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3 filipinos writing my ebook

1 December 2009

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Just a brief update. Some of you might remember that I am trying to get an ebook written. Up until now I haven’t had much luck with the writer I originally hired. I am testing another one, but she does not have experience writing ebooks (only articles). So when I discovered a couple of good [...]

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Finding a writer in the Philippines using bestjobs.ph

5 November 2009

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A couple of months ago I found a writer that should write my first ebook. It didn’t turn out quite right and I am som experiences richer. So I am on it again. During my new round of hiring I have been in contact with several writers I found on bestjobs.ph. Many of them (up [...]

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Outsourcing to all parts of the world

28 October 2009

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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 [...]

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Typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines

5 October 2009

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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 [...]

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My experiences with outsourcing to the Philippines

14 September 2009

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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 [...]

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Interviewing writers over Skype

25 August 2009

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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 [...]

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Update on hiring a Philippine writer using bestjobs.ph

17 August 2009

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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 [...]

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Hiring full time writer in the Philippines… Maybe…

10 August 2009

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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 [...]

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An outsourcer’s guide to paying your people

15 July 2009

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As mentioned previously I hired my first guy in the Philippines a couple of weeks ago. Now it is time for paying him (I pay him bi-monthly). While it is really easy paying people or companies you hire on Elance, since they have the whole payment thing integrated in their process, it s more of [...]

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Want to outsource? Become a knowledge worker

2 July 2009

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Many companies I’ve worked with have great difficulties getting outsourcing up and running. So should it be any less difficult if you should outsource parts of your life? My take on this is that you should become a knowledge worker. This meaning that though you are not going to do the task yourself, you should [...]

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