Hi everyone, it’s Tyrone from Tyroneshum.com! I want to share with you today a really, really common question I get all the time. This is usually for the newbies who are just starting to outsource. As like me, I’ve been through and when I first started looking at outsourcing my business, outsourcing all my tasks and get people to do the work, I go “Who shall I outsource first to?”, “Where should I find the first person?” I want to answer those questions who should you hire first or who should you outsource to first and there’s many ways or options to go about this but I’m giving you just two simple options.

The first thing is I would firstly look for someone to work for you full time. Don’t hire any contractors, don’t hire anyone who’s just going to be here and be just doing one of the tasks because once you spend time training them, you’re going to lose those skills. That’s the first thing, hire someone for full time. If you can’t afford someone on full time, go for someone who’s part time because when you hire someone part time, at least they’re going to be working for you minimum 20 hours a week.

If you hire someone full time, it’s 40 hours a week and they’re going to be managing whole business for you or managing a lot of your tasks that you’re currently doing yourself. The mindset to have is not to think “Okay, because I’m going to offload say 40 hours of my work, I’m going to do twice as much work.” Yes, in many ways you can think that might work at first but what you’re trying to do is actually cut down your hours so you’re probably working at most 2-3 hours a day and for your staff to be working for you 40+ hours a week.

So that’s the first tip, to hire someone full time. The second thing that I recommend you do is to hire someone specifically for a skill. Now, every single person out there that you’re probably looking for has different skills. They could be focused on for example being a virtual assistant, being a programmer, a writer, and so forth. I don’t recommend hiring someone that’s going to be overall because you’re not going to be able to find that person.

You can’t find someone who’s going to be doing all your administration, transcripts, writing your posts and doing programming at the same time. That person doesn’t exist because that person is basically going to be you. So I recommend if you want to get someone who’s just going to start your administration work such as posting your blog posts onto your blog, handling your emails, just general overview of handling all the day-to-day tasks that’s very monotonous, hire a virtual assistant.

That’s what I did from my experience. My first virtual assistant I hired was from India. That experience wasn’t very good for me and I’ve learned from those experiences because I realized that it’s a culture breakdown. I’m not going to go to the story about what happened there in terms of my experience with hiring a virtual assistant from India but since I found someone from the Philippines, I had an absolutely amazing time with them. They’ve been stuck with me for as long as I’ve been running my business so I’ve been very, very happy and exceptionally proud with what they’ve done. The kind of work they’ve put in and loyalty they’ve had with me has been of high value.

If you want to have those kinds of things or offload those things, I firstly recommend hiring a virtual assistant. I’ll give you just a quick way to be able to let go of all the day-to-day things that are probably taking lot of your time and no doubt you might be thinking blog posting might not just take me half an hour just to put it up myself or to render a video, putting a video online for me might take 10, 15 minutes or so. Well, you add that all up and you’ll have multiple things to do and it adds up to your time. You should be spending a lot of time that you have to be focusing on dollar productive activities such as building relationships with leading people that will be able to help you refer business or you might be spending more time marketing and advertising your business to get more leads to come through.

Those are the things that you might probably want to consider. You can eventually outsource all these things as well but if you’re just starting out like how I was, your virtual assistant would help you there. That’s just something where I’ll go and as soon as you build your team and you’ve trained the first one and you get that person to train the second person and so forth then you start to develop a team that you can rely on and outsource all your work to.

That’s what I would recommend doing and hopefully, that answers the questions that a lot of people been asking me. I hope to see you in the next video. This is it for me today, and if you’ve got feedback or comments, I love to hear them so simply put your details down below and leave a feedback and comment of what you think about this video and any other questions that you might have as well. I’ll speak to you soon. It’s Tyrone Shum from Tyroneshum.com, I’ll see you in the next video.

