If you’ve ever tried to outsource, you know that finding good help is not easy. Yeah, I know there are places like Elance, Rentacoder and all those and they work to some extent. However, if you are like me who first prefer to hire people who are knowledgeable about Internet Marketing or Marketing in general, that’s not always easy.

 

Thankfully, my friends Nicole and Darina have come up with Shelancers. This is now my new first stop when I need to hire work out. Shelancers is for freelancers and business owners like us.

If you are looking to hire someone, you’ll find a directory of qualified, knowledgeable and reliable freelancers. They don’t take a cut from either you or the freelancer. You negotiate your work and pay independently. Going through the directory, I recognize some names, some of them I work with and know they do fantastic work.

In order to get listed in Shelancers, these women

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Four hours of solid work a day may not seem like a lot to some people. For me that is actually on the high end of productivity. I suspect that is the same of many home based entrepreneurs - especially those with a family.

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Kathryn McCallum

For the past two to three weeks, I have been spending 95% of my work time on only one clients’ project. Mostly because we are on a deadline that is fast approaching. The good part is, unlike before, I don’t mind it at all. I love it and relish the idea of helping them create a fantastic new product. So what’s different?

Because I asked for a good rate and they pay me that rate. 

The net effect is, I gladly devote my time because I feel I am fairly compensated and of course to sweeten things, the client is fabulous to work with. That’s why I’ve been kinda quiet on

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How do you outsource your work? Do you find someone for every new emerging task you have or do you have a number of people whom you are working with consistently - like your virtual team members.

You’ve probably heard that it is best to have people you work with on a regular basis instead of dishing work out piecemeal when you need them done. It makes sense. No re-training and they learn your business so after a while everything pretty much runs like clock work without you.

From a technical standpoint, I just found yet another good reason this week. That is…

You can better control access to your web hosting accounts. 

Whenever outsourcing is recommended, someone will almost always be concerned about their logins. And you should be vigilant. Shouldn’t stop you from outsourcing, though. But what is really ironic - to me - is, the very same people turn around and outsource task by task to

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GoogleDocs has been around for a while. I’m sure you’ve read about it. I’ve mentioned it several times on this blog itself. But what’s so spectacular about an office suite other than it being online?

This short, easy reading report will show you just how you can use improve your team’s efficiency using GoogleDocs.

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