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Category: Automating, Streamlining and Outsourcing

How to Build a Team for Your Internet Business Part 1

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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Building the right team for your business will speed up your success and boost your income. It’s one of the best business investments you can make. In this series of posts we talk about the kind of team members that you need to find to keep your business growing.

Is Outsourcing Bad for the Economy? Are We Irresponsible For Encouraging It?

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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biz-globe A few days ago we received an email chastising us for encouraging the use of offshore outsourcing. I spent a couple hours exchanging emails with the sender where we shared our differing opinions.

As a result, it struck me that Sterling and I hadn’t fully shared our our views on what could be an emotionally charged issue given the current economic climate (not only in the U.S. but in many places around the world.) This is a long post, but it is one that is important to consider.

In the interest of discussion, I’ve included the email here (with the sender’s name omitted) followed by our views.

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IBM 38 | What You Need to Know to Start Outsourcing Your Business (and Your Personal Life) with Virtual Assistants

by Sterling (Jeremy Frandsen)

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You asked for it and you got it, we are asked about virtual assistants all the time SO In this episode of Internet Business Mastery we talk about What You Need to Know to Start Outsourcing Your Business (and Your Personal Life) with Virtual Assistants and in the quick tip we’ll tell you about some great resources we found for learning even more about outsourcing and using VA’s.

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Streamline and Automate Your Business with an Organization Chart

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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In this video you’ll learn how to use an E-Myth-style organization chart as a tool to streamline and automate your business. This is a critical tool that we use as the foundation for turning our businesses into a system that can run without us. Remember that the goal of an entrepreneur is to work ON the business and not IN it. You don’t want to just create another job. You’ll also see how to tie this into your Getting Things Done system. You’ll find additional links and resources after the “read more” link.

Should I DUMP Outlook?

by Sterling (Jeremy Frandsen)

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One of my main goals in business for this year is to make everything simple and easy and accessible. I’m done staying with programs and ways of doing things just because I always have or simple because I am too lazy to make the change. One of those programs is Microsoft’s Outlook. I’m not a Microsoft hater or a Outlook hater, I found MANY in my quest to find the simplest way to deal with my email, in fact, I am quite the opposite, but here is the problem I have been having; I love my desktop computer.

I love my big desk space so that I can have everything I need, exactly where I want it with plenty of room around me. I like my ergonomic keyboard and 24′ flatscreen monitors. I haven’t had to think of dumping Outlook before since I generally work from the same computer day in and day out, but things have changed.

If You Could Buy 5 More Hours for $25, Would You?

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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What small things in your life could you outsource cheaply and reclaim valuable bits of your time. My wife and I just found one and I’m kicking myself for not outsourcing it sooner—the laundry.

We live in Manhattan with no washer and dryer in our apartment (a common thing here). So doing laundry is always an ordeal. We probably spend at least five hours a month doing our laundry (total between the two of us).