Archives for the 'outsourcing' Category
You Can Do it Faster, Better, and Cheaper… so why do it at all? [DFHW: Living the 4-Hour Work Week]
Like many of you, I struggle to get things done on time that I really need to get done. I get bogged down in the grunt work when I should be focusing on the bigger picture items. You know the drill, focus on the important but not urgent, but all the while the urgent things [...]
eLancers: Stop being so defensive! [DFHW: Living the 4-Hour Work Week]
I’ve gotten a number of harassing email messages and comments on this blog responding to my “eLance Sucks” post. My experiences are my experiences. I don’t have a bone to pick with eLance, but in my case, I simply am dissatisfied with the eLance experience and the way that eLance has treated me, a potential [...]
eLance Sucks [DFHW: Living the 4-Hour Work Week]
Sorry, Tim. eLance sucks. And here’s why.
Enforcing exclusivity – The big mistake is that the folks at eLance assume that I won’t be simultaneously posting the job req. on other outsourcing sites. Why wouldn’t I? I’ll be increasing the number of respondents and selecting (I presume) from different resource pools. But eLance wants you [...]
A heads up: Switching to matthewcornell.org in the near future [Matt's Idea Blog]
Just a quick notice that I’ll be moving this blog to www.matthewcornell.org in the next few weeks, and you may see some side-effects - including re-postings - as I play with backing up [1] my posts. (Side note: I’ll be outsourcing this transfer - see The 4-hour workweek applied: How I spent $100, saved hours, [...]
Crowdsourcing With Kluster [The 4-Hour Workweek Journal]
I came across a site this morning called Kluster:
kluster is a place to harness the power of community collaboration to get stuff done. everyone has ideas, we provide a platform to get them out of heads and into the world…where they belong.
Source: Kluster
Crowdsourcing refers to outsourcing a task to a large group of undefined people [...]
The 4-hour workweek applied: How I spent $100, saved hours, and boosted my reading workflow [Matt's Idea Blog]
While reading The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss (site, blog) I found myself playing with the idea of using personal outsourcing to fix a problem I have with my reading workflow. Short answer: It helped a lot.
As you know, I’ve made reading a central part of my M.S. in Personal Productivity, and anything that slows [...]