Ask About Outsourcing Your Internet Business

Continuing on from the 10 part video series on how to outsource your Internet business, it’s time for me to open up this for discussion. I’ve received a huge response asking me to create other videos and I will definitely do my best to add more to the blog. Before I do, I would like to share with you some of the questions that have been asked already:

How do you track outsourcers for the time they put in?

Can you start a brand new business from the ground up and do it all by outsourcing without knowing everything about Internet marketing?

How much should you outsource? All or only some aspects?

How do you prevent staff from stealing your ideas and personal information when you tell them about a project and don’t deliver?

How do you handle taxes in the US when you outsource an employee fulltime?

Ask Your Questions About Outsourcing

Now, for me to create more videos that will help you outsource your work, I would really appreciate if you could spend a few minutes answering some questions below:

Question 1: If you could learn from a coach who is an expert in this area about outsourcing an Internet business, what questions would you ask? (List as many questions as you want)

Question 2: Describe in a few words what is your main reason for outsourcing your Internet business? (e.g. more time, more money, expand business, travel, charity work, etc.)

Question 3: List some tasks you need staff to help you complete on a regular basis?

Question 4: Specify in hours the amount of time you want to work in your Internet business?

Question 5: If there was a coaching program to assist you with outsourcing your Internet business, how would you like the material to be presented? (You can select one or all)

• • Video presentations
  • Audio only recordings
  • Workbook and manual
  • All of the above

You can either

1. Leave your answers in the comments section, or
2. Answer them privately by clicking on this link.

Also as an incentive, I would like to give you a report that contains some really valuable interviews and 10 resources that I recommend to use when you complete this survey. So to get your report, simply answer the survey questions provided here or comment here.

Thank you and talk soon.

Tyrone Shum

Creator of Mass Outsource Videos.

To ask your questions click here now.

Podcast: Eat Smart Age Smart Blogger

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Former Personal Chef Turned Blogger

Krizia is a former personal chef and a food writer. She specialized in French cuisine and I published a critically acclaimed lifestyle and bilingual French food guide that sold in Canada, France, the U.S., Germany and the U.K. The guide was voted by Air Canada En Route magazine.

She’s got a very interesting story and is someone who has successfully applied the concept of a print magazine to blogging in a niche market. One of her blogs talks about how to eat the right food to help anyone age well, which is at Eat Smart, Age Smart

She also has a second blog, which is a beauty review site that provides lots of information about which beauty products are good to use and lots of tips on beauty.

The reason why I interviewed Krizia was to find out how she generated around $5,000 a month from these two blogs in a short amount of time. Furthermore, her success story did come at a cost at the beginning and she will share this with you in the interview.

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How To Use Press Releases To Gain Exposure For Your Website?

If you want to establish credibility and create brand awareness in the shortest amount of time, utilising the media is a more effective approach than paid advertising. The goal is to get the media to write great stories about your Internet business and yourself using press releases. It allows you and your website to reap the benefits of free exposure, which is considered to be three times more valuable than paid advertising. By having a third party such as a journalist write a story about you, your brand message becomes more credible and effective. Their coverage offers an impartial endorsement that tells their readers you are an honest person, and that your services or products provide substantial value.

Understanding How The Media Works

Our society is very time-poor, and this fight for attention includes our journalists and writers. They have to scan through literally thousands of articles, ideas and proposals a day to pick the best ones that will capture the reader’s attention. If we want to stand out among the thousands of articles a journalist will receive daily, we first need to understand what they are looking for.

Most journalists will ask — where’s the angle or the hook to this story? What is going to appeal to my readers that will make a great story? For example, if the heading of a story reads, “Man takes dog for a walk,” then people will not be interested. But if the heading reads “Man takes flying dog for a walk,” that story will grab the reader’s attention.

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ActiveCollab Review: Helps You Manage All Your Projects

In today’s post I would like to share with you an excellent piece of software that I use in my business. I had been struggling in the past to manage multiple projects all at once and when you have 3 staff working for you full time, you need to have good systems in place to manage them. Furthermore, it can be a real disaster when you take on more work without having a project management software in place. You will receive more emails from your clients and programmers and before you know it, you will have forgotten who sent what.

This is why I turned to ActiveCollab. A few weeks ago I did a podcast with Adam Lever from Big Screen Promotions and on the topic of How To Outsource Your Internet Business. In the podcast we discussed about how to outsource your Internet business and also mentioned a few software products that were freely available. One we mentioned was Dot Project and this is an open source software that is quite basic. I personally felt it wasn’t enough to manage the projects and opted to another option.

ActiveCollab – A Project Management Software I Love!

When I found ActiveCollab it was originally open source and was free up until Version 1.0. Then the team decided to charge a license fee starting at $199.00 which I believe is well worth the price. A lot of times I don’t buy software or recommend it unless it either:

1. Saves time
2. Saves money
3. Easy to use

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The Importance Of A Sitemap For Your Internet Business

Over the last few days I have been helping my clients submit their sitemaps to Google, Yahoo and MSN to inform search engines to crawl through their websites. What I have noticed is that sitemap submission is a much faster way for websites to be found in search engines rather than using the search engine submission tool provided. After speaking to a few people and my clients I have noticed that people are not aware of this process because it is not shared. I personally think that it does help and is a must do for any Internet business as part of their search engine optimisation strategy.

What Is A Sitemap?

I want to share with you the two types of Sitemaps. For the more technical terminology and detailed definition please read Google’s About Sitemap.

1. Sitemap For Your Website
   This is what Wikipedia defines the term Sitemap as:

   A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.

   Additionally having a sitemap for your website will help any visitor browse through all sections at just one page, rather than clicking through to different parts of the website. You can see my sitemap and get an idea of what it looks like.

2. Sitemap For Search Engines
   There is a term that web developers refer to when creating sitemaps and it is called XML Sitemaps. Google introduced this term and it helps web developers publish lists of links from across their sites. Basically it is a simple version for search engines to use when they are crawling through any website. Currently Google, MSN, Yahoo and Ask now jointly support this. You can view my Sitemap XML to see how it looks like. Since MSN, Yahoo, Ask, and Google use the XML Sitemap, it is wise to have one on your website in your parent directory. Though, the search engines do not guarantee all links will be crawled, and being crawled does not guarantee being indexed, it is still the best insurance for getting a search engine to find your website. Also, XML sitemaps have replaced the older method of “submitting to search engines” by filling out a form on the search engine’s submission page. Most web developers submit a sitemap directly, or wait for search engines to find it.

The Importance Of A Sitemap

Easy Navigation
A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.

Having A Consistent Site Theme
When your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the “big picture” of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors’ time.

Search Engine Optimisation
When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every single page on your site. Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page — they will follow the links on the sitemap and naturally every single page of your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your website.

Organisation And Relevance
A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird’s eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have a perfectly organised site with everything sorted according to their relevance.

This is why it is most important to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. Through this way, you will be able to keep your website easily accessible and neatly organised for everyone who uses your website.

For further information about sitemaps, visit sitemap.org

Tyrone Shum
Sitemapping My Websites

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