Archive for June, 2008

Do What You Do Best, Outsource the Rest

Tom Peters, the owner of a popular consultant company, once said “Do what you do best, Outsource the rest“. That quote is so powerful and very true. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people fail at affiliate marketing or making money online because they can’t do a certain task.

For example, they could be an amazing copywriter, but when it comes down to landing page designs and layouts, they spend days and days on it, or just get fed up and quit. No, no, no! You have to outsource the work you can’t/don’t/aren’t good at.

There are many sites out there that offer you to post jobs that you would like to outsource free. A very popular site that allows you to post your work you’d like to outsource is oDesk. Another popular site is GetaFreelancer.com. Those should get the job done in finding an efficient freelancer. If not, Google is your friend ;].

But isn’t this going to cost me a lot of money? 

It depends on what you’re outsourcing. Obviously, a landing page design or layout is going to cost more than a few banners. But the point of outsourcing is so you can continue to do what you do best. So while your freelancer you hired is doing the landing page design (for example), you are already sitting there copywriting for the content on the site.

It’s a win-win situation.

School is Out, and Summer is Here!

It’s about time! I am on my third week of summer and absolutely love it. The sophomore year of high school was definitely a lot harder than freshman. However, I made it through with just above a 3.0. Not the best, but not the worst.

The last day of school was amazing. The finals that day were all fairly easy and I was feeling pretty lucky. My luck went up even more when I talked to my Language Arts teacher about my grade and she said she’d raise my ‘B’ up to an ‘A’ if I didn’t get lower than a ‘C’. I ended up getting a ‘B’ on the final, and she told me she bumped me up to an ‘A’. What a corrupt school system (but works for me)!

Just before the final bell rings for summer, our school has this tradition. Everyone takes paper out of their folders and as soon as the bell rings, rushes out to the hallways and everyone throws their paper in the air. You literally are walking through and on paper. The halls are an absolute mess.

Anyway, with summer here, I plan to get a lot more done online, which of course will make me more money than I was making during school. Of course, it will also give me more time to update the site with posts that are actually worth reading, instead of posts about my life that ;].