It was only a matter of time I suppose… I had an interesting call yesterday with the founder of one of the more “niche” outsourcing companies I’d ever heard of. What do they do? Dating! Specifically, PersonalDatingAssistants.com is “dating done […]

Happy New Year! This is a weird time of year for me. On the one hand, I know New Year’s Resolutions are dumb. I mean, if something is worth changing, it’s worth changing now — not waiting for some arbitrary […]

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. […]

We outsource cooking all the time — every time you eat at a restaurant or order take out, right? But what about making the chore of cooking easier when you do it at home. We know it’s generally cheaper, healthier, […]

This post is contributed by Anupam Rajey, CEO of Acelerar Tech, a leading KPO firm that offers virtual assistants for social media, Internet research, email & chat support, and more. Anupam is a seasoned marketer and sales expert. You can learn […]

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 […]

If you’re struggling with what to outsource in your business, it can become a real bottleneck in productivity. As you know, virtual assistants can handle any job that doesn’t require their physical presence, and these days, that’s quite a range […]

This month I stumbled into a new book project — and already have a good chunk of it written. Even though I’ve been through this process a handful of times, it’s still a daunting and intimidating task to be sitting […]

Last week was our 4-month old son’s first day of daycare. (He took the drop-off much better than mom and dad.) Even though I work from home, we never really questioned that we’d have to have someone else watch him during […]

The other day, a reader asked me how do you know when it’s time to hire a VA? My answer: When the pain of inaction becomes too great. Not when you launch a new project, not the first moment you […]