Comments on: Brilliant Outsourcing Case Study with Steve and Debbie Turner http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:54:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Linda Lupowitz http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm/comment-page-1#comment-103 Linda Lupowitz Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:21:41 +0000 http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm#comment-103 I appreciate your response to my comments. I guess my point is that some people want or need rooms full of phone-spammers or cheap offshore labor spent doing the latest techniques for more traffic...others want intelligent help to produce, administer and support a business which is viable, sustainable and gives real value in the marketplace. I would not want a client who can't or won't pay more than $3.50 per hour. A virtual assistant can be an executive level or a right-hand or someone who knows more than you and can deliver - but if you pay rock-bottom that is what you are likely to receive in terms of results. This may not apply to certain tasks, but there are many times that a US-based English-speaking VA is worth the weight in gold. If you value your business, your integrity, that is. You get what you pay for, so invest wisely. I appreciate your response to my comments. I guess my point is that some people want or need rooms full of phone-spammers or cheap offshore labor spent doing the latest techniques for more traffic…others want intelligent help to produce, administer and support a business which is viable, sustainable and gives real value in the marketplace. I would not want a client who can’t or won’t pay more than $3.50 per hour. A virtual assistant can be an executive level or a right-hand or someone who knows more than you and can deliver – but if you pay rock-bottom that is what you are likely to receive in terms of results. This may not apply to certain tasks, but there are many times that a US-based English-speaking VA is worth the weight in gold. If you value your business, your integrity, that is. You get what you pay for, so invest wisely.

]]> By: admin http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm/comment-page-1#comment-102 admin Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:06:08 +0000 http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm#comment-102 Wow, excellent comments guys. Implementation in action, this is the best type of feedback posible. @ Jeanne - The Compendium is free, unless you are referring to the Outsource Secrets Revealed course. That will not be free. @ Kathryn - Can't wait to make you a successful case study like Steve and Debbie! @ Linda - I advocate outsourcing as this... this is my actual definition on my eBook: Outsourcing is delegating tasks to the gifts, talents, and resources of other people so you can work less and make more money. I am not going to justify my price tag, when I release it on Monday. My members who have already bought it and paid for it will do so for me. They know the value they received far outweighed the price. For example. This course has over 23 hours of 'live' webinars SHOWING people what to do. It's not a written report. It's not a teleseminar "talking" about it. We literally show people 'everything'. This makes the content MORE valuable than it just being an audio. We are basing our pricing on very fair practices done in the internet marketing community. Many home study courses price out from $1000-$5000. We will be on the low end of that #, somewhere. People don't have to buy my course. There is enough info in the compendium, which many said I should have sold as a course on it's own at $497... So, if people are satisfied and thing the ebook is all they need, no worries, they just won't be exposed to the 99% of stuff I DID NOT INCLUDE in the eBook, and they will miss out on countless case studies from millionaires on how they did it, who they used and how you can do the same. Showing is much more valuable to me than just telling... I think a virtual assistant is a powerful thing, definitely.. but you won't be hiring any virtual assistants in USA for $3.50 an hour. I pay mine $11.50/hour. from Linda "I find it sad and disheartening that you would perpetuate the idea that foreign cheap labor is better than working with a US home-based business owner like yourself" Linda, we live in a world economy. No longer are people forced to pay for something at a price where they live, in their backyard. We can now find and pay people what people are willing to do the work for, using the internet, from any place any price. I advocate people finding outsourcers who will get their tasks done, at the best price, with the best results they can. And if that is overseas, then great. If not, then great.... there are many great outsourcers here in the USA too. @ Jay - Brilliant use of outsourcing and teaching kids entrepreneurial models which they can see as helping them and helping you at the same time. It's win win for both of you. How many articles do you think you can get done for $5 an hour? That's a decent rate. Just make sure you are not having to do extensive editing, which I sometimes find international outsourcing articles writers make me have to do, since English is not native and they use colloquialisms which we might not use. So, as a test, maybe have them do a 1 paragraph rewrite and see what their skills are, just to make sure you are not going to, in the end, make more work for your time editing. Or better yet.. take the best writer, and pay them .25 more and have them do the editing of the other's work to save you the time doing that task too. Jeff Wow, excellent comments guys. Implementation in action, this is the best type of feedback posible.

