 1-3 hours per week. I have a service called Get A Shop where I create webshops based on the open source e-commerce system Magento. I want to show you how I now after a couple of months, [...]

I haven’t updated this blog for some time and it is basically because I have had trouble finding the right person (from the Philippines) to hire for the writer position. The candidate I had chosen turned me down in the last minute, so I had to start out a round 2. Basically I had chosen [...]

I have selected four candidates for the writer position that I’m going to interview over Skype. The four candidates have all (except one) sent me samples of their work. I must say that I’m already really impressed. They all have between 4 and 9 years of experience and the quality of their samples is really [...]

A quick update on my hiring progress. As I recently wrote, I’m looking for a writer in the Philippines. Here is a small update. I found 24 potential resumes on bestjobs.ph I have sent all of them a quick email to see if they were interested From the 24 emails sent, I have recieved answers [...]

These videos do make overs of exising affiliate websites. They are a great resource that identifies three different businessmodels, as well as what works and what doesn’t. Affiliate Makeover Episode #1 – The Opt-in Site… Affiliate Makeover Episode #2: The Blog Affiliate Makeover Episode 3 – Review Site They are a bit longer that your [...]

As you might know, Ryan my guy in the Philippines is currently researching a topic for my first ebook, so I am looking for someone who can write ebooks and articles for me. I found Ryan through bestjobs.ph as John Jonas recommended, so I thought I would try Craigslist for the writer position. I will [...]

My Philippine guy is still researching keywords and niches. I’m looking forward to the next phase where we can actually research the future ebook. It currently goes a bit slow, but he also need to know how I prefer it delivered and what I really expect from him. Hopefully we will have found a valid [...]

One of my businesses is Get A Shop that builds custom Magento webshops in a ready to roll package. If you are planning a new webshop Magento should simply not be ignored. Get A Shop can provide a real cheap Magento webshop because I outsource the development of the design and implementation and simply do [...]