Outsourcing, Building My Online Business, and General Ramblings

Today I did a really fun podcast with Mark from wordpress goldmine about my adventures in outsourcing….  It was pretty awesome if I do say so myself .

I will be getting together a report to go with the call, so that I can go into more detail about it, and I did sit down and start writing it, but it just kept getting longer and longer and longer.  It was CRAZY!!!  So I have asked over at wordpress goldmine what people want to know about hiring an outsourcer, and I am calling on my readers here to comment… what do you want to know about outsourcing and I will base my report on those questions…

In the meantime listen to the podcast

And here are some basics to get you started.

Replacemyself.com is a super valuable resource for getting started with outsourcing to the Philippines.  It is not super cheap at $97 a month, but I would say that you only need it for about 1 or 2 months to get started.   Jon Jonas provides a ton of valuable information about Philippino culture and hiring practices.  His training for “your people” is also good, but I prefer to train my own folks, so I didn’t keep going with the program.  But for initial start up it is quite good, and their support is awesome.

I also have my outsourcer post a lot of content to postrunner (for backlinks), which is part of the Keyword Academy.  The Keyword Academy has some top notch training as well, but postrunner is why I stay there.  It is a network of around 600 blogs that you can “guest post” on.  All of the blogs are privately owned and all content that goes on them must be original.  Because of this I have found that posting to this network results in rankings increases pretty quickly.

My strategy is to look at what I am ranking on page two for and post 3 to 5 posts with that anchor text as the backlink.  I have found that this usually results in a front page ranking within 1 to 2 weeks of the posts being approved.  You can get access to postrunner by joining the keyword academy.  The link to postrunner is on the right hand side of the members area about halfway down. They just lowered their price to 33 dollars a month (quite a bargain) and still have a FREE trial to join.

Click here to get the FREE  trial and access to postrunner through keyword academy.

I think that is is for now.  I wanted to make sure I gave you the links for the places I talked about in the conference call.   I will be posting more on this subject, especially when my kids get back into school, and I have a bit more time to work.