@ Jeanne – The Compendium is free, unless you are referring to the Outsource Secrets Revealed course. That will not be free.

@ Kathryn – Can’t wait to make you a successful case study like Steve and Debbie!

@ Linda – I advocate outsourcing as this… this is my actual definition on my eBook: Outsourcing is delegating tasks to the gifts, talents, and resources of other people so you can work less and make more money.

I am not going to justify my price tag, when I release it on Monday. My members who have already bought it and paid for it will do so for me. They know the value they received far outweighed the price.

For example.

This course has over 23 hours of ‘live’ webinars SHOWING people what to do.

It’s not a written report.
It’s not a teleseminar “talking” about it.

We literally show people ‘everything’.

This makes the content MORE valuable than it just being an audio.

We are basing our pricing on very fair practices done in the internet marketing community.

Many home study courses price out from $1000-$5000.

We will be on the low end of that #, somewhere.

People don’t have to buy my course. There is enough info in the compendium, which many said I should have sold as a course on it’s own at $497…

So, if people are satisfied and thing the ebook is all they need, no worries, they just won’t be exposed to the 99% of stuff I DID NOT INCLUDE in the eBook, and they will miss out on countless case studies from millionaires on how they did it, who they used and how you can do the same.

Showing is much more valuable to me than just telling…

I think a virtual assistant is a powerful thing, definitely.. but you won’t be hiring any virtual assistants in USA for $3.50 an hour.

I pay mine $11.50/hour.

from Linda “I find it sad and disheartening that you would perpetuate the idea that foreign cheap labor is better than working with a US home-based business owner like yourself”

Linda, we live in a world economy. No longer are people forced to pay for something at a price where they live, in their backyard.

We can now find and pay people what people are willing to do the work for, using the internet, from any place any price.

I advocate people finding outsourcers who will get their tasks done, at the best price, with the best results they can. And if that is overseas, then great.

If not, then great…. there are many great outsourcers here in the USA too.

@ Jay – Brilliant use of outsourcing and teaching kids entrepreneurial models which they can see as helping them and helping you at the same time. It’s win win for both of you.

How many articles do you think you can get done for $5 an hour? That’s a decent rate.

Just make sure you are not having to do extensive editing, which I sometimes find international outsourcing articles writers make me have to do, since English is not native and they use colloquialisms which we might not use.

So, as a test, maybe have them do a 1 paragraph rewrite and see what their skills are, just to make sure you are not going to, in the end, make more work for your time editing.

Or better yet.. take the best writer, and pay them .25 more and have them do the editing of the other’s work to save you the time doing that task too.

Jeff

]]> By: Jay Jenkins http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm/comment-page-1#comment-101 Jay Jenkins Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:35:04 +0000 http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm#comment-101 Now I know where all my money went! Outsourcing is just brilliant. I've added a little quirk to my own outsourcing as of Friday the 18th...Living in such a small town (Bisbee, AZ) I thought it'd be nice if I gave some of the high school students a chance to see what internet marketing is all about so I brought a few of them home with me and gave them a quick tutorial on setting up a blog with WordPress and how to make it relate to an online product. Then I asked if any of them would like to earn a little extra cash re-writing some of my PLR articles and had 3 takers. I'll have them back on Wednesday, and, if they don't need a lot of tweaking, will post them so anyone can look. At 5 dollars an hour (I put them on the honor system) it would be a bargain, considering I've spent way too much time doing this little chore myself. Jay Now I know where all my money went! Outsourcing is just brilliant. I’ve added a little quirk to my own outsourcing as of Friday the 18th…Living in such a small town (Bisbee, AZ) I thought it’d be nice if I gave some of the high school students a chance to see what internet marketing is all about so I brought a few of them home with me and gave them a quick tutorial on setting up a blog with WordPress and how to make it relate to an online product. Then I asked if any of them would like to earn a little extra cash re-writing some of my PLR articles and had 3 takers. I’ll have them back on Wednesday, and, if they don’t need a lot of tweaking, will post them so anyone can look. At 5 dollars an hour (I put them on the honor system) it would be a bargain, considering I’ve spent way too much time doing this little chore myself.

