Outsourcing Experience (Book Excerpts)

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Curious about the outsourcing experience? Our book, “Outsourcing Through RentACoder” explains it all. Below are a few selected snippets that describe its importance and why you, as an outsourcer, should care. For details, head on over to this page and order the book. Then complement what you find here with the content in our growing outsourcing articles library (the book’s ‘online extension’).

Outsourcing Through RentACoder (now, vWorker) is a 418 page step-by-step user guide for entrepreneurs who want to reduce their workload and increase productivity at the same time.

Excerpts:

• The second type is the mature Internet entrepreneur who wants to turn his starter website into a Google Adsense empire. He’s well aware of how affiliate sales work, but he wants to know how outsourcing is applicable to his type of entrepreneurship and business experience. (page 16)
• And although this book is about outsourcing – it’s really about outsourcing through RentACoder. That’s why we were careful to give you just the basics and then demonstrate how RentACoder (now, vWorker) takes those basics to a whole new outsourcing experience. (page 38)
• Outsourcing provides access to 3rd party intellectual property, wider experience, and expert knowledge. (page 40)
• Take heed since your commitment to ethical outsourcing will influence your experience with not just the outsourcing industry as a whole, but RentACoder (now, vWorker) too. (page 51)
• Neither I nor my partner has extensive experience with offline outsourcing, so it wouldn’t be appropriate for us to write about something we’re unfamiliar with. (page 64)
• As far as our own experience reveals, mostly entrepreneurs patronize RentACoder (now, vWorker) – “netpreneurs” to be exact. (page 77)
• Should the opportunity fall flat, that coder loses out on other lucrative opportunities and experiences costly losses that can’t be easily recovered.
• The most fatal online outsourcing risk is the risk of being disconnected from the Internet. In the years we’ve worked through RentACoder, we’ve experienced a brief disconnection problem maybe 2 or 3 times. (page 100)
• We’ve been working through RentACoder (now, vWorker) for years now, and have never experienced a privacy breach or case of stolen identity through its services. (page 121)
• One of the critical mistakes we see inexperienced netpreneurs make all the time is fail to exploit RentACoder (now, vWorker) as a team building machine. (page 132)
• If you’re not careful to streamline your processes, your coder will experience the same and s/he may charge you for having to do things the hard way! (page 145)
• “No matter how much experience you have, you’ll fall victim to the occasional scam unless you stick to your guns and protect your business with a contract as thick as the most impervious prophylactic.” (page 152)
• It can wrongly convince a buyer that the cheapest service is the best service for example when experience shows the opposite is true. (page 176)
• RentACoder gives experienced buyers the option of bypassing the Requirements Interview with the “Other” option, but we don’t recommend skipping this step at all. (page 193)
• Upon approval of this initial bid request, a RentACoder (now, vWorker) staff member sends another email message that welcomes you to the process and offers additional assistance should you need it. Experience predicts that you will need assistance, so save this message in a safe place. (page 200)
• The coder went on to describe available styles of writing without clarifying the style we wanted – and then the coder went further to describe experience in unrelated things. (page 225)
• It’s a bit unrealistic to expect no mediations or arbitrations from an experienced coder. Mediations and arbitrations occur for any number of reasons ranging from personal hardship to outright incompetence. (page 233)
• We’ve all experienced this problem and it needs serious consideration if you’re thinking about outsourcing support to American customers, overseas. Out of sheer frustration, American customers will switch to a different product just so that they can get help they can quickly understand. (page 260)
• Outsourcing is a time-old practice but it will always be a continuous learning experience for everyone. So if asked for details, explain why your final selection was more appealing. (page 274)
• Ending the section is an explanation why communication is critical to a successful RentACoder (now, vWorker) experience. (page 292)
• The information here and in that section is based on our experience as a RentACoder (now, vWorker) contractor. (page 303)
• As your experience with the RentACoder (now, vWorker) website increases, you’ll start to get a feel for which coders are best suited for which jobs. (page 318)
• The first part describes the signs that you either need to start arbitration yourself or when you’re headed toward arbitration regardless of who initiates it. Then we describe what happens in mediation and arbitration from personal experience. (page 328)
• If you experience this type of issue, try to persuade the coder to improve the work to your satisfaction while keeping the project’s specs in mind. (page 330)
• Having RentACoder (now, vWorker) rate you is probably one of the worst experiences you could ever have at the site – especially if you lost an arbitration case. (page 344)
• Sometimes numbers don’t adequately sum up an experience with a particular coder, so if you’d like to communicate a specific message, use the text box as your soapbox. (page 357)
• Don’t let one bad apple spoil the whole bunch. Some buyers who’ve had an unpleasant outsourcing experience threaten prospective coders before the poor things have had a chance to prove themselves! (page 366)
• Our advice here is to outsource projects that you’re familiar with and have some kind of experience with only — not the latest, trendiest or coolest “thing.” (page 375)
• These visuals exemplify the typical RentACoder (now, vWorker) experience you’re likely to share if you remain committed to the strategies outlined in this book. (page 389)
• 21,280,000 of these potential telecommuters are skilled in IT, 13,300,000 skilled in telecommunications, and 11,020,000 experienced with publishing. (page 406)

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Inside, you’ll find a slew of outsourcing know-how, over a dozen online checklists, worksheets, and more. It also introduces an outsourcing roadmap exclusive to the RentACoder (now, vWorker) website. Order it here.