that buys you a lot of VA time and REAL education and something to show at the end of the day

Alex

I focus on a lot of tasks that you should outsource. Reason is, I have to keep up on my game so I can keep teaching what works and what doesn’t. But 99.999% of people reading FTR just need to understand what to get done by outsourcers and let me keep them up on the game.

We have people that do all kinds of stuff for us such as blogging about us, commenting (GOOD commenting) on other blogs for us, that kind of thing. Anything that is like data entry level stuff gets outsourced. Repetitive work is outsourced.

Then you move up to contractors and staff once you’ve hit a certain level, so I have a publicist, support people, managers, accountants, all that stuff.

If you have people doing comments for you on blogs – where they use your urls instead of their own – make sure they are really replying to the conversations and being a real person and contributor. All they are doing is using your URL instead of theirs but the content of their comments needs to be good.

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My only serious caveat is that the overall push is to get work done by the lowest bidder and if that means you are paying $3.50 /hour , then you “win” — This attitude is becoming pervasive, with the result that people think it is somehow shameful to pay a decent wage to a US home-based educated English-speaking virtual assistant, when you can get a room full of Filipinos for the price of a bag of rice (which is going up BTW)

If you are serious about your business, keep in mind that the talent you hire is reflected in your results. That said, a $997 course where you get to spend many hours in self-education, reading, listening and watching videos about getting your work done, could be spent on a virtual team who will actually DO the work – that’s a lot of time, esp at $3.50 per hour! Even at 10 times that much, of actual work.

So if you really want to, you can spend a thousand hours (more) in front of your computer, get started on those lessons, and when you are a certified expert yourself, start looking for the cheapest hungriest global population out there to launch your internet marketing campaign for you and “automate” it too…or

Consider using the resources and talent of a virtual staffing company, where you get the account manager to help you organize and delegate, along with the VA– as well as all the vetting done for you, screening ,interviewing, testing ,guaranteeing that your virtual team is there when you need them, replacing your VA if needed and supplying individuals with the appropriate skills for the tasks you need done properly the first time. your choice…

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What are the tasks that YOU focus on?

What activities do you handle and where do you begin handing it over to the team?

Where do you find outsourcing the most cost effective for you?

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Being someone who almost burned out a couple times myself, I was glad to see you talking about outsourcing. You are so right on with this article. I hope everyone takes it to heart. One thing everyone should ask themselves is “how much is my time worth?”. Being a control freak outsourcing has always been hard for me, but I would have burned out a long time ago if I did not outsource pieces of my biz. The course by Jeff Milles looks interesting and hope people will check it out. What people need to be asking themselves is “What am I good at?”, and then stick to it and try to outsource the rest.

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He knows his stuff about internet marketing too and often he’s available to bounce an idea off.

It’s freeed up my time loads

Alex Kinetic
http://www.kineticfitness.co.uk

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