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Outsourcing To Elance, Odesk and The Philippines

16 July 2011

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I get a lot of questions on where I find virtual assistants and where outsource my projects to, so I’ve done a short video on the places I typically find people to help me. * Excuse my bad pronunciation, poor grammar and foul language Sites mentioned in the video elance.com (my preferred place to outsource) [...]

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5 Things You Probably Want To Outsource

6 May 2011

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I hate, I hate, I hate dandelions As you might have noticed, I didn’t write last week. This was due to me being down with the flu. Unfortunately last weekend was also the time where my lawn exploded with dandelions. I don’t know about you, but looking out at all the dandelions exploding up in [...]

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How to hire Filipinos

13 March 2011

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I just hired two Filippinos and thought I would go into the process. This is actually one of the questions I hear quite often. How to find and hire Filippinos. Some background Info In 2010, there was an estimate of about 2.8 million unemployed Filipinos in the Philippines, and this figure is expected to rise [...]

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Outsourcing is frigging awesome

19 February 2011

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A story that should get you started with outsourcing if you haven’t done so already. After I reoganized my post categories to cater for a new blog design, I noticed that it was some time since I had written anything about outsourcing, which is kind of strange since I do so much of it. So [...]

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How to find a good outsourced ebook writer

24 October 2010

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I got a comment from Sabrina over at my other post: Creating an ebook and the costs involved where she asked if I had any tips regarding finding a writer, and boy do I have A little background After my success of finding a couple of Philippine developers I thought I would try to find [...]

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Haven’t outsourced yet? Start today for only 5 bucks

16 July 2010

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I just wanted to share a website I recently found. Not sure why I haven’t found it sooner. It is a great site for those of you who haven’t outsourced before and just want to take a spin without investing more than… well 5 US$. The site is Fiverr. All tasks cost 5 bucks. Some [...]

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Outsourcing – 10 Learning Points From The Last 2 Year

8 July 2010

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I compiled this list to look back on the last two years of outsourcing. Though I have outsourced for longer than that it has been much more strategic after I read the 4 hour workweek. I thought that it was long overdue to take a look on some of the stuff learned and try and [...]

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Hired a full time Ruby on Rails developer

6 June 2010

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I’ve recently had an idea that I feel that I must try to implement. It is a “software as a service” (saas) solution in a market I cannot comment on just yet (as we have only just started production). Because I really don’t like sitting and coding all night long (I am currently working with [...]

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Transferring money to the Philippines using Xoom.com

25 March 2010

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Up until now I have been using Xoom.com for transferring funds to my Filippino workers. But apparently Xoom.com does not want my money, because they are now raising the minimum amount to 50$ (which is ok), but as this blog post suggests, they are also now only accepting US bank accounts and US credit cards. [...]

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Personal outsourcing questions – Part 1

14 December 2009

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Sometimes I get a couple of questions by mail primarily about outsourcing. I thought I would answer the last one here on the blog. The mail started with the reader’s current situation, but I will skip this and go directly to the questions: How do you pay the freelancers? by hours? projets? Second question, Do [...]

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