2 Part Goodies…

It sounds great to go hire an employee in another country where a good living is $400 per month.  Tim Ferris made it sound so easy, didn’t he?

But here’s the deal . . .

I’ve hired numerous people from India and the Philippines and I’ve burned through tens-of-thousands of dollars that did very little to help my business.

Was it their fault or mine?  Easy answer – it wasn’t their’s.

Outsourcing simply means hiring someone outside of your business to do something for your business.

That can come in the form of a full-time, or part-time *independent contractor* (that’s important for tax and benefit implications).

But the problem with this arrangement is that your job THEN becomes managing this person – or persons.  You need to keep them busy.  And if you now have a new job, keeping someone else busy, how freed up are you?

Exactly.    

DON’T HIRE ANYONE without first having a system to give them.  DON’T HIRE ANYONE without having crystal clarity about what you want done and how.

(I’m going to point you to a John Jonas resource in a bit that will put some of these elements in place for you).

In addition to Jonas, there is another MUST have resource: Source Control by David Walsh

http://affiliateblackbook.com/go/sourcecontrol

I’ve consumed tons of information on this subject and this book I rate above all others.

Maybe it’s obvious but there are some jobs that you want a full-time, dedicated person for and then there are other jobs where it makes sense to hire on a job-to-job basis, and then still others where it’s worth paying a little extra to have the job crowdsourced.  (If these are new terms then you need David’s book, just like I did.)

Also check out John Jonas’ free webinar here -

http://affiliateblackbook.com/go/jonas

John isn’t raking in the most money of all IMers I know but he definitely has one of the coolest life-styles.  He is WALKING THE TALK.

All the best to you – X

PS – I want you to drop what you’re doing and go download this other freebie (while you can).

http://affiliateblackbook.com/go/workthesystem

You’re about to get swamped with gurus promoting this – but I’ve been talking about this book for at least two  years.  It’s had a profound impact on my ENTIRE LIFE.

Because of this book we even do our laundry different – I’m NOT kidding you.

Seriously, I think you’ll love this book – I do.

YES, this leading up to a big ticket launch.  The good news?  You can sign up as an affiliate, right here:

http://affiliateblackbook.com/go/systemaffiliate