Best Practices Guide
Efficient Outsourcing
Boost Your Performance with Virtual Assistants
Mohsin Khawaja
http://www.khmohsin.com
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You have
to consider what your own time is worth!
In this book, learn how
to efficiently multiply your results in limited available time.
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Copyright
Efficient
Outsourcing
Boost Your Performance with Virtual Assistants
By Mohsin Khawaja
© 2011, Mohsin Khawaja
(email@khmohsin.com)
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Table of Contents
What is Outsourcing & What it is not?
Someone is not doing business on your behalf
You Have To Teach And Train Your Freelancers
It will not save you money – It will save you time
You have enough dumb people around you, and they are cheap!
Only outsource what you cannot manage with your current team
Biggest Challenges While Outsourcing Projects:
Get time and skills to manage before you outsource work
Do not put your responsibility on someone else
Lack of Communication - Unclear guidelines.
Do not be fooled with portfolios.
What gets measured – gets managed.
Best practices to follow while you outsource work?
What types of tasks are best for outsourcing?.
Tasks that require high level of creativity.
Repetitive task that can be measured exactly.
Examples of Works that can be outsourced.
Keep final checking to yourself.
Only pay through escrow services:
What qualities to look for in a freelancer?
5 steps to Hiring a Virtual Assistant.
How to communicate effectively with your virtual assistants?
Elements of an Efficient Procedure:
Train your workers to perfect one task a time.
Recommended Tools to increase productivity:
Real Time Creation, Sharing and Collaboration.
Where to outsource your projects?
-Guru.
-ODesk.
Who is this book for?
We live in the Information Age. There is no shortage of information these days on any topic. But what we feel missing is a concise, step by step guide to problems we face every day. After reading all the available text on a given situation, it can take days, to summarize all the available information into actionable data.
This book is ideal for busy people, for small business owners stuck right in the middle of a situation. This book is for those who do not want to read, but want to take action. You can finish this book in one sitting and apply the methods and techniques for accurate results. If you follow the steps closely, I can guarantee, you will never get a problem in outsourcing any of your projects.
What makes this book unique?
This book may not be an encyclopedia on outsourcing, but if you want to know the best practices to follow to outsource any project, then this book has all the most important things you should know.
What I have tried here is to summarize all my readings and experience, in as little words as possible, while being descriptive enough, so that it becomes a handy guide.
To manage a highly profitable business and to have a highly enjoyable personal life, you need to duplicate yourself either by hiring or by outsourcing. In this book I teach you how to create a balance between hiring and outsourcing.
Efficient Outsourcing
Boost Your Productivity with Virtual Assistants
Everybody will agree on the fact that “to earn Money” is not a goal in itself. What everybody actually wants “is to enjoy having Money.” “Money” serves as a tool to make your dreams and wishes come true. Same is the case of Business.
What good is Business for you, if you have to sit in an office, no matter if it is yours, and work ten hours (or more) a day; leaving no time for you to enjoy. If this is what you are caught into right now, then my friend, it is not a business it is just another job for you. And may be a little more tedious than the usual job!
It is the last thing that should happen to any business owner, and especially for a small business owner, that business gets incharge of you; inspite of you controlling it. The purpose of all businesses is to improve your life experience by allowing you more time and resources for yourself and for those you care most.
In order for your business to succeed and for you to have time to focus on most important things, that matters most for your business and in your life; you have to hire people. However, when you hire people you have the added responsibility to manage them. You not only have to pay them, you have to raise their pays regularly in order to retain them. And when you think about employee retention pay is not the only factor. Work environment, tools, technology and management methodologies play a vital role in employee retention.