Hi Tyrone Shum, from Tyroneshum.com. I keep getting a lot of questions from people asking me where I find really good virtual staff. A lot of people ask why not Elance, Scriptlance, or any of those. Well, the reason why I don’t choose those sites is because a lot of them are contractors that are actually going to apply and trying to get work there. Now, if you’re look for people, very high quality people to work for you full time and to get really good rates, I recommend sourcing people directly from the Philippines. What I’ve done very successfully is to be able to find people at a job website called Bestjobs.ph.

Bestjobs.ph is not a website that is accessible by anyone around the world. What happened is that Bestjobs.ph has restricted access to people only in the Philippines so in order to be able to get access to that website, you’ll need to have an account that is registered inside the Philippines and also, it has to be a registered account with a Filipino. Now, what I’ve done is because my virtual staff works inside the Philippines, I’m able to get access through their account so that we can share that through. If you’re a member of Mass Outsource Mastermind, you already have access to Bestjobs.ph and we stream all the resumes directly through so you can use it.

But if you want to just get access without joining Mass Outsource Mastermind program, I can give you access for a monthly fee if you choose to use it. All you have to do is simply click on the link right below here to be able to get access to Bestjobs.ph website and I’ll give you instructions on what to do with that. Basically, that’s just one website that you can find highly qualified people to get work done for you.

Second one that I recommend for you is oDesk.com. oDesk.com is really good website that I’ve been able to target only people from the Philippines to find great, high quality full time workers that work for me. So those are the two websites and oDesk as well is free so the only thing is you’ll be trying to get through all the clutter or trying to get through to find contractors to be able to do work for you. That’s why I recommend trying out Bestjobs.ph or trying to find a direct website inside the Philippines that hosts or has lots of resumes directly from Filipinos.

Well, if you want to find out more information from me, just simply check out my blog at Tyroneshum.com and I hope to see you soon. Have a great day!

Hi it’s Tyrone from Tyroneshum.com. In today’s topic, I want to share with you the reasons why I outsourced to the Philippines and I want to share with you a little story how I first started in the Philippines and started my outsourcing journey. Going back probably couple of years ago now, I read up on Tim Ferriss’ 4-Hour Work Week and when I first read that book, I was inspired to be able to get out of situation I was in.

I was basically running a business that’s successfully generated a 6-figure income but because of all my time involved in the business, I had no other time to do anything else. I was running all the dispatching, I was doing all the customer service support, handling literally everything from day-to-day. I was working crazy 60 hours a week. Now, what I was doing was basically working myself down to the ground and running a successful business in terms of finance success but I was not having the time that I thought business could give me.

So with that idea in mind and after reading the 4-Hour Work Week, it gave me incentive to look at something such as outsourcing. What Tim was able to share with me in his story was that he’s able to leverage his time, get other people to work for him and automate and setup a system to be able to outsource as much as he can. He talked a lot about outsourcing to India and I tried a lot of the website that he recommended inside the book such as going to Elance to look for people to outsource to and also to look onto hiring an Indian on his website and also a lot of good websites that I had looked at.

But, time and time again I was struggling to find the right people because firstly, when I first thought I’ve hired someone from India I thought I’ve got the perfect virtual assistant, I’ll have everything all done for me and things will be smooth and sailing. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. I had absolutely wasted more time trying to get this Indian virtual assistant to do what I want them to do. I thought wow, I’m getting $4.15 US and I thought man, this is great because I was hiring someone just a customer support staff to help with a lot of other things for about 20-25 bucks an hour. You can imagine the cost saving and I thought this is great; I could easily get rid of a lot of work that I have to do when I outsource somebody to India.

But because of what I didn’t realize was the cultural differences, there was a lot of misunderstanding, things didn’t work out to how I envision it to be. After that first experience of going through to India and realizing that this is not exactly what I’m looking for, I decided of taking a bit of a break and stop hiring people from India. It was only after a further attempt of trying to outsource, and taking some time off to think what I did wrong and tried to follow Tim’s instructions again when I actually felt I have stumbled across somebody in the Philippines. It was just by accident in all honesty and it was like I’ll put up another ad in Elance and hopefully I’ll find someone. Then I found someone who’s just very, very eager to email me back and said “I’m from the Philippines and I’m more than happy to help you get started and would you like to give me a go?”

