subject: Outsourcing For Dummies [print this page] A few things come to my mind when I talk about my internet marketing success, having an accountability partner and outsourcing. I've also learned how to solve problems big and small. The stream of thinking is to grow your business when it is time to grow, but growing your business over a period of time can be hazardous if you don't watch out what you are doing. You need to take your task list that you have, break it down and outsource jobs to other people. It is very helpful to know how you're going to solve a problem before you have it too.
When I launch a new website, I'll go out and get a public email account for each website. Then I use that email address when I outsource the work. I go through my list of things to do and outsource jobs to my virtual assistants. I always have enough work for them to keep them busy.
I use Skype to communicate with my virtual assistants, but I need to get some kind of ticketing system set up in its place. How the ticketing system works is you leave a message that such and such need to be done then in a few days the job is done for me.
With my new websites I have going up I need to get a link building schedule worked out. Everyday when I start out the day, I have a list of things that need to get done and they end up getting checked off the list. I have them organized in rank of priority. On my to do list, I scan through to see what jobs can be outsourced and get those off to the virtual assistant right away.
I usually get this work out and I'm done doing some of my important tasks by 10am before other people get to their desks. I keep a good log of things to do for up to a year and I knock them all off one by one. I jot ideas down in my notebook and keep everything that is going on in my business written down somewhere. I carry my notebook wherever I go. I call it my million dollar notebook because it is filled with a lot of ideas.
Once every 30 days, I go through my notebook and check on the stats to my website and see if there's anything else to do. I keep adding to my main list and I can keep track of how things are growing over a period of time. Then I take the most important tasks and outsourcing is what I'll do with them. Then the list just starts all over again.