Jay

]]> By: Linda Lupowitz http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm/comment-page-1#comment-100 Linda Lupowitz Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:53:32 +0000 http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm#comment-100 You are asking for comments, so I feel compelled to respond to you. I fully agree that hiring other people to do work they can do better and faster than you can, and paying them to do it, is a critical part of building an online business without killing yourself. I am sure your course is worthwhile, but I have to question why a $1K-5K price is justifiable, when you are essentially telling people they can get work done in overseas sweatshops for $3.50/hour. If that is the case, that money would be better spent on virtual assistance, would it not? How many hours of work could you get done for $5000?!! Also, I find it sad and disheartening that you would perpetuate the idea that foreign cheap labor is better than working with a US home-based business owner like yourself, English-speaking, educated, maybe a parent like you who wants to live decently - but you would have to pay them a heck of alot more to be able to do that -- furthermore, you can hire a virtual assistant through a staffing service that will take all the hassle and worry out of screening people, and will replace them if they need to, and handle the back-end office for you as well as knowing what you need to get done by your support team. You don't need hours of training to do this, that is what a virtual staffing agency does for you. Just my 2 cents here, good luck with your course and I hope you continue to develop it, with the addition of why working with US or Canadian home-based virtual support teams - at a higher wage, which they deserve - is a better alternative. You are asking for comments, so I feel compelled to respond to you. I fully agree that hiring other people to do work they can do better and faster than you can, and paying them to do it, is a critical part of building an online business without killing yourself. I am sure your course is worthwhile, but I have to question why a $1K-5K price is justifiable, when you are essentially telling people they can get work done in overseas sweatshops for $3.50/hour. If that is the case, that money would be better spent on virtual assistance, would it not? How many hours of work could you get done for $5000?!! Also, I find it sad and disheartening that you would perpetuate the idea that foreign cheap labor is better than working with a US home-based business owner like yourself, English-speaking, educated, maybe a parent like you who wants to live decently – but you would have to pay them a heck of alot more to be able to do that — furthermore, you can hire a virtual assistant through a staffing service that will take all the hassle and worry out of screening people, and will replace them if they need to, and handle the back-end office for you as well as knowing what you need to get done by your support team. You don’t need hours of training to do this, that is what a virtual staffing agency does for you. Just my 2 cents here, good luck with your course and I hope you continue to develop it, with the addition of why working with US or Canadian home-based virtual support teams – at a higher wage, which they deserve – is a better alternative.

]]> By: Kathryn Duerst http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm/comment-page-1#comment-93 Kathryn Duerst Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:47:46 +0000 http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm#comment-93 I know what it is like to sit in front of a computer while my children grow up, and I could SO relate to Debbie in that video! Thank you so much for sharing that Case Study. For sure, I am going to be a case study like that. You like being an answer to people's prayers, and you sure are to mine! Thanks for showing me I am not alone. I know what it is like to sit in front of a computer while my children grow up, and I could SO relate to Debbie in that video! Thank you so much for sharing that Case Study. For sure, I am going to be a case study like that. You like being an answer to people’s prayers, and you sure are to mine! Thanks for showing me I am not alone.

]]> By: Jeanne May http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm/comment-page-1#comment-92 Jeanne May Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:28:24 +0000 http://outsourcesecretsrevealed.com/blog/brilliant-outsourcing-case-study-with-steve-and-debbie-turner.htm#comment-92 Really looking forward to devouring this compendium... it sounds so good and just what I need! Thanks for offering it. Jeanne http://www.goalsnaspirations.com Really looking forward to devouring this compendium… it sounds so good and just what I need! Thanks for offering it.
Jeanne
http://www.goalsnaspirations.com

]]>