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Vision To help more people become create their own online businesses Outsourcing - Good and Bad Online Purchasing Now 46% - Good and Bad Copyright http://www.neilwaterhouse.com
By Neil Waterhouse
Advantages of Outsourcing Build a business which runs and... grows without you Build a Business Not a Job Leverage your time No staff on your property (Virtual Staff) Grow your business much faster Allows you to work on the business and not in the business From $1 per hour Take more holidays and take more time off Live anywhere Travel anywhere Purchase 1 hour of life for $1 Use 10% of profits for Outsourced Labor
2017 Game Changer Importing No Longer Required Capital no longer required - Virtual inventories with auto inventory checking now available (Dropshipping) Amazon coming! Time Can now purchase time from $1 per hour Over 90% of sellers use Best Guess Marketing Strategies You only need to know 0ne optimisation technique more than your competitor to beat them
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What's coming up How and where to start on ebay as a beginner How and where to start on Amazon as a beginner Dropshipping Importing, How to Source Products and Cheapest ways to import from Asia How and where to source products to sell on ebay How and where to source products to sell on Amazon Photography How to make items pop using a basic camera How to optimise ebay listings Beginner How to optimise ebay listings Advanced How to optimise Amazon listings Beginner How to optimise Amazon listings Advanced Outsourcing - How to outsource low-cost overseas labour for from $1 per hour Cheapest ways to ship items within Australia How to use Terapeak for product and Seller research What would you like next? Copyright http://www.neilwaterhouse.com
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Who am I? Copyright http://www.neilwaterhouse.com
Bio Husband Father ebay Amazon Multi Million Dollar seller Author Best Seller Million Dollar ebay Business From Home ebay invited guest speaker Amazon invited guest speaker Alibaba invited guest speaker Professional ebay Sellers Alliance invited guest speaker Founder & Host Four largest ebay & Amazon Meetup Groups in Australia 1 st ebay multi million dollar seller for Channel Advisor Australia 1 st ebay multi million dollar seller for Australia Post Eparcel Beta tester for Eparcel Australia Importing for 24 years Love buying and selling online Radio Control Plane fanatic Copyright http://www.neilwaterhouse.com
Outsourced staff versus local staff 10 times + cheaper No superannuation payments No workers compensation insurance No HR required No unfair dismissal rules No rules Can monitor outsourced staff easier Frequent flyer points
Outsourcing definition Getting a task done externally Outsourcing allows you to build an engine which powers your business
Which tasks can you outsource? Product Research Listing Items Photo editing Bookkeeping Administration Customer Support Answering emails Processing orders Logging in to remote computers Graphics Programming Ordering Answering phones
What can't you outsource?
How to Outsource Goals 1. Get task done to highest standard 2. Economical
Chocolate Cake Example How to outsource how to make the worlds best chocolate cake
$8 per hour $20+ per hour
From $1 per hour
Professional Instruction Testers
Deep etching photo example
Example Product Vice Raw photo
Vice Background Removed
www.neilwaterhouse/gimp Free
Gallery Image
www.neilwaterhouse.com/canva Free
Product ordering Google Docs example
Snagit
Qualified Versus Unskilled Labor
Listing Example Over 90% of Listing Are Not Optimised Huge Opportunity
Staff Criteria 1. Ability to follow Instructions 2. Half decent internet connection
Credit card security
Frequent Flyer Points
Left Or Right Brain?
Time Proof Random screenshots
Upwork Time Tracker
Hiring Proven Staff
www.onlinejobs.solutions
Shotgun Approach
How much to pay? $1-2 per hour work 90% $3-$7 10% $8-$18 - Local
How to communicate with O/S Staff
Skype Free for IM - Prefered Free Skype to Skype talking and video Skype Apps available for Apple and Android Cheap to call land lines and mobile Easy to send files, screenshots, pictures etc
Which country? Philippines Customer support Christian country Rest of the world All other tasks
Where to employ staff? www.fiverr.com www.upwork.com www.onlinejobs.solutions www.99designs.com www.airtasker www.rentacoder www.freelancer Referals
Talent Never stop looking for talent and promoting talent Recognise talent early Your staff should all be Super Stars
Skype IM (Internal Messenger) Skype App Share screen Free
Microsoft Snipping Tool
Training software Word / Pages Snipping Tool Snagit Record Screen,Videos, Links Teamviewer Skype including Share Screen Youtube Videos Get videos made i.e Deep Etch
Create, edit and share documents online Free Watch your staff work live
Popular Mistakes Employing expensive staff who say they can do something then spend time training the person From then on you are paying high hourly fee.
3PL Third Party Logistics Coghlan Shipwire Amazon Famous Pacific Shipping Australia Next Logistics
www.logmein.com
Proxy Servers Hoxx https://proxy-nl.hide.me
Bonuses
How to pay staff Credit Card Paypal https://www.payoneer.com/home/
Staff versus Software Example: Dropship Supplier Inventory Checking (Batches of 200 items) Time 2 hours per day 2 hours x 30 days = 60 hours 60 hours x $1 per hour = $60 And that is only checking suppliers once per day Software is a fraction of the price and checks multiple times per day www.scarcitymanger.com Always weigh up costs for software versus staff
Outsourcing Q&A
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5 Minute Rule Every Day.
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