Ready To Outsource? Where To Find The Best Freelancers and Virtual Assistants

Doctore's whip threatening a freelancer

Pic only moderately unrelated :-)

So, you’re finally there, huh? Finally ready to take a bigger roll in growing your business and step out of the day-to-day, time consuming tasks?

Cool, but now you have to figure out how and where you’re going to find the right person to step into your shoes. It is your business, you can’t trust important task to just any local yokel, right?

The good news is that finding talent isn’t that hard but first you have a big decision to make: are you looking for someone to work on one specific project, or do you need a long-term virtual assistant?

Hiring A Project-Specific Freelancer

Hiring a project-specific freelancer is a good idea when you need someone to perform one specific task and do it really well.

Let’s say that you need a brand new website that can handle live customer support and streaming video for an upcoming project and you have no idea how to build it. You need someone with the programming skills to pull it off, but once they’re done you won’t need anything else from them.

6 Steps To Blog Less and Have More Time For Your Hustle

Hustle/work by notthe1s @Flickr

Sorry, guys, no Friday Morning Media Cast today due to some Murphy’s Law difficulties. It will be back next week.

So the kids are tucked into bed and soon you will be, too, but right now it’s time to work on building your blog.

It’s the one hour or so after your 9-to-5 and family time to work on your future. You sit down at the computer, tired, but resolute and start working on a new blog post.

And then it hits you: if your one hour a night is spent writing, when are you going to tell people about what you’ve written and gaining some new readers?

What if I could show you a way to get ahead of your tight schedule and spend more time growing your blog than you do writing for it?

In this post I’m going to lay out the system that I use to create my content weeks and months in advance without adding anymore time or effort to my blogging. I’ll show you the free plugin that I use to create a perfect content schedule and the super simple system I use to make sure that my content creates an amazing customer experience.

Let’s start with content creation.

Your blog needs new posts on a regular schedule to grow and gain new readers, we both know that. But we also know that it’s easy to spend all your time writing new posts and never having a spare second to promote them, network yourself and grow your business.

The system I’ve developed over the last five years is about batching that work time so you don’t work more, you just work better.