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John Jonas and I spent several months trying to connect to get this interview done, but it was worth the wait.
I was referred to him via Adam Short from Niche Profit Classroom as a guy who has a unique insight into a particular type of outsourcing online – in this case, hiring people specifically from the Philippines.
Why the Philippines? Well there are many reasons, most of which John outlines in this interview, and by the end of it I’m sure you will be rushing to look into this method yourself.
This is a really, really good podcast interview. It’s one of those discussions where the person being interviewed is willing to share the exact steps used to get something done. If you have ever considered doing any outsourcing online to help grow your business, listen to this call.
Outsourcing Is Not Always Easy
I’ve been telling people to “outsource” for many years, and unfortunately a lot of people come back to me with stories about how difficult it is to find quality contractors.
Common wisdom with outsourcing is that you go to a site like elance.com, guru.com or rentacoder.com, submit a job and then attempt to find the best person to get the project done. This can work, but it’s hit and miss and in most cases you have to go through some “bad” experiences before you get to the good people.
John Jonas has a different system, one that focuses on hiring people full time at very affordable rates, and then establishing a long term relationship that’s more like an outsourced employee than a odd job contractor, who only works with you when you have a project on.
When I say a relationship with his outsourcers, John well and truly trusts his people. He’s willing to give them access to his hosting accounts and even his Paypal account. There’s a lot of trust required to be that comfortable letting other people, especially people in another country far away, have control over pretty much everything in your business.
If you’re curious how John can do this, listen to the interview and you will find out how.
Show Notes
- How John started off and was able to quit his job thanks to online marketing
- How he first found out about outsourcing to the Philippines
- Why John stopped using elance type sites and instead started hiring full time
- John explains an entire case study of how he had his outsourcers set up an entire income stream that they manage without him
- Why John is able to trust his outsourcers with every aspect of his business
- What website options are available for outsourcing to the Philippines
- John takes us through an example of how to locate a Philippino worker using the website he uses to find good people
- We discuss the ethical concerns of hiring a full time worker for as little as $200 a month
- What John teaches in his ReplaceMyself.com website
Want To Outsource To The Philippines?
If you’re interested in doing what John does, and getting access to more training materials and his system you can use to train your outsourcers once you hire them, check out John’s site, ReplaceMyself.com.
John spends much of his time helping to outsource the way he does because he enjoys it, and since so much of his business is outsourced already, he has the time to do so. If you want his help, check out -
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Great insight on how to use outsourcing effectively. There is a risk involved, however, which is why sometimes it is better to outsource to people within the United States that you can even meet face-to-face. It is a different form of outsourcing, but still effective. Take something like hiring a company for link building services, for example. This is still somewhat considered outsourcing to build up your company’s website, but it is much less risky and more effective.
I’ve listened to John’s stuff and think he’s got some good advice. If I can hire a guy for 5x less than in the US, this may be worth looking into.
Outsourcing can really save you money and can bring you a high quality product. I personally had a good experience outsourcing. I had few websites done by a good guy in Russia and wonderful articles written by a lady from South Africa. Haven’t worked with Filipinos though, but I think they should be good because they have good English. A lot of big companies bring there call centers there.
Wonderful resources right here. I’ll be back for the next your posting. maintain writing and happy blogging.
Yes outsourcing maybe a good solution especially when small business is starting to pick up. But still you need to be careful on who to deal with.
I have been there and know the hassle of dealing with outsourcing.
Thanks Yaro and John for sharing this interesting information. It’s always nice to listen to a person who is willing to share the exact steps used to get something done. I’m the owner of an office cleaning company and there was a time when I was thinking about an outsourcing, but couldn’t actually find useful information about it. Now I have trained and professional full time stuff that lives in the Seattle area, where we provide our services.
We write a lot of articles but I usually hire from places like elance.com, and it is always hit and miss. Hiring writers from outside of the US is almost always cheaper, but there are often issues with grammar, etc., and we end up re-writing a lot of material. I haven’t hired anyone from the Philippines, though, and it might be worth trying that. Quality is really key for us.
Being a professional marketing consultant, I do not agree with outsourcing your marketing to other countries just because you get a deal! There are so many other more important aspects to marketing, internet marketing and search engine marketing that someone “even US based people” just don’t get. Go ahead and try it for a while then contact someone like me to clean up the mess and get you the results you were after in the first place.
Outsourcing is a blessing, especially to those who are just starting a business and need quality work done at an affordable rate. I’ve outsourced some marketing and I have to say that it really depends on the country you pick. Some countries have become more Americanized and will produce a product that is identical, sometimes superior, to what you could get in the US.