You Should Know the Top 8 Reasons People Fail When They Outsource
These aren't hard things to avoid...you just have to know about them to avoid them.
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1. Try To Hire Someone To Do Everything

Someone who does everything just doesn't exist. This is an email we received - and it's not the first - from someone looking to hire one person for everything.

This person wanted a programmer, graphic designer, webmaster, who is fluent in English and can write good sales copy, autoresponders, forum posts, ebooks and reports - and by the way, they want to pay less than $400 a month to get it.

They are not going to find it.

The reason you outsource at such a reasonable price is to hire someone at first for one or two very specific tasks and then train them to do the rest.

2. Hire A Project Manager

Being a project manager requires a good deal of experience within any given business. No one knows how to run your business for you - at least not without proper training.

Start with one employee who can do X, Y and Z very well. Train them to do additional tasks and when you think they have a good handle on exactly what you want them to do then hire one or two more people and continue in the same pattern and eventually you will have employees who are eligible to be successful project managers.

Project Manager is not a job that just any random person can jump in and succeed at. It requires time and experience if you want it done right.

3. Hire Someone And Ignore Them

This is a sure fire way to failure. Think about the first month on your last job. Most likely you were hired, trained and eventually became a seasoned employee.

These candidates are posting there resumes just like you did. None of them expect to be hired and asked to meet your expectations with little to no training.

They are employees. They require training just like any other employee you would hire. Daily interaction and open communication is imperative to a successful working relationship, just like it's important in any other workplace.

Just because you hire them online, and overseas doesn't mean they know everything about the online outsourcing world. They will perform much better with step-by-step instruction until they become seasoned employees.

4. Ask Someone To Do Work Before You Offer Them A Job

We got an email that says:

Nobody likes the sound of that. These are real people looking for real jobs. It's not just something they do in their spare time. They have families to feed and life to support.

Give them a job - they will do their best work for you. If you want you can tell them that the first month will be a probationary period, but don't offer them an opportunity to maybe have a full-time job in a month or so . . . if they do a really good job.

5. Expect Immediate Results

This is a long-term proposal. It's something that people do for years. You are not going to see results in days.

Don't expect it.

And something to keep in mind, if you aren't seeing results after the first month or so, you may need to brush up on your training skills.

6. Search And Search For The Right Person, Then Email Them

You'll get frustrated. When was the last time you went through a stack of resumes, called one person and expected it all to work out perfectly?

Consider emails as an informal 'interview' process. Email 15 or 20 potential candidates. Evaluate the response and go from there. Don't hold your breath on a single inquiry.

7. Set The Wrong Expectations

When you hire someone don't tell them or expect them to be totally self-directed. No employee works well without respectable supervision - that's why they are the employee not the boss.

If you tell them to try and figure everything out on their own you'll never hear from them again.

Try telling them:

Otherwise when they don't know how to do something - which will be very regular the first month or so - they will get frustrated or embarrassed and will never talk to you again.

If you set the right espectation with them about asking you for help, they'll ask, you'll help, and all will be happy and good.

8. Don't Try To Hire Someone To Customize Wordpress

People in the Philippines don't know how to do wordpress plugins. They don't know how to do wordpress themes either. Besides that, those two jobs require two entirely different people.

If you want someone to do wordpress plugins or any custom wordpress programming find someone who knows PHP programming. If you want wordpress themes hire a graphic designer who can also do HTML.

Otherwise, if you just want 'someone who knows wordpress' try to hire someone who is a webmaster and have them learn wordpress. Trying to hire a programmer to do graphic design or a general assistant to do programming is like hiring a garbage man to cut and style your hair - they just aren't the same skill set.