How I Had 13 Assistants Competing for my Business

How I Had 13 Assistants Competing for my Business

I recently completed my first “crowdsourced” outsourcing experiment. I hired a company called DesignCrowd to come up with a cover design for my latest book. Previously I’ve gone to Fiverr or tapped my wife’s mad PowerPoint skillz to create my covers. […]

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Staff.com

Staff.com

Update June 2016: Staff.com no longer lets you hire remote staff. Instead, they’ve pivoted to provide time analytics software for the workday. Staff.com is a remote staffing marketplace based in Las Vegas. Founded in early 2012, they’ve already attracted thousands of […]

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Freelancer.com

Freelancer.com

Freelancer.com is the world’s largest freelance marketplace, with over 7 million users. Since 2004, the Australia-based company has grown into an impressive global outsourcing hub, with members from more than 200 countries around the world. In terms of dollar volume, […]

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How I Hired My Latest VA for Free

How I Hired My Latest VA for Free

My latest VA “hire” didn’t cost me anything out of pocket. This won’t work for every business and definitely has some downsides as well, but here’s how it worked. One of my goals for the year was to make the […]

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Mechanical Turk

Mechanical Turk

Amazon Mechanical Turk is an outsourcing platform perfect for small, repetitive tasks that can’t otherwise be automated. The service launched in 2005, primarily as a way for Amazon to cheaply outsource some labor-intensive projects. After the initial launch, interest in […]

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