I said why not, and it’s something like $3 an hour and thought let’s just give it a go. Since then, I have been so fortunate to have a great virtual assistant team back in hiring from the Philippines and I was stuck with them. That was the reason and turning point for me to choose Philippines as a place to go to hire. When I did that, I just didn’t realize it was just a complete fresh breath of air and also a complete change for me to be able to find the right people to do my work and also outsource to. So, let me tell you the reasons why I’ve chosen and why I’ve been stuck in the Philippines.

The first one: Philippines has a very good background and structure system in place in terms of technology and they’ve also got people who are highly skilled as well. Second reason is their language. Their culture differences are not that different to what we understand in the Western culture because the Philippines has been colonized by the Americans and they’ve got strong sense of Western culture in them. They understand English very well and they wouldn’t be such a big clash in terms of explaining information to them. Those are big differences in terms of I’m explaining to an Indian person because when I told them one thing and they did it in another thing. The culture they have is when I say “I want you to complete this. Can you complete this in this time?” They’ll say “Yeah, no problem. I’ll do it for you and get it done in time.” Then I’ll come back with the work and it’s all completely wrong.

Whereas in the Philippines like when I say “Can you please get this done in time. Also, email me back in Tuesday…” They usually just come back and say “I’ll do my best Sir to try get it done for you but I can’t guarantee you that it’ll be completed by Tuesday. Is it okay if I’ll send it back to you on Wednesday?” Usually if they say that to me and being honest upfront, I’m like wow, no problems. Just extend it for another day and just get the work done properly. Pretty much, ten times I’ve received the work and it’s been done on time and exceeded my expectations.

That’s one of the major reasons why I’ve chosen the Philippines as well. The third reason is because the Filipinos are also very loyal and very honest. I found that having that trait in them, they don’t want to start learning business but they want to work with someone because they want that secure income and that secured job that you can provide for them. By providing that for me, you actually are providing them with the job and secured income and they’ll give back to you loyalty, honesty and excellent work. That’s what I found, if I look onto them, they’ll look after me and it’s a win-win situation. Their honesty and loyalty is a crucial factor because ultimately, I’m hiring them on a full time basis to be able to manage my business and be able to do the things that I need them to be completed. They’re being able to give me that time back to do other things that I want them to do because I can trust them and know that they’re responsible for them.

It’s like you and me because I understand what it is but they just want a job to be able to get things done for you. So those are really the main reasons why I’ve chosen to stick with the Philippines and why outsourcing to the Philippines is an excellent way to be able to get your business up and running and growing. I just known for a fact that the large companies are doing it right now — they’re hiring lots and lots of people from the Philippines and obviously if they’re doing that, there are huge opportunities for you to do the same. Even if you only have a small business starting out, and just wanting to get into the Philippines to outsource your business to, I highly recommend it. It just takes a bit of time but once you get them all up and running and trained them up right, they can really give back so much to you. The power of leveraging your time and outsourcing your work to the right people can really make your business grow so fast. That’s what happened to me.

I just wanted to share that little tip for you and also the reasons why and hopefully if you can see the successes I’ve had with this, you can also achieve the same thing as well. Okay, that’s it for today. If you have any comments and any things that have happened to you, if you’ve outsourced to India, China, Romania, or Philippines which is what I’ve been talking about today and your experiences — good, bad, etc. please leave your feedback below. I love to hear all that from you and for me to also give you a hand when you get stuck or any of the questions that you may have on outsourcing to the Philippines.

That’s it for me today, my name is Tyrone from Tyroneshum.com. I’ll see you in the next video!