Outsourcing Help For Your Network Marketing Internet Business
When you are building a network marketing internet business, there is a LARGE amount of work that you have to do. Besides all the article writing that you have to do, there are a ton of things that you have to do to get your network ranked. Don’t do all this work yourself.
You are the brainchild of your marketing business and your time is more valuable if it is used in strategy development. For many tasks, such as article writing and link building, outsource these tasks out to someone else. You’ll build your income stream much faster than if you try to do all these thing by yourself.
There are many professional writers and computer geeks all over the world. There are places where you can hire this type of help for as little as $2.50/hour. And, if you are doing the type of work that you could hire someone else to do it for $2.50, than what YOU are actually earning is $2.50/hour. Aren’t you worth more than this?
How can you find great help at a low cost? Well, in the past I have used Elance and Rent-A-Coder to get some of my tasks done. But, the one I like best and use the most is called oDesk . With oDesk, you can interview and hire freelance contractors from around the world. It’s efficient and easy to use, almost as if they were in the office next door. Signing up at oDesk is free. Check it out
– you don’t even have to give them a credit card number to look the site over.
If you have a job that needs to be done, there are two ways to get a contractor at oDesk (oDesk calls them Providers) to get the job done. The first way is to post the job on oDesk and let Providers bid on your job. Once posted, you’ll normally have a dozen or more bids within 24 hours.
The second way – which is the way I do it in my network marketing internet business – is to search for Providers and ask them if they would be interested in the work. The information provided on oDesk about their Providers is what makes oDesk so much better than the rest. oDesk provides their Providers with the opportunity to take efficiency tests and their scores on these tests are provided to you. There are 312 tests in all and range from “U.S. English Basic Skills”, “U.S. Vocabulary”, “HTML 4.01″, to “Advanced Java”. Many, many, many different tests.
The Providers are happy to take these tests if they have the required skills because they know that it increases their chances of finding a job. When searching for Providers, you have a variety of ways to search for them. You can search by keyword, category(such as “writing and translation”), test scores, location, or by hourly rate.
After you enter your search criteria, you are given a list of potential Providers that you can review and choose from. ODesk provides you a host of information about each Provider including feedback from previous employers. oDesk also provides you information on how long it took the Provider to complete the job.
I often try to select Providers from the Philippines. They have an excellent work ethic and many of them are university students. Working for $3-$4/hr. is excellent pay for them and most of them have excellent English skills. But, always check them out.
I always ask a potential Provider to take a test before I hire them. For instance, if I need a number of articles written, I’ll ask them to write me an article. I tell them up front that if I like the article, I will pay them for it. But, if I don’t like it, I tell them that it’s not up to my standard.
Providing good, clear instructions to the Provider is so important. It’s best if you can show the Provider a video of what you want them to do. For example, if you want a Provider to build some back-links for you, take a few minutes and show the Provider on video the type of sites you want them to build back-links on and what type of information you want in those back-links.
If you have not done video before in your network marketing internet business, you can use sites like Camtasia or JingProject. Camtasia is very professional, but a bit expensive. JingProject is a brother site to Camtasia, but is free to use. The only problem to JingProject is that your videos are limited to 5 minutes or less. But, if you can’t provide enough information to your Provider with just one video, provide them with two videos. It’s free.
The last thing that I like to do when resourcing a Provider on oDesk is to ask them to connect with me over the internet using Skype. This enables me to talk directly to them to see if we can make a business-like connection and it allows me to judge their use of the English language.
After I have found and used a Provider, I review that Provider and provide that information to oDesk. I always try to be honest and straight-forward. I know that others will use my reviews to help their business’s.
If I am very pleased with a Provider, I try to stay in touch and use them on future jobs. I even try to further develop them. For example, I had one Provider who did an excellent back-link development job for me and he spoke good English. I asked him if he wanted to try writing some articles for me. He said that he had never done that before, but that he would try. He’s now one of my best freelance writers.
Don’t do all this work yourself! Your network marketing internet business needs you as the captain of the ship – not doing all the grunt work. Steer the ship and outsource the manual labor.
Below is a short video showing you some things about oDesk (watch it in HD). I hope it helps you and your network marketing internet business. Enjoy!
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March 31st, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Hi, this is Nicole from Rent a Coder.
As suggested (thank you), our service is appropriate for hiring workers for network marketing. I’d like to point out a few differences between our service and services like Elance and oDesk however, since those differences could influence the success of an outsourced project.
Selection of workers:
The more bids you receive, the more bargaining power and selection you have, and the less you have to pay. However, some sites make money for themselves in ways that reduce the # of bids you receive.
Elance workers can’t make more than 10 bids a month unless they pay a subscription fee ($10/month for 20, $20/month for 40 or $40/month for 60). This could reduce the number of qualified bids you receive.
At Rentacoder, we do not place a bid limit on any of our workers for any reason.
Disputes/Arbitration:
Unfortunately, 10-20% of projects fail (and on some sites this # is higher). If your worker is a bum, it’s important the site offers escrowing and arbitration so you are guaranteed to get your money back. However, some sites charge so much for arbitration or make it so time consuming that it becomes impractical.
Elance charges $66.66 or $133.33 for each arbitration, which may make it too expensive to be a legitimate option on your project. And its mandatory pre-arbitration processes allow an abusive worker to stall the start of arbitration (consequently preventing you from accessing your money for *weeks*… 21 business days in fact). Elance’s arbitration process can be tricky too, with each part of the process elongated with 3 – 15 business days in-between. What can be particularly frustrating is that Elance doesn’t publish the detailed rules of its arbitration process.
oDesk’s limited arbitration on pay-for-time projects is not based on quality of work, but simply whether or not the worker committed fraud-based solely on screenshots, not an analysis of deliverables. As a result, you could end up paying for work that isn’t satisfactory.
At Rentacoder, we offer arbitration on all projects free of charge and we test your deliverables to make sure they meet requirements. We also prevent abusive buyers from stalling an arbitration’s start. In fact, 45% of our arbitrations are completed under a day and 75% of them are completed under a week. Even more, we show the public how our arbitrators make their decisions.
In addition, most of these types of sites let you pay a worker you have employed before by the hour, which is the most convenient and cheapest way. However, Elance doesn’t verify the worker’s timecard is accurate. On Rent a Coder, workers must punch in and out of a timeclock, and you can see a continuous record of their webcam and desktop, so you know the time is accurate.
There are other differences as well. I invite everyone to compare the 7 major services through this link to learn even more: http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/DotNet/misc/CompetitorInformation/WhyRentACoder_ForBuyers.aspx
If you have any questions, please let me know. You can also call in to talk to a facilitator 7 days a week, or email us (see http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/Feedback.asp).
Nicole
http://www.rentacoder.com
April 13th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
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