How And Where To Outsource
Name of the Product: Shelancers
Click here to find a Virtual Assistant, Ghostwriter, or Designer.
Product Description: Membership based site offering guidance and support to service-based women owned businesses. In addition, members have the option of being included in the Shelancers’ Directory of Professional Women Freelancers.
Owned and operated by Darina Loakman & Nicole Dean.
Who This Product is Intended For:
Women that own a service-based, freelance business – and the businesses that wish to hire them as contractors.
Uses:
Shelancers is a place to find training, support and networking opportunities for female service based freelance business owners. Members will gain exposure to their business through the Shelancers directory. Those looking for help in their own business will search the directory looking for qualified individuals to perform services for everything from writing to web design and more.
Pros:
Members receive ongoing training and support as well as an interactive forum and a directory where you can advertise your business directly to those looking to hire help. The forum is a great place to discuss things with other business owners as well as find work as many times there are opportunities posted inside.
Cons:
The forum is available to all members, but it isn’t as active as it could be.
Due to the fact that Shelancers is a fairly new site, in time I believe the members and owners will make the forum much more active and a great place full of tools, resources and help for those who become members.
Personal Opinion:
Shelancers is a great place for the professional woman freelancer to get training, support and exposure. In addition to the directory and forum, Shelancers also provides great resources including a monthly report that provides in-depth information on issues of interest to anyone building a service-based business.
Nicole and Darina are both successful business owners, as well as freelance service providers themselves. They know what they are talking about and it’s obvious they enjoy helping other female freelancers grow their business. The training is impeccable and the personality of these two women makes it a perfect place to learn and advertise a business.
To Get Started:
If you’re a business owner, looking for some help with writing, design, or customer support — check out Shelancers. You can submit a Request for Proposal, which is like eLance, but with no middleman involved.
If you’re a freelancer who wishes to connect with potential clients and other successful freelancers, the membership is quite affordable and I highly recommend it. Learn more here.
Name Of The Product: Outsource Weekly
Product Description:
52 week subscription based email course covering everything you need to know about how to get more done in your business without doing it all yourself. You’ll learn what you can outsource, when is the right time and how to do it.
Members receive a new lesson every week for an entire year that will show them how to get more done in their business without sacrificing every second of their day to it.
Who This Product is Intended for:
Anyone who runs an online business and is ready to spend more time doing things in their life they love AND grow their business to profitable heights.
This course is especially for you if you:
• want to save time.
• want to have more free time (away from your business to do other things).
• want to save money in your business and still get things done.
• think you can’t afford to hire help, so you continue slaving away at it all yourself.
Uses:
Outsource Weekly provides the information and tools to teach you how to successfully use outsourcing to help you spend less time on your business yet still make money.
Pros:
Outsource Weekly is for anyone with a business. The self-paced lessons and assignments are intended for both the beginner and the more experienced business owner. The entire course is designed to help you in several parts of your business. With each topic broken down into individual weekly modules, outsourcing won’t be overwhelming.
Cons:
If you become a member and then unsubscribe and re-join the program at a later date you will start from the beginning. There is no picking up from where you left off.
Personal Opinion:
As a busy marketer, my workload was getting to be more than I alone could handle. I also have a few Internet marketing related sites that are growing daily and finding the time I need to devote to them, along with my client work was not happening.
I knew outsourcing would help me get it all done. As a matter of fact I have outsourced nothing in my business in the past, but knew I could be doing it effectively now so that I could not only focus on my clients and my own websites, but other things in my life outside of business as well.
When I heard about Outsource Weekly I thought “Oh Yes – that sounds good.” When I found out it was put together by Jimmy D. Brown and Nicole Dean, I knew it would be just what I was looking for.
So far I’m on week 7 and I couldn’t be more pleased in the things I’ve learned. Getting help in my business is something I should have done more of a long time ago. In a way, I’m kind of glad I waited because I think I would have created a bigger mess for myself if I had done it the way I have in the past. Now, I can do it the right way.
It’s so much more than an Outsourcing course. Nicole Dean, herself, said that she can’t teach people to Outsource a task until they understand the who/what/why first. Otherwise, 1. they might not even need the job done, and 2. they won’t know if it’s done well or not.
Outsource Weekly is teaching me about every area of internet marketing – from graphics to how to finally do article marketing the right way!
To Get Started:
Simply go to Outsource Weekly to read more about this program.
