When your business begins to take off, you will surely have a lot of tasks to carry out. For one thing, you may not have the competence to do them all. For another, you may not have the time to dedicate to them. Under the circumstances, the best thing to maintain efficiency and ensure profitability is to contract out certain tasks.
We are going to see some of the tasks an internet marketer could let someone else perform.
1. If you are looking for somebody to handle tasks such as hiring, data entry, logo design, graphic design, website design, translation, software development, HTML, PHP, internet marketing, Articles, SEO, CSS, Photoshop, software architecture, excel, Android, etc., then visit a freelance site and submit your project.
Within minutes interested candidates will propose their competitive bids. Then using the freelance site’s reputation system you can choose the perfect freelancer for your job.
You only pay when you are 100% satisfied with the work done.
2. Are you rather looking for programmers, designers, writers, and other online pros?
Then there is also a place to get more of these works done with freelancers.
First, you post your job and the site will match you with the right freelancers. Then you browse their profiles, reviews, and proposals and interview top candidates. Now you hire a favorite and begin your project.
Concerning payment, invoicing and payments are done on the site. You pay only for work you authorize.
3. Maybe your need is for a Virtual Assistant. Not any Virtual Assistant, but a rock star one.
Then you have to turn to Philippino sites where you can hire a Filipino Virtual Assistant in 5 Minutes and 7 clicks.
To do so, you post a role or browse team members by role title, hourly rate, role start date, role description, and add skills. Then you receive an email every time that a team member applies to your role.
But should you not have a specific role to recruit for, you simply browse Virtualvalley’s database of team members to find the one that could be a good fit for your business. You can judge through their overview, profile image, skills, hourly rate and a video in which they introduce themselves.
When satisfied with your Rockstar Team Member, you can hire through the platform.
4. Are you into designing and looking for a place to outsource work?
Design sites enable you to find and work with talented freelance designers online.
You begin by building a design brief, that is, what you need designed and its or their details.
The sites will then circulate it or them among its millions of designers who will submit designs which you can help them shape to your needs through ratings, comments and private messages.
After the winner of your design submits the work and gets paid, you get full design copyright to download and become one of the almost half a million happy customers.
5. Everything your web project needs, such as top class designs of stunning logos, vectors, 3D graphics, illustrations, banners, and avatars; and custom WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript websites, some sites community of curated freelance talent will help you get them.
All you have to do is search what’s already available and make a down payment to start the job. Or let the site know your need and their freelancers will submit a proposal for you to choose from. The third possibility is to search profiles and contact freelancers yourself.
Once satisfied, you release your escrow funds to pay the invoice.
6. Do you need to hire the top freelance talent software developers and designers out there?
They are on a site described as an exclusive network of the top freelance software developers and designers in the world.
To be part of their happy customers, you communicate to them the kind of freelance tech talent you are looking for and they’ll find you the perfect match to work with.
The top sites have designers and developers for any design environment or web, mobile, or desktop technology stack. They offer zero risk as there is a trial period and you pay only if satisfied.
7. Who is looking for article and content writing services?
They can find them on the leading article and content writing service sites.
Do you need fresh, up-to-date content for your business? Whether you need blog posts, product descriptions, or technical content, those sites’ authors will furnish you the unique content that is optimized for your users and search engines.
But first you must choose the writer fit for your project from a pool of thousands, select the appropriate order type and quality level for the project, and place your order.
Furthermore, you can order content from native speakers in up to 10 languages for as little as 1.3 cents per word.
8. Get the perfect custom design every time with the world’s number one custom design marketplace for logo design, web design, T-shirt design, flyer design, brochure design, and business card design.
Take just a few minutes and describe your project so that your vision is translated into a short guideline for designers.
Now, browse the 100s of new designs the sites send right into your inbox from around the world.
Give the artists your feedback directly for edits. Then you choose the best design for you.
9. If what you need is logo design, web design, graphic design, print design, packaging design, and company naming, some other sites have you covered.
To start your collaboration with them, you pick a category and post your project.
Contractors send you their ideas. Give them feedback and get back revisions.
Choose the one which pleases you and work with the supplier to finalize your favorite design or name. Give your price, set your deadline and pay when you are satisfied with the work.
10. Do you have errands to run but have no time?
There are sites which find you people to handle your chores and errands.
For them to connect you with the right help, you first pick a task from a list of chores and errands on a specialized app. This could be a same day appointment or a future one.
The site immediately connects you with a skilled person they call “Tasker” in your area.
Now you chat with the tasker directly in the app to fix an arrival time.
The tasker arrives at the agreed time, completes the job, bills you directly in the app and you pay electronically.
11. Can your organization be in need of detailed time-use analytics?
Then specialized sites will give you productivity analytics for the workday.
Your accounting system tells you where money is disbursed in your organization. The sites will show you where time is spent by giving you insights into the activities of your workforce.
Thus you can see the time spent by them in answering emails and compare across teams to find out if your better performing teams are handling this task differently.
Do you need to know how work schedules compare among teams? The sites will show you when your employees started working on their computers and for how long. You can also see how often they got up from their computer for meetings or breaks.
By supplying you this actionable data, such a site enables you to analyze business processes, grasp the root causes of inefficiency in your business, so that you can improve and maintain productivity.
The software also adds a data layer to your workforce to help you understand indicators linked to high or low performance.
Thus, you can know the time your sales team spent on their CRM compared to other activities as well as correlate the behaviour of top and bottom performing teams.
You can also use the sites competence to know how certain websites or applications correlate with high employee output as the app uses deep learning algorithms to compare higher and lower performing team members and correlate behaviours with performance. Do higher performing team members spend more or less time on certain websites? Are their meetings shorter or less frequent?
Self-reported time-use data is likely to be highly inaccurate. That is why the site automatically captures data live across your company, and generate insights for analysis.
12. Are you thinking of outsourcing?
Then do it to the Philippines with one of their sites. They is site is described as the world’s largest and safest marketplace for finding rock star Filipino workers.
To ease your hiring experience with the over 150,000 Filipinos registered, you first post a job or browse resumes. Then talented workers apply for your job. Next you interview them to find the perfect fit.
Pay them through Payments.ph or PayPal after they’ve worked.
Now that you know which jobs you can entrust to others and where you can do so, I hope you wouldn’t feel yourself going crazy again with too many things to do and how to do some of them. Peace of mind, reduced stress and increased productivity can now be your lot.