| As your business continues to grow and increase in its | | | | further determine whether they are the right person |
| profitability, so does your workload. As a result, you | | | | for your project. You could evaluate him/her even |
| have less time to be with loved ones, to relax, and to | | | | further by assigning a minor task to see how well and |
| have fun. You can never seem to get away, at least, | | | | how quickly he/she completes it. This way, you can be |
| not if you want your business to continue being | | | | more confident in determining whether you want this |
| profitable. What can you do? | | | | person to be working on a critical project of yours or |
| The key is to hire people who can do the more | | | | not. |
| repetitive tasks of your business as well or better than | | | | Most freelancer sites will enable you to post a project, |
| you can. By doing this, you'll not only gain the time to do | | | | wait for freelancers registered on those sites to bid on |
| more productive tasks that you would have spent | | | | your project, and accepting the freelancer's bid who |
| doing those repetitive tasks, but those tasks will be | | | | you feel will do the best job at the price you want to |
| done more efficiently and more effectively than if you | | | | pay. |
| had been doing them yourself, which will increase the | | | | When you are communicating with a freelancer on |
| productivity and profitability of your business. | | | | one of these sites, it is better to use the |
| No matter how hard you try, you cannot get more | | | | communication/email system on those sites instead of |
| than 24 hours out of a day. Additionally, you will very | | | | your own or a Web-based email system; all of the |
| likely not be able to work 24 hours out of a day on | | | | emails on these sites are archived, so if a dispute |
| your business, as you do need to eat, sleep, bathe, and | | | | evolves, a documented record of what the two of |
| spend a little time away from the business. Therefore, | | | | you discussed will be present so that a dispute can be |
| you need to utilize as much as possible the time you | | | | easily resolved. |
| do spend on your business in order to make it as | | | | When you do find quality freelancers to work for you, |
| productive and as profitable as you can make it. | | | | you should try to form a consistent relationship with |
| An online business involves the following tasks: | | | | them. This means giving them compliments from time |
| - Email marketing | | | | to time, providing occasional bonuses (either cash or |
| - Copywriting | | | | gifts, such as laptops, iPods, MP3 players, etc.), and |
| - Creating websites | | | | consistently going back to them for all of your tasks |
| - Uploading websites | | | | and assignments. |
| - Creating product offers | | | | There are accounts of freelancers only working for |
| - Uploading product offers | | | | specific clients and no one else because those clients |
| - Posting on related forums and message boards | | | | treat them very well. It's important to realize that |
| - Posting on social networking sites | | | | freelancers from other countries, such as Romania |
| - Etc. | | | | and India, earn what they would consider to be a small |
| Certainly, you could do all of these tasks yourself, but | | | | fortune from just a $15 assignment. In the United |
| would that be the most efficient and productive use of | | | | States, $15 doesn't seem like much, but in countries like |
| your time? It wouldn't because you have to decide | | | | India and Romania, $15 is much more than the average |
| upon what future product offers you will create, what | | | | countryman there can earn in a week or even a |
| target markets to present them to, and other important | | | | month's time. As a result, those freelancers will be |
| aspects of the business that only the owner of the | | | | committed to providing quality work regularly if you |
| business can decide, and that person is YOU. | | | | continually go back to them. |
| Therefore, you need to hire people to complete these | | | | By utilizing freelancer sites to hire quality freelancers to |
| repetitive tasks for you so that you can focus on the | | | | work on and complete repetitive tasks that need to be |
| primary activities that will make your business more | | | | done for your business to successfully operate, you |
| money. The Internet makes it easy for you to find and | | | | can focus on completing tasks that more directly |
| hire these people. | | | | impact the productivity and profitability of your |
| There are websites that have freelancers and virtual | | | | business. This will lead to you getting more done in the |
| workers who can do all sorts of tasks, from article | | | | same 24-hour period than you could do when you did |
| writing and copywriting to forum posters and website | | | | all of the tasks by yourself, and, provided you hire the |
| programmers. These sites include Elance.com, | | | | right freelancers for your projects, those projects can |
| RentACoder.com, and | | | | get done as well or better than they would have been |
| Many of these sites will show profiles of these | | | | done by you. |
| workers and the ratings they have received from | | | | Therefore, you should begin interviewing freelancers |
| people who they have worked for in the past. These | | | | and finding at least one quality freelancer you can |
| ratings can help you determine whether they provide | | | | depend on so that your business provides more free |
| consistent, quality work or not. Still, you should interview | | | | time, proficiency, and profitability for you! |
| them via email, instant messaging, or even by phone to | | | | |